32" Medium Scale Bass Thread

[Merton]

I have sibling to Mr @ead‘s Finn P, also 32” scale:

 

Edit - but mine doesn’t have the fancy top!

Edited March 22, 2019 by Merton

[ead]

16 minutes ago, Merton said:

Beautiful

Cheers bud, just been having a quick noodle, v nice indeed to play.

[ead]

17 minutes ago, Merton said:

I have sibling to Mr @ead‘s Finn P, also 32” scale:

 

Edit - but mine doesn’t have the fancy top!

The seeds of the idea to commission a similar beastie were definitely sown after I'd had a go on yours

[Donnyboy]

1 hour ago, Dan_Q said:

agreed- i play it an awful lot at the moment! any pics of yours? sorry about the stickers by the way. I know that offends some folk. they probably won't be there forever.

 

 

Here you go...

[Dan_Q]

7 minutes ago, Donnyboy said:

 

 

Here you go...

cool man thanks- looks lovely and clean!

[Donnyboy]

10 minutes ago, Dan_Q said:

cool man thanks- looks lovely and clean!

Yeah- none of these dodgy stickers😉

[eude]

1 hour ago, ead said:

Here we go folks ACG Finn 32" scale P bass

• Alder body with quilted maple top natural satin finish
• 3-pc ash neck with Maple board
• P bass pickup, passive electronics, detuner on E string
• Weight 7.4lbs

Crappy phone pic, will so better ones in due course.

Ooooh Yeah!

[Jabba_the_gut]

My latest 800mm /31.5" scale semi hollow build getting close to finishing.

[therealting]

@ead Aha a stealth P! Lovely. How do people find the D tuner works on medium scale?

[ead]

On 23/03/2019 at 07:21, therealting said:

@ead Aha a stealth P! Lovely. How do people find the D tuner works on medium scale?

Absolutely fine.  Tried it several times yesterday to make sure but not issues at all.  This particular bass is wearing relatively lightweight D'Addario nickels in 45/60/80/105 flavours as opposed to the headless Border Reiver, also 32" scale. that has the D'Addario EXL160BT set on.  Guages for the 160BTs are 50/67/90/120.

Looking at the bass is think black tapewounds might look pretty cool too!

Edited March 24, 2019 by ead

[therealting]

@AndyTravis, reveal thy new acquisition...

[AndyTravis]

Just now, therealting said:

@AndyTravis, reveal thy new acquisition...

Need to talk strings.

it’s wearing flats which I hate...

what are people using for rounds? I’m normally a 40-100 d’addario nickel wound kind of person.

 

[therealting]

Just now, AndyTravis said:

Need to talk strings.

it’s wearing flats which I hate...

what are people using for rounds? I’m normally a 40-100 d’addario nickel wound kind of person.

 

D’Addario do a nice medium scale set which is probably worth trying first. I have them on medium scale Jazz which is in a similar vein to yours. 

[Merton]

10 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Need to talk strings.

it’s wearing flats which I hate...

what are people using for rounds? I’m normally a 40-100 d’addario nickel wound kind of person.

 

Lovely

I’ve got s set of LaBella stainless steel rounds on my 32” ACG Finn and they are bloody lovely. £26 fro Bass Direct.

My new 32” Zoot Funkmeister (almost finished!) will have DR Sunbeams

[AndyTravis]

Anyone want some brand new roto half wounds (which weirdly feel smoother than their flatwounds)?

[ead]

Strings wise I have settle on relatively lightweight D'Addario nickels in 45/60/80/105 (bought as singles to get the tension I like) on the headless Border Reiver.  Having tried D'Addario EXL160BTs (50/67/90/120) I found them to be a bit too heavy for me so the Finn P is now wearing black D'Addario ETB92M tapewounds (50/65/85/105).   These are a standard issue medium scale set and work rather well.

At some point I might well try a set of my normal use long scale D'Addario EXL170BTs as I reakon long scale strings on a 32" scale bass will work just fine.

@AndyTravis you are welcome to come round to try them out as we are pretty close to each other, or I'll bring them down to you if you promise to make me a cup of tea

Edited June 2, 2019 by ead

[Skezza]

14 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

Need to talk strings.

it’s wearing flats which I hate...

what are people using for rounds? I’m normally a 40-100 d’addario nickel wound kind of person.

 

Whose signature model is this

[AndyTravis]

23 minutes ago, Skezza said:

Whose signature model is this

Stu Hamm 1993

[Skezza]

looks great

[Skezza]

Due to a neck injury I have been struggling for a while with the length weight and turning for a a full scale 5 string

I bought a 32 inch GRECO PJ bass  of here and there was a real improvement in my comfort and playing.

So after a bit of research i bought this off ebay

 

 

 

I cannot put it down.

 

Its passive with 2 x vols and a tone 

 

 

 

 

[Merton]

21 minutes ago, Skezza said:

Due to a neck injury I have been struggling for a while with the length weight and turning for a a full scale 5 string

I bought a 32 inch GRECO PJ bass  of here and there was a real improvement in my comfort and playing.

So after a bit of research i bought this off ebay

 

 

 

I cannot put it down.

 

Its passive with 2 x vols and a tone 

 

 

 

 

Lovely bass, think it’s been a BCer’s bass before too, sure I almost bought it on here last year 😃

[ezbass]

25 minutes ago, Skezza said:

I cannot put it down.

The mark of a good instrument, new or otherwise. Enjoy.

[AndyTravis]

Have offered mine out for trade. Just doesn’t work for me. Gutted 

Edited June 9, 2019 by AndyTravis

[only4]

Here’s one of my 32’s 

An acg Tefano 

[eude]

58 minutes ago, only4 said:

Here’s one of my 32’s 

An acg Tefano 

Technically, that's a 31.5" scale, does that qualify? If so, I've got a few to share 😎

Eude