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03-12-2013, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Belgium | | | New bass!
I thought I'd share a picture of me with my new bass. It's a Maruszczyk Jake custom. I sold my Squier VM P-bass a while back but I couldn't get quite the same sound out of my later acquisitions (Squier VM Jazz and ESP LTD B-206). I wanted a more vintage looking and feeling 6-string, since every other 6-string I've ever seen looks too modern/boutique, hence this handsome beast. I was a bit worried I wouldn't be able to get a proper P-bass sound out of it because of the extra strings and the fact that it's not an actual P-bass, but it's sounds very convincing imho.
chambered alder body w/ ash top
Bassculture pickups (passive)
maple neck (can't tell if it's one piece or not)
rosewood fingerboard
21 fret
Hipshot ultra-lite tuners
all-passive electronics: vol/balance/tone with push/pull to split the humbucker 
Hope you enjoy, and if not then so be it.
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03-12-2013, 05:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Texas Gulf Coast | | Congrats on a very cool looking bass. I love the red with the black guard. The contrasting grain in the bass gives it a really nice vibe. 
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03-12-2013, 05:08 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: SLC, UT | | | Cool! I've never seen a 6-string P before. |
03-12-2013, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Belgium | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Texsunburst59  Congrats on a very cool looking bass. I love the red with the black guard. The contrasting grain in the bass gives it a really nice vibe. | Thanks, I think so too. The color is based on my Epiphone SG faded cherry (guitar). I couldn't decide upon a color, it was either this, daphne blue with brown tortoise or white with black or brown tortoise. All other options didn't seem like colors that would look as good with a matte finish as they do with gloss, so I opted for this. I always thought the red and black with visible grain on my SG looked great, and I prefer the smoothness of a matte finish. |
03-12-2013, 05:10 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: San Diego, California | | | Dang, That thing is sweet. Love the red with the grain.
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03-12-2013, 05:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Kihei, HI | | | That is amazing looking bass. I bet it sounds great too!
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03-12-2013, 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Jason Brown Cool! I've never seen a 6-string P before. | The novelty factor is an added bonus I have to admit 
For those interested: it set me back €1290. Considering the fact that I was free to choose the basic components and materials (woods, pickup configuration, inlays or lack thereof, electronics, tuners,...), I think you'll agree it's quite a bargain. The only times the luthier made any decisions were when I didn't know what I wanted or when I asked for his advice. |
03-12-2013, 05:47 PM
| | | | I love seeing the grain of the wood. Once I got my first guitar like this, all my future guitars had to be this way. Even further, I love natural oil finish. I like to feel and see the wood, makes it seem more alive and organic, etc. Lacquer and paint just feel like plastic to me after feeling raw wood. Beautiful! |
03-12-2013, 06:24 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Land of Lakland | | | Nice looking bass, How does it sound? |
03-12-2013, 06:44 PM
|  | You unlock this door with the Key of "E"magination | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: The Archduchy of DuPont | | Nice touch with the photoshopping. Turning everything else to greyscale really makes it pop out of the screen. 
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03-12-2013, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Malak the Mad Nice touch with the photoshopping. Turning everything else to greyscale really makes it pop out of the screen. | ^^
What he said...cool bass, cool photoshop. |
03-12-2013, 06:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Puebla, México. | | | Nice bass, now I'm GASing.........! |
03-12-2013, 06:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Good ol' Atlantic Canada | | | I LOVE that color. Awesome bass.
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03-12-2013, 07:03 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Madison, WI | | Very Nice!
Congrats!! 
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03-13-2013, 03:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Belgium | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nlaird I love seeing the grain of the wood. Once I got my first guitar like this, all my future guitars had to be this way. Even further, I love natural oil finish. I like to feel and see the wood, makes it seem more alive and organic, etc. Lacquer and paint just feel like plastic to me after feeling raw wood. Beautiful! | I think so too. I love the sheen when there's light shining on it and I think it's more comfortable because my forearm doesn't stick to it all the time. Imho most colors look better with gloss but for anything see-through (except maybe flames and quilts) I prefer matte. Quote:
Originally Posted by GM60466 Nice looking bass, How does it sound? | Very full and deep, even with the balance all the way to the bridge. With my LTD B-206 I always had to dial in quite a bit of bass, either on the on-board EQ or on my amp. This one sounds very bass-heavy with everything flat and the tone all the way up. I assume it's the alder in the body. I'll try to remember to post a link to my band's Soundcloud when we've made a recording with this bass on it. Quote:
Originally Posted by Malak the Mad Nice touch with the photoshopping. Turning everything else to greyscale really makes it pop out of the screen. | That's thanks to my gf, I know diddly squat about photoshop or anything related (except MS Paint  ). |
03-13-2013, 06:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Milan, Italy | | | Uhm, I really think you know more than enough, and sure more than me, on many things!
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Originally Posted by LennyPenny I think so too. I love the sheen when there's light shining on it and I think it's more comfortable because my forearm doesn't stick to it all the time. Imho most colors look better with gloss but for anything see-through (except maybe flames and quilts) I prefer matte.
Very full and deep, even with the balance all the way to the bridge. With my LTD B-206 I always had to dial in quite a bit of bass, either on the on-board EQ or on my amp. This one sounds very bass-heavy with everything flat and the tone all the way up. I assume it's the alder in the body. I'll try to remember to post a link to my band's Soundcloud when we've made a recording with this bass on it.
That's thanks to my gf, I know diddly squat about photoshop or anything related (except MS Paint ). | One of the most beautiful basses I've ever seen, your goal
Cheers,
Wallace
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03-13-2013, 01:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Belgium | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Wallace320 One of the most beautiful basses I've ever seen, your goal
Cheers,
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03-13-2013, 01:23 PM
| | | dang! that's pur-ty!
enjoy!
hip63
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03-13-2013, 01:54 PM
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It looks fantastic!
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03-13-2013, 01:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: West of Stumptown, USA | | | Congratulations! That is a fantastic looking instrument, and that's coming from someone who is afraid of red basses.
But I have to ask- what is the scale length? It appears to be shorter than the average sixer, but as I get older I see things funny.
If you tell me it's less than. 34", I may need to start saving up.
Congrats again!
Edit: If it's a 35" or above, can you dunk a basketball? | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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