Batgirl Bass

[hrodbert696]

So I've posted before on TB that someone will have to pry my Yamaha BB415 from my cold dead fingers. Which is true. However, the plain red finish never really did it for me. Kinda boring, compared to a great wood grain or a nice burst pattern or just a more interesting color.

So I got a custom vinyl adhesive - basically a giant sticker - from skinyourskunk.com. It's a picture of Batgirl by Adam Hughes. The backstory: Batgirl's secret identity is as a librarian, and as my wife is a librarian, she's always been into Batgirl. It's a reference to her.

At first I thought I would use the skin over the whole body of the bass. But I wasn't so sure about all yellow. Instead, I cut it into stripes, to alternate with the original red finish. It's definitely more attention-getting now. Going to try it out at a gig or three and decide if I like it enough to keep. What do y'all think?

EDIT: also on display for your perusal: a Jeopardy ballpoint pen, my junk mail, a broken pool filter pump, a copy of the Hippo (local free paper), and a bowl of nectarines. Enjoy the still life...

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[ONYX]

Nice.

Very nice.

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Like it .

 

[Solarmist]

Cool, but it doesn't look like Yvonne Craig to me.

 

[GregC]

I really dig that!

 

[scourgeofgod]

I think it looks great but I'm wondering why it says "AH!" and " Yes, please!" ?

 

[Laurie Bass]

 

[hrodbert696]

I think it looks great but I'm wondering why it says "AH!" and " Yes, please!" ?

"AH!" Is how Adam Hughes (the artist) signs his work. Besides being his initials, it expresses that kind of... effervescence his drawings have. In the original art I believe it was at the bottom by her cape, so I moved it. "Yes Please!" was just my own whimsy. I knew I wanted to get some of the yellow on the headstock and figured it should say something. I wanted that same playfulness, and for anyone seeing it to wonder who was saying yes (me? Batgirl? someone else?) and what offer they were saying it to...

 

[Luke19Boarder]

That's awesome!

 

[drummer5359]

Do I think that you took a cool bass and made it into something that a lot of us would like to own?

Ah!

Yes please!

 

[Shawn Luckman]

Maybe you should have had, your wife's initials on the headstock. And keeping in with the librarian theme.

 

[scourgeofgod]

"AH!" Is how Adam Hughes (the artist) signs his work. Besides being his initials, it expresses that kind of... effervescence his drawings have. In the original art I believe it was at the bottom by her cape, so I moved it. "Yes Please!" was just my own whimsy. I knew I wanted to get some of the yellow on the headstock and figured it should say something. I wanted that same playfulness, and for anyone seeing it to wonder who was saying yes (me? Batgirl? someone else?) and what offer they were saying it to...

Accomplished

 

[bholder]

WOAH. drool

 

[bholder]

I think it looks great but I'm wondering why it says "AH!" and " Yes, please!" ?

I'm not. (Oh, and he even offered a real reason, but I didn't think the intent was at all unclear.)

 

[bholder]

Doing it in stripes to contrast the red was brilliant!

 

[Ender_rpm]

Hawt.

 

[Rip Topaz]

I've wondered about the Skinyourskunk stickers. Thanks for posting.

Are the edges staying down? Tell us more about the process, if you don't mind. I'm very interested in these but have been waiting to see them on someone else's instrument before shelling out the cash for my own.

Do you have any pics that show the sticker either closeup or at an angle so the edges show?

 

[Batmensch]

As you might guess by my avatar, I like it very much!

 

[JonW]

Those are the coolest nectarines that I have seen in a while!

More seriously, I love the bass! Super job! I totally get the whimsy that you were after. It’s totally there. Just plain fun.

 

[P. Aaron]

Kinda cool!