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IYO, the BEST LOOKING bass EVER!!!!
- Thread starter dan.ablett
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this thread has made me realize a few things.
I appreciate a lot the clean simple lines of Leo Fender's designes. Thats really what works best for me (but not sunburst, can't get with sunburst)
A seven string active pickup'd carvedy figured wood fretless is really a differnet instrumnt than a P bass. A P Bass has more in comon with a Les Paul guitar than such an intrument.
Not a big fan of the fashonably figured woods, just not my thing. But when you take the fancy wood, putting eight knobs and six switchs on it is really remarkaably not elegant. Functional yes, but less elegant than putting a football helmet on your favorite super model.
To each their own of course, if it works for you rock on.
I appreciate a lot the clean simple lines of Leo Fender's designes. Thats really what works best for me (but not sunburst, can't get with sunburst)
A seven string active pickup'd carvedy figured wood fretless is really a differnet instrumnt than a P bass. A P Bass has more in comon with a Les Paul guitar than such an intrument.
Not a big fan of the fashonably figured woods, just not my thing. But when you take the fancy wood, putting eight knobs and six switchs on it is really remarkaably not elegant. Functional yes, but less elegant than putting a football helmet on your favorite super model.
To each their own of course, if it works for you rock on.
The Brubaker I posted is gigged every week. Every piece of wood on the bass is Maple. For some reason it's far easier for me not to beat up a bass than cause careless damage. And I only carry it around in a gigbag
. So while I have basses with years of "use", "wear and tear" just isn't part of that equation for me.
A lot of the wood you see isn't endangered. Spalted Maple certainly isn't.
BTW I had one of those very Kay basses you posted and for reasons I still can't recall (and no, I was neither drunk nor high at the time), I sold it. I have another, later model Kay now but it's not as cool as the Howlin' Wolf.
I can't agree more! I used to own this one
why on earth would you get rid of this!?!?!?!?!?!?
please tell me a TB brother or sister has this
There are many basses in this thread like this one that are nothing short of "Total Works of Art".
They should be made into wallpaper - some are large enough already.
My bass gigs out regularly, and i've also seen other basses here at gigs.
Put together the high price tags, the tender loving care of the owners, and the hard poly finish, and years of wear and tear won't show at all. My bass is 14 years old and it still shines after a light buffing. No dings made by me, and no big dings at all. I find that basses should last forever if proper care is taken.
I can't see how cutting down a maple tree is any worse than cutting down an endangered one. In the long run, as the prices of endangered woods goes up, the monetary incentive to actually farm them becomes attractive enough for people to do it, and everyone wins.
Exotic wood "on the tree" is remarkably uninteresting. Again its all wood, which is great for making basses. If it happens to look good in the process, that's a perk.
Someone else (not me) is buying this one:
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I really love the look though. Not too blingy, but really nice.
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I really love the look though. Not too blingy, but really nice.
I know about WT basses - they are really most beautiful "modern designed" basses IMO
