LeftyJ

Especially something that suspends your prized posessions a few feet above a hard floor 😟

This thread had me pick up mine again yesterday after not playing them for quite some time. My 1983 is still one of my favourite basses ever! My 1981 however (with the older body style, the brown soapbar singlecoils, and a LOT heavier and with a much fatter and wider neck) didn't suit me at all anymore. It just felt big, unwieldy and heavy with an overly bright tone. I even consider selling it now 😬

Same! Even though there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I guess it helps that it's black, it gives the bass a slightly more modern appeal.

There's a 5-string KSD Proto-J 705 (the 70s style version, with maple board, 35" scale) on Leftybass.com right now, located in Italy. Upgraded with an Aguilar OBP3. Absolute steal at 300 euros.

The Westone is a Thunder 1a, the active version of the Thunder 1, with the "bird"-style logo and shorter headstock dating it to roughly 1983-85.

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Nice! The Noguera is by far the most elegant of the ERB's IMHO. Some of these really look "stretched" (especially the Streamer Stage 1 6BN and the Conklin, and the Overwater to a lesser degree) but the Noguera looks great.

They're passive, as are the current pickups in your Squier. It's the tone controls in your bass that are active 🙂 Do make sure they fit before you buy! They're shaped like the common Bartolini BC soapbars, so they most likely will, but it would be a shame if they wouldn't. The Aguilars are 1.25″ W X 3.95″ L (32mm X 100mm).

Crap, missed that! Well-spotted.

Hard to tell what it is after the modifications that have been done to it. I agree it looks like a generic, affordable PJ bass but there are some things that set it off from other offerings: the straight knob alignment (if original); the entire neck appears to be finished in the same color as the body; also, it's hard to tell the body shape from this angle because the edges have been sanded to a different shape, but I think it looks like an Aria Maybe a modified Aria STB-PJ. It's a PJ bass that was available in white, matches the wide distance between the pickups, and the alignment of the control knobs (but the advertised bass has a switch where the upper knob would have been, and an extra control knob above that). So yes, more pictures from different angles would be helpful 🙂

I have a SUPERrare misprint of a demo CD by... my own band 😆 We had recorded two demo tracks for a promo CD to send to bookers and venues, and when we got the finished product there was a children's rap song on it. We sent the CD's back, but I kept two for sh*ts and giggles. But alas, we never quite got famous, so it will never be a wanted collector's item 😩

What a beast! Definitely not for me, I've got my hands plenty full at 5, but it's beautiful! Some ERB's look out of proportion to me, especially when they've adjusted existing bodyshapes to accommodate a wider neck, but this one looks like it was designed around the wide neck from the start. Beautiful design, well thought-out.

EBMM use a variation of the Earvana compensated nut, but with regular tunings. The Earvana nut is calibrated for each string, whereas the BF nut moves the nut closer to the 1st fret by the same distance for all strings.

"I broke a string, can I borrow your bass?"

If you enjoy this, have you listened to Carles Benavent yet? Not slap, but fantastic flamenco playing on bass.

The bag with mine looks the same as the one above. I use the two short straps to clip it to my gigbag, with the straps going around the neck part of my gigbag. I would have preferred being able to just clip it to the rings on my Mono M80 flightbag, but the clips on the straps of the Pedaltrain are too big to fit through and I'm NOT prepared to pay 90 euros for a Mono Tick (which will also fit a Nano).

Sounds familiar 😆 I always keep telling myself "The chances of finding another lefty version of this and that bass are slim, hold on to it" so I can rarely bring myself to sell anything... Last week I even bought back a bass I previously owned 😳

Stunning! What is that top wood? A different shade of ash? Not usually a fan of LED's, but just the side dots is tasteful and not overly flashy. Nice!

Oh god, that guy. I wish his hands were replaced with broccolis so he can't wield his tools anymore. Although I'm sure he'll just start buying up all the cheap 12-string ERB's on eBay and convert them to 6-string guitars for people with broccoli hands. There once was a version of the famous Der Untergang scene made with subtitles about his "craftwork", but I can't find it anymore. It was fantastic.

Add to cart, proceed to PayPal and find out 😁

Someone took a good look at a Wishbass and thought "I can do better than that!" Truth is they probably did 😄

LOL, it's not a pretty sight, no. On a serious note though, the tension-free neck was a really clever and innovative design that's still being used after almost 50 years! Ibanez even had the high-end USA-made versions of the RG guitars and ATK basses (USRG and USATK) made by Bunker with that neck design, and they're fantastic beasts if you know how to wield them. They look weird though, with the separate headstock mounted to the brass neck construction. Here's one in pieces: http://www.strangeguitarworks.com/disassembling-an-ibanez-usatk-neck/

Good time for us Euro-folk to buy gear in the UK then!