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Posted: **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.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:14 pm**

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 3:56 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:39 pm**

Maybe next year, John!

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 4:57 pm**

Ahhh, Santa Ana in August....

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:13 pm**

2060 Turquoise:

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Mon Sep 24, 2007 10:54 pm**

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

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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!

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 1:25 pm**

Nice custom job! Clever body shape mod.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:21 pm**

My 250 El Dorado...

Posted: **Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:23 pm**

My 430....

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