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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1456058101' post='2984889'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEOlTZGuLKM&list=RDfEOlTZGuLKM#t=10[/media] [/quote]| I will never tire of watching/ listening to that clip. Absolute brilliance!

[quote name='sblueplanet' timestamp='1453592502' post='2960963'] I wonder if any decent luthier could perform the same trick and shorten a Steinberger by two frets? [/quote] I'm not sure what the construction would be in there- eg is the neck hollow or solid? If you're lusting after a short scale Steinberger, I would suggest a more cautious and economical approach- a capo at the 2nd fret. Or the first fret if you want a kind of medium scale. If you like it, you could then mask the position dots with black stickers and stick on new white ones in the now correct positions. All easily reversible to put the bass back to stock configuration and as a bonus still able to use standard double ball strings.

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1453196264' post='2957208'] Apparently something like that - from [i]Guitar Player[/i] mag 1983 [/quote] Excellent! Thanks for that.

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1453049669' post='2955940'] Certainly the minimalist solution - but even without a head-stock, that tiny body probably means neck-dive. [/quote] L series basses have a strap pivot mounted at the centre of gravity of the bass- no neck dive ever. Wyman's bass must have been a stock L2 with the end of the neck cut off- there were no short scale moulds. After all the jokes I've had to endure over the years, it somewhat amuses me to think that there was a Steiny made which actually was "sawn off" Ed

[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1452333252' post='2948886'] a Dynacord BS412 115 combo [/quote] Ah... The amazing Dynacord combo brilliant amp! For me, 70s- early 80s was mainly the Aria SB 1000 through the Acoustic 370/ 301 setup- effortless sound but not effortless carrying up flights of stairs! Replaced mid 80s with the 300w Trace head coupled with two Traynor 15/ horn PA bins- loud, full range hifi, ideal for the Steinberger L2. The rig went early 2000s but of course the Steiny will only leave when I do!!

He was the inventor of re-invention. A sad day but one also to celebrate the legacy of one of the most amazing songwriting back catalogues ever.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1451437969' post='2940546'] Don't be daft, all Gibson basses are awful. Are you new around here? [/quote] Yeah, I'm sorry- quite ridiculous! Don't know what came over me... Won't happen again.

Not an owner but also interested party. Finally played one a couple of weeks ago in GuitarGuitar's acoustic shop in Glasgow. Only through an acoustic guitar amp. Sounded terrific up around E on the G string but got progressively thinner as you dropped down through the pitches - I suspect this could simply be the limitations of the amp and through a full range bass rig it would have been good. Action was very high for an electric player but could be adjusted to suit. Beautifully made and finished and very useable horizontally. Didn't try vertically as they didn't have the end pin handy. Partially why I am interested would be for bowing but I'm lead to believe that the body is not cutaway enough at the waist to allow easy bowing of the E or G strings - perhaps an owner could comment? If you are or could get near one of their other shops I'm sure they would ship it to that branch for you to try. Ed

The RD Artist is a slap monster - actually, a tone monster in general. The "money" bass was nice and would do you fine. And the current EB bass is also nice and versatile, All long scale, I believe.

[quote name='ambient' timestamp='1451339724' post='2939745'] If you go for the gun case then be careful at train stations . [/quote] Yep- spent half an hour with customs trying to get home from Bahrein with them once - dread to think what it's like now!

In the 80s I toured with two of them topped and tailed in an adapted keyboard flightcase. These days if I'm taking one to a gig and travelling by car, it goes into a Ritter gig bag- not as good as the original Steinberger bags but ok-ish. Reunion Blues used to make excellent leather Steinberger bags - they may still have the patterns and be able to do a special or as you mentioned, a rifle or shotgun case. Welcome to the wonderful world of Steinberger! Ed

Flateric you have exactly the one I'd like to find, with the chequered binding and Bartolinis in- beautiful! In the very early 80s I worked in Grant Music in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Jimmy Grant liked importing and selling nice and unusual gear and he brought a few Odesseys over so there will be a handful scattered around the central belt in Scotland. Keep looking! Ed

Chris was and always will be the man. Unique and hugely influential/ inspirational.

I like the Ziricote. Matching headstock, you say? Never seen a Wal with one of them before. (Other than painted, that is) Interesting.

OK - slight delay. My music room had been dismantled recently to have the Velux windows replaced so nothing was wired up! This was recorded straight into a channel of my old Mackie CR1604 desk. No DI box. No EQ. No compression. (you can tell that as I clip the computer's input every time I hit the low E!) Fed straight into Cubase and again no further processing so this is literally just the sound of the bass itself and my scrappy playing. First, neck pickup, then bridge pickup, then both together. Tone controls wide open and volumes full on. Cheers Ed [url="https://soundcloud.com/eddie-mcglone/aria-jazz-bass"]https://soundcloud.com/eddie-mcglone/aria-jazz-bass[/url]

[quote name='JapanAxe' timestamp='1416475402' post='2610505'] Great looking bass, good job mate. Cheeky question: any sound clips? [/quote] Not cheeky at all - will do some tonight! Ed

Here we go then, scratchplate mounted- all done and it has turned out brilliantly! [sup][/sup] The ebony board with the clay dots looks and feels old and fantastic. [sup][/sup] It's a slab board like the early Fenders [sup][/sup] [sup][/sup] Managed to keep the battle scars under the new finish so it's obviously an old bass in appearance. [sup][/sup] [sup][/sup] It sounds great - the pickups are fat and warm and provide all the sounds you might expect. The ash body makes it quite heavy but it's comfy on a strap, relatively noise free and is a fitting tribute to my old P-bass. So there you have it - '77 Aria Precise Bass JB-600. New ebony fingerboard, clay dots, '70's style frets, Gotoh reverse wind tuners, stack pot controls. Back in active service again! Cheers Ed

Well, it's been a long time - sometimes life just gets in the way of everything and I seem to have had virtually no time for Basschat but definitely time for an update. Jimmy Moon finished the neck at the very end of May and I picked up the newly rejoined neck and body at the start of June. The neck is of course very nice indeed - exactly what I was looking for so it was a quick scramble to get the pickups on and see what it sounded like. I really didn't like the protruding pole pieces so I decided to see if the poles were a simple push fit in the bobbins. I don't recommend you try this on valuable old pickups but I figured that I was not going to get the use out of the pickups as they stood so... I took one of the pickups and supported it on a couple of bits of softwood, leaving a small gap under one of the pole pieces. I then took a pair of pliers, closed, and placed the side of the jaws on the top of the pole piece and pressed down... hard. The pole piece moved down through the bobbin! Repeat the process for all 16 pole pieces over the two pickups and I now have two vintage looking pickups with virtually flush pole pieces so they really look the part. I was hoping they still worked as it was possible that the windings could have been broken internally by my antics. Anyway, installed [url="http://basschat.co.uk/user/7835-kiogon/"]Kiogon's[/url] shielding kit and pre- wired control plate including the brass strip bridge earth and wired the pickups. They both worked but were out of phase with each other. The bass had sounded a bit odd when I got it at first before I took it all to bits but it was kind of difficult to put your finger on things when you're playing a bass with three dead strings, no nut and an oversized fingerboard! Checked the wiring and the pickups were wired correctly so reversed the phase of one and hey presto- everything working as it should - the two pickups are actually out of phase if you wire them up according to how they should look! So here's the bass at that stage - still to put the scratch plate on - was waiting for some slot head pickguard screws to be delivered - all to keep the the vibe of my old p-bass that this project was based on. And the pickups after the pole pieces had been lowered... Next post - the finished bass!

[quote name='glefty' timestamp='1403095560' post='2479684'] There were quite a few factory fretless 4s n 5s in spirits n original steinys n they all had zero frets. Had my '92 Steiny XL2A defretted (filed down actually)15 yrs ago, action is so stupid low you'd swear the strings were in the fingerboard n plays like butta! [/quote] I can't comment on the Spirit basses but USA made graphite necked models only had zero frets if they were fretted basses. All factory fretless basses had no zero fret- the end of the fingerboard is ramped and the strings lie tight against it. Cheers Ed

Gig in the wee folk club in Edinburgh on Sunday evening started with three punters, went up to seven and finished with the original 3 again!! A combination of the World Cup and a Sunday afternoon/ evening with nice weather (unusual to say the least for us) meant that most stayed at home. Was a great gig though, the few who attended really enjoyed it, we got paid and are asked back in August so all in all, well worth doing it. Cheers Ed

I suspect that most bass rigs these days are designed with the assumption that there will be reinforcement available from a pa system. Back in the 70's I used an Acoustic 371 rig. The cabinet was a folded horn with one 18" driver which faced the back of the cab. Almost any room I played, I could have a comfortable volume onstage whilst at the back of the room, the bass was nailing them to the wall! The cab was a long-throw design which was meant to project the sound outwards and it really worked, meaning that I rarely needed any help from the PA. It also lead to many "discussions" with sound men who had no way of taming the bass out front. And therein lies the problem with your proposed solution of a speaker whose output you can't actually hear. So I would suggest, get a sound that you are happy with on stage. This will make you play better and enjoy your performances more. Let the front of house sound take care of itself. Most of the audience won't care or notice and the sound man will do as he thinks fit. In my experience of going to see gigs, only about 1 in 30 or so sound men seem to be able to get even a vaguely acceptable bass sound audible to the audience so I gave up worrying about that side of things long ago! Make yourself happy, you will make the band happy, the music happy and the crowd happy! God I'm feeling good today! Cheers Ed