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22 minutes ago, horrorshowbass said:

Ander, can I ask where you bought your specials? Looks like there's no real saving getting in US after tax etc. Just looked in Rudys music NYC and special was working out over £1500 stg :(

oh well.

 

Hey bud! the charcoal sparkle and dropped copper were second hand at 1700£ ish, seems going price. 

 

The brand new Cruz Teal was from N Stuff Music, Pennsylvania, post taxes looking at £2,290ish, cheaper than my 5H Special back then (£2,299 from GAK). These days UK new prices for Specials is £3k+, I've seen £3.2k to £3.5K for a 5HH....!

 

This Cruz Teal was 2400$, discounted down to about 2150$ if I remember? converted to 1800/1900£ plus customs.... Can't remember the figures down to detail but certain £2,290 at home

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26 minutes ago, Ander87 said:

 

Hey bud! the charcoal sparkle and dropped copper were second hand at 1700£ ish, seems going price. 

 

The brand new Cruz Teal was from N Stuff Music, Pennsylvania, post taxes looking at £2,290ish, cheaper than my 5H Special back then (£2,299 from GAK). These days UK new prices for Specials is £3k+, I've seen £3.2k to £3.5K for a 5HH....!

 

This Cruz Teal was 2400$, discounted down to about 2150$ if I remember? converted to 1800/1900£ plus customs.... Can't remember the figures down to detail but certain £2,290 at home

Thanks man yeah 2nd hand seems way forward

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Most definitely....! Digging in around in forums etc it also seems that the newer generation of 'select hardwood' bodies it's cause they ran out of the swamp ash they used in 2018-2019 (wood shortages etc). Now I sound like I'm ranting against all that is not mine, I don't mean to - I am sure they are absolutely amazing instruments to the highest standard, but paying 3k£ I'd expect to almost have a picture of the bass the woods come from haha!

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7 hours ago, Ander87 said:

… in other news, whoever needs a pick guard can rely on Brian Pillanz (I was passed details thanks to @Dov65). Half price compared US options and great fit. 
 

The below is a 3 ply b/w/b matt guard:

 

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Looks tasty!

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Ah...! First couple of days with the 5HH and loving it - took it to practise yesterday...

 

It came really well set up and I didn't have to touch the action, just the truss rod a tad bit when I changed the strings to Chromes flatwounds... Slamming tone and lots of flexibility thanks to the extra pickup.

 

Depending on the type of player you are, one pickup is plenty - I don't see myself using them all in the 5HH for live gigging in my punk rock band, but I will defo use some of the tones in the studio. Positions 2 and 4 (inner and outer coils from each pickup combined) add a very very cool character!

 

What I'm saying is, if you have a chance to get a HH version go for it, but if you want to scratch the itch of having a Stingray and you only have single pickups you will not be miserable. For me, it does the job where my base sound is on the 4H, whilst the 5HH lets me do other genres (soul/neosoul forays) and different tones out of the pickup positions.

 

I can see myself using both evenly, keeping the 4H with NYXL's - the string choice adds a lot of flavour of course...!

 

I will change the pick guard to pearloid most likely, and that switch tip to black of course, why'd they use white when the hardware and knobs are black....!

 

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1 hour ago, Ander87 said:

Ah...! First couple of days with the 5HH and loving it - took it to practise yesterday...

 

It came really well set up and I didn't have to touch the action, just the truss rod a tad bit when I changed the strings to Chromes flatwounds... Slamming tone and lots of flexibility thanks to the extra pickup.

 

Depending on the type of player you are, one pickup is plenty - I don't see myself using them all in the 5HH for live gigging in my punk rock band, but I will defo use some of the tones in the studio. Positions 2 and 4 (inner and outer coils from each pickup combined) add a very very cool character!

 

What I'm saying is, if you have a chance to get a HH version go for it, but if you want to scratch the itch of having a Stingray and you only have single pickups you will not be miserable. For me, it does the job where my base sound is on the 4H, whilst the 5HH lets me do other genres (soul/neosoul forays) and different tones out of the pickup positions.

 

I can see myself using both evenly, keeping the 4H with NYXL's - the string choice adds a lot of flavour of course...!

 

I will change the pick guard to pearloid most likely, and that switch tip to black of course, why'd they use white when the hardware and knobs are black....!

 

image.thumb.png.ad2ef5a61c51f963c4286614e03e886c.png

 

 

The cruz is amazing, enjoy it. 

That charcoal sparkle, beautiful 😃 

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12 minutes ago, horrorshowbass said:

The cruz is amazing, enjoy it. 

That charcoal sparkle, beautiful 😃 

 

Thank you! taken a lot of work and the right opportunities but I think in my heart these are the top two colours for that generation if not ever (to me)!

 

Ander.

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On 30/03/2022 at 22:30, Ander87 said:

… and a new Pearl pickguard for the Cruz teal boy… Personally I think this is a much better fit than regular white:

 

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Definitely better. My charging green special 5H doesn’t work with the plain white guard (although the black one supplied as well is growing on me as the nut and side dots are also black). I went with an OEM MM Pearloid pickguard - it will be a few weeks from the US according to Strings & Things.
I still can’t believe how light it is, and there’s no neck dive not need to replace the tuners with lighter version as I have had to with my USA Sterlings in the past.

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