Hi from South UK

Just acquired my second L2500 having so loved the first acquired a year or so back, both acquired through the UK bass forum BassChat

Gigging regularly & for years on the South Coast, for much of that with my Wal Pro1/Custom I got into 5's through a modded SUB5 that was soon replaced with a 4+1 L2500 in translucent red with a masked binding stripe and quickly fell in love with the bass & sounds possible in the rock covers band I am with.




Earlier this year I joined a p/t proggy covers band and decided I needed a fretless. That led initially to a cheap, but all the same good Peavey Foundation lined fretless - also via BC - but I had also been watching a green translucent 3+2 L2500 lined fretless and last week weakened as it was still there and pulled the trigger on that and it arrived last Friday


What is particularly galling is last Thursday I had the second operation on my right arm/hand this year (Feb the wrist was replaced, Thursday the pinkie knuckle along with some tinkering with tendons) and I am presently in a half cast from forearm to fingertips so can do no more than a tentative pluck with my thumb

Both have moulded G&L cases, but odd to note that the body hole is much larger than the basses, particularly the fretless.

Welcome. A couple of fine basses you're showing off here. I have a thing for green guitars. One day I will have one, I swear.
Sorry to hear about your hand troubles. That has to suck for a musician who depends on them being in working order. Don't worry though, I've heard that G&L is coming out with a harmonica. ( O.K., so it was a bad joke, but that's what I'm known for around here. ) Heel well, and get back to slappin' and pluckin' those basses ASAP.

Cheers. Plaster possibly off Wednesday and if it's worked as well as the index finger a couple of years back it'll be all good.

G&L's are difficult to come by over here, but have a loyal following that I joined after getting the red fretted L2500 a couple of years back. Stingray on steroids indeed and with so many more options IMO anyway

Welcome, that axe is nice!.

Welcome and beautiful basses. Red and green. You know your complimentary colors ...

...with my tobacco burst Wal I have a set of traffic lights

Nice axes, and welcome

A quick question about the wood binding on the red one, is it just an unpainted/stained area (like a natural binding) or is it added as par plastic binding and bumps out?

Nice axes, and welcome

A quick question about the wood binding on the red one, is it just an unpainted/stained area (like a natural binding) or is it added as par plastic binding and bumps out?

It's just a masked off unstained area. I didn't realise from the photos I saw before I bought it, but it looks really good and very well done.

Not sure of the vintage, as I believe the definitive serial is in the neck pocket (and that was not noted down because when it was refretted and a bump at the top of the neck skimmed as I did not know that then), but based on the stamp on the neck plate it appears to be pre the first? Unless I misunderstood? being B000627, though elsewhere I see that may not be so and it is from 1980 (apparently) with production runs starting from 000500 - so still quite early

Thanks AlEebee, if it was a added layer I wouldn't like it, but a masked unstained area I did. My C66 has a natural binding border on the flame top, then has a mahogany body. Best seen here http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/sirmyghin/DSCF0899.jpg

Thanks AlEebee, if it was a added layer I wouldn't like it, but a masked unstained area I did. My C66 has a natural binding border on the flame top, then has a mahogany body. Best seen here http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/sirmyghin/DSCF0899.jpg

That's a great looking guitar.

Just after I bought the red fretted, a matter of almost days, a beautiful flamed maple bodied 3+2 L2500 turned up on Ebay & I itched for a while on that

Thanks AlEebee, if it was a added layer I wouldn't like it, but a masked unstained area I did. My C66 has a natural binding border on the flame top, then has a mahogany body. Best seen here http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn127/sirmyghin/DSCF0899.jpg

That's a great looking guitar.

Just after I bought the red fretted, a matter of almost days, a beautiful flamed maple bodied 3+2 L2500 turned up on Ebay & I itched for a while on that

Flames are nice, but simple is nice too, hence my next guitar and bass pair will be simple. Thinking a natural Walnut SB5000 from carvin, maybe with a sunset burst edge (same edge colour as that C66). And a trans orange ASAT. I also tend to be less paranoid playing out with bolt ons, for obvious reasons. I have an LB75 neck through bass that is too amazing looking, it took me a long time to get over not wanting to get even the slightest ding on it.