Lefty Photo Gallery

[patch006]

Just a few past and present friends! 

[sblueplanet]

Got my pickguards back from Jack’s Instruments. I have a lefty medium scale 32” P bass in vintage white. I couldn’t decide between a tort and a gold anodised one so got both.

Edited February 3, 2018 by sblueplanet

[sblueplanet]

Decided to fit the gold one as it changes the look of the bass depending on the light.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2018 by sblueplanet

[rogerstodge]

New bass day, been after one for a while but couldn’t find the one I wanted... til now

[uk_lefty]

16 hours ago, rogerstodge said:

New bass day, been after one for a while but couldn’t find the one I wanted... til now

Nice bass! Would love a Rick but the cost has almost doubled in the past few years, can't justify it at all

[LeftyJ]

I bought a new 4003 in Mapleglo in 2009. Loved the looks and tone, but really disliked the (lack of) ergonomics, the square feel of the neck and the bridge keep falling backwards in the tailpiece. Would love a 4003s one day, maybe with a Hipshot replacement bridge. 

[blablas]

Newest member to the herd, Sire Marcus Miller P7 5 string.
This is the second one Thomann sent me, I had to return the first one due to a non working P pickup and scratching preamp pots.

Edited July 20, 2018 by blablas
better picture

[uk_lefty]

Let me know what you think of it, I am interested in these myself, or the M7 or V9!

[blablas]

The neck feels and plays identical to my V7 and VV7, preamp is also the same, the main difference is the body shape and the sound characteristics of the P pickup.

The tuners are also different from the ones that are on my V7's. Cheaper? Better or worse? I don't notice any difference in use.

The finish is very good, the preamp is extremely versatile and there are no sharp fret ends.

[sblueplanet]

I didnt know about this Sire model. Looks great.

[DGBass]

Just thought I'd contribute to the thread with one of my fave lefties, a late 90's USA P-bass.

[rogerstodge]

Love it, same as the one I had that I shouldn't of sold

[blablas]

Lefty Harley Benton Fiesta Red PB-50, ordered one eight months ago right after it was announced, today it finally arrived!

[blablas]

Another new acquisition Sire Marcus Miller M2.

Dirt cheap bass with a 35" scale!

[uk_lefty]

You sure own a lot of basses blablas. Curious, do you keep them all or sell a few on? Or is this a collection you are putting together?

[blablas]

I keep them all. 😀

I don't consider them a collection, they all have their different characteristics and sound possibility's and all get played, a few get more play time than others but I keep them as players.

Lefty's are a sort of rare beasts so if I run into one I like for a price I'm willing to spend on it I just buy it, you might never see one like it again!

[blablas]

And it's going back to the store again, was going to finetune the action only to discover the truss rod nut was stripped. No finetuning, no bass!

[pnunes76]

On 08/06/2018 at 15:56, blablas said:

Lefty Harley Benton Fiesta Red PB-50, ordered one eight months ago right after it was announced, today it finally arrived!

It's a good bass for a beginner?

[blablas]

If you get a good one, absolutely.

[pnunes76]

2 minutes ago, blablas said:

If you get a good one, absolutely.

I didn't choose one yet. I'm looking which is the best model for me.

[blablas]

The replacement is in.

Everything works okay on this one.

[blablas]

Lot's of lefty basses in a limited space.

This picture was a experiment with a extreme wide angle lens, just to see if I could make a acceptable picture with all the distortion going on, not a bad result I think.

[nerkoids]

On 08/06/2018 at 10:56, blablas said:

Lefty Harley Benton Fiesta Red PB-50, ordered one eight months ago right after it was announced, today it finally arrived!

Still waiting on mine.  How are they, blablas?  I know they had an issue with using the wrong spaced bridges not long ago, it seems yours has the correct bridge.

[blablas]

I put a set of flatwound strings on it and it has become one of my favourite 4 string basses.

As I understand it from the information that is going round the wrong spaced bridge was/is only found on right handed versions of the PB-50.

[blablas]

I've seen several lefty's come by on several bass forums and the only minor issue they all have is that the strings don't align neatly over all four pickup polepieces (the spacing between the polepieces is less than the string spacing) however if the strings align centered over the pickup it doesn't influence the sound at all.

Edited August 7, 2018 by blablas
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