It ended up beeing just an innocent mock-up, because I didn't had the nerves to modify this 100% original '74 Burgundy baby. 
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YES! I had some mails with fred too, very glad he's fine, finally! ordered some pickups in the way....
GREAT NEWS!!!
Beautiful bass!
I'm very much a fan of the Longhorn design & ironically, ordered a single DS from Fred last June, (jeez, I lost track, that was a year ago...). Anyway, the pickup is intended for my Coral (totally hollow) Longhorn...a single DS should do the job, afterall, the Fender Precision proved years ago what a single, great pickup can do...
If you can't find a place for them, I'll take them off your hands...seriously!
edwinhurwitz
Supporting Member
I appreciate the offer, but these pickups have serious sentimental value. They are some of the really early ones and toured all over the country with me for a few years. Plus, I miss playing them!
my version of the Dano is really different from the original, it's made from a semi hollow padauk body with set in padauk neck and Pao rosa fretboard plus a 780mm scale, the sound would have been really different with the original dano way of construction... so using a DS on an original could be... mmmm a lost for a good darkstar...
perhaps...
by the way you give me envie to remake one like this with DS...
my version of the Dano is really different from the original, it's made from a semi hollow padauk body with set in padauk neck and Pao rosa fretboard plus a 780mm scale, the sound would have been really different with the original dano way of construction... so using a DS on an original could be... mmmm a lost for a good darkstar...
perhaps...
by the way you give me envie to remake one like this with DS...
I've got 2 of the Coral, hollow bodied, Longhorns & one was free, so nuthin ventured, nuthin gained...a Darkstar could make Hitler sound good...
Who built yours?
Thanks
So if you were going to do a bass with just one darkstar, where would you put it?
P-bass position makes sense, and there are photos here to prove people do it.
Up against the neck in the mudbucker position is something I've seen too.
I've seen dual darkstars in a J bass, but I've never seen just a single one in the bridge position like a single pickup stingray.
I'm a p-bass kind of guy, so I'm considering the P or mudbucker location, but wondering what a soloed bridge position darkstar sounds like.
P-bass position makes sense, and there are photos here to prove people do it.
Up against the neck in the mudbucker position is something I've seen too.
I've seen dual darkstars in a J bass, but I've never seen just a single one in the bridge position like a single pickup stingray.
I'm a p-bass kind of guy, so I'm considering the P or mudbucker location, but wondering what a soloed bridge position darkstar sounds like.
I saw a natural ash Lakland with a Dark Star in the Stingray position. Apparently it needed a touch of bass boost to hold its own.
Some point betwixt "P" & "MM"...you can always reverse the poles, (flip the pickup around)...
edwinhurwitz
Supporting Member
Well, I got a little carried away, but I've got what was claimed to be a mid-60s EB-0 in need of a full overhaul on its way to me. I've always like the SG bass with Dark Star concept and somewhere I've got an old Stars Guitars Alembic style bridge, so I think it will come out pretty nicely if I can get the finish in shape.
hello,
there's actually on ebay germany an Hagstrom bass with a pair of original "DS" pu's for about 700 euros... neck is not original but...
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there's actually on ebay germany an Hagstrom bass with a pair of original "DS" pu's for about 700 euros... neck is not original but...
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mines? bass or pu's? see (Link Removed)
and you're right about the DS, though I'm not sur it will be possible to make hitler sounding anything...
I didn't play that one, but I played a similarly configured Lakland once. It had a pre installed, and I do recall boosting the bass slightly to get the sound I wanted. But just a little--the DS has a lot of low end available in most positions.
Still nothing from Mr Hammon.... :scowl:
Ive emailed numerous times but nothing... He told me 2 weeks, its been 4.
Anyone a little geographically closer heard/seen from Fred?
Ive emailed numerous times but nothing... He told me 2 weeks, its been 4.
Anyone a little geographically closer heard/seen from Fred?
Does anyone else have an order in with Fred? Ive paid my money, i should be able to get it back through PayPal- but just wondering if he's got other "paid for" orders.
