Basvarken
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Haha, me neither.
Playing them is a real struggle for an under-rehearsed bass player like me!
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Thunderbird Club
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Playing them is a real struggle for an under-rehearsed bass player like me!
Far too much zing for me but to each their own!Yes, i love volume only basses. Also in my 40 years of playing, i've always had my tone knobs full on. (volume too for that matter). Hate the idea of playing with a pot knob somewhere between 0 and 10...gimmie 10 all day, every day....beautiful bird by the way, that color is crazy awesome
My self-modified P Bass of Doom is a 3-pickup bass with 3 volumes no tone, other than 2 phase switches.Yes, i love volume only basses. Also in my 40 years of playing, i've always had my tone knobs full on. (volume too for that matter). Hate the idea of playing with a pot knob somewhere between 0 and 10...gimmie 10 all day, every day....beautiful bird by the way, that color is crazy awesome
No tone control on mine as well.
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Basvarken
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Sure does!I'm just out of control.............Does that count?
- Mar 13, 2008
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How are you liking that Ray Ross bridge?
The Cool Kids want to be you!I always wanted to be one of the "Cool Kids"
The I ask you to do for me will be blue, single pickup in the ‘64 position, two piece bridge, and most like a micro kill switch.No Tone pot on the new Brooks bass either. Just a Volume knob and a Kill switch!
The guy in the background.
Two weeks until the Thunderbird world tour. Chicago, Amman, maybe Muscat, London, Southampton, Vigo, Porto, Ponta Delgada, Royal Navy Dockyard, and Orlando.
Thank you for the kind words, it's just a shell pink from Rustoleum that I grabbed in Home Depot. I was inspired to do the pink + white pearloid pickguard from a bass (Lakland jazz-style?) I saw on here years ago.Yes, i love volume only basses. Also in my 40 years of playing, i've always had my tone knobs full on. (volume too for that matter). Hate the idea of playing with a pot knob somewhere between 0 and 10...gimmie 10 all day, every day....beautiful bird by the way, that color is crazy awesome
Short answer is that it's too soon to tell. I just finished fixing my soldering mistakes earlier today, so this is the first time I'm even hearing it through an amplifier. I picked the Ray Ross as it could replace the stock bridge while getting the action correct without having to drill out for threaded inserts or whatever they are called for the conventional Gibson-style bridge. So far it's been fine, but I'm eager to bring this bass to rehearsal and see how it does. I'll keep y'all posted.
Minimal additional progress after the belly carve. But a lot of head scratching led to my control recess rout getting defined so I can get to my template next.
