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06-29-2010, 03:27 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J Worrell Pickups / J Worrell Bass | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dayton OH | | | Show Your Japanese Basses: The odd, the eccentric, and the just plain weird
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My girlfriend is trying to talk me into a trip to Japan after I finish my undergraduate in a year. Convince me it's worth it. 
The normal basses are welcome too! 
PS- There are also a couple of Japanese only basses I used to see referenced a lot around here. The ones with individual pickups for each string and all. I thought they were so cool. Hopefully someone has a picture or name of one. |
06-29-2010, 03:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | Atlansia http://www.atlansia.jp/
Unfortunately, I don't own one but you did ask for names and Atlansia seems to be big as far as weird and Japanese go.
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06-29-2010, 03:34 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J Worrell Pickups / J Worrell Bass | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dayton OH | | YES! Those were the ones I was blanking on the name of...
I might have to look into picking one up. (Before this year ends...) 
I love the more "out there" looking instruments. |
06-29-2010, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | I'd love to have this one- 
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06-29-2010, 03:38 PM
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Endorsing Artist: J Worrell Pickups / J Worrell Bass | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Dayton OH | | This one looks somewhere between surfer and classy. Reminds me of an old woody wagon with boards on top.  |
06-29-2010, 03:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Blackshear, Georgia | | | I see what you mean. I dig the knob placement.
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06-29-2010, 03:44 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Berkeley CA | | | I know this is not a bass post but if you are into craft beer and or Whisky there is an explosion of both in Japan. Craft beer in particular is growing rapidly in popularity with numerous craft breweries, craft specialty pubs and great beer festivals and the quality of the beer is quite spectacular with some really intriguing trends such as aging in cedar barrels or using multiple yeast strains with some often originating from Sake brewing.
I personally could not care less what the bass scene is anywhere I travel as long as there are good culinary, art and/or brewing scenes, good herping (reptile hunting) doesn't hurt either.
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06-29-2010, 03:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Aspidites I know this is not a bass post but if you are into craft beer and or Whisky there is an explosion of both in Japan. Craft beer in particular is growing rapidly in popularity with numerous craft breweries, craft specialty pubs and great beer festivals and the quality of the beer is quite spectacular with some really intriguing trends such as aging in cedar barrels or using multiple yeast strains with some often originating from Sake brewing. | Keep talking... you're doing her a big favor.  |
06-29-2010, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by christw Keep talking... you're doing her a big favor. | Depending on when you go I may be able to arrange a brewery tour for you.
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06-29-2010, 03:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Joliet Ill. | | | I've been interested in Bacchus basses, they look really cool for fender clones anyway.
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06-29-2010, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: glasgow (on the 16 bus) | | | if it was guitars i could show 3 but its not so i cant
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06-29-2010, 04:46 PM
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06-29-2010, 04:58 PM
| | | While I am a big fan of MIJ - CIJ Fender Basses (my main axe is a 1989 MIJ 60's Reissue Jazz), I own no other Japanese "oddities", save for a vintage Yamaha SA70.
I did find these guys online once: Jersey Girl Guitars http://www.geocities.jp/jerseygirlhg/gindex.htm
That links you right to the basses.
I think the stuff is beautiful. Awesome woodwork. But, like Alembic, Fodera and many others, I might not be privy to owning one (my Fenders continue to collect nicks and dings regularly... and I like it that way).
A feast for the eyes! Enjoy!
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06-30-2010, 09:04 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mid-Atlantic USA. | | Most of the odd basses at the top are from Atlansia. If you can, go visit them, I'd like to hear what the shop is like.
My favorite one is this one:  |
07-01-2010, 12:37 PM
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Atlasia Solitaire fretless  
Tokai Talbo B135
BTW Japan is one of the most fantastic places in the world. If you don't want to go will your girlfriend take me instead? ;-)
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07-01-2010, 06:45 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Omaha, Nebraska | | My only Japanese bass is an STR - often called the Japanese Fodera. It's simply an amazing instrument. And, you know, it's for sale.... 
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07-01-2010, 07:01 PM
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Burny BVB |
07-02-2010, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by BigRedX Here's my two unusual Japanese basses:
Atlasia Solitaire fretless
Tokai Talbo B135
BTW Japan is one of the most fantastic places in the world. If you don't want to go will your girlfriend take me instead? ;-) |  Wow. A one-string bass? I never knew that they went all the way to one string.
BTW, I like the Talbo
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07-02-2010, 07:26 AM
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Burny BVB | awesome.
Is that a short scale?
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