NGD All aboard the VI express

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NGD All aboard the VI express

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Was planned for delivery on monday...but it arrived today....

It's going to need some work leftyfying ( err ??) but i've been playing some upside down.
Love how it doesn't feel like a bass but also not like a guitar, it can sound like a guitar and it can sound like a bass... same with the strings, it's an interesting instrument.
Happy squier is putting out stuff like this, same feeling as with the cv JM, a lot of guitar for the money, solid.

Will get to it proper tomorrow taking it apart to clean up the sawdust and plastic. Checking out the stock strings before i swap and flip them.

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Looks gorgeous! The headstock and neck especially
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I was just thinking how much i DON'T like birdseye...i was saying 'come on sunburst graiiiin' as i started to remove the cover....starting from the headstock...first thing i see, maple freckles ! :P



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Congrats Kim :) Look forward to seeing how it turns out "leftified"
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Bass vi club! :D
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That neck looks lovely.

The Squier Bass VIs make me wish I'd hung on for a bit before buying my Gretsch baritone since they came out about a year later and originally cost less new than I'd paid for the Gretsch as a B-stock, and the Squiers look absolutely lovely, while the Gretsch is painfully obviously a product of corner-cutting.

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Yeah sadly can't know about releases too long beforehand eh. You know i'll be pissed if they release a lefty VI in '21 :lol:

The gretsch has a bigsby ?
Another plus : easier to find damn strings for the gretsch ;)
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wow that zoom call really planted some seeds
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kim wrote:Yeah sadly can't know about releases too long beforehand eh. You know i'll be pissed if they release a lefty VI in '21 :lol:

The gretsch has a bigsby ?
Another plus : easier to find damn strings for the gretsch ;)
Considering the body is plywood and the neck is clearly two pieces of wood glued at the 3rd fret, the bigsby is about the only thing that comes close to justifying the silly price! :lol:
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ekwatts wrote:
kim wrote:Yeah sadly can't know about releases too long beforehand eh. You know i'll be pissed if they release a lefty VI in '21 :lol:

The gretsch has a bigsby ?
Another plus : easier to find damn strings for the gretsch ;)
Considering the body is plywood and the neck is clearly two pieces of wood glued at the 3rd fret, the bigsby is about the only thing that comes close to justifying the silly price! :lol:
ohdamn, really... wow gretsch...wow.

But bigsbies are cool...i'd like a bigsby one day.

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Congrats, they're great instruments.
kim wrote:Checking out the stock strings before i swap and flip them.
Have you bought some replacements yet? When I got mine the only ones easily available this side of the Atlantic were La Bellas, which weren't cheap. Now looks like Fender do a heavier gauge set and I also came across (might have been someone on here tbh...) a company in the UK called Newtone who do a .024-.100 set for £16 (+VAT). They also seem to offer custom sets (I'm going to e-mail them about getting a lighter set for B-B/A-A tuning).
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Yeah i got a set of labella flatwounds from bass direct last week. :oops:

I'd love for thomastik to do a set but not very likely.
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I blame Hurb!
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You mean that guy hoarding all them 60's offset trems and mutes and then not even playing any REAL music in his demos ?



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No wonder I can’t find a replacement trem for my VI *arsecake*
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You're all cunts :lol:
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**happy**
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BearBoy wrote:Congrats, they're great instruments.
kim wrote:Checking out the stock strings before i swap and flip them.
Have you bought some replacements yet? When I got mine the only ones easily available this side of the Atlantic were La Bellas, which weren't cheap. Now looks like Fender do a heavier gauge set and I also came across (might have been someone on here tbh...) a company in the UK called Newtone who do a .024-.100 set for £16 (+VAT). They also seem to offer custom sets (I'm going to e-mail them about getting a lighter set for B-B/A-A tuning).
I’ve been using Newtone strings for a few years, I really like them.
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Good to know Nick. Looks like they’re not too far from either of us (Derbyshire).
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