"Weekly World News" Bass?

eViL cAkE · #1 07-29-2006, 02:05 PM

Hola,

I'm thinking about purchasing a neck and an unfinished body from Warmoth, with the intention of attaching clippings from all the Weekly World News tabloids I've been collecting (the one that does a lot of stories on Batboy, Aliens and Elvis) to the body somehow in collage-like fashion, and puting a satin finish clearcoat over it.

I've fanticized about having a Weekly World News bass since I was a teenager, and would be interested to hear advise on how to best do this, in other words, minimize the effect it has on the sound.

Has anyone attempted making a comic book, newspaper clipping, embarrassing high school yearbook pictures of random people, etc. collage bass or guitar?

If so, how did it go?

Thank You

McHaven · #2 07-29-2006, 02:18 PM

There have been some porn basses, with Penthouse pictures covering the body, I've never seen news clippings though. I know some guys put a clear pickguard on their bass and put stuff under that too.

**SoComSurfing** · #3 07-29-2006, 02:30 PM

Not too long ago someone popped up with a P-Bass, IIRC, on which they plastered all sorts of news clippings to the pickguard. Pretty neat look. A whole bass would be a bit much, I think, but you never know. May come out pretty cool. Especially with a big picture of Batboy on it!

SOA_bassist · #4 07-29-2006, 02:31 PM

i would love a porn bass... " mom! buy me some smutt! ima make a porn bass! "

thebassclef · #5 07-29-2006, 02:33 PM

Warmoth has a Tele Guitar that a customer built with Beer label all over it. Looked pretty cool. Newspaper clippings, never seen that.

Spector_Ray · #6 07-29-2006, 03:55 PM

It won't be cool unless there's a pic of a Chupacabra on it!

SOA_bassist · #7 07-29-2006, 04:05 PM

its gotta be possible...

Techmonkey · #8 07-29-2006, 07:04 PM

wow, you Americans are lucky... I'm tempted to move out there for the sole purpose of being able to buy that newspaper.

I honest to god thought it was a real newspaper first time I went out there. it wasn't until I was halfway through reading it that I got slightly suspicious.

agreatheight · #9 07-29-2006, 07:09 PM

Search the net for decoupage - that's the actual art term for the process.

Good luck!

spudmaster34 · #10 07-29-2006, 07:14 PM

I was considering it once, then I realized how hard it would be to do without the ink smearing, how do you plan to counter that?