Modulus BASSSTAR Fan Club

[versalog]

A Modulus/Alembic BassStar with neck serial number 57, Schaller machines, currently off the guitar body (P bass with an original Lane Poor and standard passive wiring) but here is my attempt at uploading an image:
/http://sta.sh/010mazb2wgnt

 

[vates]

Here you go:

 

[iriegnome]

Now that is some awsome modulus porn right there! Is that a brass nut? I dig the Alembic logo too

 

[versalog]

vates, thank you; I will figure it out one day. Brass nut! Most other M/A necks I have seen, whether BassStar or Blackknife, appear to be later editions with larger, randomly oriented carbon chips. Is this the collective experience?

 

[iriegnome]

Mine has very little pattern at all.

Here is a picture also before I had it repaired.

 

[iriegnome]

Oh and by the way here are numbers for you both...
We are small but the thread is almost 4 years and running!

10 versalog
11 vates

 

[vates]

Please cancel my number: I'm just a fellow lurker who helped versalog post HIS picture

 

[iriegnome]

Thanks for letting me know.

 

[versalog]

Thank you! I will post more pictures when the guitar is together.

 

[iriegnome]

Can't wait

 

[Lo-E]

I'm not requesting a number - not really a joiner - but I thought you guys would appreciate the pictures!
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f8/nbd-modulus-bassstar-999354/

 

[iriegnome]

Lo - that neck is so cool! I love that pattern on it.

 

[Lo-E]

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I've only ever played one other; the white one that was posted here by someone who bought it at Sam Ash and then returned it. If I remember rightly, that neck was just black. Maybe it was KLD... shoot, I can't remember.

 

[iriegnome]

Mine has a "all black" look, but if I could get a really good close picture of it, there are long strips of color and tint.. It is really pretty cool

 

[Lo-E]

Hey, while I'm here, thanks for starting this thread in the first place. I learned a lot about my new bass while looking through it's pages.

 

[iriegnome]

That makes me happy. I am glad we are getting something out about these pretty hard to find basses. Much more than the company ever really put out.. We are learning more and more as we go... Do you have any details that you could post about your bass here on this thread for others to read? It would be great..

 

[Lo-E]

Nothing really that hasn't been posted already, I'm afraid. It's got the same appointments as the others from the same era; brass position markers, ebony board, etc...

I haven't had the neck off yet, but when I do, I'll mention anything that stands out, like if I find Amelia Erhardt in there or something....

 

[npselliott]

Picking up this thread a few months after the last post - Moosewood can you comment on whether the bridge is still the original on your neck-thru BassStar? After searching this thread I never did see where you provided as much detail about the neck-through as the California bolt-on. Thanks!

 

[iriegnome]

Been gassin for another unique Bassstar. Have not found one as of yet.. But - - Pic's I love pic's...

 

[iriegnome]

I have now moved into super hyper gas mode