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Originally Posted by Michael Stram
Hi Ken,
When Billy showed me the bass, I didnt ask about the box's origination. but right now it has bartolinis in it and the box wich looks kinda like an old radio shack project box would kick off the leds. Eh, if it works, it works..
Have you ever thought of doing a limited run of the origionals or is that something you dont really want to touch? Just wondering.
I really dug the brass(?) back plate for the electronics. That was unheard of back then.
Thank you for making the basses that you do. No other bass plays like a Smith and no other bass sounds like a smith.
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Not cost effective in many ways. The Plates on the Bass, 4 or\f them are all Gold plated Brass. That includes the back cover, truss rod cover and logo as well as the control plate. Each circuit back then with tooling cost me almost as much as I charged for the Basses. We only made about 60 of them and the tooling expense was over 10k for the electronics alone.
Thanks but no thanks on the re-issue plan!
