dub_junkie

They stay at home now but I like them far too much to sell them.

My new to me SR2605 in Cerulean Blue burst

My moonlight blue P34. Did have a 735a and was after a P35 but as is the way of things, I ended up with the 4 string. No complaints. Great bass! 8

I would have preferred the Z3 to the Z7 I had. The Z3 has the straight ahead 3EQ and no neck pickup to get in the way. I like the popsicle blue colour best but I'd have one of the sparkle finishes too.

The 55-60 I had was a fantastic bass - I bought it from Paddy777 on here with an East J Retro preamp but once that was out the bass seemed better for it imo (limitations on the J Retro in passive mode being the main reason) I doubt I've had a bass action that went any lower and played rattle free. (iirc either Plek'd at the factory or at set up/QC in Chicago - not sure which) It was a fantastic neck on the 55-60 - more traditional profile than the Sadowsky Metro Express 1st gens I had which were flatter at the back. The width on the Sadowsky 5 necks the further you go up always niggled me a bit as well. I like the Sadowsky tone for the amount of boost available but the lack of passive tone control became an issue for me as well. I cant speak about the gen 2 basses as I haven't owned one but I would wholeheartedly recommend a 55-60. They are lovely jazz basses imo. Also for what its worth I would say try a Cort NJS5. Beautifully balanced output and tone across the neck and really special basses for the money they go for.

Some of you will have seen this on the ACG pages - my RSK 5/35. Picked it up from Alan in September after a 7/8 months build time from the deposit going down. I enjoyed the whole process of spec'ing my own bass - I specifically asked for the pickups to be pulled back towards the bridge and a little closer together and I'm pleased how that turned out. Still getting used to the wildly capable filter preamp! Definitely an experience I'm looking to repeat 🙂

The Grafts are superb! fwiw my 'frostbite' finished Graft 5 has such strong sounding pickups - the bridge pickup tone is one of the very best I've ever had for that midrange percussive honk/burp/whatever you want to call it 😍

I think I may have played this bass when picking up one of my ACGs from Alan. There was also a lovely green Graft Plus 5 string there that day as well. Fantastic looking Graft you have - I think this colour is called Purgatory iirc

I know what you mean. It is a pale blue but most pics make it look bordering on white. This was my bass outside in natural light which, from memory, is a fairly true representation of the colour.

I've owned three Tribute JB-2 basses and preferred any and all of them to the JB jazz bass model which came along later (and also owned, pictured with the sonic blue JB2) I've owned the blue, pink and sunburst finished models and my favourite was the sonic blue with carribean rosewood fretboard. Used that as my main bass for close on a year and gigged it with my band at the time. Great neck, no frills passive jazz in a non offset body with really good sounding pickups. The alnico pickups in these basses get a lot of love and rightly so. Really strong sounding and articulate. You can't go wrong with them. The pink one I got had some shielding issues and the fretwork wasn't as good as the other two but was fine after somentime was spent putting it right. I also had a USA JB2 which was a fantastic instrument in every respect.

I read somewhere that one rosewood and one maple Sledge Sabre were officially imported but that's not to say there weren't any brought over here privately. Case in point being I know of one other Sledge Sabre with a maple board which has come up for sale a couple of times the last few years as well. Sledge is a brilliant colour - under lights/sunlight it really pops.