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Am I crazy???
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Here is the Warmoth PBass I built - My new Warmoth P Bass | TalkBass.com
Here is my Geddy McKagan PJ I built from parts - My new Geddy McKagan bass | TalkBass.com
All you need is some basic skills, patience and a little research and reading.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
A midlife crisis is a re-evaluation of all values wrapped up in an egoistic behavioral train wreck.
Conflating a shopping habit with a midlife crisis is an insult to midlife crises everywhere.
Conflating a shopping habit with a midlife crisis is an insult to midlife crises everywhere.
buldog5151bass
Kibble, milkbones, and P Basses. And redheads.
I've got some at home - will try to remember to post again.
I wish, that kinda stuff interest me but u
I looked cause that kinda stuff interest me. It's impossible to find a "proper" video on it. The closest thing I could find was Daves World of Fun Stuff Warmoth assembly video. Good luck!
devnulljp
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You're crazy if you're ditching the P-Bass for good. If you want to go to only one, sell everything and get one really good P.
I discovered this after finding a beautiful players 62 P Bass.
I discovered this after finding a beautiful players 62 P Bass.
Seriously, though, how old are you?
Consumer studies show that ON AVERAGE men 'buy their last Harley' around age 46. After that, consumer spending tends to plummet. Before 46, there is often a crescendo of sorts in a man's spending on luxury items, perhaps due to his having more
expendable income with the kids out of the house, perhaps because of the "last hurrah" factor. All of which is to say, perhaps your nominally 'indulgent' spending is age related. Or perhaps, like me, you are a fetishist who saw Precisions in your youth and can't refrain
from lusting after the object of desire regardless of how good a specimen might already be in the collection.
As an aside, on the question of "midlife crisis" -- as people live longer, I am noting a NEW crisis among my male friends -- it is an "age 60 late-life crisis," you might say, akin to "mid-life," wherein a man is apt to make some dodgy, dangerous and invigorating choices.
When I was a kid, 62 year old neighbors moved to the desert to ride double-passenger tricycles. Now sixty somethings I know are getting Pot recommendations and taking up with women (yet again) half their age.
Anyone else note this trend, or is it an L.A. thing?
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I think you've hit the nail right on the head...
I'm 40... and if I'm not careful, the "crescendo of spending" is going to land me in the poor house! ...certainly the "dog house" with my wife!
As for lusting after the object of desire, regardless of the quality specimen in my possession... yup... you got that part right, too! It's always been a problem of mine. I mean, look at me... already lusting after the next custom bass, when the one I'm having built hasn't even been delivered yet!
Gorgeous. My #1 player is likewise Oly White, tort and rosewood. I just think that is the quintessential look.
But that doesn't keep me from owning half a dozen other Precisions.
Luckily, my girl has a nail lacquer fetish, so she understands coveting different colors and finishes. Which is to say, she enables.
All of the above ...
To me, the DIY option is a real good one. I've enjoyed going this route myself. Design exactly what you want, and put it all together your own damn self ... greatly satisfying, and you end up with likely your favorite axe!
Seems like you understand yourself, so I will refrain from offering a prescription.
There's a fellow here on TB who traded a bunch of Fender CS basses for an original 59 Precision, his DREAM BASS -- perhaps you saw his thread? I was rather dismayed to see him back posting a week later, the shipping tape still not cold on the box the 59 arrived in, and he's already obsessed with his new deal on a Ric (or whatever it was). I thought his example illustrative of the way one can use shopping as a distraction from the deeper questions (even a relatively simple one, like, what song should I write now that I have this superior music-making tool?).
You know, I think this might be where I'm headed... I recently went through some woodworking classes... built a nice table... but, I'd rather be building basses. One problem, however, is that I don't really have my own shop space.All of the above ...
To me, the DIY option is a real good one. I've enjoyed going this route myself. Design exactly what you want, and put it all together your own damn self ... greatly satisfying, and you end up with likely your favorite axe!
