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 Post subject: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: October 26th, 2013, 8:45 am 
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If you've got them, show them here.
I'll start this topic with mine, feel free to ad your own.
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And my triplets.
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PostPosted: October 26th, 2013, 4:27 pm 
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PostPosted: October 29th, 2013, 7:10 am 
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I'm the guy on the left, although I look slightly different now (slightly older and wiser ;) ). And no more goatee but a proper beard, be it a short one. They're both Longbow Basses, the one on the right is a righty 30" version that I owned for a while. The left one is a proper lefty with 32" scale that I ordered brand new when Longbow briefly went back in business. I then sold the shortscale version to the guy on the right - whose other bass he brought along that day, ironically, was a fretless EIGHTstring :P

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PostPosted: October 29th, 2013, 10:31 am 
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My Twins… The 5 string now has White pups.


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PostPosted: October 29th, 2013, 11:39 am 
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blablas wrote:
a bunch of awesome looking basses. and a couple of fender jazz that were alright, I guess

your builds are amazing. that semi hollow sixer gives me a hard on in a very special way.


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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: October 29th, 2013, 11:30 pm 
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well, i play them lefthanded


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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: October 30th, 2013, 6:52 pm 
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What constitutes "twins" exactly? I've got two Fender Jazz Basses of similar make and vintage (early 2000s MIM) and am building a non-Fender J from scratch as we speak. The two existing "twins" have distinctly different finishes, though. Does that count?


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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: October 31st, 2013, 2:13 am 
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They don't have to be identical twins. ;)

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PostPosted: October 31st, 2013, 1:25 pm 
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Twin L1000s:
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both have mahogany bodies with tobacco burst finishes, and ebony fingerboards


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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: November 1st, 2013, 9:09 pm 
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blablas wrote:
They don't have to be identical twins. ;)
OK, as long as I have your official blessing…

Meet my twins:
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Two MIMs from the 2000s.

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My original bass from when I first started (circa 1996), which is a cheapo Lotus brand (Fender knockoff) on the left; the twins on the right.

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Still kind of a work in progress. The basses are on the left, then panning through the studio you'll see where I have one of my workstations (soon to be where I make music, if life ever allows it), and then on to the Zeppelin LPs, and then finally the classic Jimi photo at the rightmost of the image.


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PostPosted: November 1st, 2013, 11:53 pm 
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My two identical 1972 skinny Js. (Right down to the Badass bridge replacement too!). The one on the left is "Link" (named after the cool dude from 70's TV show, The Mod Squad, 'cause I always imagined the original owner of this bass to be some slappin' badass mofo like Link :lol:), and was my first real bass that I purchased back in '84. It took me over 20 years to find an identical one on the right. (No name yet. How about Peggie Lipton?). Link's got a set of 15? year old D'Addario Chromes on him and the other one's got a fresh set of Elixirs.

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PostPosted: November 2nd, 2013, 4:55 am 
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Love my Tokai TBirds, i would not mind to have triplets...

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PostPosted: November 2nd, 2013, 9:57 am 
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Twin L1000s:
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both have mahogany bodies with tobacco burst finishes, and ebony fingerboards


Awesome! Those old G&Ls are definitely on my bucket list.


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PostPosted: November 2nd, 2013, 1:12 pm 
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My two identical 1972 skinny Js. (Right down to the Badass bridge replacement too!). The one on the left is "Link" (named after the cool dude from 70's TV show, The Mod Squad, 'cause I always imagined the original owner of this bass to be some slappin' badass mofo like Link ), and was my first real bass that I purchased back in '84. It took me over 20 years to find an identical one on the right. (No name yet. How about Peggie Lipton?). Link's got a set of 15? year old D'Addario Chromes on him and the other one's got a fresh set of Elixirs.



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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: November 6th, 2013, 7:43 am 
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I've been outta touch and on tour for the past six weeks so I'm late to the game here but....

Most of you have probably seen these before but I call them my "fraternal twins.

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PostPosted: November 18th, 2013, 11:09 am 
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Here are my Fender P Basses with approx 20 year spacing
64 P Bass (Burst) USA
84 P Bass (Black) USA
04 P Bass (57 Re-Issue) Japan


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 Post subject: Re: How about some lefty twins.
PostPosted: November 18th, 2013, 11:13 am 
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This is a great thread and wanted to share one last one, not twins but more like cousins.
1964 Fender P Bass and 1965 Fender Strat.


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PostPosted: November 19th, 2013, 9:49 am 
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PostPosted: November 19th, 2013, 3:00 pm 
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Love the powder blue J, Austin. What's the story on that one?


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PostPosted: November 19th, 2013, 3:35 pm 
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Love the powder blue J, Austin. What's the story on that one?


It's a MIM FSR. It has a great tone I just don't care for natural finish basses so I had a local guy who does great work for little $$ refinish it in Sonic Blue. I swapped out the tort guard for a WBW one and added the ashtrays.

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