Badass black basses!

[mongo2]

Mine, with nylon tapewounds, on a black blanket, in a coal mine, at night.

 

[felis]

Is carbon fiber black enough? Full cf custom bass from my shop.
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Cool looking bass.

Would carbon fiber work in a neck at all, or would that be a bad idea?

 

[danomite64]

 

[micgtr71]

All three of my basses are black. MIA jazz, Squier Mike Dirnt modded to a fretless, and a Modulus Q5

 

[MPU]

Wow is it a Status? These are rare like Gold Nuggets.
I always wanted to have a Carbon Bass

As it says it's a custom bass, not Status. Made in my own shop.

 

[fretno]

Waters Body with Mckagan neck

 

[BadJazz]

93 L2K fretless: (ignore the tribby)

 

[GKon]

I just built my first bass. It was a P-bass kit from Thomann.
After some cutting, shaping and massaging, this is what I came up with:

 

[M.R. Ogle]

This one...

 

[mpdd]

darn it now i'm gonna have to go outside in my underwear in the cold and shoot my LB100 and L2000 laying on the dog bed

 

[jazzyvee]

Let me add mine to the thread. Alembic Europa 5 Bass.
Solid all flame maple body, neck through made from even more maple & purple heart.
Fretboard is all ebony. Solid brass bridge, tone block, tailpiece, nut with cover plates also from brass. Electronics are Alembic low impedance pickups, a low pass filter with 3 position q-switch for each pickup, then master volume, and pickup blend knob. The other switches are mute next to output jack and neck side LED's. Great bass for all styles of music.

 

[Matt Morgan]

My Roscoe SKB fretless.

 

[UpperBout]

Let me add mine to the thread. Alembic Europa 5 Bass.
Solid all flame maple body, neck through made from even more maple & purple heart.
Fretboard is all ebony. Solid brass bridge, tone block, tailpiece, nut with cover plates also from brass. Electronics are Alembic low impedance pickups, a low pass filter with 3 position q-switch for each pickup, then master volume, and pickup blend knob. The other switches are mute next to output jack and neck side LED's. Great bass for all styles of music. View attachment 740431View attachment 740426View attachment 740427View attachment 740428View attachment 740429View attachment 740430

That Europa is certainly beautiful, and no doubt sonically super-versatile that wood/electronic combo. But with all that Maple . . . what's she weigh?

 

[Mosstone]

partially black - totally badass

That is SWEET!

 

[jazzyvee]

That Europa is certainly beautiful, and no doubt sonically super-versatile that wood/electronic combo. But with all that Maple . . . what's she weigh?

12lbs and balances perfectly no neck or body dive at all.

 

[saltydude]

Ernie Ball MM SUB that I customized by moving the pickup and machining an aluminum insert complete with screw holes and thumb rest.. It sits just above, almost flush with the pick guard. I routed the body and made the insert on a Bridgeport. It's even more powerful now and wow the tone!

 

[Mosstone]

I just built my first bass. It was a P-bass kit from Thomann.
After some cutting, shaping and massaging, this is what I came up with:

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That has to be THE best re-design of a standard body I've ever seen.

 

[GKon]

That has to be THE best re-design of a standard body I've ever seen.

Wow, Lo-Hz, I really appreciate that. I don't know what to say other than, Thanks!

 

[UpperBout]

That has to be THE best re-design of a standard body I've ever seen.

Yeah, I agree. Great proportions, and it looks like a bit of an homage to an Ampeg style bass with the F-holes. I like how the head-stock cutout echoes the body cut-out. Nicely done!

 

[M.R. Ogle]

Really is well executed. Very clever!