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11-23-2007, 05:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | Ooh NO!! Wishbass closing down?
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Steve Wishnevsky has recently started posting in his E-bay Listings that he is considering selling his company! I know that he has his devout followers (I love my Wishbass with a passion) and his detractors (Waste of good lumber, ect). How does everyone feel about this? Will the Bass community at large suffer, or be vastly improved? Will his instruments become real collector items, or only prized by a few die-hard nerds? I for one feel that there is a real market for doing what Wish does on the scale he does it. Some of you older TB'ers who have seen things come and go ought to speak up on this. |
11-23-2007, 06:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Duncan, Okla. | | If there wasn't a Wishbass, we would have to invent one. 
He has his place. Hope he hangs out.
P.S. I don't know about the "good" lumber. 
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11-23-2007, 06:28 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | Wish is the William Hung of Luthiers. I bought a Peanut a few years back for 200.00. Should have bought an SX fretless for half the money and twice the build quality. I sold it soon after I got it. I wanted to like it, but it was way too primitive. I notice some of his stuff on ebay and can't believe the starting bids on those things! |
11-23-2007, 11:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | Ok, about the good lumber, I have seen the guys commenting on the crappy nature of some of his wood. I'm really into the whole sustanability thing he does with salvaged wood. I got a really great Wishbass for $200 straight off eBay with a spaulted top, so I'm biased.
bump, I wanna know what ppl think. |
11-23-2007, 11:54 PM
| | ????????????? | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Lexington KY | | | I can understand someone wanting to buy one of his bass' as a piece of art (eye of the beholder) or because they think it might be a bargain. What I don't understand is who would want to buy a bass company who's biggest claim to fame is using "salvaged" wood? I can't imagine Wishbass having that big of a following, at least not enough of one to justify paying money for the name. If I was Wishnevsky I wouldn't even think twice about keeping the company. Take the money and run! |
11-24-2007, 12:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Duncan, Okla. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MooseLumps  Ok, about the good lumber, I have seen the guys commenting on the crappy nature of some of his wood. I'm really into the whole sustanability thing he does with salvaged wood. I got a really great Wishbass for $200 straight off eBay with a spaulted top, so I'm biased.
bump, I wanna know what ppl think. | Forgive me, I have seen several, some even worked on. I hear they sound and play great, but, all of them I have seen look like a piece or drift wood or the bottom of a stump.
Not my style, but like I said, he has his place and will be missed by some.
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11-24-2007, 01:52 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | | How would that work, selling his company? Who would buy it? Who would build the basses? Maybe they could get an infusion of capital, and have Cort or Samick or somebody in Korea build the basses, and Wishnevskys would become real basses.
It's a very weird concept.
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11-24-2007, 01:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Texas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Munjibunga How would that work, selling his company? Who would buy it? Who would build the basses? Maybe they could get an infusion of capital, and have Cort or Samick or somebody in Korea build the basses, and Wishnevskys would become real basses.
It's a very weird concept. | Apparently by the looks and his descriptions of his own basses, he's a very weird person. |
11-24-2007, 01:17 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | They look like high school shop projects.
No offense because the price seems reasonable, but they just don't look even to me.
You can't tell me that finish doesn't look like it came out of a Krylon can and look at the string through holes. 
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11-24-2007, 01:20 PM
|  | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | I'm not one to bash... But look at the spacing @ the ferrule holes between the E and A, and then between the A and D. *** is that????? 
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11-24-2007, 01:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric618 I'm not one to bash... But look at the spacing @ the ferrule holes between the E and A, and then between the A and D. *** is that????? | Aleatoric luthiery?
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11-24-2007, 02:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Harpers Ferry WV | | Quote from the page. Quote: |
With every $400.00 bass, you will get one free $50.00 option such as lacquer finish, or a truss rod.
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11-24-2007, 02:19 PM
| | I fling carrots | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Make a left at the Taco Bell | | What in the HELL is this????
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11-24-2007, 02:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brussels | | | so wishnewsky is selling his company. would that include his garage and the axe, or is it just the name? |
11-24-2007, 08:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Portland | | | Bump, Keep 'em coming |
11-24-2007, 09:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | I want a Wishbass really bad. I'd like to play one first before I commit though.
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11-24-2007, 10:05 PM
| | irritating, yet surly | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: aurora, IN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric618 What in the HELL is this???? | omg....i almost want it... |
11-24-2007, 10:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | I really want it. I don't have that kind of cash sadly. 
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11-24-2007, 10:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric618 What in the HELL is this???? |
i could use that in battle. |
11-25-2007, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New York City | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MyUsernameHere I can understand someone wanting to buy one of his bass' as a piece of art (eye of the beholder) or because they think it might be a bargain. What I don't understand is who would want to buy a bass company who's biggest claim to fame is using "salvaged" wood? I can't imagine Wishbass having that big of a following, at least not enough of one to justify paying money for the name. If I was Wishnevsky I wouldn't even think twice about keeping the company. Take the money and run! |
Wish Bass = Junk Bass
but in terms of salvaged wood, check out how some guitarists lust for "Kellycasters"....the guy scrounges old woods from demolitions in NYC
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