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06-07-2006, 10:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | | Strangest/Most Bizarre Bass Modifications You've Ever Seen
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I'll start off with 3 that I seriously wish I had pictures of:
1) I'm NOT making this up, sometime back in the 80's, at a shop in the LA area, I saw a Fender Jazz that had been converted to a 6-string! No, the neck was NOT widened or replaced, just additional tuners, a new bridge and 6 strings crammed onto the pencil-thin Jazz neck.
2) At a Guitar Center in Boston, an old Fender Bass V converted to a 6-string, the neck was widened with a clever bit of carefully cut wood and gluing. Here's the kicker, It had LESS range than most modern 5-strings 
3) More recently, in a shop in Atlanta, an Ibanez Soundgear 5-string, get this, HALF-FRETLESS (past the 12th fret) and missing the middle pickup. Turns out the guy who dumped it ran out of $$$ to complete the project! 
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06-07-2006, 11:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Fort Atkinson, WI | | | Whackiest I've ever seen was in a magazine article about Michael Anthony's Jack Daniels dispensing bass guitar he had custom made. I guess not truly a modification, but that's the only one I can think of right now. Basically it has a slot at the top to hold mini bottles of Jack Daniels.
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06-07-2006, 11:44 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Edinurgh, Scotland | | | has to be gene simmons axe bass guitar
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06-07-2006, 12:00 PM
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06-07-2006, 12:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | | I know a guy who screwed a bottle opener to his bass so he can open beer when he's playing. It's pretty badass. |
06-07-2006, 12:27 PM
| | freethinker | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: San Francisco, Ca | | | i screwed a 9" (oops, where's he going with this) ring bolt into the hole left by the upper strap holder of a hohner headless bass so that i could better balance the bass. i would then attach my strap to the end, and eliminate neck dive.
ppl thought it was stupid, but it worked. i notice that the new low end steinberger headless basses have a strap extension built in, so i guess it wasnt so dumb.
i thought about building a flat screen monitor into a bass so that you could have a wild stage show, but zztop beat me to it. |
06-07-2006, 12:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Franklin, NC | | | I saw a custom leather pick guard that had a pretty fancy design tapped into it.
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06-07-2006, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by labgnat | I wonder if JT has seen that one, yet?
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06-07-2006, 03:09 PM
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06-07-2006, 03:47 PM
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06-07-2006, 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by superbassman2000 | That... is... hilarious. |
06-07-2006, 05:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | That is an awesome humidor bass.
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06-07-2006, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | that depressing "modiffied" ripper that continuously goes on ebay, each time missing slightly more and more of the body
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06-07-2006, 05:23 PM
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Among the mods on my jazz is a piece of ribbed rubber cut from a lawnmower drivebelt i used to cover at least 4 screw holes! 
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06-07-2006, 05:25 PM
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06-07-2006, 09:14 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: atlanta | | | gafbass what kind of strings are those?
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06-07-2006, 09:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Puerto Rico... for now... | | | Well, there is this guy I saw on a web photo with a Distortion pedal stuck/glued to the lower horn of his bass... Yes, the pedal was functional... I dunno how the wiring was redone on the bass but it worked.
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06-07-2006, 09:39 PM
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06-07-2006, 09:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Canada | | | That humador bass is... weird!
Who would want to do that on such a nice bass? |
06-08-2006, 08:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Atlanta GA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by NewWaveBasser Well, there is this guy I saw on a web photo with a Distortion pedal stuck/glued to the lower horn of his bass... Yes, the pedal was functional... I dunno how the wiring was redone on the bass but it worked. | I think the bassist from Bauhaus did that.
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