I solve this by never playing 5-strings
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@MikeC Gorgeous shape. I’m intrigued, who is the manufacturer ? It appears to have removable bridges on the B and E strings (for drop A/G and drop D tuning).
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This is actually a Baritone Guitar. I mistakenly thought it was a bass.
It is a handmade custom from Mousetrap Studios.
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I actually suspected this.
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It’s still beautiful. I would love to see how to tune it.
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Those resonator basses look amazing! Do you have any videos or sound samples that you can post to hear what they sound like?
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I have one of me playing the green Resolectro Bass with my band. I am working on getting it uploaded.
Thank you!
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Dammit! I thought I was done buying basses for a while! 
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Hooky touring with a custom red BB734A:
Yamaha pretty much makes him whatever he wants now 
Interesting he went back to a 734A instead of his signature model. I was considering painting one exactly like he has it there too.
His son Jack rocking a normal BB734A in the same show:
That’s probably gonna be my next bass, I shouldn’t have sold the first one. Unless I decide to spring for a BBP34. It will definitely be one or the other.
If they ever produce that red BB734A I will buy it too, regardless of what I buy now 
Show looks like it rocked:
Big crowd that is seriously in to the song
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Didn’t he have, like, six or seven spares of that one, because they weren’t being made anymore?
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That was the BB1200S! When he heard they were discontinued he bought all of them he could find
Still has a few. He recently auctioned the one that was used on every single New Order, Revenge, and Monaco album - it was his go-to instrument for 40 years.
And here’s one hell of a testament if I ever heard one: when the BB734A was released, he switched to it from the 1200S. Now he has a bunch of them and his new signature model.
Jack Bates (his son) has eleven of the 734A, and uses them both in his dad’s band, and also the Smashing Pumpkins.
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Was someone here looking for a Tokai AJB? I thought I remembered someone was. I just saw a nice used one come up.
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Hey @JerryP your future bass is a real looker:
Here it is next to something we’ll be talking about later
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Did you play it?
Belay that. I just read the GAS thread.
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I actually played a different one. Very very nice.
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