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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: April 3rd, 2010, 4:04 pm 
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I played this a bit before taking images and can say with certainty beyond absolute certainty - this is THE best sounding, most sonically versitile bass I have ever built. Period. Bar none. End of story. I can retire from building basses now, thank you

The lighting and flash glare are really bugging me. If you see the previous post with images of the neck mounting ferrules - that's the real color this bass finish is

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Hopefully I'll get a day with nice weather before the client picks this one up this coming weekend. I can only hope that the new owner will eventually send me a sound clip or two so you can hear just how incredible this bass truly is

all the best,

R

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: April 3rd, 2010, 11:52 pm 
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Fantastic!
Hope you can get the sound clips, I'd definitely like to hear it.

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: September 6th, 2010, 6:11 pm 
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here's a 35" scale righty version of this bass in semi-transparent Vintage Blonde

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Specs for this one:

- Swamp Ash body with offset seam finished in semi-transparent Vintage Blonde
- Maple/Maple 35" scale neck, zero-fret, 16"R fretboard, dual graphite stiffening bars, satin finish
- Custom Nordstrand pickup set with coil tap toggle for the Fat Stack (bridge)
- Custom stainless control plate
- Vintage Tort pickguard
- Hipshot bridge and Ultralight tuners

this one ships to Austin, TX later this week

all the best,

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: September 6th, 2010, 6:45 pm 
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Okay, I give up. Where on earth did you find a 5 pole SCPB 5 string pickup? :shock:


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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: September 6th, 2010, 6:47 pm 
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pjmuck wrote:
Okay, I give up. Where on earth did you find a 5 pole SCPB 5 string pickup? :shock:


I second that question. Very cool

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: September 6th, 2010, 7:11 pm 
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I have these custom made for me. they are as close to the original pickups as can physically be done in a 5-string, and they sound near identical to the original '54 version

in the case of this bass I also had the stacked bridge pickup custom wound to pair with the SCPB in the neck

customers have noted that they are able to go unnoticed as toting a 5-string along until they venture down to a C# (or lower) - this usually turns a couple bassists' heads :D

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: May 17th, 2014, 3:43 pm 
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Just a heads-up ... rumor is that this bass may be coming up for sale. The owner in the Vancouver, BC area is thinning his herd due to limited dorm space.

I encouraged him to list it here when he's ready, but should anybody be interested before then - if you drop me your contact email I'll share this with him so he can reach out to you. I'm not involved in the sale, just helping a customer out

all the best,

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I played this a bit before taking images and can say with certainty beyond absolute certainty - this is THE best sounding, most sonically versitile bass I have ever built. Period. Bar none. End of story. I can retire from building basses now, thank you

The lighting and flash glare are really bugging me. If you see the previous post with images of the neck mounting ferrules - that's the real color this bass finish is

ImageImage
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Hopefully I'll get a day with nice weather before the client picks this one up this coming weekend. I can only hope that the new owner will eventually send me a sound clip or two so you can hear just how incredible this bass truly is

all the best,

R

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 Post subject: Re: Heritage Plus 5-string Lefty
PostPosted: February 22nd, 2016, 11:19 am 
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2016 update: this model is officially discontinued

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