Betrayer_Bass
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Does your bass collection have a theme?
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Axes that make me want to pick them up and play them for long periods of time, with minimal knob-twiddling. Basses that call out and invite some playtime whenever I walk by them, even if it disrupts my immediate mission.
My theme could be defined as a lack of a theme.
Diversity would be the proper term I guess.
I have a Yamaha jazz style I picked up not too long ago, and I have my Blacktop jazz with a fretless neck which is the best fretless I have ever played if I must say so.
I am working on maybe a Fender p/j next.
Diversity would be the proper term I guess.
I have a Yamaha jazz style I picked up not too long ago, and I have my Blacktop jazz with a fretless neck which is the best fretless I have ever played if I must say so.
I am working on maybe a Fender p/j next.
If I have any theme, it's this: inexpensive, but reliable and with some initial room for improvement, as I love the reworking of a "lowly" instrument into something better almost as much as I love playing them.
Sounds like an interesting theme. I would love to see a picture of this family.
Post a picture!
My theme is Dingwall and wood:
4-String Dingwall Super P/J - Maple Burst top, Ziracote fretboard, Maple neck, Mandolin frets
5-String Dingwall AB II - Arbutus Burl top, Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
5-String Dingwall AB II Fretless - Bubinga w/Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
5-String Dingwall ABII - Cocobolo top, Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
Almost had Bubinga as a theme there..
4-String Dingwall Super P/J - Maple Burst top, Ziracote fretboard, Maple neck, Mandolin frets
5-String Dingwall AB II - Arbutus Burl top, Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
5-String Dingwall AB II Fretless - Bubinga w/Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
5-String Dingwall ABII - Cocobolo top, Bubinga neck, wenge fretboard
Almost had Bubinga as a theme there..
When I have the time/inclination/money, all of my basses will most likely get SteamPunked.
I'm seeing some copper/shoreline gold refins... Anodized pickguards, brass hardware...
I'm seeing some copper/shoreline gold refins... Anodized pickguards, brass hardware...
Sounds like an interesting theme. I would love to see a picture of this family.
I'll see that I take one and post it.
My main two are a 51 style P ( but as said with an alder body and rosewood board) and a custom 5 string with the same woods.
I may have pics of those. will have a looksee
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2 moses kei 5 graphite basses
1 steinberger q5 w/ Barts
1 pedulla j2 5 Rapture
1 status graphite electro fretless 5 string
1 steinberger q5 w/ Barts
1 pedulla j2 5 Rapture
1 status graphite electro fretless 5 string
You, sir, have a THREEME.
Yo mang, DAS one might' fine theme.
Hurry up and get the time/inclination/money! I'd love to see this theme realised.
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I have Three Themes:
1) Uprights Gig, BGs stay home.
2) "Inexpensive", of course. Both my DBs are cheapos, a carved and an even cheaper semi-solid; plus I have a Hamer Slammer that was given to me that is going to become an 8 string (2 courses of four). My two Jags were a super Donovan deal.
3) Modded Jaguars. I plan to get some Fender Jaguars and heavily mod them. The two Squiers will swap necks, the HB will become a completely blacked out fretless, the plain maple headstock is going to get a new decal that says "Squire", not "Squier". Behind the P/J may get a Kahler whammy, a mudbucker...
I'll keep the Hamer, and probably acquire other various types of basses over time, but Jags... They're the cat's mmmeeeowwww!
fender/fender-style, bolt-on, low-action and light guage strings.
exception, a neck-thru 5'ers with standard guage strings.
exception, a neck-thru 5'ers with standard guage strings.
Never really thought about it, but looking them over now I'd say my theme is "non-standard" - I don't own any Fenders, for example. 2 old Rickenbackers ('73 and '81), a '61 Gibson EB3, a MusicMan SUB fretless (US-built, not the new one), a Gretsch 5440 hollowbody, a '76 Ibanez Andorra classical guitar and a '66 Framus Sorrento hollowbody electric 12-string...all played through a '65 Vox AC50.
Noticed one more thing about my tribe....all 6 are made in the USA. Four made in California, one in Florida, one in North Carolina.
And continuing my theme of 3......3 made before 1990, 3 after 2000
And continuing my theme of 3......3 made before 1990, 3 after 2000
