Admirable sentiment, but of course it's not possible for everyone to buy used. Somebody has to buy a bass new before it can get into the used market.
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Eco Friendly Basses
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Admirable sentiment, but of course it's not possible for everyone to buy used. Somebody has to buy a bass new before it can get into the used market.
bongomania
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That's true, but from the perspective of somebody looking to "vote with their dollars" (the only effective kind of vote IMO) the struggle is to avoid giving money to manufacturers who don't care, or are blatantly wasteful. There are presently who knows how many hundreds of thousands of used basses in the world, with dozens selling every day, so we don't have to worry about the Adam & Eve of used basses at this point. But obviously fully-custom basses have to be built new, and newly-developed designs have to be built new, and some people (quite reasonably) just want an unblemished instrument, I'll grant that.
Obviously, I have a lot of bias so my opinion may not be 100% objective, but FBB Custom Bass Works really believes in the concept of using sustainable/renewable woods and Matt is excellent at getting you your tone with high end renewable source woods. Unless I'm mistaken, every bass built for stock at FBB is from a renewable source, and the very high percentage of custom orders are also from renewable wood stock ...... 
Again, basses have to be new at one point. The usage of Renewable sources is arguably the better way to start life as a new bass. This is my point with this. FBB uses renewable woods. Gibson and their "Smartwood" guitars are another. It does not seem to be that many people or manufacturers are creative in thier useof alternate materials, such as renewable woods and post consumer plastics. I am not looking for that 100% thing, just an alternative.
Push comes to shove... I think I'd rather be forced to pay some rich bastard a carbon off-set for a bass made out of whatever I want.
speaking of carbon fiber, a quick thought...
what about carbon fiber, graphite, lucite, luthite, and composites for necks and bodies? do you think of these as green or the antithesis of green?
they don't warp or decompose, and require fewer (to zero) trees to be cut (depending on the amount of synthetic/organic materials).
a lucite or luthite body and composite neck/fingerboard? it's tree free!
granted, it also means more synthetics in the world that will not decompose, but if it is in constant use, is it worth it?
just a thought...
what about carbon fiber, graphite, lucite, luthite, and composites for necks and bodies? do you think of these as green or the antithesis of green?
they don't warp or decompose, and require fewer (to zero) trees to be cut (depending on the amount of synthetic/organic materials).
a lucite or luthite body and composite neck/fingerboard? it's tree free!
granted, it also means more synthetics in the world that will not decompose, but if it is in constant use, is it worth it?
just a thought...
what about jamba (hardwood) eucalyptus, palm, cork or bamboo(as a laminate)?
could they be incorperated?
could they be incorperated?
Mark David Chapman was responsible for one. Yoko and Heather Mills just ****** two of them.
Forgot that one.
Maybe we should ask Al Gore which is the most eco friendly bass. After all, he invented global warming.
