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epic new bass! Maurzio Uber Bass content

thehangingmist

thehangingmist

Dec 14, 2007
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New Delhi, India
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sometimes, life comes around in full circles in strange ways.. 17 days back i received my (first) dream bass!
You know i always think am average bass player with average means but with occasional bouts and a interesting mix of luck, hard work and discipline. I was a teenager when i joined talkbass and generally got to see amazing basses on the intenet.. and now i got me one!

Right here on talkbass many years back i saw a thread by @miziomix in the luthiers' forums with beautiful ideas and pictures which gave me an insight into his style of building and i loved the some amazing new tiny little details and some massive game changing innovative ideas he was working on!

the bass has so many custom details that i always forget to list them all! but here is the crux of it

33" scale 24 frets
swamp ash body
buck eye burl top (with crazy void filling scenes going on)
birdseye maple fingerboard
flat radius
curly maple/paduk/rock maple/ wendge/ RM / paduk / curly maple neck reinforced with extra rods on the inside so my crazy indian weather wont budge the action every 2-3 weeks like it does on every other bass i have seen here except this one!!
bartolini dual coil pickups
obp3 preamp
maurizio's own headpiece design
Maurizio's "standard" ETS bridge and tuners
extra dose of YUM

It sounds and plays like it looks to me.. Really really beautifully that is!! lowwww action, amazing playability again, feels very well balanced and i love the tone! more on this later! i will make a video soon explaining everything that is going on in here which standard hidden uber jay basses magic!!

There is a lot to talk about when it comes to this bass, it was an amazing process.. maurizio ie @miziomix is a great guy and you can really get into the details with him! he always has great ideas and solutions and knows how to put them together and most importantly what to avoid and then how to make it all look gorgeous! way too cool for me! the body shape was a first too!! i suggested some changes and the luthier extraordinaire after some deliberation he said OK ! YESS!! there is really a lot about this bass but my little niece is here and she wants us to get food so am jumping out now! very grateful to now have this amazing bass with me!!

links - MÜB Maurizio's Über Basses and Über-Jay Basses

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full album of this bass.. final pictures and many taken during the build are here at Ü-G Single Cut Airborne 5. Shugyo. The path of the Samurai. | Facebook
 
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Thank you! It was great building this bass for and with you. It's always an enriching experience to work with a competent bass player such as yourself - and a great guy! I am proud of what we have accomplished and learned a few new things in the process ;) Perfect! LOL
 
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Nice bass! drooldrooldrooldrooldrool

Always like to see different nontraditional woods lots of figure used!

Not to hijack your thread, but I've wondered what a sycamore top would look like. The trees grow pretty wierd and don't have straight grain. Often used in cutting boards, but I've seen some high end european furniture made out of it.
 
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jaybones said:
Nice bass! drooldrooldrooldrooldrool

Always like to see different nontraditional woods lots of figure used!

Not to hijack your thread, but I've wondered what a sycamore top would look like. The trees grow pretty wierd and don't have straight grain. Often used in cutting boards, but I've seen some high end european furniture made out of it.
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Sycamore can be pretty. Especially the spalted boards. Then again, I recently found an amazingly beautiful pine board in the defect/discarded corner at a mill. Unfortunately someone else had already taken it.
 
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jaybones said:
Nice bass! drooldrooldrooldrooldrool

Always like to see different nontraditional woods lots of figure used!

Not to hijack your thread, but I've wondered what a sycamore top would look like. The trees grow pretty wierd and don't have straight grain. Often used in cutting boards, but I've seen some high end european furniture made out of it.
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Funny thing is .. This is me going for traditional lol I mean swamp ash and maple..

I wanted the neck to have some kind of an extra twist and did not lock down the neck wood combo myself but let Maurizio finalise it.. I just wanted a maple neck with some other stuff in there lol anything that he would like is fine with me. Turns out this is just great
 
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stuntbass77 said:
Love the 33" scale, I really need one. Congrats on the lovely bass, enjoy!
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the only 33" scale bass i had played before this bass was Felix Pastorious' 6 string fodera, which did not feel like a 33" scale bass.. that felt like a monster bass LOL. to be honest i had already asked 33" scale length in January 2015 and got to play felix's bass in May, which i was very curious to as i had decided to go 33" scale before based on a very educated guess and experience of having played 34's and 35's knowing 33 would be cool for me and it was a really good call!!
 
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thehangingmist said:
the only 33" scale bass i had played before this bass was Felix Pastorious' 6 string fodera, which did not feel like a 33" scale bass.. that felt like a monster bass LOL. to be honest i had already asked 33" scale length in January 2015 and got to play felix's bass in May, which i was very curious to as i had decided to go 33" scale before based on a very educated guess and experience of having played 34's and 35's knowing 33 would be cool for me and it was a really good call!!
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I played 35" for a couple years (my thumb BO and US Masters were 35's) and when I went back to 34" I was surprised how much 1" made a difference. I really would love a 33" jazz like the Overwater Scott Devine has.
 
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Congrats!
I had a very nice custom fully passive "34 scale headless neckthrough body 6 string with barts and it sounded very cool.

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