New! "Model of the Week"!

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 11:40 am

Here's a beauty: a '92 Fireglo 2060 that I had for a while. I sold it to Eric Kutzler early this year, and he brought it to the SoCalCon.

jps · Post by **jps** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:14 pm

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:56 pm

Dang, I missed it at SoCal. I've never seen or played one.

rickenbrother · Post by **rickenbrother** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:39 pm

Maybe next year, John!

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:57 pm

Ahhh, Santa Ana in August....

86kubicki · Post by **86kubicki** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:13 pm

2060 Turquoise:

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:14 pm

John, apparently he brought it over on Friday (?) and took it back the same day. Then Eric showed again on Sunday with different instruments. I missed him also on Friday, but there was a shot of him there with it.

teb · Post by **teb** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:54 pm

My re-bodied 2030 wearing it's black set of guards and TRC.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 4:03 am

Looks great! How about some gold guards on it?

That must sound fantastic with the pickups in those positions.

teb · Post by **teb** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:24 pm

Gold is possible, though it would look better with a plexi gold TRC than painting over a molded one. I currently have black and white parts, but kind of like this stealth mode. With contrasting guards, I tend to miss the visual effect of having the pickups surrounded by chrome (current covers don't seem to fit these old humbuckers, but might with some grinding). With this all-black look, I don't really miss them. The sound is excellent and very adjustable from piano-tone to jazz bass thump to a surprisingly close impersonation of an acoustic bass guitar.

jps · Post by **jps** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:12 pm

An ebony or at least a blacked out fingerboard a la Brian Crisman would greatly add to the effect!

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:25 pm

Nice custom job! Clever body shape mod.

teb · Post by **teb** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:50 pm

I'm not big on painted fingerboards. Fretless ebony would look cool (no dots as I find marks on fretless fingerboards really distracting and annoying). Then again, I already have two fretless basses with un-dotted ebony fingerboards. For the same reason that I wouldn't put toasters on it (even though they would be really cool) namely that it does what it does extremely well, I think I'll just leave it as is and enjoy playing it.

4003 · Post by **4003** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:21 pm

My 250 El Dorado...

4003 · Post by **4003** » Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:23 pm

My 430....