Selling my Mark King Signature..

Started by scarbee, July 31, 2003, 09:19:52 AM

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scarbee

Hey Scrub,
 
The Clav will be just after the Wurlitzer - it will be a nightmare though, because the output is very quiet - and noisy!
 
But - yes it is very sexy instrument...
 
Check out the demoes in the menu - lots of bass and Rhodes demoes - all done by midi.
It's fun doing bass like this - and you actually learn new stuff in a funny way.

jake

it seems to me, that if you've only had the bass for 6 months, and that the neck is so f*cked up already, alembic should take it back and fix it for free.

mica

Jake, I'm not sure from scarbee's posts if the bass he bought was new or used (scarbee - can you clarify?). If you check my response to his original post, you'll see where I did offer to repair his bass.

jake

ok, good.  sorry for sounding annoyed. i didnt see.

scrub

You know, speaking of Hohner, I thought I would mention that my very first bass was a Hohner. Not Hofner, Hohner - as in harmonicas and Clavinets.
 
The bass was a true freak; the neck was a copy of a Fender Telecaster bass neck, but the body was a copy of a Telecaster guitar body! I don't mean it was a large version of a Tele guitar body, it was the same size as a Tele guitar body. Big neck, small body. I've never seen another like it.
 
I remember I traded an Applause guitar (plastic guitar with machined aluminum neck - HORRIBLE) and $60 and got the bass new, with a gig bag, strap and a 1/4 cable. I was 16 years old (I'm 42 now).

palembic

HI there I'm back
(as i say my Alembic bass smashing through a door and grinning through the hole).
I was out to bring my daughter to Finland (Turku) where she'll finish (ha) her law-studies (well ...6 months of them).
 
Anyway.
About that neck thing.
When I entered this club about a year ago (I missed all the Yahoo-fun) I wrote in a thread somewhere that the thing is alive.
To be honest I have my S2 5str about 7 years now. I have to fine-tune the neck 4 times a year at least!!!!
However!!!
I admit that this happened BEFORE I read HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY. What was indicated by Brothers as Bob and Joey (mainly Joey) who has written a procedure that can be considered as a Standard Thread in how to adjust a neck. It's rfeally step-by-step.
When I started to follow that (WITH the feelers) I AGAIN made the mistake to try it QUICK.  
Brother: It doesn't work quick.
Now -after doing tiny-teeny-weeny-ytsy-pytsy tweakings- an regular basis my bass is SLOWLY getting to a stable neck that feels comfortable and STAYS comfortable.
I don't blame it to Alembic.
Mica once said to : it will take some time but after some years the tree will be convinced he's a guitar now!!!
Please: be patient!
Do it slowly and gives the guitar weeks to adjust. It IS temperature/humidity sensitive and here in Europe (II passed Denmark 4 days ago) the climat is A LOT different than in that far away california. It mujst be taken in account.
So I guess it will ends up with tiny season-adjustments I guess.
 
Paul the bad one (also a sequel)