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Fret Dressing – a Proper Polishing

Posted on August 12, 2009 » Filed under: bassguitar, video and tagged: fretboard, lakland, set up » 2 Comments »

One of the things that often comes up in talking about getting the set up right on a bass is fret dressing, or polishing. There are two times this should happen to a bass: Before it leaves the factory. If the frets become overly worn from use (usually years of use).

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Lakland Skyline 55-02

Posted on October 24, 2008 » Filed under: bass, bassguitar, Gear and tagged: lakland, Skyline » Add a comment »

I’ve posted about the Lakland Owners Group, now it is about time for me to write about an actual Lakland Bass. This fellow here is the Lakland Skyline 55-02. The 55 denotes that it is a 5 string, and the 02 that it has a jazz front pick up and a musicman style one at the […]

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Lakland Owners Group

Posted on March 27, 2008 » Filed under: Links and tagged: bassguitar, lakland » 1 Comment »

Wow… The Lakland boys have been busy. They have a new owners group (“LOG”), which you can sign up to on the Lakland owners site: Laklandowners.com. Find the “Create an account” option and sign up – it does the whole funky ‘sending you an e-mail’ thing – and you’ll have access to news, a forum […]

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Daryl Stuermer Internet and Monsters of Bass Pix

Posted on December 10, 2007 » Filed under: Links and tagged: interviews, lakland, pictures » Add a comment »

On the Lakland Blog there are pointers to some new goodies on the Lakland site: An interview with Genesis bassist Daryl Stuermer. Some cool pix from the Monsters of Bass on Flikr. Nice stuff! Keep it up!

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Spinal Bass

Posted on August 2, 2007 » Filed under: News and tagged: bassguitar, lakland » Add a comment »

I missed this one first time round, but at the recent Live Earth event there was a wild bass that was specially made by US bass makers Lakland for the Spinal Tap bassist. Check out the Burning Earth Bass on the BBC site! Kudos to Dan and the team. It really is something special, based […]

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