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My De Armond
Posted: November 5th, 2009, 7:03 am
by wombat
My leftified De Armond Starfire - plays like a charm - with my earthquake-causing rig: marshall jcm 800 bass series w/ fender cabinet.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 5th, 2009, 1:14 pm
by andrew
Hey! Did you convert that bass to lefty, or was done by the previous owner?
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 5th, 2009, 1:40 pm
by AzWhoFan
Now there's a rig I bet Jack Cassidy would have been proud to play back the old Hot Tuna days.
Very cool indeed!
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 3:14 am
by wombat
@ andrew: I had the conversion done by the guitartech at a local musicstore. Quite happy with the result.
@AzWhoFan: thanks!

Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 9:04 am
by andrew
Then great minds think alike, I had that exact same kind of bass in that color that I also converted to a lefty. I did the same to an Ibanez Artcore hollowbody so I sold the Dearmond because I preferred the Ibanez's 34" scale. My meat hooks never seem to jive with a 30" scale bass.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 9:27 am
by pjmuck
Those DeArmonds were/are great basses. I remember when they came out. Many players considered them better than the Guild Starfire reissues that came out around the same time.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 6th, 2009, 11:54 am
by andrew
I really liked the tone of the DeArmond. A lot of people bag on the pickups that come in them, but I really dug the tone of them.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 8th, 2009, 8:53 am
by wombat
Can't agree more. Those standard pickups do sound great!
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 8th, 2009, 9:16 am
by wombat
Finally got my other basses back in my own house.. here they are
VP Challenge

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Ibanez CT

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Group shot

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Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 25th, 2009, 12:05 pm
by wombat
Christmas came early this year: Received my new bass yesterday - a brand new fender precision. plays & sounds great as you can imagine.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 25th, 2009, 12:27 pm
by andrew
Looks great! I'm really impressed with the new Fender MIA basses.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 25th, 2009, 3:15 pm
by Basshappi
Hmmmm, I think the Starfire needs
moar nobz!

Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 27th, 2009, 11:24 pm
by AzWhoFan
Nice looking bass! Congrats.
Re: My De Armond
Posted: November 29th, 2009, 2:56 am
by wombat
Thanks guys!
Concerning those knobs on the starfire: that's what you get when you turn a righty left: o truckload of knobs that are always where they shouldn't be.
