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08-03-2011, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Dallas, Texas | | Okay guys and gals, this kind of thread has been thoroughly enjoyed on the BG side, so I figured I would try it here.
Whats your dream bass?
Pictures or it doesnt count! 
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08-03-2011, 12:08 PM
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08-03-2011, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald  | Is it the picture, or is this bass shaped rather odd?
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08-03-2011, 12:11 PM
| | | | Indeed. The assymetrical lower bout is supposed to help low end response.
Now, add a C extension to that bass -- no -- better yet, re-do the tuning machine box with the extension integrated so it is a 1+3 arrangement with the usual adjustible stops, and not just an add-on extension, and I'm there.
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08-03-2011, 12:12 PM
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08-03-2011, 12:48 PM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Continuing the realist theme: 
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08-03-2011, 12:58 PM
|  | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | Ya.... und me too. 
Now even better with Guts!
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08-03-2011, 01:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Erie, PA | | | Wait, is this a show your bass thread or a dream bass thread? Sure, modern basses are great but I would rather have an old italien or uncut Prescott with a managable string length!
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08-03-2011, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by chris1125 Wait, is this a show your bass thread or a dream bass thread? | Well, if you're livin' the dream, it's both. |
08-03-2011, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by chris1125 Wait, is this a show your bass thread or a dream bass thread? Sure, modern basses are great but I would rather have an old italien or uncut Prescott with a managable string length! | So where's the picture?
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08-03-2011, 02:52 PM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | We've been there and done all this before sans the picture requirement.
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08-03-2011, 02:55 PM
| | | | My blonde.
  My dream was to own a carved blonde DB. I couldn't afford to buy one, so I built it myself. It turned out better than i could have hoped. Pals, Vic. |
08-03-2011, 03:04 PM
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Originally Posted by drurb We've been there and done all this before sans the picture requirement. | Oops. Oh well, lets do it again.
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08-03-2011, 03:08 PM
| | Official Forum Flunkee | | Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: San Francisco, CA | | | LOL, I forgot I started that thread. In hindsight, once you live with and all in love with a bass... I guess you stop looking at others.
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08-03-2011, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by daddy-o496 <img src="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=222041"/>
<img src="http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=222042"/>My dream was to own a carved blonde DB. I couldn't afford to buy one, so I built it myself. It turned out better than i could have hoped. Pals, Vic. | Wow! Excellent work, that looks awesome! How long did it take? Did it really end up cheaper to make one? I would think with all of the specialized equipment and what not you have to use it would be a disaster but that is really amazing. Congrats!
...And as for dream bass, I can't upload pics but I think this would do http://www.basscellar.com/inventory....nventoryloaded
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08-03-2011, 03:49 PM
| | | | My Blonde
It took about a year to build including the time to build the mold, 60 spool clamps and various fixtures to hold the plates during carving. I could have bought a real nice ply bass for what I have in materials. It was a great experience. I don't have any specialized equipment and most of the carving of the neck and both plates was done by hand with gouges and finger planes. I build fiddles and it was kinda like making a fiddle, just A LOT more labor intensive. Pals, Vic. |
08-04-2011, 05:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Dallas, Texas | | I'll try to keep up the realist theme, but I like to think of her as my dream bass anyway! 
Sorry for the crappy cell phone pic.
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08-04-2011, 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric Swanson My problem is that my bass is better than me, right now.
My lust is for more playing and practicing time.
Here's a link to my bass' pictures/thread: The bass I bought | She's a beauty, for sure.
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08-04-2011, 07:37 AM
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Not the best photos but....... still a great bass, inspires every time I pick it up. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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