Recent content by lurking_bassist

have you considered honeycomb blanks and vacuum bagging a low cost carbon fiber? maybe even a kevlar/carbon fiber/fiberglass hybrid? lots of great options out there... you can even get a great deal on carbon fiber pre-fabbed sheets for laminating onto a proofboard. the end result is a super...

nice rig... but have your GK's caught on fire yet? i hate it when that happens... although i have heard that some GK heads actually dont crash and burn. good thing too, because they really do sound great.

since starting this thread and seeing all the GREAT ideas that ALL of you have given... the evolution of this design has taken some amazing turns. a few would be looking at Khaler (of all places) for the bridge... in my lameness i had not even realized they were back in business 'til i...

hehe, i get it... "pine" "fir" a new bass... is that like the Monte Python Parrot Pining the Fjords? "ees not dead... ees pining fir the fjords!"

20 years ago, before we had any real choices... all i cared about ANY fender is that i could afford it as "that kid" in guitar center.... now that i can afford any high end instrument i want i still go into GC and play the hell out of their soundgear basses. lets face it... fender nostalgia has...

yeah, after giving it some thought i am going more towards a shorter scale and maybe more strings... going to put a headstock on the neck to go with the hipshot individual bridges and possibly going piezo on each bridge to eliminate cross/talk and add the midi option. i think i will start...

i am still kinda drawn between exotic wood or some new age composition body. any opinions on BODY physics?

i think i will try winding my own rail style pickup. not much chance of finding a 9 string pole coil... maybe i could do the 8 pole offset though? thoughts on PICKUPS?

this will be a very long scale 9 string bass/guitar. going with a flat surface graphite neck-through design. string spacing will be as narrow as possible is not adjustable, but i would love to use individual string tuner bridges for each string. i have seen single bridges but none i have...

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