Ergonomic Bass "Torzal" ...

Here's a review on Youtube;

 

This strange new bass is intriguing, but it frightens and confuses me.
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I read about this before and don't know what to make of it. A graphite neck would be best for that design, no?

 

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=362001&highlight=torzal

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=352226&highlight=torzal

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329644&highlight=torzal

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=328056&highlight=torzal

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=317464&highlight=torzal

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=236626&highlight=torzal

And more ,and more , and more .....

 

Shall we do a similar exercise every time someone posts a tired Fender thread????

 

I've seen those before. I've always wondered how the intonation and action is kept consistent with such a radical design.

 

Can anyone tell me when the Torzal neck was first designed?

I've only recently heard about this bass and I haven't heard it being patented.


I'm asking this because back in the early or mid 1990's. I subscribed to a UK. Design magazine. And the front cover was a story about 2 industrial designers who wanted to designed a futuristic guitar.

The end product was a one-piece, carbon fiber/epoxy shell 6-string electric guitar. But they used a urethane foam as a filler for the interior? (not so great on tone me thinks!)

But the coolest part of the guitar was their twisted neck concept (identical to the Torzal necks). I was wondering to myself at the time..... how do you adjust neck relief on these necks? (OK, their instrument was composite, so I guess the question is irrelevant )


Anyhow..... I just wanted to know who came up with the concept first?


Nick

 

The Search function is an underrated tool ... Lots of info

 

I dig it, but I'd rather see topics like this done over than the endless "P bass or J bass" redux.