Thank you guys for the kind comments!
@ Toby, I know you?ve been a fan of the bass for some time. Hopefully, someone will buy it and put you out of your misery! LOL
@ Greg, I?ve been through the ?I?m going to do a custom this year no matter what? blues myself. I understand and hope you are able to ?get ?er done.?
@ Frank, As far as the Fatboy, it adds an aggressive edge to the sound of the bass. Joey, BigRedBass on the board, describes the AXY as being like a studio monitor. It is very clean, even polite. I like that description. The Fatboy is clean, but sees more of the string due to its wider coil. It is louder and adds (this is MY interpretation) some grit, or as I?ve said repeatedly, aggression to the sound. This bass being solid maple is already aggressive sounding. Every few years on the board, someone will start a thread about installing Alembic Activators into a Rickenbacker. I thought about that on a few occasions, myself. Then, I realized one fine day, that I had that combination with the Elan, a solid maple, neck through instrument with Alembic Activators! As for the B-string, it?ll shake the walls. I play through an ACME Low-B cabinet and every 5 string I?ve played into that box has sounded ?room shaking? wonderful. The Elan is no exception.
Thanks again for looking!
