The Last Bass Outpost
Gear Discussion Forums => Other Bass Brands => Topic started by: ilan on February 18, 2014, 12:24:32 AM
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/111281798120?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
The "guitar" pickup locations look so correct... unlike Gibson's LP basses. Short scale, I presume? Does anyone here know what they sound like and if they are neck-heavy?
(http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAwMFgxMDc2/z/yiAAAOxy0bRTAh3W/$_57.JPG)
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Looks similar to this (http://www.fernandes.co.jp/products/burny_bass/lpb-custom.html).
Don't know about the sound. Bridge looks solid and very functional.
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That's really pretty. Amazing how much it looks like the Gretsch Thunderjet....I'm thinking Gretsch must have had Les Paul dreams when that bass was designed.
(http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j306/apowell1/Electric%20Basses/Gretsch%20G6128B%20Thunderjet/20130703_180926_zps031d2a7b.jpg)
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That Greco is certainly yummy.
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I used to own a short scale Greco LP, it was great, but at the time I didn't realise how good it was because it was at the period of my life before I really had much time playing short scale basses. From memory it was body heavy, not neck heavy ....
(http://deayton.com/guitars/grecolp.jpg)
(http://deayton.com/guitars/grecolpback.jpg)
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Wow, sweet lemon burst! It's like a Paul Kossoff LPB :thumbsup:
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Those Burnys are sexy! I recently noticed that Steve Hackett plays a Burny Les Paul.
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One of the best basses I own. Hardware and pickups have been changed on mine. I hate gold. I might need the black one to go with my white.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/marcnorth/DSC03558.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/marcnorth/media/DSC03558.jpg.html)
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DANg, that is pretty! I think I like the Greco LP shape better than the Gretsch - especially the top bouts.
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Marcnorth - is your white Greco short scale or medium?
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And are these arched/carved top or flat? The light on the black one makes me think arched, but the white one (very nicce BTW) is ambiguous, and I've never seen a Fender style bridge like those work well on an archtop (though they could have made a nice flat spot or route even).
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Dang that is pretty!
Looks like you routed a shallow rectangle for the bridge?
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I believe it's short scale, arched/carved top, the body is already routed flat in that spot for that Greco labeled bridge like the one on ebay. That's just a mahogany shim I put under the Schaller to raise it up a little. The Greco labeled bridge is really a gotoh (I forget which model) as are the tuners. The gold on mine when I got it was not as nasty looking as the one on ebay but was still pretty bad.
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Here's a shot of the headstock. If the one on ebay doesn't go crazy in price I'll have it too.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c267/marcnorth/DSC03554.jpg) (http://s29.photobucket.com/user/marcnorth/media/DSC03554.jpg.html)
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Good luck!
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Sure is pretty!
A couple of years ago a Greco LP popped up on eBay but it had THREE of their Thunderbird pickups in it.
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$412... did you win it, Marc?
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Sniped by someone. I was watching the auction and was high bid right up till the end, thought I was going to snag it for a little less than $400 which was my max bid, then a couple of bids hit at the last few seconds and I was done.
I was a little concerned about the neck or I would have went higher to begin with. It's probably fine and can be adjusted but in one of the pics it looked to be about a 1/2" above the last frets. He said the "neck looks straight after tuning" and his pic measured at the 12th fret looked to be about 1/4th of an inch. The one of the neck at the nut it looks like the strings are almost touching the frets.
Another will come along somewhere down the road.
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Wise move.
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...and his pic measured at the 12th fret looked to be about 1/4th of an inch.
I'm pretty sure that's a metric scale. Looks like about 2-1/2 mm.
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I'm pretty sure that's a metric scale. Looks like about 2-1/2 mm.
2.5 mm is around 3/32 inches.
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2.5 mm is around 3/32 inches.
Yeah, I didn't do the conversion so I overstated the gap a little too much. The one pic looks like I could stick my finger between the string and the fret board at the neck pickup. I had to lower the pickups on my white one to the level of the rings to keep the strings from hitting the pickups. Like I said before it's probably not anything that couldn't be adjusted but it did keep me from going higher on my bid.