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"Don't do this!" a friend said to me....
- Thread starter cvsurg
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Any IT guys? You know those red buttons, in some cases used to open the datacenter door... and in other cases used to instantly cut all power to the datacenter? (The second are usually covered by a box that you flip up and surrounded by huge warning signs...) Or like the E-stop on industrial automation stuff? I'm just thinking there is a place for this...
Do you think you are brave enough to see what else lurks on this creature? I don't think I am.....
A guitar playing friend, who has seen my luthiery skills (NUBD! (Warning- Ugly bass content)), sent along this pic-
...with the admonition in the title. While it is indeed cringe-worthy, it's almost like an accident from which you just can't turn away.
Thoughts?
How about this.........
Quite the amalgamation of pieces and parts, and something I would love to see/play; but it appears that a fair amount of planning/skill went into that one, unlike the one in the opening post, which has an air of just cobbling stuff together, which I find rather charming.
Looks like something that Les Paul may have hacked up for experimentation purposes and then turn over to his guitar tech, master luthier Tom Doyle to makefunctional and look beautiful as well as !!!A guitar playing friend, who has seen my luthiery skills (NUBD! (Warning- Ugly bass content)), sent along this pic-
...with the admonition in the title. While it is indeed cringe-worthy, it's almost like an accident from which you just can't turn away.
Thoughts?
I think it looks great, no joke.
Once the front panel of my computer cabinet fell off and I loved the way it looked, with all the raw metal, mechanics and electronics, so I let it stay that way.
While I am not sure I would ever have the courage to do something like this to my own bass, I like the rawness of it and the fact that it exposes all that was ever done to it as well as some of the electronics.
Like you get what you see, no attempt to cover up or hide.
It's beautiful, no matter what you say!
And that's the way I like it!
Aha, aha!
Like what I did, by accident though, to my old Aria Pro II (Note the arrows)
The way the jack input looks is a witness of once I accidentaly stepped on the jack plug while plugged into the bass:
The wood broke up, while nothing happened to the plug or soldering.
So I cut out a round hard piece of plastic as well as a round piece of metal from two containers, glued them together with some super glue, pinched a whole in the middle and then glued it to the inside cavity of the bass, with the plastic on the inside and metal on the outside and fitted the plug into the hole.
The other arrow shows a witness to how the metal of the pickup switch finally gave into fatigue from countless brutal wiggling sessions, when making the feedback go beep, beep, beep in a couple of songs we played in Menfolk.
Once the front panel of my computer cabinet fell off and I loved the way it looked, with all the raw metal, mechanics and electronics, so I let it stay that way.
While I am not sure I would ever have the courage to do something like this to my own bass, I like the rawness of it and the fact that it exposes all that was ever done to it as well as some of the electronics.
Like you get what you see, no attempt to cover up or hide.
It's beautiful, no matter what you say!
And that's the way I like it!
Aha, aha!
Like what I did, by accident though, to my old Aria Pro II (Note the arrows)
The way the jack input looks is a witness of once I accidentaly stepped on the jack plug while plugged into the bass:
The wood broke up, while nothing happened to the plug or soldering.
So I cut out a round hard piece of plastic as well as a round piece of metal from two containers, glued them together with some super glue, pinched a whole in the middle and then glued it to the inside cavity of the bass, with the plastic on the inside and metal on the outside and fitted the plug into the hole.
The other arrow shows a witness to how the metal of the pickup switch finally gave into fatigue from countless brutal wiggling sessions, when making the feedback go beep, beep, beep in a couple of songs we played in Menfolk.
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That assortment of parts was played and owned by J.J. Cale. There's a video of him and Leon Russell playing in a studio somewhere, on the 'web
A guitar playing friend, who has seen my luthiery skills (NUBD! (Warning- Ugly bass content)), sent along this pic-
...with the admonition in the title. While it is indeed cringe-worthy, it's almost like an accident from which you just can't turn away.
Thoughts?
The $64 question...I wonder if it hums?
The last time I saw switches like was on old episode of Star Trek. I still love them.Are those...light switches from a wall mount?
I actually kind of like that idea, minus all the other butchery. TEISCO instruments often had those cool looking rocker switches that look like they come from an auto parts store.
Inexplicably, I love it. It's wrong on such an incredible number of levels that it ends up being right. A true paradox.A guitar playing friend, who has seen my luthiery skills (NUBD! (Warning- Ugly bass content)), sent along this pic-
...with the admonition in the title. While it is indeed cringe-worthy, it's almost like an accident from which you just can't turn away.
Thoughts?
