Ok, round two. I forgot to get back to this.

Here's another Ibanex X series, these things are great. I got this for less than 100 at a swap meet; the knobs I put on it cost almost half as much as the bass. I really like these necks. Although I usually don't care for bass humbuckers, these sound pretty good.





The Flying V. Every boy wants one of these, and I eventually found one I could afford, this Ibanez. The neck had been broken, but someone had done a good job of repairing it, and I've had no problems. However, the neck is a bit too thin across, and too rounded (jazz bass style) to be comfortable for me.




Lookit lookit. A 12 string bass. This one hung on the wall of the music store for over a year. I'd look at it now and then, but it was too expensive. One day, the salesman asked me when I was going to buy it. I told him when it was a reasonable price. Ok. He marked it half off, and I took it home. It's hard to fit in my playing style; you HAVE to use a pick to get the full effect - but boy, is it a full sound. A lot of fun to sit around with, who needs a band when you have a twelve string bass and a drum machine?




Now this one: I was told it was an Ibanez copy, but think it's really a Univox. Another great buy, came with case, cheap. The really sad part: I like the way this one plays better than my real Rickenbacker. (sigh...still want that burgundy one, though. Maybe my ivory R is a lemon.) This is a quality unit.





Now, this is a copy. Long long ago, I used one of the real ones, they have stunning tone capabilities - you can do amazing things with the phase and coil switches. The electronics on this copy are also excellent; in my memory they match or exceed the Gibson one I played. The neck, however. The guy I bought it from removed all the frets, and made it fretless. I put frets back in... but the neck won't stay straight. It moves around. I need a solid Gibson style bolt-on neck for this. Once again, not sure of the brand - may be Ibanez, but I thought the Ibanez version was a neck thru. This is a Les Paul Recording, sometimes a Les Paul Studio bass. Currently not really playable, until I replace the neck.





On the heels of that, here's an Ibanez Studio, also with massive tone capabilities (but I think the LP has it beat). The story on this one (got it long, long ago). I saw it in a store, wanted it, couldn't afford it. It sold. Later, I found it in another store, used - don't know what the guy was thinking, it was only a few months later.

Now. This same store, Bob bought something, didn't turn out to be what he needed - so he returned it, and they only gave store credit. I took his credit, eventually paid him back, and used it to buy this bass. Really nice neck and electronics, beautiful wood.... but very, very massive and heavy. A hard bass to play all night, BH style. But still one of my favorites; the first bass I ever owned with a beautiful natural wood finish.





Here's another product of the Schumacher clan - my Father made this one, too, for me. A six string bass, with tremelo. Notice the old school wooden bridge. Beyond a doubt, one of a kind.


And let's follow that up with another shining white bass, a 5 string Epiphone. Epiphone is good stuff. I found one identical to this at a store, went to buy it...but they pretty much... offended me with their attitude towards metal, treating it as lower class.

So I left it there, found one somewhere else (Ebay, I think) and bought that one. However, it turns out I'm not real comfortable with playing 5 strings - it's nice for the effect and all, but I'm not really proficien with the neck - I keep stumbling on the strings; too close together.


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