Rolf

I'm a fan of the Dimarzio Model Js, I have them in my old Warwick Streamer. They're dark but not muddy, and have a lot of output. If you connect the coils in series it's getting close to a P sound.

I recently got it, or rather one of my dream basses: That leaves a Wal mk.1 and a Vigier Passion, the one with a carbon fiber neck.

I love 8s, but I can feel the neck dive from here.

Those 12s are very cool! How do they balance? I had an 8-string with a Thunderbird body but the neckdive was horrible.

No, it's sealed by the resin so it won't need any treatment.

I play a lot in drop D and drop Db and I use .110 strings for both tunings. Right now I have Dean Markley Blue Steel for drop Db and Cleartones for drop D. I like the tension of the .110s for E/D# standard tunings too.

It was the first thing I fixed when I got it home 😄

I can see that, it's not a lightweight at 5.1kg, but it's not the heaviest Thumb I've encountered luckily. Not even my heaviest bass as it turns out, I had to check all my others and my 8-string P-bass is actually 5.2 kg

I'm very happy with it! It plays and sounds great as it is, and a cleanup, wax polish and oiled fretboard did wonders for the looks:

I've wanted one of these for YEARS and I finally got one. It's a 1988 NT5 with a beautiful pommele bubinga body and stock EMGs. It plays great and balances pretty good too. Just needs a fresh coat of wax to bring out the nice wood grain!

OK, NOW it’s a collection!

Turned out great, it looks even more like a Wal now Just a little sanding left before I screw them on.

I have two older Warwicks, a 1987 Streamer and a 2003 Thumb, so both over 20 years old. They’re solid, very high quality instruments and should last for years and years. My Streamer has some fret wear but they can probably be redressed before they have to be replaced. And I replaced the truss rod two years ago, that was a 15 minute fix. Just beware that the old one-way truss rods can be difficult to find. I got the Thumb a couple of months ago and it can’t have been played much, it feels brand new with no wear at all, just a couple of nicks in the body. I’m still looking for another Warwick, I’ve got to have a neck-through Thumb sometime

Got this in a trade with a friend. Never owned a shortscale bass, or a Gibson for that matter, before. It's fun and easy to play, and sounds very old school, especially with the flatwounds. It's basically the opposite of my Warwicks so both the sound and the feel is very unfamiliar, but maybe I'll try it in the fuzzed-out doom band and see how it behaves.

120 watts of Made-in-USA glowy goodness. Yes, it is heavy.

Two can't really be considered a collection, but I'm working on it!

Finally got them all together at home. And there's another one on the way!

Det takkes og bukkes!

You know, there’s only one thing that helps… no wait, this is my second 8-string, so maybe not.

I just got my custom bass body from AliExpress, ordered a couple of months ago but they were very busy. I’ve had to make some adjustments to the neck pocket but that’s to be expected when they didn’t have the neck to check it. Overall I’m happy with it, pretty nice work and finish.

Great, thanks a lot! Exactly what I need for my new project 😀

My main board for the doom band, made from an IKEA Hejne shelf with two T-Rex power supplies under. I should get some better quality patch cables but it works great now. The red PSM-5 is for switching on/off the delay/reverb pedal loop.

That looks great! Are the .stl files available somewhere?

Joining here because hey, you can't be a member of too many bass forums I started playing bass some 30+ years go, spent a good few years as a guitar player in a semi-pro band, and then went back to bass 4 years ago. I'm in 2 bands at the moment, a heavy sludge/doom/metal band, and a rock/metal band that started out as an Alice in Chains cover band, but recently have started making own music. A have a few basses, 7 is almost too many according to my wife, but my main ones are my Warwicks, my old 1987 Streamer Stage 2 and I just got a 2003 Blonde Thumb a couple of weeks ago. And that's pretty much it, I'll just go back to lurking a bit and reading what's been going on here