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07-23-2009, 05:25 AM
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07-23-2009, 06:57 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | Holy monstrous sound god of hell. That bass is made of pure awesome. Love the headstock shape.
What was the fifth knob for? I see the hole's there, but nothing's connected.
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07-23-2009, 07:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Lafayette, LA | | | can we see the back?
great tone
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07-23-2009, 08:20 AM
| | | | looks like a switch hole. and yes, pure awsome.
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07-23-2009, 08:23 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Sweet bass!
I guessed the extra hole was for a LED, seems to me a switch hole'd be bigger.
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07-23-2009, 08:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Brooklyn, NY | | | Looks great!!! And the tone is good too.....
+1 on the awesome
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07-23-2009, 02:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hungary, EU | | thank you, guys! yes, the fifth hole is an active/passive switch, but at the moment there's no electronics, only a 4 way rotary switch (pickup select + mute).
I want a 2 band EQ and a high-pass filter. more photos coming,but got no time now...
(after putting together I felt that there is no need for an active EQ  ) but I have the holes, andI always liked the "effect" of a bypassable EQ.. I play the other bass mostly passive, but its handy to boost something with a little swith in a song...)
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07-23-2009, 03:29 PM
| | | HA i knew it, see darkstrike, i was right. you were wrong, HAHAHA HAH HAHAAH AHAHA MUUUAHAHAHAHA. 
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ninefinger read my mind... A 32 foot scale bass? Who's going to play it? 90 foot jesus?
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07-23-2009, 03:34 PM
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Originally Posted by vbasscustom  HA i knew it, see darkstrike, i was right. you were wrong, HAHAHA HAH HAHAAH AHAHA MUUUAHAHAHAHA. | But he is still Dark, thus making everything you say false.
That thing is killer! Its very Sadowsky-esque.
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07-23-2009, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Ontario Canada | | | Congrats on a fine looking bass.
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07-23-2009, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by vbasscustom HA i knew it, see darkstrike, i was right. you were wrong, HAHAHA HAH HAHAAH AHAHA MUUUAHAHAHAHA. | You seem awfully excited about a small hole in someones bass. 
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07-23-2009, 03:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: East Tennessee in the U.S.A. | | | Awesome job! Looks great. |
07-23-2009, 05:01 PM
| | | | Great sound!!
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07-23-2009, 05:13 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Logan,W.V.(not up some holler) | | | So,how does an ash(?) neck sound as opposed to,say,a maple neck,sound wise??Not a very common neck wood.But,I've always wondered what an ash neck would sound like.Great h-stock,by the way. |
07-23-2009, 05:17 PM
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07-23-2009, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Darkstrike You seem awfully excited about a small hole in someones bass. | lol. yeah. well. not really.
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07-24-2009, 12:28 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Zagreb, Croatia | | | Also: good to see a capable luthier so close to Croatia. You're in Hungary, right?
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07-26-2009, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Stealth Also: good to see a capable luthier so close to Croatia. You're in Hungary, right? | right, from Hungary. but I'm just an amateur, with about 10 instrument per 10 years
pics from the back:   
It's hard to say how the ash neck modifies the sound compared to maple.. because I never built a similar neck from maple
In our country the maple is softer than the usual "rock maple" used on many instruments, so I decided to use ash, which is superb for bodies and necks too, in my opinion.
MTD and Fodera is using it, but I think, I haven't ever tried an instrument with ash neck, except mine (most of my basses are ash-necked)
second picture: note the "easy-access" joint and lower horn :-)
3rd pic: the cavity's plate is ..well... it should be only temporary, because the grain orientation looks odd, but knowing myself, it will take long-long time to replece it..
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03-03-2010, 04:02 AM
| | | | I really like your work! Very clean, nice.
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03-03-2010, 09:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Plymouth, MA | | | That ash looks amazing, especially the back grain. Bravo! I love it.
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