Woodinblack

I took mine to a gig the first day I got it. I messed up quite a lot of songs. Turns out my abilty to switch between a 4 and 5 without issue is that I subconciously measure strings from the smallest up, and someone had added another smaller one! Loved the colour of that thing though, wish they would use it more.

I advertised it on here for a while, noone was interested Ooh - a sherwood headstock, not so keen on those!

What with the terminals built into the plastic? That seems even riskier, pull them out of that and you have to replace the entire case.

Because that is all that they sell. Frankly the 9v clip mechanism is rubbish. But the choices are a bit limited, I had a messinger that just had metal contacts that I put the battery in the wrong way round and next thing I knew smoke was coming out of the back! Now don't get me started on people who use a diode shunt for power protection...

Yes, I would say that is 17. thats pretty good . I normally measure from the two outermost strings and divide by (n-1)

Thats why I got rid of the GVB, I loved the 14mm at the bridge but it was way too wide at the nut

Yes, so that is what I would call the spacing too. Which is a shame as 18 is just a bit too much, especially on a 6

Oh hope someone screen shotted it - it was there a few minutes ago

That would make no sense, so If I asked for a fan fret with a saddle spacing of my favourite string spacing of 16.5mm, I would actually have a physical string spacing of 13.75mm. That would be a bit tight (although still prefereable to 21mm on the ibanez). Not sure what you mean about string guages, that has no relevance to string spacing, the sadles are in the same place whether you put strings on or not. Just in case we are talking at cross purposes, this is the Ibanez. I would call this 17.5mm spacing (as do ibanez), its 21mm between saddles

They do a peppermint one: I think they look great, apart from I think the dropped the ball with the pickups, which should have at the very least been filtatrons if not something more retro

Hmm.. wondering how they are working that out. Obviously the spacing between strings on a fan fretted bass is going to be less than the distance between the saddle centres. On my ibanez fan fret, the string spacing is 17.5mm, but the sadle centre spacing is 21mm. I guess they must be going for the first way

Looks interesting. Like this sort of shape? https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/Hartwood-Charger-Electric-Guitar-Strawberry-Milkshake/31J1

what is the spacing on those 6 strings? I mean like the parallel spacing if it was flat. Is it less than 17mm?

Yes, but he doesn't have a bass VI. the GK3B fits that fine. I have had a GK3B on both a Squier P Bass and a G&L L2500.

If you remember from previous threads, the GK3 has the wrong spacing for a 6 string bass

Agreed wholeheartedly, although I am a great fan of guitar synths, you do need to be very good on them to get up to "passable keyboard player" level.

That looks nice without the pickguard. Never been a fan of the 50s PBass as that guard is such a horrible shape. But like that it looks good.

the guy just asked me when I was having the fitting so just went for red Those are 17s, which is what he recommended for that reason

I find this guy good if you stuck

They gave me the colour options, and I almost went for purple but red just seemed a lot harder to lose. I was surprised they were that red, but not unhappy!

Looking more seriously into these now. I would like to try a 6 string again but don't want to waste too much money on it if it isn't for me. So people who had them, do you still think they are any good, are they worth £350 (the deals on eBay don't really seem worth it now)?

And 2 weeks later:

The original EWI from many years ago had a separate synth block as did the 3000, but they haven't been made for a few decades. The current 4000 and 5000 have built in sounds, and the USB is just a USB controller

The 5000 is fully self contained, you just need to plug it into something (also has wireless audio).