Author Topic: 5 string '91 Spoiler 91S6512 (Read 1178 times)

FC Bass · « **on:** October 31, 2014, 05:06:46 PM »

The longest two weeks wait ahead of me...

Will pick her up as soon as the seller is back home :-)

sonicus · « **Reply #1 on:** October 31, 2014, 05:16:25 PM »

Sweet ! Congratulations ____

mtjam · « **Reply #2 on:** October 31, 2014, 06:32:00 PM »

Nice score! Congrats! It will be there before you know it.

charles_holmes · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2014, 06:24:21 AM »

Kudos !-_-!

jazzyvee · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2014, 07:24:48 AM »

Wow nice catch Flip.

edwardofhuncote · « **Reply #5 on:** November 01, 2014, 08:43:28 AM »

What jazzy said! That's my kinda bass. =)

FC Bass · « **Reply #6 on:** November 01, 2014, 05:26:19 PM »

I knew you would like it :-)

Thanx all!

Full frontal:

bigredbass · « **Reply #7 on:** November 01, 2014, 07:44:24 PM »

The endless variation within the body planforms and details is always interesting. It looks like a 'classic taper' neck, but with AXY 5/6's instead of 4/5's, and the neck pickup is further south like an SC or MK, and there's breathing room between the bridge and bridge pickup.

Of course, all of us cool guys play Spoiler Fives, there's a Zen-like economy of playing an Alembic with only two knobs !

J o e y

pas · « **Reply #8 on:** November 02, 2014, 03:46:57 AM »

Very nice! Regarding pickup location, I've always preferred the neck pickup to be flush up against the truss rod cover, as it is on my '85 Spoiler.

FC Bass · « **Reply #9 on:** November 08, 2014, 04:15:28 AM »

This bass looks identical dimensions-wise, also with the wider pickups.
I plan to use this next to my fretless which has almost the same pickup placement, should work out great I think. :-)
Not sure why they used the AXY56, obviously the AXY4 is wide enough and I think they look better on this model (with this taper)
But.... I don't need to worry about my 3 inch off the fretboard bends, the pickups won't miss any clanks and weird sounds.

FC Bass · « **Reply #10 on:** November 12, 2014, 11:02:36 AM »

Damn! This going to take longer than two weeks...
Though we agreed on the price and approx. pickup time, I got outbid and the seller backed out...
But hey, hey: Where would we be without these words from our dearly missed brother Paul's? Click here