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Grahambythesea

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  1. My brother recently bought the black and white 5 string version and says the quality is good. Needed a tweek on the action but plays ok. I have the BaCH semi and can only say that for the money it's brilliant. I reckon your conversion job would work better starting with the painted model and then getting the vinyl you put on cars printed with your Paisley pattern. That way if it does work you at least have a reasonable black bass you can use/sell.

  2. That would be really interesting to do. However won't there be a problem of the Starcaster body being designed for a short scale neck and a jazz neck being long scale? The bridge position need to be different and don't the Fender bodies come drilled for a bridge?

  3. Great looking and sounding instrument, then I am already a Spector fan! I was slightly disappointed when they switched to Matt finishes on the Rebop, may be i' m just a bit old fashioned like that, but I guess Matt doesn't show the finger marks so much? Given the single pickup can you get the deep bass boom that you can from the earlier 2 pickup versions when you use the neck pickup?

  4. I had a Washburn guitar that looked kinda PRSish but had that same weird pointy headstock on it. What were their designers thinking of. The headstock got broken off though when it fell over so be careful.

  5. I totally agree that so called acoustic basses are a waste of space, unless you have to have that full bodied look. You may be better off looking for a solid bodied bass with a piezo bridge like the Fishman. Fender Japan made the HMT with an f hole and a piezo bridge, some Yamaha TRBs also have them as does the Spector Spectorcore which I use. Can get a pretty good "acoustic" sound from it.

  6. [quote name='MacDaddy' timestamp='1487673683' post='3241646']
    it's not like Gibson are going out of their way to advertise or promote the new EB Bass. Although a couple of people are sat with it, it's not mentioned in the Gibson USA 2017 New Model Year video.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1aIPdOdXdI
    [/quote]Says it all really, a bit embarrassed to have it in their line up. However reading through this thread it does begin to sound like we're all suffering from a bad case of nostalgia.

  7. Thanks Basvarken. Interesting info, Korea and Czech Republic seems a good combination. My 2 Spectors are one from Korea and one from the Czech Republic and both are cracking good basses, but cost a lot more than the BaCH.

  8. [quote name='Basvarken' timestamp='1487182829' post='3237869']
    Congrats.
    Hope you can get the bridge right. That could be a bit tricky.

    Here's my long scale BaCH semi acoustic


    I was torn between that gorgeous red and the natural, you obviously like these basses. How do find the balance between the front and rear pickups on the long scale? Presumably where you changed them to the Gibsons they balance well.

    Do prefer playing the short or the long scale and why both?

    And this is my short scale semi acoustic (with Gibson lo-z pickups)


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