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10-28-2007, 02:58 PM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | Bass-shaped object from Mexico
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?
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10-28-2007, 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Steve Swan  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.
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10-28-2007, 03:22 PM
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10-28-2007, 04:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Santa Monica, CA | | | 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. |
10-29-2007, 11:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Mystic/North Stonington, CT | | Is it just me...or is the finger board NAILED to the neck?
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10-29-2007, 11:19 AM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | Nailed it!
The nailed-on fingerboard is what really got my attention for posting about this one. The "elegant" scroll work is noteworthy as well! |
10-29-2007, 11:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Mystic/North Stonington, CT | | | Ah. I've got it. Those are really just "stealth dot position markers" right? Very innovative...and I'm guessing..probably galvanized too. |
10-29-2007, 12:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Santa Monica, CA | | | 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. |
10-29-2007, 12:32 PM
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Retailer: Shen, Sun, older European | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Burlingame, California | | | Delicate bridge design
I don't think that Aubert has much to worry about with bridge making competition like this! |
11-01-2007, 09:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Maine | | | On the other hand..
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!
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11-01-2007, 08:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | | 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.
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11-02-2007, 05:21 AM
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Originally Posted by LouisF 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. |
11-02-2007, 10:32 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA | | good one... 
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11-03-2007, 09:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: New York City | | | i must say the aluminum reinforcement takes the cake |
11-04-2007, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Hsieh i must say the aluminum reinforcement takes the cake | Oh man, that bothers you? What a snob! 
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." |
11-04-2007, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Hsieh 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. |
11-04-2007, 08:26 AM
| | Upright and Electric | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Austin, TX | | On the one with the fully carved aluminum piece... Is that a turkey baster bulb on the end pin? 
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11-04-2007, 10:49 AM
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