tunaman4u2
Well-known member
Reflex HH period...
- Thread starter bovinehost
- Start date
keko
Well-known member
Last edited:
MSilvers
Well-known member
Gamechangers only come in HH right now, but if you wanted to get technical there are still Stingray and Bongo HS, and Piezo...
keko
Well-known member
Hey dude, ...now I just spotted TGC on order in Your signature?
Congrats, ...wow!
That will be the first one on this forum?
Only Jack can beat that?
tunaman4u2
Well-known member
jlepre
Well-known member
Eh....I have more important things to do than worry about what bass Jack is drooling over. Like play with my amazing 2 year old daughter. 
phatduckk
Well-known member
who's Jack?
MSilvers
Well-known member
I think at least one or two other people have ordered one. It's been a few weeks shy of a year since I first placed the order, can't wait to get that bass!
I'm also a recording engineer (or at least an aspiring one) so the Gamechanger to me is like
JayDawg
Well-known member
I wonder if it is a Game Changer in a Bongo? If so, I'm super jealous!
drTStingray
Well-known member
I think this covers the last question, although I almost missed this also, having asked the same question!
I'm still thinking of that natural roasted body Bongo that made a not so discrete appearence here a few weeks ago - a greenish tint added could make a fabulous inspiring bass for any Bongo fan, let alone the original Lord of them all. With go faster stripes also?
Anyway I'm guessing there could be a handover ceremony looming at NAMM
- part of the 50th celebration resume maybe? You getting those wizard new secret strings which Craig Y Nashville (anyone know where he went??) was waxing lyrical about fitted as well, Jack?
MadMatt
Well-known member
Jack kinda tipped us off in another thread... If I understood him correctly these 3 hints may enlighten you... I am not in the inside circle of people "in the know" and this is all my speculation... we will only know for sure when he finally posts a picture
High Speed Steel (HSS) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
High Speed Steel (HSS) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Last edited:
bassmonkeee
Well-known member
That doesn't mean you shouldn't try, though.
drTStingray
Well-known member
Jack kinda tipped us off in another thread... If I understood him correctly these 3 hints may enlighten you... I am not in the inside circle of people "in the know" and this is all my speculation... we will only know for sure when he finally posts a picture
High Speed Steel (HSS) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gotcha - and the binding will be.........................green??
jlepre
Well-known member
You don't know JACK
Lolwut Derpderp
Member
- Joined
- Oct 4, 2011
- Messages
- 6
Jack kinda tipped us off in another thread... If I understood him correctly these 3 hints may enlighten you... I am not in the inside circle of people "in the know" and this is all my speculation... we will only know for sure when he finally posts a picture
High Speed Steel (HSS) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
AHAH! I understand it all now. They're making a car made out of high speed steel, and it has tons of feet that run instead of wheels.
fly
Well-known member
aww c'mon already Jack..........
jlepre
Well-known member
I bet my avatar might be pretty close
MattOfSweden
Well-known member
Them beans really should have been spilled by now...
Gamechanger Reflex in custom color is my bet.
Gamechanger Reflex in custom color is my bet.
jlepre
Well-known member
I hope you're right. I've been waiting for other colors on the Reflex. Black, white and sunburst aren't really my style. I wonder what colors will be announced?
bovinehost
Administrator
Here is the deal.
In all the years that I have been a moderator here and buddies with Sterling and the Ball family and the various peeps at the company, I have been very careful about asking for anything special. Which is not to say I've never been treated special - I have been. Way beyond what I deserved, to be sure, but it is not in me to ask for things. I'm sure you guys know what I mean.
So let's get beyond that because it makes me uncomfortable. Sterling and his family are friends of mine and you don't trade on that, you know? You just don't.
I have been thinking about a Reflex for a long time but was not in a position to swing one. When I ended up with the 25th HH fiver through trades and whatnot, the bug really bit me hard. Plus Keko's bass was just so damned SEXY. I've been thinking about a white HSS fiver with rosewood board for a long time now.
A few things happened and I ended up with some extra bass money, which is stuff I keep separate from regular household money. So I had an email exchange with the wise and powerful Dargin, who is a bassist's best friend whether or not you realize it.
There were some funny moments, like when we finally got down to details and he said, "What pickguard do you want?" I stared at that email a long time, thinking I may have missed something important along the way. Pickguard? I actually went to the official Reflex page to make sure I wasn't smoking the funny stuff. Pickguard? There were no pickguards on Reflexes, were there? I said, "Scotty, a pickguard on a Reflex?" He got back to me immediately and advised me that he was out of his mind and that I should delete the email ASAP. I said, "No way, man, this was EPIC." To his credit, my next email said this: "Hahahahaha."
Anyway, my "final details" email said, "White, HSS, rosewood, fiver." At the very end, I said, "But orange would be okay, too." I was just fooling around. And he said, "If you want orange, we'll do that for you."
Real casual, wasn't it? But I have to tell you, I was completely at a loss for words and had some difficulty breathing and had to pull my wallet out and check my ID and so on. After punching myself in the head a couple of times, I allowed that I would really like that a lot. Really? Yes, really.
And then a very special top secret dude named Tomas asked me if I'd like to add a little darker paint around the edges, sort of a Lamborghini Orange Burst arrangement, because, he said, "Then you'll really have your own one-off." If you were me, what would you say? You'd say, "I trust you."
I can't really picture this finish, but you guys have seen the finishes on these basses? Sure. So again, if you were me, wouldn't you say, "Okay, I think you know more than I do about how this will work"?
So that's the deal. Lamborghini Orange "Burst" HSS Reflex fiver. I am seriously excited about this bass in a way that I have not been for a long, long time. I was going to keep it a (relative) secret until I got it, which should be late January, but I also kind of think that you guys will be excited, too.
This is going to ROCK. More than a robot programmed to rock. And one would have to assume a robot programmed to rock would rock pretty hard.
Never fear! I will remain Lord Bongo, even though I took my Big Al 5H out to play tonight and it was pretty seriously bad-ass even though it's only got one pickup and so is obviously (according to internet truth) a one-trick pony. Hah.
Here endeth the story. Or not "endeth" but at least I've come clean.
Jackie
In all the years that I have been a moderator here and buddies with Sterling and the Ball family and the various peeps at the company, I have been very careful about asking for anything special. Which is not to say I've never been treated special - I have been. Way beyond what I deserved, to be sure, but it is not in me to ask for things. I'm sure you guys know what I mean.
So let's get beyond that because it makes me uncomfortable. Sterling and his family are friends of mine and you don't trade on that, you know? You just don't.
I have been thinking about a Reflex for a long time but was not in a position to swing one. When I ended up with the 25th HH fiver through trades and whatnot, the bug really bit me hard. Plus Keko's bass was just so damned SEXY. I've been thinking about a white HSS fiver with rosewood board for a long time now.
A few things happened and I ended up with some extra bass money, which is stuff I keep separate from regular household money. So I had an email exchange with the wise and powerful Dargin, who is a bassist's best friend whether or not you realize it.
There were some funny moments, like when we finally got down to details and he said, "What pickguard do you want?" I stared at that email a long time, thinking I may have missed something important along the way. Pickguard? I actually went to the official Reflex page to make sure I wasn't smoking the funny stuff. Pickguard? There were no pickguards on Reflexes, were there? I said, "Scotty, a pickguard on a Reflex?" He got back to me immediately and advised me that he was out of his mind and that I should delete the email ASAP. I said, "No way, man, this was EPIC." To his credit, my next email said this: "Hahahahaha."
Anyway, my "final details" email said, "White, HSS, rosewood, fiver." At the very end, I said, "But orange would be okay, too." I was just fooling around. And he said, "If you want orange, we'll do that for you."
Real casual, wasn't it? But I have to tell you, I was completely at a loss for words and had some difficulty breathing and had to pull my wallet out and check my ID and so on. After punching myself in the head a couple of times, I allowed that I would really like that a lot. Really? Yes, really.
And then a very special top secret dude named Tomas asked me if I'd like to add a little darker paint around the edges, sort of a Lamborghini Orange Burst arrangement, because, he said, "Then you'll really have your own one-off." If you were me, what would you say? You'd say, "I trust you."
I can't really picture this finish, but you guys have seen the finishes on these basses? Sure. So again, if you were me, wouldn't you say, "Okay, I think you know more than I do about how this will work"?
So that's the deal. Lamborghini Orange "Burst" HSS Reflex fiver. I am seriously excited about this bass in a way that I have not been for a long, long time. I was going to keep it a (relative) secret until I got it, which should be late January, but I also kind of think that you guys will be excited, too.
This is going to ROCK. More than a robot programmed to rock. And one would have to assume a robot programmed to rock would rock pretty hard.
Never fear! I will remain Lord Bongo, even though I took my Big Al 5H out to play tonight and it was pretty seriously bad-ass even though it's only got one pickup and so is obviously (according to internet truth) a one-trick pony. Hah.
Here endeth the story. Or not "endeth" but at least I've come clean.
Jackie
