ricksterphil Posted April 23, 2017 Share Posted April 23, 2017 This is an unusual one Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252885976382 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 I have the through-neck version: [sharedmedia=core:attachments:46079] Not for traditionalists and very marmite. I find it extremely well-balanced and it's very light. The Lace pickups are practically noiseless (which is the idea) but the downside is that the output's very low. The neck on mine's a bit of a baseball bat too - P width and very chunky - I tend to prefer J type dimensions and if mine was a bit slimmer I'd probably use it more. Description is a bit disingenuous - it's not a "hand-made prototype" (mine's Chinese & No 0008!) and the list price for the bolt-neck single pup version is [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lace-Helix-4-String-Bass-Guitar-in-Black-or-Blue-with-an-Alumitone-Bass-Pickup-/292073390172"]around £500[/url], not a grand. Still a cool bass & would be OK for the £300 start price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroydiamond Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Had one. Total rubish bass IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 [quote name='leroydiamond' timestamp='1493416825' post='3288269'] Had one. Total rubish bass IMO. [/quote] In what way? Genuinely interested, mine is, like I said, certainly marmite, but not rubish (sic) in any way. It's well constructed, plays nicely (although I did have to give it a proper setup) and sounds pretty decent when you give it some welly. Obviously it looks weird - but you must have liked the aesthetics or you wouldn't have had one in the first place, surely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leroydiamond Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Nothing to do with the aesthetics. Some years back, I needed a light bass due to a shoulder problem and pulled the trigger on a 4 string one of these. The Neck was a total baseball bat. I contacted Lace to ask about the thinking behind the neck dimensions. Well it turned out that Lace were using the exact same neck dimensions for both their 4 and 5 string basses. I reckon that must be a first in bass guitar design. The neck on mine was very unstable and correct intonation impossible. Could not get the action as low as I needed and fret buzz was an issue even with the action set relatively high. So in my case the instrument was unplayable. I have been through quite a number of basses through the years, but this model stands out as easily the worst IME Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted May 2, 2017 Share Posted May 2, 2017 Ta for the response. The neck on mine's a fatty, alright but just feels like a chunky P neck, measures 42mm at the nut. Maybe using the same neck for 4 & 5 versions only applies to bolt-necks - BigRedX's fretless 5 is way wider than mine: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/21194-lace-helix/"]http://basschat.co.u...194-lace-helix/[/url] MIne did take a fair amount of work to make it play the way I wanted - if I'd paid list price for it (£799 at the time) I would've been pretty hacked off at the standard of setup & some of the finishing. As it was I got mine for about £200 off a guy who didn't actually play, he'd just wanted a cool-looking "guitar" for his flat! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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