The Last Bass Outpost

For once I was almost in agreement with Henry J., until I read this here:

""That's not part of the Lacy Act," said Juszkiewicz. "The law doesn't say, 'Don't deal with bad guys.' What the law says is 'you have to do everything legally.'"

I hear that all to often in my legal practice and it's a flawed concept that in this day and age of corporate governance, compliance and regulation really doesn't have a place anymore in how an international company like Gibson should run its business. Buying wood in the nudge-nudge, wink-wink realisation that though the transactions are legal on paper, you might be turning a blind eye to the questionable source is a no-no.


"Both companies and Gibson said they have stopped buying wood from Madagascar."

That is what Henry should have seen to all along. Gibson is innovative enough to find alternative wood from pristinely-legal sources.

Who's behind windycityguitars?

Must be you and EB2 if you ask me. You're the only two people I know who advocate this pos fine piece of American tooling. 

Dayamn ! Do you keep that beauty in the office or at home ? 

Pic is my (former) home (hey, but I still own half of it!  ), but like all Gibbies it is in the office now, I keep the non-Gibbies in the (new) home.

Better than a non horseshoe I mean. I don't hear Chris Squire sounding fundamentally different to other Ric, just more extreme. And I can-t imagine that picking up the signal of the strings from above leads to a vastly different result to picking them up from below though I'ne heard that the Ric' cavernous bridge pup routing contributes to the sound and that its effect should be less with the horseshoe.

I don't care about the looks (nice, but no must-have), but I'd buy one if it would make one of my Rics sound very much better or at least different.

That's a nice bass except for the bridge. It looks cheap on everything but Fenders.

Pic of the action? 

My love for the Evertilt/Tiltomatic/two-point-bridge is well-documented in this forum. It's the second-worst American engineering invention/crime since the electric chair.

And that at least worked. Most of the time.