Double Bass Convert a P-bass to an EUB?

[Need2KnowBasses]

I was just looking around on Ebay and found this:

Convert your Precision Bass to an Electric Upright Bass

Has anyone tried it or anything similar?

 

[Marty Forrer]

That's pretty weird.

 

[maxito]

This is not something anyone looking for an EUB should fall for - it's just a large body that you install P-Bass parts into. You'll just have a vertical P-bass because the string length and fingerboard radius will not change. You could not use a bow (in a traditional DB manner, anyway.) Seems like a waste of a nice BG.

 

[hoshbrown41]

This is not something anyone looking for an EUB should fall for - it's just a large body that you install P-Bass parts into. You'll just have a vertical P-bass because the string length and fingerboard radius will not change. You could not use a bow (in a traditional DB manner, anyway.) Seems like a waste of a nice BG.

+1

also: ew

 

[bassteban]

There is a reason that NO ONE but Oregon hippies does this sort of thing, and it's called *weed*

 

[Mike Carr]

Stupid, dumb idea!

 

[Need2KnowBasses]

Very good points. It has to be very uncomfortable playing standing as well. Unless you are 4'2" tall. I didn't think much about it when I first saw and just thought it seemed like a mildly interesting idea.

 

[Need2KnowBasses]

There is a reason that NO ONE but Oregon hippies does this sort of thing, and it's called *weed*

Another good point. I blame this thread on the medicine.

 

[Matthijs]

Shouldn't this be in Bass humor?

 

[ZH_Driver]

I used to put up my left foot and rest my Ricky on my knee and play it upright as a joke... so yeah maybe bass humour is the place.

 

[Francois Blais]

Note: moved out the EUB forum

 

[Eric Hochberg]

When I lived in NYC in 1980 I used to play sessions at a loft on 27th St. At one, Ratso Harris, great player, had left his P bass. It had a double bass style curved thick ebony fingerboard, curved bridge high enough for the raised fb, and the stock P pickups were raised up on platforms up near the strings. Very strange feeling instrument, sounded pretty balls-y as I recall.

 

[TheSuzie]

I find holding a BG upright really frustrating as there is no room to use my right hand properly.

Of course if I was Chuck Norris, I would just chop away the offending parts of the BG body with my hand every time I plucked on a string.

 

[Marcus Johnson]

That's just frickin' disgusting. I respect the both double bass and the Fender bass way too much to even consider a recombinant DNA accident like this. Lame x 1,000,000.

 

[tww001]

That's just frickin' disgusting. I respect the both double bass and the Fender bass way too much to even consider a recombinant DNA accident like this. Lame x 1,000,000.

 

[Throckmorten]

You were right to post this in the humor thread N2K

 

[Downunderwonder]

It wasn't posted in humour. It was moved here by a moderator.

Another thread got posted, someone made the same jackass "what a joke" statement and I made a point about it not neing my cup of tea but each to their own E U B. That thread survived thanks to a few neat posts of upright e-basses but my post got deleted.

Last laugh to the P-uprighters!