wow ILR sounds like a rare Gibbo then. Sure it's worth alot more now. Sounds pretty advanced the electronics for a 46 year old axe. What are the pups like a P90 ?
wow ILR sounds like a rare Gibbo then. Sure it's worth alot more now. Sounds pretty advanced the electronics for a 46 year old axe. What are the pups like a P90 ?
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Something like a P90. Very clear tone. No humming. Really nice for soft jazz to metal.
Even with the amp turned up to 11 and 'overdrive overload', they are super crisp. I put them through my mates old tube Marshall and I almost wet myself.
They have set me on the path to tone perfection.
Here's a bit of mine...
L to R: modified PBG Jazz bass kit; modified PBG TL-1 kit; Squier VM Jaguar; Fender 62 reissue jazz bass; Squier Bass VI.
L to R: Fender P-bass; Fender P-bass; Gretsch 5120; Relic'd Squier tele; homemade fretless bass.
Not shown: Maton TE-1 accoustic, Taylor T5, a Baby Taylor acoustic, modified PBG "Surfmaster" ST-1 kit, a Variax bass and a Variax guitar (open to trades/selling on both of these), homemade "Maplecaster" bass, Fender strat, 1/2 size double bass, a couple of ukes, a Cort acoustic bass, a lap steel - and no doubt a few more I can't find scattered around the house!
On the amp front, there's this SWR Baby Blue II for quieter bass work (I use an 800w Acoustic Image power amp with a Schroeder 212 cabinet for loud stuff).
And for guitars there's these two: a Fender Vibro Champ XD and a Fender Deluxe 112 Plus.
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Completed Builds: #1 TL-1 "Telemaster" (GOTM Oct 2016); #2 The "Maplecaster" scratch build; #3 JB-4 "Bass IV" (co-winner GOTM Jan 2017); #4 ST-1M "Surfcaster" (GOTM Apr 2017), #5 JZA-1 "EC Deluxe"
In Progress:
Build #6 N1R "Semi-scratch" build
Build #7 JZA-1 Baritone
The Cavan Project
The Magnificent Compaņeros
nice collection Chuck and heaps more that weren't photographed. You definitely have a bad case of GAS.
If I had to take pics of my collection I would need to take the pic from the moon hahaha
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
My guitarist in Hydra Jeff Barnes got a Les Paul Recording when they first came out, sounded incredible through his big Marshall
here's my collection ... you can see I've only recently started getting GAS ... the herd will be growing over time!
I've lined them up in chronological order ... there's quite a bit of history here ...
from left to right ...
- Gretsch copy from the 60's that I learned on and played during my high school years, still gets the odd workout. It'll be the subject of a restoration project soon.
- Steinberger that I got in the 80's, and which is still my "go-to" instrument. Got played a lot in the 80's and 90's while the band I was in was gigging
- German made Warwick 6 string $$ Corvette that my family gave me as a 50th birthday present, weighs a ton, fun to play, really warm woody tone
- PBG 5 string fretless J, my first foray into the world of guitar building, and the realisation that GAS is a thing! Makes all those great mwah sounds, especially with a bit of chorus & reverb
- PBG 5 string P with a piezo bridge that I recently finished ...
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Nice little collection, ThreeBBass. As you can see, there's lots of space left on the page to at least double the collection without having to put a photo on another line.