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POST YOUR "BASSES WITH CHARACTER" (read UGLY)
- Thread starter J-chot
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Does this qualify ?
Cigar Box bass. It has got more remarks than anything I own.
Hollowbody, , fretless,1 jazz pup and a homemade piezo buried under the bridge.
Neck is poplar, redoak, poplar.
Matt
God yes.
Win!
Meh... Water off a duck's back. Call me whatever you want, but that bass is a load of fun to play, and gets the crowd going. I've played out with it 3 times now, and gotten nothing but awesome responses... from the, ahem, ~ladies~... (and from the dudes, too).
Ubersheist;
that thing is hideous!
It's gotten a tad more hideous. I found a few more glow-in-the-dark zombie finger puppets that I initially didn't use because the epoxy wouldn't stick to them. So, I nailed 'em up! Mostly drove nails through the finger puppets' hands. Therefore, there's a handful of crucified zombies on my bass. I also tossed a few more fringe things on, and a couple more of the faeries.
even inanimate objects don't deserve to go through that much...
righly named FrankenPlank... i see i havent been the only one to throw a guitar humber in the mix. i have lost count of how many changes it has gone under. these two are the most recent (i think...)
I think this may have been answered on another thread, but are there any more pictures of the FrankenPlank? I am intrigued to see both front and back pictures to see all this thing has been through. And another question:
What are you doing with it now?
So, I just finished with this beaut. I bought a used Ibanez GSR205 for $80, spent about as much on glo-in-the-dark paint, glow in the dark doo-dads, epoxy and nails (had to basically 'crucify' the zombie finger puppets since the epoxy didn't take on them).
Also, the fettuccine fringe glows in the dark, too. I tried taking a picture of it glowing, but it didn't work out with my crappy camera.
I took it out to a gig on Friday. Lots of comments. Lots. I've got a Warwick Thumb Bolt-on that cost about $1600 new. I've gotten a handful of comments on it, mostly from other bass players. (Whoopie...) I spent almost 1/10th on the crazy bass, but got 10 times the ammount of comments then the Warwick just on Friday night!
I had little old ladies wanting to take a picture of them with me and my crazy bass. The MC of the event had me hold it up for all to see. Someone filming it (don't know who, or I'd post a link) centered the camera really closely
Wow! Love it!!! Though it's not not quite this..... interesting, ine will soon be posted.
Body: Ash. I burnt the grain with a blowtorch to give it a quasi-quartersawn zebrawood look
Back of Body: The metal shop was closed today, so I can't get a plate for the back until tomorrow.
Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, and a killswitch. 250k pots.
High Action FTW
How did you do this? It looks FANTASTIC!
Sirs, these are some UGLY guitars, but seems to me they're kept for a reason so they must sound/feel good, so more power to you!
That is very true. It can be amazing how ugly one is, but the tone and playability is awesome.
