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03-11-2008, 07:52 PM
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this is getting ridiculous! I want to know who is sending these guys my way? someone MUST be playing a joke on me! or is everybody else receiving these questions? I have been FLOODED in the last month or so with people asking me how they can mix woods to get a particular sound or what wood they can use to replicate wood XYZ's tone. Come on! haven't I stressed my position on this REPEATEDLY? I know it's gotta be Larry, Scott or BJ! I'm gonna send them back to you! 
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03-11-2008, 07:57 PM
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While I got you here, do you think there is any lightweight alternative to mahogany?
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03-11-2008, 07:58 PM
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Builder: Mailloux Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | I've haven't gotten any of those my way. Maybe you're making yourself too visible on the forum Take it as a compliment that they're all Pm'ing you.
I gotta tell ya though, looks to me like a lot of newbies are not "getting" all the mid-hump *copyright* jokes and might take all the "advice" seriously.  |
03-11-2008, 07:58 PM
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Originally Posted by grace & groove  That sucks man.
While I got you here, do you think there is any lightweight alternative to mahogany? | depends on what you want it to sound like
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03-11-2008, 08:00 PM
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Post some of the emails here that you get. How often do you get them?
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03-11-2008, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil Mailloux I've haven't gotten any of those my way. Maybe you're making yourself too visible on the forum Take it as a compliment that they're all Pm'ing you.
I gotta tell ya though, looks to me like a lot of newbies are not "getting" all the mid-hump *copyright* jokes and might take all the "advice" seriously. | phil, I know it was you!
come on! mid-hump® taken seriously?    
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03-11-2008, 08:03 PM
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Builder: Mailloux Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | Check out Brazilian Mahogany. I got sold a piece of that a few years ago. It's the body on the spalted 5 string. That thing is light! Lighter than the swamp Ash I used on the 9.
I wouldn't know if all Brazilian Mahogany is that light though  |
03-11-2008, 08:05 PM
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Builder: Mailloux Basses | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brisbane, Australia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by wilser phil, I know it was you!
come on! mid-hump® taken seriously? | ROTFL
Hey I've seen serious posts of "mid-hump" in the basses section!!!!! |
03-11-2008, 08:17 PM
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Originally Posted by wilser depends on what you want it to sound like | i think he wants it sound like mahogany...
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03-11-2008, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Connor i think he wants it sound like mahogany... | but what do YOU want it to sound like?
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03-11-2008, 09:26 PM
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03-11-2008, 09:33 PM
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Builder: Jon's Basses | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | | Wondering the same thing myself. Don't send them to me, dammit! |
03-11-2008, 11:31 PM
| | DEATH BEFORE DECAF!!! | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kennesaw GA. | | OK, OK. I was one of them. I think its been much longer then a month. No one sent me to you. Its just that if you are new to this forum, and I was, its hard not to notice that this guy Wilser has a post or 20 in every thread. You have a much respected opinion here and its noticeable. Your the God father. Please forgive my ignorance.
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03-11-2008, 11:48 PM
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Builder: Jon's Basses | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX | | Haha. I wasn't referring to you (if you're referring to me).
But what a great joke. "Yeah man, ask Wilser, he's good with these things!" Back to you, they go! |
03-11-2008, 11:56 PM
| | DEATH BEFORE DECAF!!! | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Kennesaw GA. | | | Off topic.....Kind of. Other then color, is there really all that much difference in the different species of mahogany? Is there an origin thats not suitable for instruments? Santos?
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03-12-2008, 12:10 AM
|  | so far, so good | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | Hey wils, what wood would you recommend for a tone plate in a set-bolt-thru bass in order to sound kind of bright, smooth, dark, round, thumpy, transparent, red-orange, and triangly with a distinct nutty back note?
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03-12-2008, 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by pilotjones Hey wils, what wood would you recommend for a tone plate in a set-bolt-thru bass in order to sound kind of bright, smooth, dark, round, thumpy, transparent, red-orange, and triangly with a distinct nutty back note? | Decaffeinated caffeine bean from the eastern himalayas. But its only retrievable by albino midgets.
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03-12-2008, 12:38 AM
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03-12-2008, 04:57 AM
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03-12-2008, 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by allenhumble Decaffeinated caffeine bean from the eastern himalayas. But its only retrievable by albino midgets. | So coffewood then? Got it. But does anyone have a supplier for the decaffeinated type?
Tanx agin u gize r so gr8 on ths form
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