My bonzai basses

[Peter H. Boer]

Although I'm a bass player, I still have some guitars around the house.

For the fun of it, for composing, and for use in the studio (always helps to have options available)
So these are:
Ibanez Art500, modified with Graptech Nut, Bill & Beck L-500XL & L-500R PUs
Homebuild Blackstrat, with OBL L-500R and Bill & Becky L-45 PUs
Homebuild Redstrat, with Bill and Becky L-500L & OBL L-400 PUs
And a stock Line-6 JTV-89, a nice guitar used as a normal guitar, but mindbogling when using the special line-6 toneshaping (This does sound a lot less 'real' though, but it works for extra parts in busy mixes  :thumb-up:)

:banana-guitar:

[kawai2g4b]

I'm diggin' the Bill Lawrence loaded strats.  I always liked the Washburn N4s for their sounds but I still can get around a flatter neck radius very well.  Do those pickups allow for the Ibanez to but through better?  I have always liked the Artist series variants but thought that they were too muffled to my ears with the stock pickups.

[Peter H. Boer]

I'm diggin' the Bill Lawrence loaded strats.  I always liked the Washburn N4s for their sounds but I still can get around a flatter neck radius very well.

Thanks  :)

Do those pickups allow for the Ibanez to but through better?  I have always liked the Artist series variants but thought that they were too muffled to my ears with the stock pickups.

The original PUs were kind of EMG clones. I'm not one for active PUs to begin with but these were even lackluster on top of that.
The L-500 does bring out the true tone of the woods, and I caught an acoustically good one (there were 5 of these guitars in the shop, and only this one really had an acoustic tone already.
:thumb-up:

[Dante]

I am LOVING that Ibanez

[rnolan]

I am LOVING that Ibanez

Yeah, interesting bridge/saddle tail piece set up, and nice inlays