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Yes SUHR! Calling all Suhr players.. Post em'

#264
bubinga5 said:
Anymore Suhrs out there.??
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This one is making me happy right now. This is the first one I have had with Humphries pickups. I usually have all my Suhr's changed out with Nordy pups but this one sounds really good so leaving it alone. I did have the hipshot vintage bridge put on and I had a tort Suhr guard that seems to work nicely with this bass. Nickel frets!!!:)
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#265
Just bumping this thread as I was so appreciating my Suhr J this morning. How these basses are not more widely appreciated I will never know but they have refined the "Jazz Bass" design so much that the richness and nuance of its tone makes it a whole other type of instrument. Neck pickup gives you that rich chocolate P-bass sound, and bridge pickup with the treble rolled off slightly is... well it's a like a singing voice.
 
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InvisibleMan said:
Just bumping this thread as I was so appreciating my Suhr J this morning. How these basses are not more widely appreciated I will never know but they have refined the "Jazz Bass" design so much that the richness and nuance of its tone makes it a whole other type of instrument. Neck pickup gives you that rich chocolate P-bass sound, and bridge pickup with the treble rolled off slightly is... well it's a like a singing voice.
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Amen! I was just playing mine this weekend and it always rewards me with absolutely amazing tones. Truly top of the heap of this design (passive J).
 
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I wanted to chime in again here. As I said above I'm the happy owner of a Suhr classic J bass, which I bought used, but which visually has very different specs to what I'd have chosen. I recently attempted to order a new Suhr bass to my own visual specs and with better tonewoods, as an upgrade. I was surprised that the experience wasn't great, and didn't match the overall quality of the instruments.

Basically, what I learned is that Suhr are a custom guitar company, and a mostly CNC-driven custom guitar company at that, but not really a custom bass company. The instruments they make are great, but the range of options is very very small and limited in their bass range. Whereas with the guitars you can have anything as far as pickup routing, inlays, body carving, different numbers of frets because they have more CNC options in the computer, Suhr limits you to a 20-fret jazz bass, and you are basically just choosing tonewoods and finish. Even moving the bridge pickup slightly further away from the bridge to create a 60s-70s hybrid spacing I was told was impossible because they didn't want to reconfigure their CNC machines, and "pointless". Whatever your taste, I think a lot of actual bass players would disagree with that. In fact it's growing in popularity. They also don't provide a list of available options to choose from for bass, so you are continually stabbing in the dark and then being told (by the dealer mediating) that what you have asked for isn't available. Contrast this with the other couple of instruments I've had the privilege of ordering and the experience was far better with other builders who are actually woodworkers.

As the dealer I was working with said to me, "these are cookie-cutter, but they are the world's best cookie-cutter". I decided to pass in the end. My current Suhr will do just fine.
 
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I have had five and Sold two.

The ones I kept all have nickel frets and two of them are modified pickups and preamp. All have hipshot vintage bridges.

I have only encountered a few that I didn't want to modify in some way.

That being said, I prefer my Nordy jazz basses to my Suhr's and two of my Suhr basses have Nordstrand pickups and preamp. :)
 
#272
InvisibleMan said:
As the dealer I was working with said to me, "these are cookie-cutter, but they are the world's best cookie-cutter".
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I suppose if you're in search of variations on a theme, that's a somewhat fair opinion. But if you're in search of a top of the line 60s J style, look no further as his are as good if not better than any. My Classic J is a beast.
 
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#275
One of my Suhr basses the other two are suhr/nordy hybrids, including a suhr neck on a nordy body.
This is the only Suhr of mine that isn't modified with Nordy pickups/preamp. This one is all suhr. I love it!
 

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#278
Ive played a handful of Suhr's and they were all KILLER! Ive also played a bunch of Pensa-Suhr and they are too fabulous. I figured there would be more of them out there, great bang for the buck as compared to some other boutique Fender style builders.
 

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