Did you know that Ray Ban was the company NASA contracted to build the Hubble telescope? I bought the miniature version. - 11.0 left, - 9.5 right.
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Do you name your basses?
- Thread starter SunByrne
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Did you know that Ray Ban was the company NASA contracted to build the Hubble telescope? I bought the miniature version. - 11.0 left, - 9.5 right.
Disposable Hubble contacts for sunny days.
Dayam, for years I was 20-15, but now I don't even know. I need correction for all vision, now. Sucks to be old.
Thanks. The stacked knob is the regular P-Bass knobs with the inner knob being volume and the outer knob being tone. The other single knob is a Tonestyler to select different capacitors for a little more tone variety.
I name my basses -- and guitars -- after (mostly) favorite or appropriate poets or authors. My '66 P-bass is named Longfellow, and the bass I've begun building will be named Wollstonecraft.
I have a T-Bird that I named “The Word”. I MAY have a tumor.
Currently I have:
Big Sister - a Taylor 355ce 12 string
Little Sister - a Taylor 114ce 6 string
Dorothy - A heavily modified red Epiphone Dot (Seymour Duncan P-Rails and Triple Shots)
Ruby - a red Spector NS2a bass
Goldie - a Les Paul gold top with DiMarzio 36th Anniverary set and Jimmy Page circuit
Marilyn - a heavily modified butterscotch blond Tele (Think Brent Mason style)
Jaco - a sunburst fretless 4 string Jazz bass
Big Jay - a sunburst fretless 5 string Lakland 55-60 bass
Erica - a mint green Frankencaster (MIA Strat neck, WD body, Mojotone 59 Quiet Coils, Clapton boost circuit, and Turnstyle Switch)
Mr Natural - a Lakland 55-02d 5 string bass
Geddy - a white MIJ Fender Jazz bass with EMG's and a neck from a Geddy Lee Signature bass
the Puzzle - a Frankencaster: Sapele over alder Tele body with an all rosewood WD Strat neck, Bare Knuckle Mule set, Jimmy Page Mod circuit, GraphTech Ghost piezo bridge, and GraphTech Ratio tuners
The White One - 88 MIJ Fender Strat (with GraphTech saddles and nut, DiMarzio Area pickup set, and Strat Lover's switching circuit)
the Ibanez - a natural Ibanez AS80 from the small headstock days (The only mod is a hole cut in the back to access the electronics, or possible to make an accidental hole look on purpose. But hey, it got me a good price.)
The Wave -an NS Designs WAV4 electric upright bass.
The Stick - a Chapman Stick from the 80s
The Skillet - a Big Muddy mandolin that I won on a raffle. It kinda looks like a wooden frying pan.
You might notice that everything down to Geddy has it's own name. But the ones after that mostly have a description. Even being me, I don't know why some get a name and others don't. And yes. I notice that for the most part, guitars are female and basses are male. That part made sense in my head.
Big Sister - a Taylor 355ce 12 string
Little Sister - a Taylor 114ce 6 string
Dorothy - A heavily modified red Epiphone Dot (Seymour Duncan P-Rails and Triple Shots)
Ruby - a red Spector NS2a bass
Goldie - a Les Paul gold top with DiMarzio 36th Anniverary set and Jimmy Page circuit
Marilyn - a heavily modified butterscotch blond Tele (Think Brent Mason style)
Jaco - a sunburst fretless 4 string Jazz bass
Big Jay - a sunburst fretless 5 string Lakland 55-60 bass
Erica - a mint green Frankencaster (MIA Strat neck, WD body, Mojotone 59 Quiet Coils, Clapton boost circuit, and Turnstyle Switch)
Mr Natural - a Lakland 55-02d 5 string bass
Geddy - a white MIJ Fender Jazz bass with EMG's and a neck from a Geddy Lee Signature bass
the Puzzle - a Frankencaster: Sapele over alder Tele body with an all rosewood WD Strat neck, Bare Knuckle Mule set, Jimmy Page Mod circuit, GraphTech Ghost piezo bridge, and GraphTech Ratio tuners
The White One - 88 MIJ Fender Strat (with GraphTech saddles and nut, DiMarzio Area pickup set, and Strat Lover's switching circuit)
the Ibanez - a natural Ibanez AS80 from the small headstock days (The only mod is a hole cut in the back to access the electronics, or possible to make an accidental hole look on purpose. But hey, it got me a good price.)
The Wave -an NS Designs WAV4 electric upright bass.
The Stick - a Chapman Stick from the 80s
The Skillet - a Big Muddy mandolin that I won on a raffle. It kinda looks like a wooden frying pan.
You might notice that everything down to Geddy has it's own name. But the ones after that mostly have a description. Even being me, I don't know why some get a name and others don't. And yes. I notice that for the most part, guitars are female and basses are male. That part made sense in my head.
My ‘68 scroll top is female...#016...well, might just be my first male bass...or maybe androgynous...we’ll have to wait and see! Stay ‘tuned’ to find out...
Are you the guy who used to bully me in 5th grade?
And I see you still haven't solved your low self-esteem issues or whatever it is that does that you feel the need to put other people down.
Calling other people childish would be a typical insecure teenager thing.
For your information plenty of professional musicians have called their trusted instrument names.
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emotionally I’m still in 9th grade...
I have a burgeoning drum kit, so far unnamed. In light of the age we're living in, and in honor of threads in this vein, I think I might call it, collectively, The Great Perturbator. … Either that or Fluffy.
Worryingly, each piece, on its own, may stimulate even more lunacy …
… which I think I may just keep to myself
Worryingly, each piece, on its own, may stimulate even more lunacy …
… which I think I may just keep to myself
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I only have two basses. I'm sure my wife would like to name them, "Enough" and "No More." Any I acquire in the future will be named, "Something my brother wasn't using, in his basement!"
The only bass I own that I named is my '72 J, and I named it "Link" (After the dude on the Mod Squad). Bought it used in '84. The reason I named it Link? I always pictured some bad ass early 70's dude in bell bottoms and a huge 'fro slapping away on it before I owned it. Ironically, a few years ago I took the neck off it, and inside the neck pocket someone had put a clipping from a Sears catalog circa '72, and there was a shot of some people modeling clothing, including some bad ass dude wearing bell bottoms and a huge 'fro.
Sorry if I offended... it was a joke. I have no self-esteem issues... but someone seems to be a little thin-skinned.
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There is kind you are. My guitars are Tennyson (a '79 Mighty Mite neck-through Strat), Southey (a green 1960 Univox Custom thinline hollow-body), and Raffles (an Ibanez V50 entry-level dreadnought that sounds and plays shockingly well -- won it in a charity raffle at the Briggs Farm Blues Festival in 2015).
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Birtha was the first and hardest birth of the double bass banjo family as she was all maple and hand sanded and 100% experiment, pictured here with a banjo bass viol de gamba, in fourths too but electric bass scale length and bowable.
Fatima came next as a commission, she was 40 inches across the hips and sounded sooo fat it just fit, pictured next to Birtha at 22 inches for comparison
The next one still has no name and was with a vintage premier birch 19" floor tom and blackwood neck like Fatima, maybe Pancho because he could be Fatimas brother and because it was so punchy? Batman occurred to me but never really stuck. Suggestions?
There is a gestating one nearly finished bar the neck (and not yet named.)
Fatima came next as a commission, she was 40 inches across the hips and sounded sooo fat it just fit, pictured next to Birtha at 22 inches for comparison
The next one still has no name and was with a vintage premier birch 19" floor tom and blackwood neck like Fatima, maybe Pancho because he could be Fatimas brother and because it was so punchy? Batman occurred to me but never really stuck. Suggestions?
There is a gestating one nearly finished bar the neck (and not yet named.)
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