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[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1438775388' post='2837089'] Is this the Japanese model? I can confirm these are superb. The quality is excellent and the guitar is super easy to play. [/quote] Yes, apparently only 300 made so it took me two years to find one. It needed a setup and a shim but plays very nicely.

I don't like solos at all. Instrumental sections is good but guitar solos are so old hat ~ stop doing it.

That took me way back. Charlie Wayne and the Vikings was one of the first bands I saw live.

The pickups are Seymour Duncan lipstick tubes for Stratocasters.

Thomann do a 30 day money back guarantee.

Lovely.

I just bought my son a slightly late 21st birthday present ~ Fender Jaguar Thinline. Pics to follow.

I might have to go to try one out in local shop.

[quote name='CamdenRob' timestamp='1438605750' post='2835703'] I must be thinking of a different one [/quote] Maybe the custom shop version.

£691 at GAK. Is that staggering?

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1438492146' post='2834846'] +1 it looks good - but with a Bass VI style headstock I think it'd be even nicer ... [/quote] Yes, Bass VI body already.

Very good and Spain good too.

[quote name='M-Bass-M' timestamp='1438257063' post='2832950'] Huh, even more versatile than I first imagined! Really curious to try a short-scale bass now. Wonder how it would look with a slightly smaller headstock...looks a bit out of scale with the body. [/quote] The headstock looks like a Coronado headstock, which is also a 30" scale, so maybe they are using the same neck.

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1438257339' post='2832957'] That's a somewhat non-standard bridge! [/quote] Guild harp bridge in style at least.

I have a 2008 Lakland Skyline Decade and it's perfect in every way

Most often no amplification. Or Phil Jones Bass Buddy plus Beyer DT250 headphones and iPod goes through that too. Or, with others, Phil Jones Bass Briefcase which is 100watt 2x5".

The Ranelagh is a nice gig, but the stage is ... well ... not there really. I'd come down but I'll be in Spain.

[quote name='Jazzneck' timestamp='1438180699' post='2832333'] ET, I thank you for that. [/quote] You're welcome, it's a cracker.

She is Sam and I am Dave. [media]http://youtu.be/WxQM7GXA8Tc[/media]

[quote name='Ruiner' timestamp='1438171875' post='2832219'] Obviously the antigua finish is an acquired taste ... [/quote] It certainly is. I really like it .... sometimes. The Squier looks more of a brown Antigua than a green Antigua.

[quote name='ras52' timestamp='1438167089' post='2832176'] Yep, I play rudimentary guitar when I have my songwriter hat on. I struggle with a plectrum, so my strumming technique uses the index finger and thumb nails: my right hand is as if I'm holding a plectrum (very loosely), so on downstrokes I hit the strings with my index fingernail and on upstrokes with the thumbnail. (There's probably a name for this technique!) [/quote] That's fair enough but I was more meaning for example ... [media]http://youtu.be/z_NVSTzrBbo[/media]

[quote name='Cameronj279' timestamp='1438159413' post='2832079'] ... I should also say that I don't/can't use a plectrum on bass so that's going to be a big thing I need to practice! [/quote] I'm not saying don't learn to use a plectrum but it is not essential. Two of the guitarists I regularly play with never use a plectrum - fingerstyle all the way.

[quote name='Ruiner' timestamp='1438165558' post='2832156'] The Squier jazzmaster baritone (antigua) is 30" scale length (same necks as the Squier VI's) and that comes tuned A-A as standard. [/quote]

[quote name='uk_lefty' timestamp='1438163587' post='2832136'] thanks - backbow was the wording i was looking for!! I can loosen the truss rod to its max and it doesnt seem to be doing much... Don't know if there's any "help" the neck needs to settle. I would guess string tension, so can put an old set of strings on once the bass bridge arrives! [/quote] You need to stop adjusting the truss rod until you've got some strings on.

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1438113011' post='2831806'] At the risk of derailing the thread with a potentially stupid question: could one string these with lighter strings and turn it into one of these elusive baritone guitars one occasionally hears about? I.e., stringing it BEADF#B (or even ADGCEA, I guess), but with the longer scale length giving better tension that one might get by doing the same to a normal six-string guitar? [/quote] If you chose the right gauges then A-A or B-B tuning are both possible. A-A would roughly mean moving all strings over one and finding an appropriate high A string