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Sibob Grand Master

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Just purchased a Skyline 55-01 which I'm very happy with so far, great neck.
Electronics are early days, might swap everything out, we'll see.
A couple of tiny finish defects that I imagine wouldn't ever be present on the USA models, but for the price, its a helluva bass.

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Sibob Grand Master

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Custom US 44-94 passive P/J in Shoreline Gold:



[color=#282828][font=helvetica][size=3]The rosewood is beautifully dark, with some nice figuring (difficult to capture), but the birdseye maple dots really add something extra IMO:[/size][/font][/color]





Here it is with my Skyline 55-01, apart from some mild contouring differences, same body size/shape:



Cheers
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Sibob Grand Master

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That looks so nice and goes well together with your 55-01!



Thanks, yeah they're decent pair that's for sure!
If I ever became really flush (like money to burn situation because the 55-01 is actually really good), I'd probably order a US 55-94 to replace the 55-01, but with soapbar humbuckers.....so essentially a US built 55-01.

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FUN FACT:
The 55-01 (and 44-01 obviously) only exist because the factory building the initial run of 44-02 & 55-02 prototypes didn't have the MM+J pickups spec'd by Lakland in stock. So they could still demonstrate the general wood-work and finishing quality etc, they delivered the protos with two soapbar pickups, which Lakland thought were cool, so kept them as the xx-01 models. Edited by Sibob
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thepurpleblob Proficient

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I've had this since just before Christmas now. Went out trying to find a lightweight bass with five strings and 19mm spacing. Found this. There was no way I was going to spend over two grand on a bass. Sigh...

Neck feels like what a five string Stingray should have been like if they'd done it properly. Ridiculous B string. Seems very simple but works perfectly. 

 

 

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Sibob Grand Master

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On 12/02/2018 at 15:18, thepurpleblob said:

I've had this since just before Christmas now. Went out trying to find a lightweight bass with five strings and 19mm spacing. Found this. There was no way I was going to spend over two grand on a bass. Sigh...

Neck feels like what a five string Stingray should have been like if they'd done it properly. Ridiculous B string. Seems very simple but works perfectly. 

 

 

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Beauty, welcome to the BassChat 'passive 44-94' club......it's just you and me basically lol.

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Graham Mentor

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On 12/02/2018 at 15:18, thepurpleblob said:

I've had this since just before Christmas now. Went out trying to find a lightweight bass with five strings and 19mm spacing. Found this. There was no way I was going to spend over two grand on a bass. Sigh...

Neck feels like what a five string Stingray should have been like if they'd done it properly. Ridiculous B string. Seems very simple but works perfectly. 

 

 

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Which model is that?

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Sibob Grand Master

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6 hours ago, Graham said:

Which model is that?

It's the US 55-Dual J:

https://www.lakland.com/55-JJ.htm

But in a Metallic Blue as opposed to just the sunburst they mention on the site. They do have a habit of doing little runs of other colours sometimes.

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Sibob Grand Master

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4 minutes ago, Graham said:

Cheers, looks great - though aesthetically I feel like it should have Nordstrand Big Singles in it

Lakland would do that on a custom build if you sourced the pickups I believe. You'd essentially then have a US built 44-01 (ie two soap bars)

Si

Horizontalste Experienced

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I used to ogle Lakland basses back in the days when all I played were cheap Yamaha's (there's nothing wrong with cheap Yamaha's) but when funds permitted I went in a completely different direction (expensive Yamaha's & Musicman) & never gave them a second look, until..............

My glorious wife bought a 55-01 for my birthday, now I'm hooked, the neck just feels great & is so playable. 

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Sibob Grand Master

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2 hours ago, Horizontalste said:

I used to ogle Lakland basses back in the days when all I played were cheap Yamaha's (there's nothing wrong with cheap Yamaha's) but when funds permitted I went in a completely different direction (expensive Yamaha's & Musicman) & never gave them a second look, until..............

My glorious wife bought a 55-01 for my birthday, now I'm hooked, the neck just feels great & is so playable. 

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Same as my 55-01, although I have the rosewood fingerboard. Really good basses for the money, they punch way above their price!

Si

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19 minutes ago, Sibob said:

Same as my 55-01, although I have the rosewood fingerboard. Really good basses for the money, they punch way above their price!

Si

Definitely, I'd only played the 55-02 previously & was worried how this one would stand up to it. It does a great job, no better or worse just different.

M@23 Experienced

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On 12/02/2018 at 15:18, thepurpleblob said:

I've had this since just before Christmas now. Went out trying to find a lightweight bass with five strings and 19mm spacing. Found this. There was no way I was going to spend over two grand on a bass. Sigh...

Neck feels like what a five string Stingray should have been like if they'd done it properly. Ridiculous B string. Seems very simple but works perfectly. 

 

 

 

Ahh, nice man. I agonised over this or my Sadowsky a while back. Guessing it is from Guitar Guitar? This had an outrageous B string and was beautifully made. I regrettably passed as I wanted to go active. 

You've got a beautiful instrument there though! 

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thepurpleblob Proficient

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On 16/02/2018 at 13:05, Graham said:

Which model is that?

It's the '55 Dual-J'.  It's supposedly only available in Tobacco Sunburst according to the website but not on this occasion it seems. It's one of the 'cheap' USA models *cough*.

 

On 18/02/2018 at 20:11, M@23 said:

Ahh, nice man. I agonised over this or my Sadowsky a while back. Guessing it is from Guitar Guitar? This had an outrageous B string and was beautifully made. I regrettably passed as I wanted to go active. 

You've got a beautiful instrument there though! 

That's the one. You know when you pick something up and it's, "damn, I'm going to have to buy this"? 

I've never considered buying a non-active bass before but, apart from a little more noise than I am used to, I really couldn't find any objection. I always set the EQ flat anyway!

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Looda Newbie

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Hi Guys, will be posting an ad shortly for Barts pickups that were stock in a Lakland. In case anyone is interested, please check out the FS forum

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