LeftyJ

Not a fan of the headstock shape, but otherwise they look nice. I also like the Hipshot hardware, though I feel they should also offer the option of a vintage bridge for those who don't like big solid Hipshot style A's.

Maybe you could ask fellow Bass Chatter [url=http://basschat.co.uk/user/30753-bjelkeman/]bjelkeman[/url]. He's got one, and a matching MC900, and is quite the vintage Ibanez nut. He sure seems to know his stuff

[quote name='Robbass' timestamp='1406023145' post='2507509'] see pics [/quote] Sheesh, that's narrow Is that a factory 5-string? [quote name='Bass-Driver' timestamp='1405791034' post='2505321'] I think a picture will explain it most accurately: Left - a "pre-facelift" version, as far as I remember, '92. Right - a "post-facelift" version, '00, in this case, mine [/quote] Beautiful! Especially like the post-facelift one, with the slightly more compact build and the slightly deeper cutaways. It makes the top horn look just a bit longer and even more elegant. I bet it's more ergonomic too, with the nut a bit closer towards your body. I also prefer the look of a darker top wood Edit: just noticed the more compact headstock and narrower nut width too. No more straight string pull like the maple-topped one, but it looks nice!

This is a creation of Olavi Linden from Finland. The guy is actually a violinist and designer of garden scissors, but he also has a small acoustic guitar and bass company and makes some unique acoustic bass guitars and upright basses with a carbon fibre horn inside the body and multi soundhole technology that produces tremendous volume and bottom end. The one in the pictures is some sort of prototype http://www.lindeninstruments.com/history.html http://www.lindeninstruments.com/instrument.html

Looks nice. Is it just me, or does that body look slightly slimmed-down? I don't like it as much as his earlier signature BB's though, the BB1000MA and the BB3000MA. Those have the classic BB shape, but with a slightly shorter top horn, and especially the 3000 with its neck-through-body construction is a highly desirable instrument

Here's my lovely '03 Streamer LX5. Ever since I got this, about two years ago, it's the only bass I gig with. I play in a modern metal band and the tone is absolutely perfect with almost no EQ. It's got deep bottom, a slight midscoop and bright and articulate highs. Works great with a little tube growl from my Ampeg preamps, and also takes overdrive and distortion very well when I want to (Fulltone Bassdrive and EBS Metaldrive). Love this bass! I have replaced the gold hardware with black in the mean time since taking these pics.

[quote name='yorks5stringer' timestamp='1405088692' post='2498763'] "The LOUDEST guitar shaped ACOUSTIC BASS"....its an oxymoron, the qualities you ask for don't go hand in hand unless, as it has been said, you go to Double Bass size. [/quote] [size=8]Que?[/size] [size=4]Those can even be had fairly cheap if you can find one. But that's the hard part, unless you're in Mexico...[/size] But they're a monster to play, and fretless. And I believe those are nylon strings.

Ah, I see what you mean now. If you look in the menu in the column to the left, you won't find a JAB/LH under "left-handed models" but if you go to the page with left-handed models it does show up. However, it says in red numbers and Japanese writing: [color=#FF0000]2012 生産終了品 [/color] which apparently translates to "2012 production ended". They've been cancelling all cool lefty models lately No more '75 Jazz Bass reissue, no more Jaguar Bass, no more Jaguar guitars, no more Jazzmaster guitars, no more Mustang guitars

Where did you get that link? The lefty version of the Fender Japan Jaguar Bass is out of production, it's no longer available in the menu of the website, so I'm surprised the page is still up!

I don't like the tort, it's much too red to my liking. Would probably prefer it clean, or with a black 3-ply. I always think that little white line adds some class . I love it on my '75 RI, very luxurious (especially with the B&B neck).

The fingerboard inlays on the guitar neck look different, there's none on the 24th fret and the double dots on the 12th fret are positioned differently. So I doubt it's the same one. It appears to have evolved (pickup covers) and it's been butchered too (that pickguard )

I googled it because I'd never seen one before, and stumbled on an ad right here on this forum from 2007 where one was offered for 1400 Pounds at first, but eventually dropped to 1100. It appears to have received quite some interest, but I can't tell from the thread if it actually sold at all. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/3382-warwick-vampyre-ltd-l1100-or-best-offer-soundclips-added/

Kinda reminds me of Wishbass somehow...

Thomann A bit cheaper than Warwick's own webshop, and they give free shipping over 100 euros. Well, unless you don't need anything else of course.

Can't remember what it was listed for initially, but it has been on eBay for months, in Germany. Final listing was 820 euros, and it appears someone made an even lower offer and got it: [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clover-Avenger-4-Lefthand-Linkshander-Left-hand-Lefty-RARE-/310895398683?pt=Gitarren&hash=item4862cf4f1b"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Clover-Avenger-4-Lefthand-Linkshander-Left-hand-Lefty-RARE-/310895398683?pt=Gitarren&hash=item4862cf4f1b[/url]

[quote name='timmo' timestamp='1398705961' post='2436792'] My Clover Avenger 4 [/quote] Love it! Is that the one that was on eBay until recently?

[quote name='Mark Dyer' timestamp='1397514426' post='2424795'] May as well take Spector off that list, the 2014 Euro price no longer has LH models apparently. [/quote] Nope. And I don't think they've ever made a lefty US instrument, only Asian and Czech models.

Wow, just in time then! There's no lefty option anymore in the 2014 price list... Awesome basses, would love a Euro 5 LX at some point.

[quote name='Emanew' timestamp='1397217885' post='2421883'] Really cool all black. Bravewood can do splendid relic instruments. Mojo inside A Inca Silver Fender Japan JB65B (dots & binding) [/quote] Needs lollipop tuners! VERY pretty. I love dots & bindings

Yes, I always thought that was odd too! And useless too, I never liked putting my thumb there. The perfect position for a thumb rest to me is between the pickups, aligned with the top of the pickups.

[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1397143380' post='2421132'] Check out Carvin's new Vanquish bass I personally love a Musicman bass. Classic Stingray/Stingray/Sterling/Big Al and even the Bongo.....(yes the Bongo looks amazing in a bright colour). [/quote] That Vanquish looks awful IMO. What's up with those horns? It looks so out of proportion I love Music Man too, and they've had some amazing finishes throughout the years, especially on their limited editions and awesome sparkle finishes. Sequoia Gold, Autumn Redburst, Autumn Redrise, Copperhead Bronze, the Dargie Delight versions...

This: A Condor Jazz Bass copy, made in Japan, with a plywood body and actually a pretty nice neck. Was a decent bass but I sold it immediately after I bought my first 'proper' bass, a Yamaha TRB5II that I loved. Years later I bought another Condor, looking to recapture that magic of my first ever bass, but it was awful. I sold it again within a week and never looked back. No sentiments whatsoever. My first real instrument was a guitar, and that one [i]does[/i] have great emotional value and will never be sold . It's a Squier Affinity Strat (made in China) that I modded the hell out of. Levinson pickups, graphite nut, Gotoh tuners, custom switching (Tele-style 3-way with a second 3-way to add the middle pickup to any combination in either series or parallel).