Radically new concept of bass

[Volpe25]

I love seeing interesting bass designs and people approaching it in a unique way! Though I must say that its not for me :P Still props to you for creativity

[Engine207]

Great response to your rationale, Stan. I'd love nothing more than a 7-1/2" vintage Fender neck, so I suspect I'd adapt to this design readily. I have pretty big mitts and like fat P-Bass necks the best. If that tube had a little bigger radius, it'd fit perfectly.

I may have missed it earlier in the thread, but what might someone expect to pay for a production model of this bass?

[groooooove]

i'd have to play one to see what i think.

judging from looks and a cheapish audio file, looks pretty cool... but it wont replace my main bass quite yet

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[DwaynieAD]

I'd give it a go

[pacojas]

can this be brought to market at a digestable price-point?!! the parts certainly cost next to nothing. if this bass was less than $500. they might just sell. if more, we may never get pass destroying the Rain Forest for the sake of tone wood.
for that reason only, i applaud your efforts to shift the paradigm!

ps: i have a feeling this will only be a "nichè market" play and therefore command a boutique price tag.

[catcauphonic]

I think you should approach Hollywood in case they do a Blade Runner or Star Wars remake and have a futuristic band scene!
It's really beautiful, sounds decent, and it looks pretty lightweight ... is it?

[qervo]

I would totally rock a Jedi light saber bass!

[MEKer]

Won't work so well with a pick IMO from seeing it. Especially in fast passages. Novel-yes, Ergonomically right? No so sure. I can see some wrist issues I think.

[Bassmanbob]

I like it, and I'd love to try it.

Thanks for answering a bunch of questions a few posts ago. As far as the negative comments, you never know how something is going to sound and feel until you've tried it. People told Leo Fender he was nuts for building a solid body guitar. Wasn't that the Telecaster?

I do a lot of outdoor gigs, and Florida is the lightning capital of the world. I could see this as a fun indoor bass for me.

[carl h.]

With a removable traditional radius fret board, this bass could accommodate a bolt on fretless/fretted option quite easily. Flip a lever to raise the bridge, switch boards, lock down bridge and go. Something along this line might actually interest me beyond the oddity of the thing.

[Freez]

I think it's pretty cool!

[nagarjuna]

Extremely innovative! I would love to try this bass. Did you consider some barrel shaped knobs for the tuners? Seems like these would fit in with the overall aesthetic. Brilliant design.

[stainlesslav]

Thank You,
Good idea.
I have added some picture of fretless 35" scale Bass stainless.
Base on the same design.
http://www.facebook.com/StashBassGuitar

ps The brand name of the bass is still http://www.facebook.com/StashBassGuitar.

[gurensan]

It's a nice idea, and I'd try it out, but my wrists are very sensitive since I injured both of them years ago. That neck isn't conducive to good left hand position and prevents 5-fret extended fingerings, it looks like.

I could be wrong, but I'd have to try it. Interesting idea if it pans out.

[stainlesslav]

Thank you,
Also for the suggestion. I will take a look.
Th.

[stainlesslav]

Hi everybody.
Thank you again everybody for all the responses and suggestions.
I hope everyone in the north-east made it safely through that blizzard; it was the worst we’ve seen in years up here.

I have taken an advantage of the bad weather to conduct a simple environmental test (Canadian style) with my stainless bass. The objective was to demonstrate one of the benefits of the stainless steel construction of the bass.

Two basses, perfectly tuned, were placed outdoors and immersed in snow at a temperature of -5C (23F) for one hour.

After an hour I brought the stainless basses back inside and checked the tuning. Both basses tuning went down only 10 percent across all 4 strings.

All parts of the basses shrunk due to the cold temperature, but equally (even the strings!), due to the stainless steel construction of the basses.

After slowly warming up, the basses tuning returned to their initial state of perfect tuning.

There was no warping, staining or cracks to either of the basses.

The stainless bass construction is designed and manufactured to be almost totally unaffected by any extreme weather condition: cold, rain, hot, even humidity.

This stainless bass is the only bass that could survive the next Ice Age. (You would have to play acoustic though).

I should note that the test was not totally successful. I used our wooden kitchen chairs to hold the guitars to shoot some pictures, and the weather cracked the paint. (My wife have has not seen them yet. Wish me luck.)

Because of this, I don’t use any paint on the neck or body of the bass. Any scratches would require using emery cloth to recover original brushed finishes. (Emery cloth will be provided with every bass).

In very cold weather I have seen guys using gloves (looks cool and practical), and with a stainless bass, they wouldn’t have to worry about the guitar at all.

Yes I know. Everything is about tone and music. My stainless bass definitely has the tone down. The music will be up to the future player.

You can see a few pictures of my Canadian Style environmental test, and regular updates and news about the Stash Stainless Bass on my Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/StashBassGuitar


Sincerely,
Stanislaw