Show Us Your Basses (Part 2)

Here’s my Black Friday Bass, just picked it up from luthier. Set up, flats, pickups and badass bridge and new pick guard.

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I’ve had my eye on this at the local GC for a few weeks pulled the trigger today. I had a BTB years ago that I kept for almost 10 yrs and regretted getting rid of it. BTB 745.

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Heck yeah man, congrats! BTB has a lot going for it! I have one of this exact model as well and it’s become one of my favorites. Great bass!

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Congrats man. I love 35” scale. it’s just awesome.

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I agree. And they go great with his rug!

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Awesome!

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Cleaned up, grime off, fretboard polished, tuned.

Now to learn to play the damn thing..

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Oh! That’s fire! literally :fire:

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The most important thing is to get your playing position correct. Here’s Scott Owen of The Living End demonstrating the preferred method.

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Done many times, by many.

This is but another.

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Methinks it wasn’t used in a classical orchestra :squinting_face_with_tongue:

Good luck with getting to know her!

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These two Roscoes are going to be my main basses going forward. After a misstep with the first fretted Roscoe I bought, I couldn’t be happier with the Signature series I bought to replace it. I’m over the moon with both of these, thought I’d share a couple of pics.

The fretted bass on the left has a flamed koa top and matching front/back headstock over a swamp ash body. Wenge neck with maple runners. Bird’s eye maple fretboard. Roscoe custom Bartolini quad coils, Bartolini pre-amp, and a Sadowsky VTC. It’s a Signature model and has the carved top.

The fretless bass on the right has a flamed maple top over mahogany body with a maple neck and Diamondwood fingerboard. The inlaid lines are aluminum. It’s a Standard-Plus model, so no carved top. Single-coil Bartolinis in a bridge-biased location.

They both sound and play incredibly and were bought used (at a substantial savings I might add) though they are both flawless. So happy!

Both of these are the Century body.

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Congrats! Nice looking Basses for sure.

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Play the hell out of ‘em. Congrats!

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Those are fantastic!

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:heart_eyes:

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Absolutely perfect, those are extremely nice. Gonna miss you in the NBD posts though, how long will it be🤷🏼‍♂️. Seriously congrats, beautiful pair.

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Kind of the only way to get away with telling another guy, “beautiful pair.” :rofl:

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Thanks! Found online lessons. Started last night. So far very very fun!

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There’s a woman in town who runs the local coffee shop who plays one and whilst I’m never buying one.

It does look / sound awesome :heart:

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