kingforaday

yeah i've always really liked these, finally got chance to try one in a music shop very very cool looks and some pretty good sounds and my god people aren't kidding when they say they're heavy! a few years ago they were really cheap £250-300 but lately they've been going for some silly money, the one i tried was £600!

yeah, i got given one for christmas a couple years ago... they're really good, and definately improve your finger/hand/wrist strength stamina etc i just always forget to use it! never been that great at excercise...

[quote name='tauzero' post='174677' date='Apr 11 2008, 04:45 PM']I wasted 15 seconds of my life waiting for it to load, and as it hadn't managed it by then, I gave up. Anyone want any Grolsch straplocks? I've got a pretty large supply as I get paid in Grolsch for doing house band duties on Thursday nights.[/quote] i would! not cuz i'm too cheap to buy beer i just really don't like grolsch...

[url="http://www.straplock.co.uk"]click here[/url] good points - they're black so don't look as obvious as the grolsch ones and judging by the feedback on his ebay account they work as well bad points - they're just rubber washers which you could probably get really cheap from a DIY shop... and you don't get the beer of course!

really noob-ish question but i've never used straplocks so... do you have to change the strap buttons when you put on any kind of strap lock? cuz from what i've seen some come with strap buttons and some don't. also my brother bought some years ago (schaller i think) for an ibanez electric which you'd think would be pretty standard but the screws were too small compared to what was already there meaning he'd have to fill the hole and re-drill it... so he just didn't bother!

[quote name='budget bassist' post='174191' date='Apr 10 2008, 10:20 PM']Do you know how long it's taken for me to hear that? The music shop i bought mine from (it's the bubinga toby pro) knew nothing about it, i emailed gibson, they told me it was a toby pro 5 and sent me a copy of the original ad which mentioned nothing about bubinga.... i emailed them again twice more and they just danced around the question like i hadn't asked it. I have to say, gibson customer service is appalling in my experience. So mine is the toby pro5B custom? (also i don't think it's as bad a bass as matty589 is making it out to be) thanks [/quote] glad i can help! i take a very strong (bordering on obsessive) interest in all things tobias - yeah thats a pro5b custom. the 'b' part being bubinga body wings and the 'custom' part relating to the finish and the asym neck... i think the quality control from bass to bass left alot to be desired, i know someone who bought one and he said it was set up really badly and had loads of glue on the fretboard, so i'm not surprised to hear some positive and some negative comments but as i said mine is great so just the luck of the draw i guess! as far as gibson are concerned i guess the toby pro's are way down their list of priorities being that they're so cheap, having said that they still haven't sorted any european distributers for the american made basses so i guess they're way too busy undoing all michael tobias' good work (if opinions on the post gibson tobias' are to be believed)

[quote name='matty589' post='173907' date='Apr 10 2008, 01:44 PM']I saw some other Tobys in what looked like quilted maple with a gloss finish, maybe they were better?[/quote] spot on. the bubinga one is the 'pro6B custom'. the 'toby pro6' are much older, gloss finish ones that were sold through music yo years ago. they then briefly introduced the custom ones and the acoustic toby's (which now seem to have disapeared of the face of the planet, much to my annoyance) then stopped selling them which is when they started to be sold through sound control i think... i've got a pro 4 and its realy nicely finished, though the pickups are still poor as of all the korean tobias', and it doesn't have an asym neck, whereas the pro custom's do. i've never tried one of the custom ones, so can't really comment on it but i have no complaints regarding the finish or sound of mine (for the money), its just that the pickups are very weak. not sure what model dood has but for that money with the EMG's in it (and a hard case), it sounds like a great buy to me

[quote name='Mike' post='173750' date='Apr 10 2008, 10:44 AM']Stop flirting, you two![/quote] at the risk of making it a menage a trois i [i]think[/i] i know what he thinks you're thinking... Fender USA Fretless Precision Bass Vintage 1979 on ebay? i wondered the same thing when i saw it a few days ago. looks really cool though

anyone tried the marvel ones?

[quote name='BassManKev' post='172434' date='Apr 8 2008, 05:20 PM']looks, feels and plays like a boutique bass pickup seems great, the preamp is one of the best iv tried, certainly the most responisve, such a vast array of sounds its lighter than my fender 4 string! the finish is just gorgoeus, pics don't do it justice. at the moment, this is my favourite bass to play, i havnt been able to put it down since getting it! for £200, or even the £599 new, its an amazing bass[/quote] cheers kev, sounds to good to be true, awesome! i may have to take the plunge

[quote name='BassManKev' post='172080' date='Apr 8 2008, 10:37 AM']this now belongs to me [/quote] sweet! i really like the looks of these... whats you're opinion on them? playability/build quality/pickups etc i'm still toying with the idea of getting the 4 string fretless version...

BUMP - less than an hour to go and its still at a bargain price!

BUMP - less than 24 hours to go and its still at a bargain price!

suppose i should repost his here as its on ebay now starting bid of 99p and no reserve so grab yourselves a bargain here it is (on two different coloured surfaces) one with the flash on one off: looks like this on a musicman sub: [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=280211294620&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=018"]click here[/url] for the link to the auction or failing that its item number: 280211294620 so look it up

hey wille, i've messaged you on myspace about this. cheers matt

another satisfied customer. dave was very helpful with all my (stooopid) questions and insured i got exactly what i was after. the cables are all great quality and arrived just a couple days after ordering. awesome

so shockwave, now that you've had it a while whats the overall verdict? (what i'm basicaly asking here is should i stop drooling over the pictures of yours and just buy one myself?!?)