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The official "Show your basses" thread part 19!
- Thread starter smperry
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
I'm beeching a lot. We beeched and collected shells. My son beeched and waded in the breakers. We are at the Beeching Resort.
I searched online for the meaning of "bich". It doesn't seem to be a spanish word. (I thought it might be, because the OP gives Colombia and Spain as locations.) It is a girl's name in Vietnamese, meaning "gemstone".
That's all I could find.
That's all I could find.
It is Wood Wednesday!
Bubinga Pommele body, Ovangkol neck, Ebony fretboard.
Bubinga Pommele body, Ovangkol neck, Ebony fretboard.
It is a callback to the B.C. Rich "Bich",* from which** @francy bernal took inspiration for her instruments.
The 10-string model in particular was an interesting concept, and it is exciting to see it recreated in bass form.
* [itself an entirely obvious reference to the phrase "rich b*tch"]
** [this, instead, is me riffing on the same motiv - only, a little more innocently (basest form of humour or not, I enjoy wordplay per se more than as a vehicle for double entendres)]
On occasion of my 9th bass, I wanted to assemble a historical retrospective of my former glories.
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That leaves me three in hand, the Dean, SR4 and ebay beater Of them all, the SR4 cost about as much as the other 8 combined (once I get a setup, strings, etc). Whoah.
The custom sketch is very old. Built-in grab-&-go handle, tuner, midi controller, 7-ch equalizer, tremelo, dual 1\4" out and a volume slider that goes to 11. These days, I'd drop the 5th string, tune BEAD, swap the midi et al for an onboard DI controller with break-out controls for EQ, tuner, etc.
Well, sometimes you just have to throw down the big money for a really nice bass. I certainly found going up a significant step in the quality (and price bracket) of the basses I buy means I just don't look at lower range basses in quite the same way. I no longer walk into guitar shops and hunger for lefty versions of the nicer right-handers on the wall because the two lefty basses I have are every bit as good. Don't know if that's a thing you'll experience, but that is a very nice looking Ibanez you have there - what are the pickups, by the way?
this one was made for Mr.John A. MA some 18 months ago,,, "4004.5"LK
black walnut wings and flamed laurel neck thru 32" scaled
macacauba fretboard with abalone blocks,white wood binding on fretboard
inlayed purflings on body
Emg humbuckers and others 4 pickups,Gotoh tuners etc
aged satin laquer after seating on chair and carving this leaves a long month slowly
ultra sustain
rounding 9 pounds
black walnut wings and flamed laurel neck thru 32" scaled
macacauba fretboard with abalone blocks,white wood binding on fretboard
inlayed purflings on body
Emg humbuckers and others 4 pickups,Gotoh tuners etc
aged satin laquer after seating on chair and carving this leaves a long month slowly
ultra sustain
rounding 9 pounds
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laurel wood is flamed but is softer than maple lot so solution with reinforced and fatter neck,a 4,1cm nut for paste this stuff together withoug "plastiline effects"
