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    Small Gecko 5 fretless

    It was not a big thing, since the slots were already there. I made the inlays of beech veneer. Some corrections made with a wood putty of the same colour. For the final sanding and leveling I used a radiused sanding block from Stewart MacDonald.
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    A gaggle of Gecko 5 basses (medium)

    Very impressive collection.  :hello2: The purpleheart bass looks incredibly sexy! Please do not hesitate to share some pics with us!
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    Wenge/wenge Gecko 5 wide

    Beautiful bass! Wenge is on my favorurite woods. Even my kitchen is made with wenge veneer!  :toothy10: Some plus information about Bijelo Dugme: The guitarist of the band was Goran Bregovic, who composed the soundtrack of the '93 movie Arizona Dream starring Johnny Depp. Edit: I've just...
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    Small Gecko 5 fretless

    Hi there, This is my second Gecko. Some specs: - neck is from the showcase - indian rosewood with wenge stripes and ebony board - beech wood fretlines - walnut body with natural oil finish - Hipshot A style bridge - Warwick tuners - Warwick Just-a-nut I brass nut - EMG-40TW pickup in the...
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    Small Gecko 5

    I made some new pics of the bass. Here they are with some comments. Front & back: http://alosingseason.hu/gecko/warmoth/geckoP1010822.JPG http://alosingseason.hu/gecko/warmoth/geckoP1010831.JPG Body front: http://alosingseason.hu/gecko/warmoth/geckoP1010825.JPG Body back. I will replace the...
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    Half Warmoth P-Bass

    Hi, This is my semi-Warmoth Precision Bass. I bought a used black alder Warmoth body on ebay. It spent almost a year in a box when I finally decided to build a "standard" four string bass. The neck and the tuners are from a mex Fender Std. (maple/rw), the pickup is an active EMG-P. The bridge...
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    BURN UNIT

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    Wenge/wenge Gecko wide 5

    Hi Edin, I'm from the neighbourhood (Budapest, Hungary) :headbang: If you don't want many pots, you should try the stacked version of the OBP-3. Even if you have two pickups, you can use all of the OBP's features with 3 stacked pots and a switch (vol+vol/treble+bass/midlevel+midfreq and the...
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    active MEC bass pickups

    You can find Warwick's wiring diagrams on their site: http://warwick.de/modules/infos/info.php?rndtop&katID=14542&cl=EN
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    Small Gecko 5

    They sound totally different. Think of it as a Musicman and a Jazz Bass with a soloed bridge pickup. Pickup placement is one of the most important ingredient of tone.
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    Small Gecko 5

    Hi there, This is a recent picture of my bass with it's fretless sister. The EMG TWs are changed to DCs, the chrome knobs to wenge wood knobs and the Warwick Just-a-Nut II to J-a-N I (brass). I've also replaced the deep panel Switchcraft jack, because it was very loose. I've installed a Neutrik...
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    Small Gecko 5

    That's me with the Gecko... :-) It was a crazy onboard gig on river Danube.
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    Small Gecko 5

    Hi there, This is my Gecko, hope you like it... The facts: Gecko "small" swamp ash body with Hipshot A style bridge and EMG-40TW pickups (wired to 18V). The neck is wenge/bubinga with ebony fretboard, jet black ebony peghead veneer, Gotoh machine heads and Warwick Just-a-nut II. The body has...
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