If only I needed a new bass - SDOTD content

Love my late 80’s L2000. I so nearly pulled the trigger on this one...

 

It's tempting for the price and finish but folks should be advised that there was a batch of these out there with improperly installed bridges or something that resulted in an as-installed scale length of 34.5 inches.

Quite a few reveiwers couldn't intonate them without the saddles nearly coming off the front of the bridge.

 

Darn ...now I have to go back and look at it again.

Edit: I count 21 frets on the photo...

 

Very possible, its not like G&L to have such an issue.

I notice this one doesn't have the block inlays or neck binding of the catalog model, must be a special run akin. MF has had some Tribues in the past selling for about &100 less than the regular models but a little stripped down cosmetically.

 

I would be very surprised if G&L left those basses in the wilderness once the error was discovered. Furthermore if you did end up with one I imagine they would help you make it right. I'm sure someone on this forum has a G&L horror story, but they mostly seem like a good group that try to do right.

 

It just means I would mangle the simple pentatonic at
a much lower register

 

Yeah, this manufacturing snafu reminds you that, if you bought a Fullerton bass, it would be just so, ready to gig. And the Indonesian ones could be all right or maybe not - they're getting mighty good at "shooting in the dark" but this is all it is - shooting in the dark. Same factory that made the problematic Squier 51. They're essentially a kit and it is your task to try to make it right. Which is IMO a fairly long shot, on full scale electric bass guitars.

I won't be needing one. My fingers are just not long enough, to play most complex bass parts. Would drive me nuts, having a full scale bass around.

 

The Squire 51 had quite a following. My buddy gave me one of those a black one, (gone now) I just don't much care for black guitars as I've stated before, even if it hadn't been black though, I don't think I would have kept it. They really don't seem to be fish nor foul, just something to ponder. One of the few guitars I can honestly say I never missed.

 

I had 30 of them. Squier 51s. I liked the idea that they were neither fish nor fowl - it liberated you to be creative and make sounds that had not already been made 10,000 times with a Tele and 100,000 times with a Strat.

At $ 69, you could decorate 'em up and give them out as gifts. Or you could steal the best necks off them and make an average Telecaster better (big fat necks).

 

I don’t even like Jazz Basses and I hadda talk myself down from that ledge.

 

Agreed. Now if it was the fallout shortscale bass listed....

https://glguitars.com/product/tribute-series-fallout-shortscale-bass/

 

It's been my understanding that the G&L Tributes that are frequently offered as a SDOTD (like the Bluesboy that shows up every 3 months or so), are cut-down versions of the standard production model, so you're not getting as great a deal as you might think.