The Last Bass Outpost

That is a beautiful bass.

French Walnut Wood is also known as English walnut, Persian Walnut, Common Walnut, and Circassian walnut. Its scientific name is Juglans regia. It is found in abundance in the Southwest of Asia and Europe. This wood has many properties. It has a wavy grain and medium coarse texture. From http://lumberportal.com/french-walnut-wood/

Apparently different from native American Walnut: "In America, it has commonly been known as English walnut to distinguish it from our native species."  From:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juglans_regia

Since speakon connections can carry more current than quarter inch plugs, I would think the concern would the power output of the amplifier rather than if it was modern. Old Ampeg SVT's, Hiwatts, and Marshalls didn't push out more than 300 watts. Modern bass heads can easily push 600, 800 or more watts and generally come equipped with speakons. Another advantage is that they lock on, thus preventing accidental disconnection.

That's interesting! If I buy the lot of 5, does that mean I have to buy 4 more Rics so I can put them all to good use? 

I keep both pickups on so I don't really need more output, but I might try that anyway.

They're only 50 mm., about 2" so you can do both pickups and use the last one to hang your set list from your mic stand.

A little silly, but hey, it's a Thunderbird.

I bought my first all tube amp in 1968 from the bassist of Four Days and a Knight on North Sedgwick street in Chicago. it was a Vox Beatle in those days, an Ac-100 now. It was sitting on four 18" speakers (already spoken for) and he had a Fender Bass V to demo it. Before that I had an Eko amp with 1 15" and a Standell 2 15" both were SS. I found a 2 15 JBL cabinet that was home made to JBL specs. That combo served me well for many years until I spilled a beer on the tubes (the AC-100 conveniently has an opening right over the output tubes) and saw a very small fireworks show. I couldn't get it fixed because output transformers weren't available, but I kept it anyway, and bought a Kustom 200.

Side note; I sold the Kustom on ebay to Steve Barr who introduced me to the Dudepit.

I moved to Ohio and didn't play for a few years but still bought and re-sold basses and amps on ebay. There was a time I had 3 MusicMan amp heads. About the turn of the century I found the Sunn 300t and 215 and 410. That amp had tone on loan from god, 300 watts of all tube goodness. Absolutely the best amp I ever owned. The day I sold it I set it up in the garage facing out and it just sounded amazing. No regrets though. I am now using a Genz Benz rig that gets the job done and doesn't weigh 200 pounds.

I also had an Eden 300t, but it didn't even come close to the Sunn 300t in power or on tone goodness. I traded that for an Eden WT800 that I haven't yet got to sound like I want. That is my practice amp.

Now gigging with a GB Shuttlemax 1200 through a GB Neox 212. The Shuttlemax does have a tube channel and I use it.

We had a 4 hour gig at a Historical Society event in 90° F heat. Ended up a 3 hour gig as no one wanted to hang around in the heat, they let us quit early.

That makes too much sense.