Radically new concept of bass

[Feral Feline]

I'd love to try it.

I'd love to try it fretless.

I'd love to try it with the neck wrapped in warm carbon-fibre.

I'd love to try it with a neck that's cone-shaped for a changing radius up the neck.

I'd love to try it with an old Garnet amp/cab or a Traynor YBA-3 Super Custom Special and a Traynor Big Ben.

I'd love to try it because it's different, unusual, definitely not a "me too" bass and what's more it's a fine example of ingenuity and craftsmanship by a Canadian.

[jlepre]

Not sure if this was asked..but HOW MUCH?
BTW I "LIKED" your FB page.

[taikatsu]

The interesting thing, in regards to the neck radius, is that you could probably fabricate differently radiused contor sections to slide down the neck, making it very customizable...still very cool. Nice work!

[howlin]

Very cool. How about getting rid of the body and just mounting it on a stand - ala the Kydd bass? As for the radius: I always thought that it would be cool to have a round neck. Love to check it.

[TheEmptyCell]

Not sure anyone in the bass world has really been asking for this bass. I know it makes my fretting hand wrist and thumb joints hurt looking at it though. Cool idea, but I dunno how popular or in demand such a bass is.

[DeanT]

That looks pretty cool. How much does it weigh? Any chance of producing a short scale version?

[jlepre]

10 pounds

[rtav]

Very interesting! I'd try one!

[mongo2]

As an engineer I can appreciate the design, especially the trick tuner tree. But as a player, I really don't like the fingerboard radius...that gets a pass from me.

[fkh006]

Meh, another answer to question nobody was asking IMO.

[Roscoe East]

[iiipopes]

OK, since the headstock is so narrow, the string order needs to be reversed in order to get the most downforce over the nut to the G tuner for sustain, and the least downforce over the nut on the E string for retention of overtones and eliminate the risk of string binding.

Then, on your next instrument, to be truly progressive, the next concepts of a progressive nature to integrate are:

1) Fanned fret, whether fully fanned such as Dingwall, or "half-fanned" as my bass; and
2) Helix the neck as Don Lace and Jerome Little (who has done both fanned and helix on the same instrument) have done; and
3) Make the body more ergonomic, along with the applied use of composite materials to tailor instrument tonal response as Simon Farmer does.

[carl h.]

I disagree. To be innovative you do not need to follow what others have done.

Continue trying odd or weird concepts which you have thought of but not seen anybody else do. For that reason alone there is merit in this off the wall neck concept even if it should not prove practical.

[Roscoe East]

Originally Posted by Clef_de_fa

I never saw an electric bass with lower radius like a DB. a reason for that ?

Back around 1980 Albey Balgochian (A Basses) was building some custom electric basses with a very similar radius as an upright...presumably designed to appeal to upright bassists. Here's a video of Greg Mooter playing one of the more modest executions; I've seen one or two other A Basses that had an even more pronounced resemblence to a DB neck profile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb0byNxcVs

[Clef_de_fa]

Originally Posted by carl h.

The radius is to accommodate playing with a bow. Most guitars don't have an issue with that.

I know that I play DB but I wonder on a bass guitar ... to use a bow on the bass guitar ? The radius is confortable for him ? you know ...

[lfmn16]

Originally Posted by nukes_da_bass

A candidate for "best bass for metal".
I only play 5ers but I'm open minded to the strangeness of it all. I need something I can slap tho.

This could get confusing - what's the best metal for a metal bass to play metal???

[awilkie84]

Can't hear the bass in the audio recording.

Also, when did Cylons start making instruments??

[Clef_de_fa]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

Back around 1980 Albey Balgochian (A Basses) was building some custom electric basses with a very similar radius as an upright...presumably designed to appeal to upright bassists. Here's a video of Greg Mooter playing one of the more modest executions; I've seen one or two other A Basses that had an even more pronounced resemblence to a DB neck profile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUb0byNxcVs

interesting and I also found a Takamine
http://www.takamine.com/guitars/bass_guitars/tb10

[pklima]

Could be the perfect neck type for 2-string or 1-string basses, though.

[pacojas]

please post a better video out-lining every feature, thank you!