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Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« on: December 24, 2020, 03:11:24 PM »
  Merry Christmas to all my LBO brethren.  This bass has been on the bench for some time and I finally wrapped it up.
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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2020, 06:16:10 PM »
Great work, Scott! Merry Christmas, my friend.

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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2020, 06:47:05 PM »
More nice work Scott!
Merry Christmas

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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2020, 07:11:15 PM »
Merry Christmas one and all , and to all a happy New Year !
I spent a good chunk of time playing my V today . It's just an Epi , but I like it .
Good fun .
Let's hope things might return to normal . I would like to be hauling my amp out to the regular dives again .

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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2020, 09:09:38 PM »
 Sounds great with the mudbucker.

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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2020, 05:45:27 AM »
   The Allparts muddy gets a big thumbs up from me,  I admit to being sceptical. I think I paid $40 bucks for it and I was shocked at how good it sounds. Specs list it at 30k and it certainly sounds it. A great budget EB0 pickup. The uncovered pickup is ever so larger than the original 60's unit. I used a 60s pickup when measuring for routing and test installation but once the Allparts arrived I had to remove a bit more body wood to get it to fit. The pickup would be perfect for  Billy Sheehan builds or turning Epi EB0, EB3, or Gibson SG basses into mud slingers.
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Re: Merry Christmas Everybody! With V bass ramblings
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2020, 06:41:23 AM »
My V's still an art statement in the hall but is now hanging up... I fitted 5 hangers on the wall for the black Jazz, my daughter's P ho, the V, my SG and my Mando...
The V was always going to be an art piece... the neck is an awful finish... pocket is oversized... it was sold as "parts" from a UK budget site...
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