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Ibanez punk rock special bass.

Discussion in 'Basses [BG]' started by Blazer, Dec 14, 2007.

  1. Dec 14, 2007 #1
    Blazer

    Blazer

    Nov 27, 2003
    The Netherlands
    Rogue luthier employed at Knooren Handcrafted bass guitars
    Today I bought the body and neck of an Ibanez GAXB bass which is a medium scale one pickup bass that recalls Eighties basses like the Aria Cardinal and the Westone Thunder bass.
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    It had a large chip on the bottom of the body and came without any parts. So I figured to patch it up with parts I had lying around. And it ended up looking like this...
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    The bridge comes from a Guild Starfire bass, it has three different kinds of tuners, flaked brass pot knobs coming from a Westone bass, the pickup is an active Magnetics P-bass pickups and the electronics are from EMG.

    It sounds really good though, way better than any new GAXB I ever played.
     
  2. Dec 14, 2007 #2
    EpicSoundtracks

    EpicSoundtracks

    Mar 10, 2006
    Oakland, CA
    Lollar Pickups, Dunlop Strings
    right now that bridge is praying to be removed from that monstrosity ;)
     
  3. Dec 14, 2007 #3
    John Deacon

    John Deacon Guest

    Aug 24, 2007
    Virginia
    How is the tone on that? Personally, I never really like the look of double cut basses and guitars. It reminds me of a midget SG.
     
  4. Dec 14, 2007 #4
    Blazer

    Blazer

    Nov 27, 2003
    The Netherlands
    Rogue luthier employed at Knooren Handcrafted bass guitars
    As for how it sounds, it nails John Taylor's sound on "Some like it hot" or on "Union of the snake" that kind of powerful punch.

    I'll record a clip of it later (when my PC stops closing it self as soon as I try to open my Line6 gearbox to do so.)