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POST YOUR "BASSES WITH CHARACTER" (read UGLY)
- Thread starter J-chot
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I think my rubber ducky is appropriate for this thread
Oak plywood body
crudely de-fretted Samick neck/hardware
MIM fender pickups/pots
Formica pickguard
dollar store googly eye
krylon spray paint
oddly enough it sounds really good
Is that a Duck Dunn signature bass?
my 2000 Ibanez SR 406 has been everywhere with me, my main stage bass for years and beaten to hell, but very loved and still plays and sounds awesome.
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Butt ugly 76 Grabber,but I loved it. Played it for 19 years until it was stolen.Terrible neck dive but it sounded great. Like a Ric and Pbass had a baby.I can't count how many gigs I played with this thing.It was the first real bass I bought. I played a Univox Precisely Pbass copy until I got this in 76. It was stolen with a beautiful Lacewood Kip Winger that showed up in a local sales paper about a month later.Alas the Grabber has never been seen again.I lost a little of my heart when this piece of crap was stolen. Go ahead behold its ugliness...
here are 2 of the 3 axes currently in rotation. They are Killin'!!!!
Alleva Coppolo LG5 Classic Supreme
and Alleva Coppolo KBP4 Classic Supreme
Alleva Coppolo LG5 Classic Supreme
and Alleva Coppolo KBP4 Classic Supreme
This thread is now a zombie, as I have brought it back from the dead. Not sure what is ugly about the previous post ^^^^^^^ but here is my lovely ugly bass. I sanded it down with the intention of properly painting it, but the pattern was so crazy looking I decided to keep it this way (and I was impatient to install all the parts)
Controls are volume, 3-way selector switch, 2 mini toggles for humbucker/single coil switching, and my own style of varitone rotary switch. Good and punchy, though I think I would prefer both pickups to move at least slightly closer to the neck.
Controls are volume, 3-way selector switch, 2 mini toggles for humbucker/single coil switching, and my own style of varitone rotary switch. Good and punchy, though I think I would prefer both pickups to move at least slightly closer to the neck.
I thought about clearcoating it or at least maybe a coat of laquer, but decided anything will just add to the character of it so I'm just leaving it natural.
I guess my modded Cort P/J fits in this thread
Wacky paintjob and emg p/j + badassII
INTRODUCING THE "COLOR ME MINE" BASS
Awesome pick guard.
the boomstick
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT THING LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love wood chisels.
It started out as a quaint Hondo P-copy with the basic P pickup. I gave it a bridge P and immediately regretted it. A huge swimming pool was chiseled in the bridge area and I threw a MM-style soapbar in there.
And then I bought two mudbuckers. And it was good.
(thanks to Mudfuzz for the pickup covers + assorted salvaged hardware...)
The "pickup ring" is what I boxcutter'd out of the original black pickguard. It's the only thing big enough to cover up the massive cavity, and personally I think it worked out quite well.
The Ric bridge is actually from a Greco 4001 copy. I was seeking a new bridge that would better fit the tighter spacing of the mudbuckers' fields, so for $5 this worked out perfectly. Plus, hey, why not?
The dumbass "Wagoneer" plate is from my first vehicle, which was more of a beater than this bass. The brakes shrieked just like my pickups did before they were shielded! It's not in this picture, but with it I also use a strap I made out of that car's driver-side seatbelt.
The truss rod nut seems to be stripped so I shimmed it and it made an AMAZINGLY HUGE DIFFERENCE in playability. Holy crap. it's so very much better now! I have Chromes on it, and it's wired neck/bridge volume and P volume, straight to the jack. In the future I'd like to shield it more thoroughly and add a 3-way switch (neck/neck+bridge/P) with a single volume control.
Fender's trying to steal my thunder with their new Telebass, but they'll never match the beauty of this fine, fine plywood.
I love wood chisels.
It started out as a quaint Hondo P-copy with the basic P pickup. I gave it a bridge P and immediately regretted it. A huge swimming pool was chiseled in the bridge area and I threw a MM-style soapbar in there.
And then I bought two mudbuckers. And it was good.
(thanks to Mudfuzz for the pickup covers + assorted salvaged hardware...)
The "pickup ring" is what I boxcutter'd out of the original black pickguard. It's the only thing big enough to cover up the massive cavity, and personally I think it worked out quite well.
The Ric bridge is actually from a Greco 4001 copy. I was seeking a new bridge that would better fit the tighter spacing of the mudbuckers' fields, so for $5 this worked out perfectly. Plus, hey, why not?
The dumbass "Wagoneer" plate is from my first vehicle, which was more of a beater than this bass. The brakes shrieked just like my pickups did before they were shielded! It's not in this picture, but with it I also use a strap I made out of that car's driver-side seatbelt.
The truss rod nut seems to be stripped so I shimmed it and it made an AMAZINGLY HUGE DIFFERENCE in playability. Holy crap. it's so very much better now! I have Chromes on it, and it's wired neck/bridge volume and P volume, straight to the jack. In the future I'd like to shield it more thoroughly and add a 3-way switch (neck/neck+bridge/P) with a single volume control.
Fender's trying to steal my thunder with their new Telebass, but they'll never match the beauty of this fine, fine plywood.
Do you have any clips/sound files with only the the guitar pickup on? I'm interested how it sounds
You people want character, check out this mustang circa 1968 i just let go a few weeks back:
These mustangs came with nitrocellulose pearloid pickguards. Sometimes the guards' "gas off"(deteriorate) and in doing so they can melt finishes as well as eat away chrome or gold plating.
Hands down a bass with THE most mojo I've EVER seen...and you SOLD IT?
"Tank", my 12 year old Music Man 5. It's tough to see, but there's actually a chip in the finish.
I find it hard to believe that there have been no "basses with character" in over two years so I'm resurrecting this one. This is my Ibanez SR305IPT that I picked up for ~$100. I never liked the black metallic paint job so I took an orbital sander to it thinking it was solid agithis body underneath. Apparently it wasn't as you can see by the cardboard colored patches by the neck and pickups. I consider it my fully relic'd beast and you should hear how well she breathes now without all that metallic paint!
