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If I was ever going to buy 5 string bass pickups, they would most likely be the Bartolini pickups seen in the previously posted trans green 4004Cii/5, or the StingRay5 style Bartolini pickups. Maybe I'd ask Sergio if he could make me 5 string bass pickups. Yeah, if he could make you one, or a pair,...

/lurk mode off
Dane wrote.
Looking carefully at it, almost everything about it is wrong.

I agree. It looks like a copy.

It's your bass, and cool if your happy.
/lurk mode back on.........

Had that tour in a couple weeks ago. Boy, I'll tell ya. That 4004LK is beat... and I mean BEEEAAAT. Wow. Amazing.. I got to play it for a few minutes, plays fine but it is battlescard.
Love the new TRC though ROFL...

I always seem to end making my most expensive instrument purchases in Augest. That is my busiest season, and when I have the most cash on hand. Coinsidently it is also the month of my wifes birthday. So, it seems that she thinks that my instruments are actully hers, given to myself as a birthday pre...

It's always been a dream of mine, to play in a band that preforms sgt pepper, and magicial mystry tour (some of it) as an act. Maybe someday I will have to opertunity to do that. Sigh..

What I neglected to elaborate on, which wood have clarified things: Unpredictability leads to, in this case, a piece of wood having been cut from a tree, and ending up very soft and twisty, whereas the piece of wood next to it would have been perfectly fine, and there being no reasonable way to pre...

beacon wrote: That being said, the weight has been getting to me (80+ lbs for the amp and 110 - 135 for the cabinet).

That's what singers are for !!! "Hey you - over here!"

Tube SVT + 8-10.

He's got 1 positive for selling a hot plate now, so who knows. Most likley ligit.

I wonder what happend to the TRC and guts, probably tossed aside as dunnage. 1100 pounds, ............. dreaming.....maybe 250-300 at most.

I have one of the Brian Jones models on Ebay right now. Only reason I am selling is because I lost my job, and I really don't use it much. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270397220232 They are great players, and they have a good clear tone. And they look great. I think the ow...

Jeez Brian, maybe you should start wearing a helmet ... ROFL ....... JK JK

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Well, there you go Joey. FINNALLY a civilized disscussion about the CII5. :D All the issues I have had with my paticular unit aside, It is THEE best bass I have ever had, and is always the first one I pickup. Thats says alot considering in the last 40 years or so, I have owned upwards of about 200, ...

Thanks Peter, for all your hard work. Goodbye.