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Has anybody tried Bassurgery?

#24
sgt.floyd said:
well, come on now... how were they?

how many strings? frets, no frets? what did it sound like? how did it play?
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Yeah man, out with it! That built in tuner seems to be a pretty slick idea and implementation.

I wonder how his sales are, compared to other high priced luthiers? I'd imagine significantly less given his prices and time, but I wonder if he has a steady workload or even backlog.
 
#26
I havent had the pleasure of playing one but ive touched one!! The guy only lives like 40mins from me and ive asked to see his shop before now and he seems like a very good chap!!

I first saw him at MusicLive a few years ago and was struck by the beauty of his basses (which were chained to a stand that was bolted to the floor) the amount of care and time gone into just ONE bass i find astonishing!! If i had £14,000 to spend on a bass id get one without blinking!!

sexy
 
#31
Mark Latimour said:
Critical examination reveals you have all been duped by an elaborate and well contructed hoax.

How does it feel?

:D
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Critical examination reveals that you have no idea what you're talking about. I wrote the Music Mart review and can attest to the fact that they're every bit as good as you could imagine. Incredibly light, incredibly strong, powerful and responsive and absurdly easy to play.
The lightwave pickups give individual articulation of each string via seperate boards so that arpeggios and chords all ring out in great detail. There's no hum buzz or grot in the circuit, and the EQ provides everything from dub bass fundamental -truly cabinet wrecking tones- to high end twang with all stations in between.
Kim does make other basses; I've got his take on a Jazz bass before me now, and it's like no other jazz bass you could even imagine. Details will be in Bass Guitar mag in the future, and following an idea from me , he's making a 6 string two octave board version of another well known bass that was never offered in that format.
In short, Bassurgery's instruments are everything a bass should and probably will be in the future when the competition start playing catch up.

Yes, they're expensive, but so are custom built American models, and those use off the shelf components. Kim at Bassurgery hand makes everything, even hand casting the jack sockets! One of his basses will last you a lifetime and still be worth the dosh you paid; it might even appreciate. Buy a car for the same amount and in ten years time it'll be worth sod all.
I'm buying lottery tickets. Kim's told me he could build me a twin neck 6 string fretted and fretless bass that would weigh all of 12lbs!

Rant over; sooner or later Tony Levin, Antony Jackson or similar god will use a Bassurgery bass, then watch the scramble.
A totally unique bass.
Best wishes,
David (needless to say, the usual disclaimer re Bassurgery, although he does set ups on any basses. Working his magic on my Shine and Indie 6 strings, they now virtually play themselves!) :hyper:
 
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david etheridge said:
In short, Bassurgery's instruments are everything a bass should and probably will be in the future when the competition start playing catch up.
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I should really keep a list of everytime I see a statement like this come up on this board. It has yet to happen with any of them. I won't dispute that it's a nice instrument, but I don't see anything about it that is that radically different that it would make anyone want to play catch up.
 

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