POST YOUR "BASSES WITH CHARACTER" (read UGLY)

[J-chot]

POST YOUR CUSTOM/UGLY/WEIRD/OLD/BEAT-UP BASSES THAT YOU LOVE! I want to see some character!



-STRANGE MODS!
-STRANGE PAINT JOBS!
-SEVERE DAMAGE!
-SHEER WEIRDNESS!
-BASSES WITH STORIES! (I WANNA HEAR THESE!)
-VINTAGE CHEAPIES!
-JUST PLAIN COOL CUSTOMS (try and keep it kinda proletariat)
-UGLY GUITARS!

-NO EXPENSIVE FACTORY SPEC GUITARS (unless it qualifies with above rules)
-NO "COFFEE TABLES" (unless it qualifies with above rules)
-no "closet" basses! I want stuff that's played!

MAN, this thread should be sticky....

 

[J-chot]

EDIT: I CHANGED IT AGAIN!!!! : replaced the volume with switches (MUCH HAPPIER!!) took the contact paper off (EVEN HAPPIER!!!!) and put a hello kitty bandaid over the superfluous hole....(SUPER HAPPY BASS!)

I'll start this party!
this is what it looks like now:

this is "The Carpenter's Daughter". she was a fender Chinese-Squier, I sanded all the plastic off, hacked in a extra humbucker, amongst other things. My goal was to make a unique sounding, feeling, and looking guitar/bass. and also to make it look like it was made in shop class.(hence the name) (that's a masonite pickguard btw )It's tuned to D-A-E-B. and that's a banjo string on the end there. I drilled a hole to put in an extra tuning key for the banjo string.
( I won't go into the effects chain..)

I play alone with a drummer so each pickup has it's own out which goes to a Kb-60 and a mark VI (through 2 15's)

 

[J-chot]

All I got was a neck (no nut), ventilated body, and three drywall screws (holding the neck on). This is a shot from when it first came back to life, using what was around. Notice how centered the bridge pickup hole is.

do you play it?
what does it sound like?
is it currently like this?
how did you get it?

 

[Mark Wilson]

That amp looks killer.

 

[dinghy]

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My PJ as of 2 weeks ago

 

[Lokire]

1966 Guild Starfire

 

[Munjibunga]

Hmmmm ... I'm fresh out.

 

[DanielleMuscato]

from here on out there will be no more ugly bass threads tolerated in the bass forums, unless you are posting about your own instrument.

too many folks participate here with too diverse a set of instruments for these kinds of threads to end up doing anything but pissing people off.

interesting thing - the folks with experience, who gig and who are in general serious about bass usually don't waste their talkbass time posting about basses they don't own, talking about how they find someone else's instrument to be ugly . something to emulate, folks.

so if you want to talk about an ugly bass, make sure it's one of your own, or it will be deleted.


EDIT(jt) : the bongo addendum this goes for posts too. you wanna call a bass a toilet seat, that bass better have a handle or else you better own one.

if you have a negative opinion about an instrument, be sure to tie it to something beyond the subjective appearance - "the body was uncomfortable for me to play" or "the neck was too round for me, felt like a baseball bat".

otherwise, if you find something ugly, say so if such an opinion is asked for, otherwise keep it to yourself. this isn't rocket science, guys. respect other folks' instruments.

Just a reminder...

 

[Green Mind]

I'll start this party!
this is what is looked like now:

Lightning Bolt influenced by chance?

 

[DanielleMuscato]

We are (so far)... like I said, just a reminder

 

[Wh4len]

I guess my modded Cort P/J fits in this thread

Wacky paintjob and emg p/j + badassII

 

[Derek_L]

^I really like that actually.

P.S. nice collection there mate.

 

[Wh4len]

^I really like that actually.

P.S. nice collection there mate.

Thanks a lot.
It needs new pickups (again) and a set of new strings.

Hehe, thanks. My old pics. I've expanded the family.

 

[GobBass]

I'll start this party!
this is what is looked like now:

If only Floyd Rose could make a locking tremolo for bass...

I'd put a D-Sonic at the bridge for more output.

 

[M5Yates]

Here's a '72 Jazz I bought with a little too much character.

 

[Baryonyx]

Stimpy rocks!

 

[Geddy Claypool]

^That is AWESOME on sooo many levels! If you ever decide to sell that beast, remember me!

 

[DoubleL]

This is the result of a couple of dull evenings and a lot of spare parts knocking about.

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It's a Squier Strat with a defretted Encore neck hacked into the neck pocket. The painted fingerboard has a tough varnish coating and actually sounds OK. The tremolo took a lot of tweaking but I eventually found that four springs can cope if it's tuned to DADG. The string spacing is a little challenging at the bridge but it's fun to play and it sounds quite good, especially with the tone turned down.

 

[Baird6869]

Franken Hagstrom! Ugly as sin! '60's Hagstrom neck, PUs and electronics on a P.O.S. '60's Japanese body.

I will SACRIFICE for $100 if anyone is interested.

 

[yellofury]

This is the result of a couple of dull evenings and a lot of spare parts knocking about.

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It's a Squier Strat with a defretted Encore neck hacked into the neck pocket. The painted fingerboard has a tough varnish coating and actually sounds OK. The tremolo took a lot of tweaking but I eventually found that four springs can cope if it's tuned to DADG. The string spacing is a little challenging at the bridge but it's fun to play and it sounds quite good, especially with the tone turned down.

cool kinda like a Ritter but not really
hmmmm I have a old Strat copy lying around too