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01-06-2013, 07:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: northern CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by VinKreepo  [/IMG] | recycled utilitarianism/functionalism/minimalism! genius!  | 
01-06-2013, 08:46 PM
|  | Coffee is a state of mind. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bergen County, New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Malak the Mad Not mine, but worth posting. Attachment 309468
Beware the Deep End of the Force, for once you follow down it's dark path, it will consume you!  | Kills me every time someone posts this one - too much!
As another TB'er once posted in response to this bass ... "We've found the rebel bass."
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01-06-2013, 08:51 PM
|  | You unlock this door with the Key of "E"magination | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: The Archduchy of DuPont | | Quote:
Originally Posted by gus1894 Kills me every time someone posts this one - too much!
As another TB'er once posted in response to this bass ... "We've found the rebel bass." | Dammit! I wish I'd thought of that! Still, I needed that laugh today! 
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01-06-2013, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Mini of Apolis........ | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kenner \m/ | I hear/tell Charles Orr only made 6 basses in his day...none the same....he was a luthier that Prince really dug.... | 
01-06-2013, 09:45 PM
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01-06-2013, 09:54 PM
|  | Conform or Be Cast Out.... | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Central Ohio | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Ric5 | question about your Ric's...did you do the custom color work yourself, or did they come that way from Ric. those are all great looking basses.
In the same light, did you do the work on all of the basses?
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01-06-2013, 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Ric5 All of my basses are unique  | I'm loving this one. Frankenbass, nice.  | 
01-06-2013, 10:19 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 40º 45' 21" north latitude | | | privileged to have Jimmy Coppolo's only AC6, a prototype.
19mm, featherweght, ergonomic, sounds amazing. | 
01-06-2013, 10:22 PM
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01-06-2013, 10:27 PM
|  | Coffee is a state of mind. | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bergen County, New Jersey | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jscomposer | Nice, who makes it/what is it?
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01-06-2013, 10:41 PM
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Originally Posted by DethByDoom I vote you throw in a bottle opener. | | 
01-06-2013, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by gus1894 Nice, who makes it/what is it? | Jackson. Which, aside from the outlandish shape, I think is why most people overlooked it. It was a very short custom shop run from 2002-2003 called the "Antigravity." It weighs about as much as my 6-string guitar. They were designed by Harry Fleishman, who's own builds are beyond gorgeous and heinously expensive. I can count on 1 hand the number of people I've found on the entire internets who own one. I actually made a "Jackson Antigravity owners club" thread as a joke.  | 
01-07-2013, 12:34 AM
|  | Total Hyper-Elite Member Independent Contractor to Bass San Diego | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Groom Lake, NV | | Quote:
Originally Posted by clbolt | I like the bottle opener headstock.
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01-07-2013, 01:11 AM
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My fender 1962 jazz bass. It is 52 years old, it was my dad's. | 
01-07-2013, 01:40 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: 40º 45' 21" north latitude | | | that's surely a classic beauty. | 
01-07-2013, 04:45 AM
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01-07-2013, 05:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: London | | Doesn't look all that unusual, but this little lady is very much one-of-a-kind. My Frankenstein bass, Aradia, made entirely from parts I bought off eBay:
(I wrote up the whole thing in excruciatingly tedious detail http://thecrowfrombelow.wordpress.co...aradia-part-i/ if anyone's interested...must get round to writing part VI)
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01-07-2013, 05:42 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Queens NY | | Anyone can buy one if they want, but I don't think many people would choose blue with tortoise binding (I didn't, it was used) 
So technically, it's unique. | 
01-07-2013, 06:03 AM
|  | Don't ask me why, I don't know....... Luthier: Rickett Customs | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Southern Maryland | | |
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01-07-2013, 06:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: North Easton, Mass. | | This is my most ambitious project so far. I've built a bass with Warmoth parts before but I had to actually develop some woodworking skills this time.
Rick B. 
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