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new family photo
« on: August 24, 2014, 05:22:07 PM »
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2014, 07:00:37 PM »
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #2 on: August 25, 2014, 01:26:17 AM »
Nice shot, Bryan...

Curious about your Vantage artwork - any chance of a close-up of the body...?
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #3 on: August 25, 2014, 05:41:15 AM »
the Vantage is covered in stickers. strategically cut and fit around each other. then a whole can of polyurethane. i paid $40 for the bass, the body was broken in half. i epoxied it back together and added the DiMarzio pup sounds and plays great. i just need a hard case or any case for it. i may try to make one.
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #4 on: August 25, 2014, 05:44:44 AM »


i made the Dice knobs too.
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2014, 06:26:22 AM »


 Great stuff!   :)
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2014, 06:28:53 AM »
You've got good taste! My collection is now mainly 60's EB's, a grabber, SG guitar, P bass, Rick 4001 and, a handful of far east 'oddities'.
Gotta put them together for a shoot one day, I think my 'total' is exactly like yours :)

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Re: new family photo
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2014, 03:57:04 PM »
Definitely like the fin... :mrgreen:
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2014, 12:20:21 AM »
i just need a hard case or any case for it. i may try to make one.

Of course, you have to have the same finish on the case :)
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2014, 07:10:01 AM »
I will if I ever find a case. I might try those goofy coffin cases, they seem to fit weird pointy shapes
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #10 on: August 27, 2014, 01:43:09 PM »
You might want to try one of those Dean cases they use for their models (the basses, not the wimmin'!).



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Re: new family photo
« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2014, 12:55:58 PM »
yeah,Uwe. i thought about Dean cases also the Epiphone ones. just not sure if it would fit?
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2014, 01:13:10 PM »
It will fit in the Dean Metalman case.  They are HUGE...also weigh almost 20 lbs.  I've used them for 2 ExplorerBirds
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/dean-deluxe-hardshell-electric-bass-guitar-case-for-metalman-v-series

The Dean gig bag will also work.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/dean-large-metalman-electric-bass-guitar-gigbag

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Re: new family photo
« Reply #13 on: September 03, 2014, 09:34:15 PM »
Hey, I had one of those univoxes! I thought it sounded pretty good.

I (badly) turned mine into a baritone, sort of ... replaced the bridge, replaced the bridge pickup with a duncan P-90 , added some guitar tuners, cut a nut (badly), and strung it standard guitar tuning, E A D G B E but with the E and A an octave down.  It was a bitch to play but it sounded pretty cool.

I wonder where the hell that instrument is now?  I have no idea!  It went missing during a period where I moved 3 times in one year...
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Re: new family photo
« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2014, 03:56:03 AM »
It will fit in the Dean Metalman case.  They are HUGE...also weigh almost 20 lbs.  I've used them for 2 ExplorerBirds
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/dean-deluxe-hardshell-electric-bass-guitar-case-for-metalman-v-series

The Dean gig bag will also work.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/accessories/dean-large-metalman-electric-bass-guitar-gigbag

Great sticker job!

All Gibson and Epiphone cases are short scale, a long scale Flying V won't fit. OTOH, like Dadagoboi says, all Dean Flying Vs (or whatever they call their similar shaped models) are long scale or even extra-long scale, their cases are aircraft carriers even dwarfing long scale Explorer cases. No worries about the bass size then, you might just need a wider car (no joke, my Dean Flying V cases are too wide for even my Volvo V-70's backseat compartment and that is not a narrow car by any means).  Or always transport them lengthwise in driving direction in which case you need a station car. Oh, when I still had the Volvo XC-90, that fit in width, but only barely.
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