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Let's See Those Wishbasses!
- Thread starter lbanks
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congrats, very nice,
could you please describe choice of woods ans PUs, is it your design?
I prefer without pickguard! what is the bridge made of ? how much is it?
Thanks
could you please describe choice of woods ans PUs, is it your design?
I prefer without pickguard! what is the bridge made of ? how much is it?
Thanks
Rosewood wings, I believe maple,walnut and purpleheart neck. PU's are neck-Kent Armstrong; bridge-EMG Select. My design; started with a rough shape of my Ripper and started 'pulling points'. There's no pickguard. Don't know what the bridge is, prob plastic. About $600 because of the truss-rod, rear routing and added PU.nanookanono said:
Nice instrument, thank you for the answer, two more questions please :
It seems to be passive electronics, could you say if you put two jacks at the same time to mix the two PUs, how do you manage the tone, perhaps you use an outboard preamp?
What is your choice of wood for fingerboard ?
Is it easy to play with the action ?
Do you like the sound?
Thank you.
It seems to be passive electronics, could you say if you put two jacks at the same time to mix the two PUs, how do you manage the tone, perhaps you use an outboard preamp?
What is your choice of wood for fingerboard ?
Is it easy to play with the action ?
Do you like the sound?
Thank you.
Yes, it is passive, the concept was to use 2 amps, usually with the neck pickup straight into the BBE BMAX preamp and the bridge PU thru a Behringer Bass V-amp Pro. Each preamp has its own power amp.nanookanono said:
The fingerboard is ebony
It very easy to play; the neck is thick but, only a little wider than the neck on my Jazz basses.
Edit: Strings are Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Flats.
It sounds pretty good, but my fretless tech sucks....
Hmmm, I must be the only Wishy owner here!
Ok, here's somemore shots...
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By-Tor said:
Probably Corian. Used for counters around the world as well as making a quite nifty nut, or in this case, bridge.
| want a '63 fender jazz...gotta love that old busted look
not really, | want a 6(7 if they will make it) string fretless warwick thumb.
not really, | want a 6(7 if they will make it) string fretless warwick thumb.
XxBlackOrchidxX said:
but, this thread is about "wishbasses", as in, basses made by wishbass / steve wishnevsky.
But just fo'yo'info', Warwick will make any bass into a 7 for $840 (retail) over the 6-string price. Actual extra cost to you depends on dealer and how much they can get you off retail.
peace
man... only 3 pictures?!?!
ive always wished of a wish.
lol.. i always think of buying one.. but never do
ive always wished of a wish.
lol.. i always think of buying one.. but never do
jammadave said:Man, Patrick - uhhh, Fred Bolton know you had this made?
=0)
(cause it looks like the beautiful B-Basses Queen Bee SC has inspired somebody)
I just did a google search, (at the risk of sounding totally ignorant
) who is Fred Bolton/B-Basses Queen Bee?I basically put together a design for Wish in Photoshop from a bunch of things I liked (primarily being single cut bass horn + (intended it to be a lot smaller) Cort/Curbow style small treble horn), it's fairly close to what I drew up, maybe 85ish% there. The little flair on the butt strap-pin came as an inversion of the Conklin style strap-pin, but Wish made it a bit bigger than I wanted. I also wanted the bass side strap to be rear? mounted like on a Conklin as it makes a lot more sense (imo).
I'm looking for the original design I drew up (basically pen tool in photoshop and I saved it large enough for a 21"x14" print out for Wish), but I've probably deleted by now.
The headstock definitely wasn't what I was hoping for, I had asked for the triangular style Wish has, but I got this one (perhaps because of 7 tuners).
Here's the TB Wishy, still making the rounds I assume.
It left my premises months ago.
I thought about posting some of the closeups of it, but I don't think that's what this thread is about.
It left my premises months ago.
I thought about posting some of the closeups of it, but I don't think that's what this thread is about.
patrickj said:
I just did a google search, (at the risk of sounding totally ignorant
Unbelievable! You almost duplicated one of the coolest body shapes I've ever seen, and apparently entirely by accident! And that should have read "Bee Basses", my mistake.
See the Queen Bee Singlecut in all her glory... no, it's not mine...
