Let's see your GUITAR!

[Holy Schnikes]

did you order the Maton from overseas?

green Les Paul is green

that's two pages of great stuff. i love people who mod fearlessly with hand tools

Actually purchased the Maton from Broadway Sound in Knoxville, TN. Amazing craftsmanship and tons of tones in this thing. I have a Maton MS500 50th Anniversary on the way now, I'm totally sold on these guitars. They need to be more readily available so people can try them out, only like 3 or 4 US dealers total!

[eniacmike]

my new bass. 2003 fender USA highway 1 pbass.

[tuffteef]

did you order the Maton from overseas?

green Les Paul is green

that's two pages of great stuff. i love people who mod fearlessly with hand tools

Actually purchased the Maton from Broadway Sound in Knoxville, TN. Amazing craftsmanship and tons of tones in this thing. I have a Maton MS500 50th Anniversary on the way now, I'm totally sold on these guitars. They need to be more readily available so people can try them out, only like 3 or 4 US dealers total!

It seems they are getting more popular in the states or at least they are on ilf.

they sponsor a bunch of intl bands

[Bassus Sanguinis]

I now need an MM pup.

if you've ever played a musicman stingray, your pretty much hooked on that pickup. most musicman basses are active I think. but thats just a preamp so you could use the pickup passive as well.

Very, very true. Been my preferred weapon of choise since late 90's. The Seymour Duncan alnicos KILL! And the matching preamp just SLAYS!

And they are not that expensive either - which is, of course, relative - so if You're bounding with Your instrument and awnat to treat Yourself with some HOT sound...

Downside? Downside to it is that they can be a little too much for some OD and fuzz pedals, and the random Christian Soundguy doing your soundcheck can't deal with it since it's hard to hide in the background and beats the fart out of his beat up Behringer mixer.

[SmallEQ]

Neat clear pickguard for my bass.

[Ghost Hip]

My friend is letting me borrow his Jagmaster made into a make shift jazzmaster. Japanese jazz pickups and such. Super fun.

[theavondon]

My friend is letting me borrow his Jagmaster made into a make shift jazzmaster. Japanese jazz pickups and such. Super fun.

EEP

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Okay, was taking some snapshots of my wife the other day and realised during the shooting that she might show off just as well with my gear, and call it a day.

Tuomas Niska custom 4

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So, above, my main instrument built for me in 1997. Love this instrument SO much. This four stringer is a local small time luthier Tuomas Niska made Rickenbacker 4003 / Music Man Stingray with some fine details. Finest available ebony fingerboard on maple neck through maple body, colored walnut top with brass engravings. The neck profile is unevenly rounded V-shape, measured and built to my hands. Due to body desing and massive metal parts under bridge, has excellent balance, no neckdive and doesn't even need a stand. Weights more than any four string bass I have ever tried (like, 6 kg - 14 lb, about). Seymour Duncan Stingray replacement alnico pup and the matching 3 EQ active preamp. Called 'a Music man on steroids built at Alembics' by those who have played it.

Cort 80's headless

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FASTER PUSSY CAT KILL KILL! The headless Cort V-shape bass, a Steinberger license neck through with the crappiest pups I've encountered. And glued together body broken in two, when I bought it for cheaps. A very secondary spare instrument I haven't got rid of because it probably wouldn't be worth the effort Bought it originally JUST for the looks, an inspiring metal axe with the 80's modern looks. I'm going to give this one a little love back sometime soon. Rickenbacker and Gretch pups, for starters. Let's see where it takes us. Tuned to the New standard tuning and set again it turned out to play better than ever.

Gretsch pro jet baritone /VI bass

Look what Santa brought me - it's a Gretsch Electromatic G5265. A take on the fender bass VI really, came tuned to E just as any bass in decent factory settings. Re-set and downtuned it to C-G-C-F-A-G, probably trying out with the New standard tuning. ROCKS LIKE A MOTHERFUCKER! Bonds really well with my chosen fuzzes.

Local music dealer sponsors me by giving great deals like 40% off for some stuff (not doing product placements here) and he ordered a few copies from which I got to choose my pick. Like with any cheap imports production, the quality was far from even and it really saved my day that I could compare and play them. So here's a Caveat emptor to anyone interested in this instrument -You might not want to order this product from internet.

[StudioShutIn]

Okay, was taking some snapshots of my wife the other day and realised during the shooting that she might show off just as well with my gear, and call it a day.

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Quite a looker you have there....oh and the bass is pretty sweet too!

[univalve]

jmascis JM in green sparkle with Lollars

[plasticstatic]

Japanese Jaguar, AVRI pickups and red tort.

[Mudfuzz]

Okay, was taking some snapshots of my wife the other day and realised during the shooting that she might show off just as well with my gear, and call it a day.

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FASTER PUSSY CAT KILL KILL! The headless Cort V-shape bass, a Steinberger license neck through with the crappiest pups I've encountered. And glued together body broken in two, when I bought it for cheaps. A very secondary spare instrument I haven't got rid of because it probably wouldn't be worth the effort Bought it originally JUST for the looks, an inspiring metal axe with the 80's modern looks. I'm going to give this one a little love back sometime soon. Rickenbacker and Gretch pups, for starters. Let's see where it takes us. Tuned to the New standard tuning and set again it turned out to play better than ever.

Yes she does and also cool stuff Love the Vee

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Okay, was taking some snapshots of my wife the other day and realised during the shooting that she might show off just as well with my gear, and call it a day.

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FASTER PUSSY CAT KILL KILL! The headless Cort V-shape bass, a Steinberger license neck through with the crappiest pups I've encountered. And glued together body broken in two, when I bought it for cheaps. A very secondary spare instrument I haven't got rid of because it probably wouldn't be worth the effort Bought it originally JUST for the looks, an inspiring metal axe with the 80's modern looks. I'm going to give this one a little love back sometime soon. Rickenbacker and Gretch pups, for starters. Let's see where it takes us. Tuned to the New standard tuning and set again it turned out to play better than ever.

Yes she does and also cool stuff Love the Vee

You know, I knew You'd love the V just as much as I do.

[Mudfuzz]

Okay, was taking some snapshots of my wife the other day and realised during the shooting that she might show off just as well with my gear, and call it a day.

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FASTER PUSSY CAT KILL KILL! The headless Cort V-shape bass, a Steinberger license neck through with the crappiest pups I've encountered. And glued together body broken in two, when I bought it for cheaps. A very secondary spare instrument I haven't got rid of because it probably wouldn't be worth the effort Bought it originally JUST for the looks, an inspiring metal axe with the 80's modern looks. I'm going to give this one a little love back sometime soon. Rickenbacker and Gretch pups, for starters. Let's see where it takes us. Tuned to the New standard tuning and set again it turned out to play better than ever.

Yes she does and also cool stuff Love the Vee

You know, I knew You'd love the V just as much as I do.

I'm actually giving a lot of thought to putting all my instrument projects on hold and building me a Vee 5er

[Bassus Sanguinis]

You know, I knew You'd love the V just as much as I do.

I'm actually giving a lot of thought to putting all my instrument projects on hold and building me a Vee 5er

Great, sounds to me, well, heavy! The classical V headstock just doesn't fly with five tuners so what the hell - why not six strings with (almost) the same effort and cost? OR I can recommend the Steinberger tuning system for V-projects with an outstaanding A+

- takes the headstock off Your bass and eases the neck dive prominent for light weight V-shape body instruments
- the tuners keep the tune great, they just need tilted headstock angle (missing from some of the licenced cheap imports I've run to).

There are, of course, other solutions to these possible problems but if the issue should arise, this is my five pennies, give it a thought