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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 11, 2024, 03:39:14 AM »
It is always the case here... By the way, those are the pickups Mark sold me some centuries ago...
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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 10, 2024, 10:03:44 AM »
No bridge/pickup covers then...
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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 10, 2024, 09:22:00 AM »
A black or a silver (chrome) one?
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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 09, 2024, 01:42:27 PM »
No need to try hard, when it comes to hardware color, you got my vote.
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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 09, 2024, 01:21:01 PM »
Yes, after a looong process I finally did it. Things aren't looking very good thru, it seems that Remigration has started without any "help" from AfD... We will see what will happen...
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Gibson Basses / Re: Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 09, 2024, 01:03:09 PM »Ugly, but they work.
Naw, they can be ok on some basses, but I prefer the elegance of the "floating bridge".
The bent look of your original bridge is an Epi disease. Epi uses bridges made from cheaper softer metal that doesn't withstand the uneven pull a three-point has to withstand (depending on the setup) as well as the Gibson bridges. The Epi bridges are also lighter.
With the bridge as bent as yours it was near impossible adjusting it to a reasonable action. Not that TBirds are low-action wonders.
I don't find it ugly, maybe a bisschen full, but nothing distracting.
As for the action, it is true, I have even tried to switch the saddles, it looked funny but helped a bit. But now it almost is another bass.
Also: this banana looks fake, must be german-made indeed...
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Gibson Basses / Bye-bye 3-point, hello Supertone
« on: February 09, 2024, 12:13:35 PM »
I found a great deal on an unused Supertone (black of course), and I bought it, after all no matter what I've done to my Epi, the action is on the "brave" side...
The weird is the extreme bent on the original 3-point, I am not sure if this is how it suppose to be, looks bent.
Anyway, I am happy, the installation was super easy and the action gone way down.
The weird is the extreme bent on the original 3-point, I am not sure if this is how it suppose to be, looks bent.
Anyway, I am happy, the installation was super easy and the action gone way down.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Carhartt vests
« on: December 24, 2023, 06:32:15 AM »In real life, most things run in the middle.
You Innuendomeister!
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Carhartt vests
« on: December 23, 2023, 01:58:03 PM »My brother went from being a lefty conspiracy theorist to being a righty/populist conspiracy theorist/nihilist.Same thing really, in Greece we call this "The theory of two extremes", meaning that both extreme leftists and extreme righties have much more in common, than with the rest of the political parties. It sounds weird, but switching between them is very easy.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Carhartt vests
« on: December 21, 2023, 12:14:26 PM »Weren't you specializing in exotic fruit and Lebkuchen last I heard?
Indeed I was, but with age comes wisdom, or something like that.
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Carhartt vests
« on: December 18, 2023, 12:22:23 PM »
"Pinecones and lust", I'd watch that movie. For research of course.
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The Bass Zone / Re: What's been missing here all these years ...
« on: December 15, 2023, 09:45:35 AM »One of my favorite quotes of Nietzsche is about the ancient Greeks. It probably sounds more poetic in the original language. But here it is in English:
"What suffering this race must have endured in order to create such beauty."
This is a paraphrase, but the first English translation that I read was one I like better. It's the one which has stuck with me through the years:
"What suffering the Greeks must have endured to have become so beautiful."
Mind you, that most of this suffering is self-induced. I mean, when we don't fight against persians, ottomans or nazis, our favourite activity is civil war and murdering people like Socrates or Kapodistrias...
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The Outpost Cafe / Re: Coming soon on Gibson Records
« on: December 10, 2023, 09:42:35 AM »
I agree, that is a nice riff, but the vocals? They remind me some people in my homeland that are selling groceries or fish from their old trucks, driving slow in village streets and shouting their stuff through really bad quality megaphones. No, just no.
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The Outpost Cafe / Holiday three-way
« on: December 04, 2023, 02:41:14 PM »
Can't argue with him, simple math after all.
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Other Bass Brands / Re: Harden Engineering
« on: November 20, 2023, 05:05:10 AM »Ran out of room?
LOL nah, its not Gibson
Also the horn looks like it got some GoT love, but I am not 100% sure...