New bottom-end Gretsch coming...

Started by Pilgrim, April 09, 2009, 01:55:50 PM

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Pilgrim

Quote from: lightyear on April 15, 2009, 09:53:16 PM
I bought the same bass when my daughter thought she wanted to play - she didn't.

Still I put an extra light set of Rotosounds on it, gave the truss rod a tweak, did a basic setup and the thing played like butter.  Seems like I got about $175 for it when I sold it a few years back.

A bass that plays comfortably, balances well and sounds good matters a good deal to me.  I couldn't figure out why the saddles on that bass were set REALLY high when I got it - the action was ridiculous.  Like I said earlier, when I got it the first thing I was was to lower the saddles by turning every set screw on every saddle four full turns...and I still had room left.  It made a big difference in the action!

I'm stuck at a 4-day conference and can't get back to mess with that Gretsch until Sunday...frustrating!
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