And now a nice Burg fretless

bassduke49 · Post by **bassduke49** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:31 am

on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4713&item=7325197196&rd=1

Replaced tuners with new Schaller, but otherwise stock. Beautiful shape.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:19 am

Nice bass, why do people insist on replacing those "bad" tuners? I like them a lot. High starting price though.

edski · Post by **edski** » Thu May 26, 2005 5:36 am

I didn't read the guys dissertation on this when I saw it this morning..."nasty open tuners"...what?

I've NEVER had a problem keeping my 75 4001 (with those nasty tuners on it) in tune. My bet is this guy really wasn't the "bad-***" fretless player he thought he was and blamed it on his tuners.

Guess the starting bid is high, but if his reserve isn't $1200 then that's OK. Other than the tuning pegs it looks to be in rather fine shape.

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:21 am

I have three basses with them, they work fine, other than turning my other ones backwards once in a while I have no problems at all with them, I think they're kind of cool actually.

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Thu May 26, 2005 7:23 am

he said ...

"This bass has beautiful tone if you know how to play it. It sings like you wouldn't believe or can be EQ'd to sound like a tuba. It is extremely versatile."

but why would somebody want their Ric bass to sound like a tuba???

it looks like it had the grover tuners ... they a prone to falling apart ...

rictified · Post by **rictified** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:20 am

The holes look like they are too wide for Grovers. Some of the old EB-3 players had a tuba tone like the guy from Free, I liked it. Hey I'm a former tuba player, what do you want?