My 3rd Bass Kit. Jazz Bass.

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Dude, Slow down!!! You're making the rest of us look bad!!!:p

Haha Zandit. This has been over the past month. Just finally got around to posting them.

Looks like a fretless. If you have never used or owned one they are lots of fun to play. Just takes a while to get the finger positioning in the sweet spot that is not out slightly of tune.

Yes Waz, it is. I own a few. The sweet spot i figured out to suit my fingers is that the left side of my finger is in line with the end of the dot on top of the fretboard of the note i am playing. I have a clip on tuner, so i keep checking, and thats the best way for me to remember the finger position.

If you are good at playing by ear that kicks in after a while as the dots only represent points along the neck and not every fret position. On my current Fretless I ripped out the frets and used filler so that I had lines to show where fingers should be when playing notes as that made things easier for me.

Agreed Waz. There is a new Thunderbird bass kit by Pitbull where there are 3 different types of necks.
1...Fretless
2...Frets
3...Lines without frets.
It is the TLB-4 and TBJ-5.

Yeah, I spotted them too.

Lack of spare funds holding me back ATM plus plenty of guitars I have been contemplating.

Ideally I would love a Steinberger Headless Bass and if that came in a kit would definitely have a crack at building one.

There is one Waz. Here is the link.

http://www.ebay.com.au/sch/i.html?_f...p2045573.m1684

Thanks Naim, all guitars though and not one for the traditional Steinberger Bass.

They can be bought for about AUD $600 or so from Gallins Guitars but a kit should work out a fair bit cheaper than that if there was one.

There were 3 basses in that list Waz. Perhaps you missed them?

Waz, there are basses in there. Here is the links for two of them.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Headless-...EAAOSwImRYLyyq

and

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BASS-Head...oAAMXQh8NTdNZS

Was wanting something more like this.... http://www.gallinsmps.com.au/bass-gu...k-bk-hdwe.html

Ahhh, ok. Haven't seen them yet. Will keep two eyes out for you.

Yeah mostly the ones both you & Zandit pointed out seem to be readily available but they just don't quite look right on what appears to be a traditional looking guitar body with horns and stuff.

The main attraction is how compact the Steinberger design is and the original graphite ones built in the 1980's had one of the best Bass sounds. My top 3 Bass tones are Rickenbacker 4003, Musicman Stingray, and Steinberger XL-2. Fender J Bass comes in 4th and not a huge fan of the solo P Bass configuration as whilst OK the others are far more superior.

I would like to purchase the MMB-4 when they become available in Feb.

That is only 3 months away.

I had an OLP Stingray bass that looked very much like the MMB-4. I can't see any details on the pickup wiring, but given the three control knobs are 2 x volume and 1 x tone, it must be configured in the same way. Each of the two coils of the pickup has its own volume control, so you can run both full on for a thick fat humbucker sound, or turn one or the other of the coils down for a single coil sound (plus some increased noise). It's actually very versatile arrangement (though you have to turn both volume knobs off to silence it). If that humbucker really is like the one that came with the OLP, then it's not worth thinking about upgrading it.

Thanx for the info Simon. What are the SUB basses like ? Do you know ?

Here is the wiring diagram for the MMB-4.

http://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-con...MMB-4_2014.pdf

I've never tried a Sub bass, though I know they get very good reviews.

OLP were licensed by Ernie Ball to produce copies of their Musicman guitars and basses, though to a budget and with non-original hardware. Some were good some weren't so good. My bass just happened to be one of the good ones.

Then Ernie Ball decided that they wanted to produce their own low-cost range based on Musicman kit, so cancelled the OLP agreement and started up their Sterling range (which was very confusing because there is a very nice Musicman Sterling bass). Not sure whether it was the same factory or not that built them, but they certainly tightened up on the quality control and introduced active circuits where they had them on the originals, as the OLPs were all passive. So the Sub bass is very much like the early Stingray, with a 2-band active EQ and no coil splitting. They are very good bases for the money.

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Thank you Simon for the info, much appreciated. I am looking forward in purchasing the MMB-4 when it becomes available.

I have an OLP bass which i came across accidentally and got it for a really good price. Here is the pic.

Interesting, I've never seen one like that before, though they may have made different models for different markets. This was mine.
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Very nice Simon. I have got my eye on a chrome scratch plate to match the chrome hardware that comes with the MMB-4 bass kit.

I took it to a band rehearsal to see how the bass player liked it, and I never got it back. About three years later he eventually paid me for it.

Damn, glad you got paid in the end.