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#5
Thor said:
LOL...

They have fried chicken, too...

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What do you mean, like 'custom' Barts to fit the Jazz bass?
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We have more chicken than hamburgers, but we need the eggs.

I mean like Custom Rogue or Custom Johnson or Custom Crapwood and the only thing is that they replaced a pickup or the pickguard or something like that:D
 
#8
To give you a serious answer - To me, a true custom is getting a bass that conforms to your concepts of what your bass should be. Your spec's may be crazy, but you get what you asked for - and that can be a real risk.
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Most "high-end" builder who offer "customizable" options really don't like the word custom, and I try to use it as little as possible. It infers that anything goes, and sometimes "anything goes" can end up in a real disaster. Offering a lot of options, such as pickups, preamps, scale lenghts, wood choices, etc. can be great for players who are looking for something different than an off-the-shelf instrument, but a true custom instrument is something very different. A bit off topic, but worth noting all the same.
 
#9
JPJ said:
Most "high-end" builder who offer "customizable" options really don't like the word custom, and I try to use it as little as possible. It infers that anything goes, and sometimes "anything goes" can end up in a real disaster. Offering a lot of options, such as pickups, preamps, scale lenghts, wood choices, etc. can be great for players who are looking for something different than an off-the-shelf instrument, but a true custom instrument is something very different. A bit off topic, but worth noting all the same.
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Not off-topic, I want to hear as many aspects of this issue as possible. I'm one of those guys that check ebay out a lot and there are so many low-end Washburns, Yamahas, Ibanez's and the ones I mentioned earlier that have the statement "custom" and there is nothing custom about it. What is custom exactly??
 
#10
I think that modifying something doesn't make it a "custom". I guess if you had something built that was unique and to your taste it would be custom as far as basses are concerned. I put a new preamp and pickups in my bass but I just consider it to be modified.
 
#12
Govithoy said:
Modding it is "customizing", but it doesn't make the bass custom. My bass is customized/modified, but there is a rather marked difference between customized and custom.
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So if you buy a bass froma Luthier exactly to your needs it's "Custom" but if you buy a stock bass and have them "customize" it by putting another pickups or something else it's not? Where lies the bounderies? (Did I spell Bounderies correctly?)


Also Carvin offers standard bodyshapes but you can customize your options, are they Custom basses? They consider themselves as a custom shop.
 
#13
"Boundaries", and I think you got it right on the money. I would call those Carvins custom, because it offers such a large amount of options (from what I've seen in the ads, hardware, electronics, finishes, strings, etc. etc. -- basically, everything but carving).
 

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