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Spalted maple top 6 string explorer "Horus" bass (Warning many pictures!)
- Thread starter Mr M
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I'd like to thank everybody for kind words.
Here is the second part with the pictures...
You could have asked why I called it Horus Bass?
Actually it's nothing to do with this Ancient Egyptian God. But as I started the project and it would be a full custom one, I wanted to incorporate all my crazy ideas... Sometimes I had to step back (see the 7 string bass idea as I mentioned in the first post) due to some limitations, and sometimes I changed my mind as it wouldn't be wise to put everything in one bass (after wise words of Melvyne Hiscock in his book Make Your Own Electric Guitar). You could see that the place for the seventh tuning peg was already there in the headstock design at the left side:
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Back to my question, well I wanted to have a theme for this bass. Being interested in ancient Egyptian Mythology, I decided to name this bass after the God of goodness and skies: Horus. Had the Horus Eye inlay at the 12th fret and a Horus figure in the headstock that you may see in the picture above. That Horus figure, if looked closely (I tried to take a picture but could not succeed it) got a F (bass) key on his head beside the crown of High Egypt and Low Egypt.
More to this, it added the Spinal Tap flavor to the bass
What's the relation of a bass and a poor Egyptian God?
Some ideas that I left, include, a master volume knob marked 0 to 11
(really, but after I thought that more writings, numbers etc. could ruin the general theme of the bass)
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I'm thinking to have in the future a twin sister or a flying V style bass called Seth, after the Egyptian God of Evil and the underworld/soil.
And I can go to have basses named after Egyptian Gods as ancient Egyptian Mythology have more gods than the women that Gene Simmons has slept with
Just a joke no offense to Ancient Egyptian Culture that I like...
Back to the pictures, here is the back of the bass showing the wenge/maple neck and alder body wings:
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I insisted to have that heel (or whatever it is called) at the place where headstock meets the neck:
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The neck is super fast being thin. The ebony (left natural, without those ebony darkening dyes) fretboard has a thickness of 4 mm (0.157"). 24 frets.
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The neck depth (I mean the distance from the surface of the fretboard 'till the back of neck) is 21 mm (0.826") at the first fret and 22 mm (0.866") at the 12th fret. The scale length is 34". And now it's tuned BEADGC, sometimes I drop low B to A and IMHO it still sounds good.
The headstock has got a thicker wenge part:
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More to come....
Here is the second part with the pictures...
You could have asked why I called it Horus Bass?
Actually it's nothing to do with this Ancient Egyptian God. But as I started the project and it would be a full custom one, I wanted to incorporate all my crazy ideas... Sometimes I had to step back (see the 7 string bass idea as I mentioned in the first post) due to some limitations, and sometimes I changed my mind as it wouldn't be wise to put everything in one bass (after wise words of Melvyne Hiscock in his book Make Your Own Electric Guitar). You could see that the place for the seventh tuning peg was already there in the headstock design at the left side:
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Back to my question, well I wanted to have a theme for this bass. Being interested in ancient Egyptian Mythology, I decided to name this bass after the God of goodness and skies: Horus. Had the Horus Eye inlay at the 12th fret and a Horus figure in the headstock that you may see in the picture above. That Horus figure, if looked closely (I tried to take a picture but could not succeed it) got a F (bass) key on his head beside the crown of High Egypt and Low Egypt.
More to this, it added the Spinal Tap flavor to the bass
What's the relation of a bass and a poor Egyptian God?Some ideas that I left, include, a master volume knob marked 0 to 11
(really, but after I thought that more writings, numbers etc. could ruin the general theme of the bass)Link Removed
I'm thinking to have in the future a twin sister or a flying V style bass called Seth, after the Egyptian God of Evil and the underworld/soil.
And I can go to have basses named after Egyptian Gods as ancient Egyptian Mythology have more gods than the women that Gene Simmons has slept with
Just a joke no offense to Ancient Egyptian Culture that I like...
Back to the pictures, here is the back of the bass showing the wenge/maple neck and alder body wings:
Link Removed
I insisted to have that heel (or whatever it is called) at the place where headstock meets the neck:
Link Removed
The neck is super fast being thin. The ebony (left natural, without those ebony darkening dyes) fretboard has a thickness of 4 mm (0.157"). 24 frets.
Link Removed
The neck depth (I mean the distance from the surface of the fretboard 'till the back of neck) is 21 mm (0.826") at the first fret and 22 mm (0.866") at the 12th fret. The scale length is 34". And now it's tuned BEADGC, sometimes I drop low B to A and IMHO it still sounds good.
The headstock has got a thicker wenge part:
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More to come....
that is just one of the most incredible creations my eyes have ever seen!
the only other word that comes to mind when I look at it is... MAJESTIC!
oh man, i want one!!!
the only other word that comes to mind when I look at it is... MAJESTIC!
oh man, i want one!!!
That looks fantastic, M. I love the Wenge accent on the headstock, and that THICK slab of spalted maple! The Horus image on the headstock is nice and subtle, too; it blends in very well with the spalting in the headstock.
I have been looking at various Explorer body basses. Yeah, they all look pretty much the same, but this one is truly an amazing, unique bass in this body style. I hearby dub this the King of all Explorer Style Basses! No offense to the Stryker or the Spyder, both the basses by which all other explorer style basses are measured. Enjoy that awesome, f'ing bass!!
Man if you ever wanted to sell or start selling basses like that (or that one) please put me on the top of that list *bow down to your skills*
horus was the Falcon god I believe?
Killer bass, I really like the headstock. The attention to detail is excellent. Great design. 11 pounds is heavy but not that bad with a wide strap.
Killer bass, I really like the headstock. The attention to detail is excellent. Great design. 11 pounds is heavy but not that bad with a wide strap.
+1. It would definitely be intersting to find out how much a creation like that would be. I'd be seriously considering one of those if they where available.
