Just gorgeous, I am so glad and happy for you that it’s finally almost there.
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What a sweet bass. I love the color and I’ve always liked block inlays. Gorgeous.
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Very beautiful instrument. I hope you have many hours of enjoyment.
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Offer stands, if you need someone to watch your house while you are out of town, I am available 
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So in the end I elected to keep the Ibanez EHB1500 and return the Schecter Riot-4. It was a difficult decision. I preferred the Riot neck - slimmer and a little easier to play - and certainly the fret markers were much easier to read. I also like its styling, however I was less impressed with the finish. Various bits, like some of the control knobs, were loose. Easily fixed but gives me less confidence. Also the battery compartment is held by screws into wood whereas the EHB has a simple hinged cover.
On the EHB I love the finish, sort of matt velvet, lovely to the touch and you can actually feel the wood grain, also seriously smooth running your hand up and down that neck. This seemed to compensate for the fat and flat fingerboard and actually felt easier, or at least as easy to play. Blending between the two pickups gave a much greater range of tones than the Riot. They both had 3 band EQ but again I felt the EHB gave a greater range of tones maybe helped by having the frequency swing on the mid control, also it does have the active on/off switch which is a nice touch. The EHB was about £120 more but it did include a gig bag.
I don’t particularly like the tuning knobs but I’m sure I’ll get used to them. The problem is I’m used to picking the string with my right hand whilst I tune with my left. Now need to do the opposite which certainly doesn’t feel natural.
The appalling fret markers (both on the finger board and the side) are a pain but fixable. Also now I’ve been playing for a while I might actually deliberately leave them as they are for now because, being almost invisible it seems to be like removing a crutch and me to get used to just knowing where I am without looking for the marker. So I’m going to wait for a while though I will probably add them to help when I do get lost 
Anyway here it is and I’m very happy with it!
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I like the EHB1500, well, I like mine 
need to play it more
I pluck and tune with my right hand both fwiw
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Maaaan, you’ve got me GAS’ing again! I recently bought an EBH1000S, second hand - I love getting a deal! - and it’s fantastic! I am also quite surprised that I can swap from a short scale to a normal scale without any problems.
I know what you mean about the fret markers - I’m also treating them as training!!
Your EHB1500 looks as sweet as!!
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That is a thing of beauty. I hope it will stay with you forever.
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Yeah, that’s an interesting one. I started with an acoustic and as it turned out that was a 32". I didn’t consciously decide to go short/medium but it felt comfortable. So then when I bought an electric I got another 32". With that I thought I’d be pretty much locked into shorter scales. But then I went and played on a few 34" basses in shops and didn’t really notice the difference, so this time decided to go for a full scale. I mostly don’t attempt to do any big finger stretches as my pinky is not much use now, so I have to do a lot of micro shifting anyway. I do notice that sometimes I miss when moving up to lower notes, whilst going down to higher ones isn’t so noticeable, as a miss then typically means you hit the middle of the fret instead of the wire which still mostly sounds okay.
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Incidentally, much has been said about the side fret markers but how many people can actually see the fifth fret marker on the finger board?
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I don’t but I see something that looks like a hole the 5th fret inlay fell out of
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How many people can really see any of the fret markers on the actual fretboard, I know I can’t, on any of my basses. I always thought the ones on the side of the fretboard were for the player and those on the face of the fret board were for your bandmates!
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I can if I’m sitting down or if I bend my right leg and push it forward to move the bottom of the bass away from me. I almost entirely use the side dots though.
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When I got my Osiris I was concerned because it has no fretboard markers. It only has side markers. About 5 minutes into playing it, though, I realized it wasn’t an issue at all, because I’m not looking at the fretboard when I’m playing.
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The sooner it wears out the carpet the sooner I can justify replacing it. It’s my office and playing room and I inherited the extraordinarily horrible carpet when I bought the house 27 years ago. Sadly it’s tough hard wearing office carpet and there’s more important stuff to spend my money on (like more basses!)
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A. I’m joking.
B. If 27 years of the door dragging on the carpet hasn’t worn the carpet down then I think it’ll probably outlive you.
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A. I know
B You’re probably right 
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It’s a beauty, congrats!
I don’t need any new basses right now, but these are high on the list to check out in the future.
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it’s a bad sign when the carpet starts sanding the door corner round.
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