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NBD - Westone ‘the rail’ Bass


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Just pulled trigger in purchasing this Bass. I’ve always fancied one but never got round to it. Having given up a few months ago due to fretting hand not working due to spine operation, I’m getting a little movement back, so treated myself to this as part of my recovery 😊

im sure this will be a marmite bass to many, but personally I love the look.

 

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5 minutes ago, 4000 said:

Always fancied one myself. 

I once had a Quantum, which was essentially almost the same but with twin pickups & without the sliding pickup. One of my favourite basses I ever owned, and beat many of my boutiques hands down.

 

I must admit a quantum is on my bucket list as well 😊

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I've got one.  It's very nice and I really like the range of tones.  I don't play it much - I'm mostly fretless - but it's light and compact and versatile.

I also really like the fact that it's perfectly balanced for carrying using one rail if you shove the pickup down to the bridge end :)

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Incidentally, I've had two of these and both of them had really weak original pickups and dodgy pots. I sold the first one (in maroon red) because of that - it looked great and the sliding pickup system is astonishingly effective, but the tone was so weedy that I couldn't imagine gigging it.

A few years later I stumbled across, of all things, a single Dark Star pickup. I bought it on spec, and then went looking for another The Rail. I found one (in black) and then had Andy Gibson in Denmark Street do a real number on it. He loves working on those things because Dave Swift is an admirer of them too (Andy works on all Dave's basses AFAIK).

We ditched the original pickup, pots and wiring, he prepped a piece of ebony to add on to the sliding base so that it was 'squarer', and then mounted the Dark Star on the newly-enlarged slidey bit and did a complete re-wire. The bass now sounds absolutely awesome and lives right here alongside me in my tiny study on the landing ... it's my go-to 4-string bass when I'm learning or practising. On the other side is my go-to 5-string bass and that's a Status Streamline. 

Judge a bass by the company it keeps ...

 

 

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