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  1. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    @Ratterbass It was just a bit of fun. Folk were asked to give 1st, 2nd, 3rd place to which ones they thought had the 'best' P-bass tone. Neither the Warwick or Dingwall received any top 3 votes. There was a second question, "Maple or Rosewood ?" Most were 40/60 or 50/50 splits. Researhers...
  2. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    At least he is being honest, choosing bass A from bass B in a blind test is just a combination of guesswork and luck. Several year back some lads at a London bass get together had a P-bass shootout for fun. 10 P-basses along with a Dingwall and Warwick as wildcards. It was a double blind test...
  3. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    Och Hell, wrong end of the stick again. This man in the kilt speaks no German so relies on software translations. Trouble is the software writes in English and I think and speak in guid braw Scots. My apologies, seems I'm stuck in that other Bill Murray film :-(
  4. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    Not my experience. April 2014. KB stumbles across the big T webstore and buys his first Harley Benton. PB-50 arrives 4 days later and I tune it to pitch. Decide I want flats so re-string with TIs. Shortly afterwards I retired my Paisley Fender as the PB-50 sounded equally as good and was...
  5. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    It is obvious, the PB-50 is the textbook definition of 'flawless' 🙂
  6. kodiakblair

    Rickenfaker "Home"

    Drill then screw the tail of the existing bridge to the body. @Schrotty My apologises for repeating your suggestion.
  7. kodiakblair

    WAL Bässe - warum so besonders (teuer) ?

    Oh there definitely is. A good friend had this made last year, same builder did my walnut 51 P-bass. Herrick multi coil, Lusithand preamp. Sadly I don't recall the drop top material. Final cost was £1400.
  8. kodiakblair

    Nach 168 Bässen spiele ich....

    I see nothing wrong with owning 168 basses, my own count is higher 😃
  9. kodiakblair

    Hartwood Bässe

    A friend received one last Thursday, reports no balance issues. All told he is very happy with it. His only complaint was needing to re-tune the strings. This I expected as A. He complains about slack tuning pegs with every bass he has owned. B. The bass had been out the box 2 hours, strings...
  10. kodiakblair

    Rickenfaker "Home"

    I have another for your gallery. Renegade, a sideline sold by David König (Retrovibe). Below the PG it is routed for a neck pickup so easily coverted to a 4001/4003 style bass. His "Slim Jim" treble pickup surround covers te MM humbucker rout in the treble position. David knew I played Peavey...
  11. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    There is no reason you must cut at the tuning peg silk. Pass the string through a stop sleeve before loading the bridge. Get an approximate length, mark it then crimp the sleeve in position. Picture is just to give you an idea of the process. Look for a multi pack with sizes from 1mm to 3mm...
  12. kodiakblair

    Peavey Bässe

    Well first thing is no Fury V were made in the USA. USA Fury models were all 4 string design, originally with a ceramic single coil before moving to the more standard split coil arrangement. It will handle all the genres you mentioned as well as metal. The neck I imagine will follow a...
  13. kodiakblair

    WAL Bässe - warum so besonders (teuer) ?

    Good friend had this built last year. Herrick Pickups, Lusithand preamp. I attended it's debut live show, it came better than 'close' 🙂
  14. kodiakblair

    WAL Bässe - warum so besonders (teuer) ?

    You are not far wrong with that line of thinking :-) Several years ago I read a Basschat thread titled " Do we really need expensive gear ?" One reply always stuck in my mind, laddie in London said the following "To be perfectly honest, I could do 99.9% of what I play with a Harley Benton...
  15. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    Have owned a couple of JB-75 basses, sunburst back in 2014 and black/maple maybe 2021/22. Weight was to be expected from a large jazz body made with Ash. Very little difference from the 70's Fenders it is modeled after. The 'low output' comments surprise me as I found both the earlier...
  16. kodiakblair

    Headless but not Homeless !

    My taste is for the 51 P-bass. Sadly not a popular design with headless builders so I put owning one from my mind :-( That changed when my timber supplier took delivery of thermo-treated Obeche and gave me some to work with then report back my thoughts. The Obeche was very light, neck dive was...
  17. kodiakblair

    P Bass 51er Pickup?

    An update to my post from December last year. As I said neither the Herrick quad coil nor massively overwound Bloodstone hit the spot for me. What has hit the spot recently is my PB-50 from March 2018, sporting tapewound strings and with Roswell pickup replaced by a low DCR 4 pole Musicmaster...
  18. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    No not mine, I just remember them discussed in the Talkbass Harley Benton thread. The owner reported being happy with his but he must have been one of the lucky ones; Thomann ordered one production run then quickly cancelled the models.
  19. kodiakblair

    Harley Benton Home - Im Land der Billigheimer

    They are only repeating the same as before. Thomann sold these back in 2016.
  20. kodiakblair

    Welche empfehlenswerten "Billig"-Bässe sind leicht? (für Schüler ab Klasse 5)

    There is an English/German company "Gear 4 Music" offer these. https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/3-4-LA-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Blue/17I https://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-Bass/3-4-Chicago-Bass-Guitar-by-Gear4music-Trans-Red/2CNU The Chicago is of some note as Tony James...
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