Quatschmacher Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 On 15/04/2024 at 18:38, paul_5 said: Sire? Steinberger. What’s not to like? Literally. There’s nothing there to dislike. Is it possible to dislike something that doesn’t exist? So is a “Steinberger headstock” actually an oxymoron? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quatschmacher Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 On 15/04/2024 at 19:26, Stub Mandrel said: Bongos are lovely. Except white ones with black scratchplates. Boggos. Surely black with white scratch plates would look even more like old-school school toilets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walshy Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Anything headless 🤢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quatschmacher Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 5 hours ago, Angel said: I don't like most singlecuts. They just look ugly to me. However, I can pick one bass that I HATE the look of, the Parker Fly bass. The original Parker fly guitars I think looked brilliant, so original. The Bass version just looks like a whopping great a r s e. Horrible horrible. It looks like one of the guitars got depressed and sat comfort eating for a couple of years. Reminds me of one of these: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quatschmacher Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 8 minutes ago, walshy said: Anything headless 🤢 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonK Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 24 minutes ago, Quatschmacher said: Ooh couldn't quite help it... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 The basic shape is ugh... but then add two stumpy little feet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JapanAxe Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 On 25/04/2024 at 08:37, Nice Guy Rich said: I love Precisions but, I HATE them with PJ pickups. This. Someone thought, ‘Let’s create a bass to make everyone happy by putting a P pickup in the middle and a J pickup near the bridge.’ No, it doesn’t work. The timeless glory of the P pickup quite naturally overpowers the pathetic weedy bridge J unit. Worst of all is where some goon has taken a lovely 60s P and hacked a hole as close as physically possible to the bridge, guaranteeing that the J pickup will sound thinner and weedier than ever. And it just looks wrong too. Countless numbers of PJ basses have been churned out at all price points, and they’re all wasted on my me (and of course my tastes are beyond reproach). Sorry to be so on-the-fence on this… 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 17 minutes ago, JapanAxe said: Worst of all is where some goon has taken a lovely 60s P and hacked a hole as close as physically possible to the bridge, guaranteeing that the J pickup will sound thinner and weedier than ever. The absolute worst thing about those conversion jobs is when one comes up for sale somewhere and the hordes of Fender fanbois pile in to whinge about the modification that was done to some cheap throwaway bass when it was ten years old and well past what could laughably be referred to as its best. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StingRayBoy42 Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 3 hours ago, Leonard Smalls said: Funnily enough, I'm loving mine! It looks far more interesting than yer Fenders, and I find it doesn't dig in at all, though I strap it on good and high... Great sound too from the EMGs. U wuz robbd! U shoulda bought a 1961 Fender wot only makes one noise for £6k instead! JK- great photo! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 (edited) 2 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said: The basic shape is ugh... but then add two stumpy little feet... I love that one! Wish I owned one. It is such an original and elegant design. A shame it was discontinued way too early, because of.... well let's not offend anyone... But this is why we can't have nice things, unless paying more than I could ever afford. Edited April 26 by Baloney Balderdash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dclaassen Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 1 hour ago, JapanAxe said: This. Someone thought, ‘Let’s create a bass to make everyone happy by putting a P pickup in the middle and a J pickup near the bridge.’ No, it doesn’t work. The timeless glory of the P pickup quite naturally overpowers the pathetic weedy bridge J unit. Worst of all is where some goon has taken a lovely 60s P and hacked a hole as close as physically possible to the bridge, guaranteeing that the J pickup will sound thinner and weedier than ever. And it just looks wrong too. Countless numbers of PJ basses have been churned out at all price points, and they’re all wasted on my me (and of course my tastes are beyond reproach). Sorry to be so on-the-fence on this… Even though I almost exclusively use pj basses, I completely agree with you about the weak bridge pickup sound…best it does is color the neck pickup tone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 On 26/04/2024 at 18:21, Baloney Balderdash said: A shame it was discontinued way too early If you really want to own one, they are still available new. Vox are even selling them via Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vox-Starstream-1H-Guitar-Humbucker/dp/B08N9Q27SX?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE (I now feel dirty for pimping these things...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 On 26/04/2024 at 18:59, dclaassen said: Even though I almost exclusively use pj basses, I completely agree with you about the weak bridge pickup sound…best it does is color the neck pickup tone It's not really weedy, it's just that P and J pickups require different gain settings to perform at their best. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fretmeister Posted May 1 Share Posted May 1 Everything over 7.5lb and everything that doesn’t balance properly. I genuinely don’t care about much else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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