In the San Francisco Bay Area Craigslist from October 24, there is a posting for "Full size bass". The Photo collection is a hoot. The commercial awful BSOs aren't limited to China!

I'm sorry, but I'm a computer dummy. I don't know how to get the link onto this thread. One of you young whippersnappers can do it for me?

In the San Francisco Bay Area Craigslist from October 24, there is a posting for "Full size bass". The Photo collection is a hoot. The commercial awful BSOs aren't limited to China! I'm sorry, but I'm a computer dummy. I don't know how to get the link onto this thread. One of you young whippersnappers can do it for me?


Steve,
Go to the website you want linked. Hold the mouse button down so you can highlight the URL address in the browser window and run the mouse curser over the address. You want to highlight the entire address. Then hold down the Control and C buttons to copy. Edit your last post and hit Control and V at the same time. This will copy and paste the address into your post.

That may be the hard way to do it, but I'm an old fart too.:(

http://www.flickr.com/photos/estebanruizmota/sets/72157600033516108/show/

Why would this lovely piece of folk art "hardly been used" (as the ad says)?

This must be a one of a kind, so certainly can't be a commercial project.

Is it just me...or is the finger board NAILED to the neck?

Whew...:confused:

The nailed-on fingerboard is what really got my attention for posting about this one. The "elegant" scroll work is noteworthy as well!

Ah. I've got it. Those are really just "stealth dot position markers" right? Very innovative...and I'm guessing..probably galvanized too.

Badly executed position markers is actually what I thought (with initial misplacing) initially. I couldn't imagine that somebody was really trying to put nails in there, guess I should have kept an open mind about advances in lutherie. However, I was most impressed by the scroll and how the tuners were installed by then. The boxing/karate bag is also a nice backdrop to highlight the instrument artistically.

I don't think that Aubert has much to worry about with bridge making competition like this!

It does appear to be fully carved...



..so what if he used a spoon..

Put a candle in it and save it for halloween next year!

Oddly enough I saw a bass (object) like this that some one had brought into my friend Tom Kerr's shop in Pasadena to work on - with about the same set up. But it was "carved".

The basses are used (no kidding) by Mariachi bands - small, light, indestructible -- and good for anywhere between 4 to 5 chords a night.


The guys was having everything replaced (fingerboard, tailpiece etc). I'm not sure it would make any difference; neither was Tom, but...

That's what they're used for.

Louis

good for anywhere between 4 to 5 chords a night.

My guess is that even chopped up into fireplace sized chunks. it would barely equal one cord.

good one... :)

Louis

Ok. Not to be outdone by Mr. Swan, here is another sweet little instrument from craigslist in fantasy land.

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/msg/468204172.html

i must say the aluminum reinforcement takes the cake

i must say the aluminum reinforcement takes the cake
Oh man, that bothers you? What a snob! :D

Let this be a lesson to all of us. If you can't sell it as an instrument (or it really isn't one), call it a "piece of modern art."

i must say the aluminum reinforcement takes the cake

Obviously a "Bullet Proof Shield" of sorts. Kinda like the chicken wire in the Blues Bros.

On the one with the fully carved aluminum piece... Is that a turkey baster bulb on the end pin?:eyebrow:

Nice catch Jobo - a baster bulb it is. :)