I just put together a pretty badly messed up black Madeira bass,through research I see they are japanese Guilds?my friend gave me a broken up Hondo and this was even worse but I took the P style pickguard off and finished the Madeira,it actually came out nice,I had to take a j bass p/u cover to fill a hole that was left and relocate the bridge but it is a string height adjustment away from a gig.I have not read to many articles or threads on these instruments it feels OK to me but who has experience with these instruments?
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consensus on Madeira
- Thread starter RonChase
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BurningSkies
CRAZY BALDHEAD
- Feb 20, 2005
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I had a Madeira bass sometime back in the mid 80's for a while. IIRC it was a black P-bass P/J style instrument. At some point I took the neck off of it and put on the neck from a Yamaha BB series bass that a friend had smashed.
I played a few Madeira guitars back in the 70s. As I understood it they were Asian-made and then imported by Guild...not the worst, not the best. Pretty anonymous.
BurningSkies
CRAZY BALDHEAD
- Feb 20, 2005
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- Endorsing artist: Dingwall Guitars
To me it seemed like any number of import low cost 'starter instruments'. It was a solid (heavy) instrument that was decent but nothing special. I don't remember it being a tone monster.
alright I will throw some pics up,and this is far from my main instrument,I started building or trying to build guitars a few years back and all my good friends give me they're broken and decrepid and I have built maybe 25 or 30 instruments(guitar and bass in the last 2 years) some come out better than others and to me it felt no better than a Squier but the Guild tie in intrigued me,I usually trade off 5 or so for one good instrument because this market is tough and being a no name builder I cant get what they are worth.In some case I use top shelf tuners pickup and so on but people say oh homemade strat big deal,I took 7 builds to a music store,I had a grand total of 45 dollars invested and for my trade I got 1800 dollars worth of stock,I also managed to throw 5 or so guitars and bass's to underpriveledged kids so maybe I jumpstarted the next generation of Rockers
