Help Me Name this Bass

[swarfrat]

Names are disambiguators. Ever see a kid get lost? What's your mom's name son? Mom. She doesn't need a name, there's only one.

This bass doesn't need a name.

 

[GregT]

Envy NV Envee NVee EnVee

 

[Five or Six]

All my boss's are "bass" no names. But, you asked. Booger or Snot.

 

[AbnormalForms]

is it in-/de-flatable ?

It is not, but you just gave me a very interesting and silly idea for a future bass project that I've never seen done before (and probably with good reason, but I do love me some unique bass styles).

I think with all of these great suggestions I'm gonna have to write them down on a plate and attach it to the back (or maybe a pick guard, was considering designing one for this), that way, no matter what I put on the head, the bass will still be called all these other things as well. Whenever anyone asks what it is, I'll just give them a random name from the list

 

[swink]

Balloon Animal

You wrote balloon wrong, it should be Boollon.

So we got it, The Boollon Persistent Rash bass

/End tread pls

 

[Jim C]

Bob

 

[scuzzy]

Floyd

 

[franklindayala]

A little bit of back story: a few years back, I found a guy on craigslist selling a 2011 Fender MIM Jazz 5 for $100, thought wow, what an absolute steal of a deal. Catch was it didn't have any neck bolts, was missing all but the g-string tuners, b-string saddle, and all of the screws for the pick guard. With everything else there, was still a great deal, so I took it, and with all the separate parts ordered, including Gotoh replacement tuners, came to about $200. Set it up as my player for church. Sounded and played great, but for playing a Schecter Stiletto for years prior, the weight increase of the jazz was definitely noticable. After about a month, I found out why the guy had sold it for so cheap: the neck had a very noticeable forward bow and the truss rod did little to alleviate it. Did a couple things to try and fix it, but that bow just slowly kept coming back. Eventually decided I was over trying to fix it and sold it to get some parts to build my own "jazz" bass.

Fast forward to now, when I finally got around to finishing up the new build after running into several hickups. It's got quite the mishmash of parts: Hipshot tuners, a generic Korean high-mass bridge, Semour Duncan quarter pounder pickups, a generic "Ming" preamp, a "zebrawood" neck from ebay (highly doubt it's actual zebrawood), and a 3d printed body I designed made out of PLA.
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It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's got all the stuff that I wanted upgraded from the jazz: a preamp for better output and lighter weight (this thing's surprisingly lighter than the Stiletto at 7 lb 8oz). Now all that's left is to set up the action, intonation, and slap some sort of brand sticker on it. For this, I was thinking of just doing my regular AbnormalForms logo:
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But, my cousin runs a sticker shop and made a custom name badge for his friend's chinese SG that has "Bingus" written in the Gibson font that looks absolutely fantastic on it. So I was thinking it would be fun to have something along the lines of some sort of silly Fender "rip-off" vibe, like having "Bender" in the Fender font. On the fence about it though, what do you guys think I should slap on the headstock? Or should I keep it blank?
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[shadven]

The bass’s name is Peter.

 

[KevInDaBassment]

Bruh....I'm at a loss for words on this thing, and that's saying a LOT lol

Very cool though, it's sure to turn some heads at any gig!

 

[Appogee]

Tubular.
Extruder.
Bender.

 

[Camarillo]

Frankensurf

 

[swarfrat]

PLA-Stick.
Cold Pull
Extruder Jam

 

[Ric5]

A little bit of back story: a few years back, I found a guy on craigslist selling a 2011 Fender MIM Jazz 5 for $100, thought wow, what an absolute steal of a deal. Catch was it didn't have any neck bolts, was missing all but the g-string tuners, b-string saddle, and all of the screws for the pick guard. With everything else there, was still a great deal, so I took it, and with all the separate parts ordered, including Gotoh replacement tuners, came to about $200. Set it up as my player for church. Sounded and played great, but for playing a Schecter Stiletto for years prior, the weight increase of the jazz was definitely noticable. After about a month, I found out why the guy had sold it for so cheap: the neck had a very noticeable forward bow and the truss rod did little to alleviate it. Did a couple things to try and fix it, but that bow just slowly kept coming back. Eventually decided I was over trying to fix it and sold it to get some parts to build my own "jazz" bass.

Fast forward to now, when I finally got around to finishing up the new build after running into several hickups. It's got quite the mishmash of parts: Hipshot tuners, a generic Korean high-mass bridge, Semour Duncan quarter pounder pickups, a generic "Ming" preamp, a "zebrawood" neck from ebay (highly doubt it's actual zebrawood), and a 3d printed body I designed made out of PLA.
View attachment 4869334

It's a bit rough around the edges, but it's got all the stuff that I wanted upgraded from the jazz: a preamp for better output and lighter weight (this thing's surprisingly lighter than the Stiletto at 7 lb 8oz). Now all that's left is to set up the action, intonation, and slap some sort of brand sticker on it. For this, I was thinking of just doing my regular AbnormalForms logo:
View attachment 4869335
But, my cousin runs a sticker shop and made a custom name badge for his friend's chinese SG that has "Bingus" written in the Gibson font that looks absolutely fantastic on it. So I was thinking it would be fun to have something along the lines of some sort of silly Fender "rip-off" vibe, like having "Bender" in the Fender font. On the fence about it though, what do you guys think I should slap on the headstock? Or should I keep it blank?
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GUMBY

 

[herndonbassist]

tim

 

[funkinbottom]

Rendered Spasbass

 

[whero]

With the dark central section surrounded by that green outer ring, I am reminded of my years working in IT in Adelaide, South Australia, where a local "delicacy" (inject that word with as much sarcasm as you like) is a meat pie served in a bowl of pea soup, called a "pie floater". Apparently a popular choice from a pie cart or takeaway on the way home after a night on the p!$$.

So I'm picking Floater, in the Fender font, but in green instead of gold.

 

[swink]

tim

What manner of man are you, that can summon fire without flint or tinder?