Show your Carvins!!

[Carmine]

Okay, I confess to getting bored and starting this thread-- but I didn't see one here, and maybe this could be fun. I am well known to be a bit of a Carvin junkie but then again, I am a bit of a junkie for any mass manufacturer of high quality affordable basses that will treat me as an equal to any right handed player. When you add that Carvin will build you anything you want within their scope of options and finishes, huge "bang for the buck" value factor, and relative ease of acquiring a nice used one, my question is-- why don't ALL of you guys have at least ONE Carvin? Anyway it would be nice to see all those lefties in one thread, wouldn't it? Thought I'd start with my current line up, but I'm going to dig around my photo archives and see if I can find a pic of every Carvin that I've owned--man there's been a bunch of em....


First up-

B4, Active, Alder w/ Birdseye Maple fretboard

[Carmine]

LB20, Passive, Swamp Ash, Maple fretboard

[Carmine]

Bunny Brunel, Active w/Piezo, Alder w/ Maple top, Flame Maple neck w/ Ebony fretboard

[Carmine]

Bunny Brunel, Active w/Piezo, Swamp Ash, Ebony Fretboard

[Carmine]

1990 LB70, Gold hardware

[Carmine]

1980's LB60, Solid Bird's Eye Maple, dual Bartolini humbuckers, 24K Gold hardware, Stereo output, Ebony fretboard - pretty exotic stuff for the time!

[bhunt1]

2009 LB 70, walnut neck and body, tung oil finish, ebony board, mop diamond inlays, HB/J99A p'ups:

[Carmine]

1980's LB50....last of my current line up!

[danomite64]

1980's LB60, Solid Bird's Eye Maple, dual Bartolini humbuckers, 24K Gold hardware, Stereo output, Ebony fretboard - pretty exotic stuff for the time!

Wow. That's the nicest Carvin I've ever seen.

[AzWhoFan]

jeez louise Carmine, do you have your own climate controlled wharehouse or what?

p.s. those are pretty sweet basses

[pjmuck]

Here's my '85 Carvin LB50 which I purchased a few years ago from (drum roll please) Carmine. Currently strung with D'Addario piccolo strings and equipped with a Roland GK3B hex PUP (then processed through a Roland GR-55 guitar/bass synth), this is my main midi bass. I run the GK3B in combo with 1/4" stereo outs, running 1 (bridge PUP) out to my guitar amp and the 2nd (neck PUP) running through a Digitech Whammy tuned down an octave to bass register before going into my bass amp. (GR-55 patches from midi PUP go straight to PA). Result: virtual one man band with huge wall of sound multi-voice capability.

[Jeroen]

Here's my B4. Alder body with subtle flame, high gloss finish. Maple neck with slight birdseye in the fingerboard, tung oil finish. Original owner requested a 2+2 headstock and I'm glad he did because I think the regular 4-in-a-row Carvin headstock is just about the dullest headstock design out there. The 2+2 isn't exactly adventurous either, but I like it a lot better. Black hardware (Hipshot style B bridge, Carvin tuners), J99 + HB2 pickups, all passive with a 2-way switch to split the humbucker. Very nice bass, sounds great and feels great too. Very substantial and tough, very comfortable to play.



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[fivebass52]

Carmine, that '80's LB60 looks like it was carved from a single piece of Maple!! Beautiful.... I have two Carvins, and will post them soon...

[AustinLeftyBass]

Lousy pic of mine.

[fat fret]

1980's LB50....last of my current line up!

I like this best. Black & Classy

[Yail Bloor]

Bolt kit I did 8 or 9 years ago. Still have it, never play it; I've been thinking about switching the neck to a fretless just to entice me to play it more:

[Assumer]

Lousy pic of mine.

Loving the new carvin look. Nice bass.

[Basshappi]

I have serious bass-envy for that maple LB-60.

[ezstep]

I posted this on the other thread also, but PLEASE let me know when/if you decide to sell that black LB50.

[Jeroen]

Here's my B4. Alder body with subtle flame, high gloss finish. Maple neck with slight birdseye in the fingerboard, tung oil finish. Original owner requested a 2+2 headstock and I'm glad he did because I think the regular 4-in-a-row Carvin headstock is just about the dullest headstock design out there. The 2+2 isn't exactly adventurous either, but I like it a lot better. Black hardware (Hipshot style B bridge, Carvin tuners), J99 + HB2 pickups, all passive with a 2-way switch to split the humbucker. Very nice bass, sounds great and feels great too. Very substantial and tough, very comfortable to play.

Oh, that's right, I reorganised my Photobucket album because I had too many folders in the main album. Pics are now here:





I still like it a lot. It was so affordable, but it is such a fun instrument to play and so versatile despite the simple passive electronics, and sounds very authoritive.