It cleans it. It should be a more black color. Maybe the construction process leaves some fine composite dust or something.
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Zon
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This being a general Zon lovefest...
Just a general +1 for Joe and his basses. I've owned four of them (has it been that long?) and met Joe once after purchasing my first (custom fretless 5 piezo in amethyst) and he was great. I recently made the jump to another make with no regrets, I only wish I could afford to keep the Zon(s).
Just a general +1 for Joe and his basses. I've owned four of them (has it been that long?) and met Joe once after purchasing my first (custom fretless 5 piezo in amethyst) and he was great. I recently made the jump to another make with no regrets, I only wish I could afford to keep the Zon(s).
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alot of their fingerboards are "greyish" from the factory, its not dirt or dust. Some of them are more brown as well.
If you don't like the grey color, you can buff it with a automotive buffing wheel, and that makes it all nice looking and shiny. Some people like the grey, some don't. I'm not a huge fan, it looks like really dry wood.
Never heard of the WD40 solution, I suppose it would help the color, although I would think it could get gunky
If you don't like the grey color, you can buff it with a automotive buffing wheel, and that makes it all nice looking and shiny. Some people like the grey, some don't. I'm not a huge fan, it looks like really dry wood.
Never heard of the WD40 solution, I suppose it would help the color, although I would think it could get gunky
My bread and butter bass...best low b I've played, better than the carl thompson's, roscoe's, kenneth lawrence's, sadowsky's, fodera's and other boutique basses I've tried.
Here's my main bass
Sonus Custom 5 /Bubinga top/ +ramp
wow, you have my dream bass, that bubinga looks awesome.
(Everyone) Do you think a Zon would sound good paired with an Aguilar AG500 212?
edit: I just realized where I was and what I was asking.....maybe I'll get some different answers......
A BEAUTY! Curious, how much does it weigh?Here's my main bass
Sonus Custom 5 /Bubinga top/ +ramp
I wondered about that. Yeah, Bubinga is really dense. However, you must also have a pretty heavy piece of ash as well... my Sonus Special 5 fretless is also bubinga on ash, but it's and it's only 9.3 pounds, tho it is my heaviest Zon. My Custom and one of my Sonus 5's is pretty much 9, but my redwood top'd Sonus 5 is only 7.5 (tho you'd never know it to hear it)!
I just got done cleaning and restringing my Legacy Elite with Sadowsky light steels. I placed them on my Sonus 5 and I really liked them, so I've ditched DRs for now.
I used WD-40 and I did not notice the board becoming dark or shinier as a result of the cleaning. It did however remove excess dirt and make the phenowood more apparent.
I used WD-40 and I did not notice the board becoming dark or shinier as a result of the cleaning. It did however remove excess dirt and make the phenowood more apparent.
I have 2 and love them both. My red one is my "go to" bass, it goes to EVERY gig with me. Even with the ****tiest bass amp, I can always get a good tone out of that bass.
Yes, but I'm pretty sure the main reason for its weight is it's a particularly light piece of ash. Even if it had a bubinga top on it, I'm sure it'd still be 8 pounds or less.
Well, as a follow up to my problem, (btw Mike Dimin, nice "helpful" comment, but I was already in the middle of e-mailing their product manager at the time..which was like pulling teeth in terms of getting information from him)
I recommend not e-mailing them, because a random employee will respond from Joe's e-mail account without any answers...and then suddenly stop replying when you try to ask for the pertinent info.
If you call, you'll have a good chance of getting Joe on the phone and he was helpful and quick on getting me what I needed.
New (expensive) pot is on the way.....but it sounds like it will be prone to "wearing out" again from what Joe was saying. Maybe i'll just put in a new preamp circuit next time it happens because replacing volume pots every few years is not really ideal. Apparently, the previous owner had a scratchy pot, and by the time the bass got to me, the pot was shot.
But its not like i'm willing to part with this bass right now. The things you do for playbility and tone.
I recommend not e-mailing them, because a random employee will respond from Joe's e-mail account without any answers...and then suddenly stop replying when you try to ask for the pertinent info.
If you call, you'll have a good chance of getting Joe on the phone and he was helpful and quick on getting me what I needed.
New (expensive) pot is on the way.....but it sounds like it will be prone to "wearing out" again from what Joe was saying. Maybe i'll just put in a new preamp circuit next time it happens because replacing volume pots every few years is not really ideal. Apparently, the previous owner had a scratchy pot, and by the time the bass got to me, the pot was shot.
But its not like i'm willing to part with this bass right now. The things you do for playbility and tone.
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Man, I always appreciate your memory of this, and really envy you for having the opps to hang out there for a while. That had to be just plain stoopid fun.
Yeah, you are absolutely correct! That redwood sonus is totally a "from my cold dead hands" bass... no doubt about it. It is dead perfect in every way... tone, action, looks, weight, feel, you name it... in a word, "magic". It's in my avatar on myspace.com. It's also the main reason I have more Zons than any normal person should have... at least at my professional level.
Greetings, fellow bassplayers!
seems like the best place to put my question here: I've got the opportunity to get a Zon Legacy 4str. quite cheap from a fellow bassplayer... round about 900-1000$.
Thing is: most of the time i play Deathmetal, means down-tuned quite a bit, so i normally use a 35' 5stringer on B#....
so, what do you guys think? Could the Legacy handle it?
Thanx for your help in advance
seems like the best place to put my question here: I've got the opportunity to get a Zon Legacy 4str. quite cheap from a fellow bassplayer... round about 900-1000$.
Thing is: most of the time i play Deathmetal, means down-tuned quite a bit, so i normally use a 35' 5stringer on B#....
so, what do you guys think? Could the Legacy handle it?
Thanx for your help in advance
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, since you're talking about a 4 string bass but then you mention a 5 string. Let me ask this... what exactly would you prefer to tune the Zon to?
Regardless, depending on the condition of the bass, that's a stellar price!
