Too much Maple?

[eastcoasteddie]

As soon as you start messing with it, you will F**k it up....it was meant to be as you see it. If you don't like it, see if you can trade for one you do like.
My prediction is that if you do pay to have it refinished with different fingerboard wood and stains and knobs and pickup covers and ramps....all said and done, you may find you do t like the sound or something like that and will Want to sell it.....good luck trying to sell a refinished Fodera (why did you refinish it! - a buyer asks...."because I don't like how it looked..." Thanks, I'll pass - the buyer says) an break even after paying ungodly amounts of money on the thing....and In the end, how much did you play it...?

 

[Dan Bass]

I actually like that one, probably because of the body shape breaking it up by how the light hits it, as well as the fret marks and the mild differences from the different woods used, lighter tight grained maple and the slightly orange-ish relaxed grain of the top and head stock. I like the cut aways, too. With the OP bass, I've never been too keen on that big chunk of wood on the upper bout running up the neck, I think that feeds into the "too much maple" for me as well, but this Schecter has nice flow and motion, despite being so natural; and the black hardware and accents are nicely distributed from bottom to top. -- But I can understand it not suiting your tastes.

It's totally different, but it kinda triggered a warm fuzzy memory of a good friend's old maple Gibson Grabber - a fond memory. Nothing alike, but the maple and black scheme - and the Grabber's honkin' big black face plate... Ahhhh a bass for every taste
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I actually like that one, probably because of the body shape breaking it up by how the light hits it, as well as the fret marks and the mild differences from the different woods used, lighter tight grained maple and the slightly orange-ish relaxed grain of the top and head stock. I like the cut aways, too. With the OP bass, I've never been too keen on that big chunk of wood on the upper bout running up the neck, I think that feeds into the "too much maple" for me as well, but this Schecter has nice flow and motion, despite being so natural; and the black hardware and accents are nicely distributed from bottom to top. -- But I can understand it not suiting your tastes.

It's totally different, but it kinda triggered a warm fuzzy memory of a good friend's old maple Gibson Grabber - a fond memory. Nothing alike, but the maple and black scheme - and the Grabber's honkin' big black face plate... Ahhhh a bass for every taste
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I think this is the new Gibson Bass that's almost like that one but has 3 monster single coil pickups check it out, pretty cool, and you know that will cut though any mix.

 

[seang15]

I voted too much maple, but only because of the fretboard. Do NOT refinish this bass! Just possibly put some purplheart veneer on the board, if feasible. That would pop!!

 

[Dan Bass]

I actually like that one, probably because of the body shape breaking it up by how the light hits it, as well as the fret marks and the mild differences from the different woods used, lighter tight grained maple and the slightly orange-ish relaxed grain of the top and head stock. I like the cut aways, too. With the OP bass, I've never been too keen on that big chunk of wood on the upper bout running up the neck, I think that feeds into the "too much maple" for me as well, but this Schecter has nice flow and motion, despite being so natural; and the black hardware and accents are nicely distributed from bottom to top. -- But I can understand it not suiting your tastes.

It's totally different, but it kinda triggered a warm fuzzy memory of a good friend's old maple Gibson Grabber - a fond memory. Nothing alike, but the maple and black scheme - and the Grabber's honkin' big black face plate... Ahhhh a bass for every taste
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Check it out.

 

[Dan Bass]

I actually like that one, probably because of the body shape breaking it up by how the light hits it, as well as the fret marks and the mild differences from the different woods used, lighter tight grained maple and the slightly orange-ish relaxed grain of the top and head stock. I like the cut aways, too. With the OP bass, I've never been too keen on that big chunk of wood on the upper bout running up the neck, I think that feeds into the "too much maple" for me as well, but this Schecter has nice flow and motion, despite being so natural; and the black hardware and accents are nicely distributed from bottom to top. -- But I can understand it not suiting your tastes.

It's totally different, but it kinda triggered a warm fuzzy memory of a good friend's old maple Gibson Grabber - a fond memory. Nothing alike, but the maple and black scheme - and the Grabber's honkin' big black face plate... Ahhhh a bass for every taste
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Sorry, something happened, I couldn't get my picture uploaded. I don't know if this is the new G1 Gibson Bass but it has 3- big single coil pickups, pretty sweet.

 

[Jeffrey Bryan]

As soon as you start messing with it, you will F**k it up....it was meant to be as you see it. If you don't like it, see if you can trade for one you do like.
My prediction is that if you do pay to have it refinished with different fingerboard wood and stains and knobs and pickup covers and ramps....all said and done, you may find you do t like the sound or something like that and will Want to sell it.....good luck trying to sell a refinished Fodera (why did you refinish it! - a buyer asks...."because I don't like how it looked..." Thanks, I'll pass - the buyer says) an break even after paying ungodly amounts of money on the thing....and In the end, how much did you play it...?

Thinking about reselling when you still love/play it is a wrong mindset if you ask me. Like a relationship that you know is going to fail. I consider all basses I buy as a partner in crime & slime until the end of my last breath. My dad refinished his Fender about 5 times before settling on the Swamp ash natural finish.

 

[GreyBeard]

Tb,

Recently I received this bass and absolutely love the build qaulity, tone, and playability. I am finding myself feeling a little overwhelmed by all of the Maple and am thinking of having the bass refinished. What do you guys think?

The fact that you are asking tells me it is looking kind of plain to you. You could change out the PUP covers and knobs to black just to break it up a little. Hey, it is your bass, make it look the way YOU like it.

 

[dgrizzly]

I think it looks fine, personally. But like said above, uncovering the pickps and getting black knobs will make a huge difference.

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+1.. I love the look of the maple, but would personally want some contrast. I think the black hardware, pups and strings like above would really make it pop.

 

[twinjet]

Looks beautiful. I'd prefer contrast myself, though. If anything, put some pickups of a different color and perhaps different color machine heads.

 

[hintz]

Active Seymour Duncan BO humbuckers, sweet, IMO I would stain everything Wenge wood color tung oil finish it and get gold keys and bridge. Bet it sounds nice.

Thanks Dan, those are passive Seymour's, it did have active emg's in it(I don't like active)....it sounds amazing, its kinda heavy like any maple instrument but its not too bad

I wasn't planning on getting another bass, but it was a steal of a price, it was rerouted for the EMG's(whoever did it did a terrible job too, one of the screws was stuck in the body) probably had old "Hi-A" humbuckers originally

I'm not gonna mess with it as its one of 3 *deluxe* BC rich basses from 1976(that is known to exist), the tuners are old Schaller's before they put the logo on, I did replace the old BADASS with a better one(the other is super corroded), as cool as I would look to have gold hardware, by all accounts gold or brass colored hardware doesn't age well compared to chrome or black

 

[jacolyte]

if you're happy with the build quality, tone, and playability, leave it alone. don't do anything that might affect those qualities. it's a musical instrument, not a museum piece. music is with the ears, not the eyes.

my 2c.

 

[jacolyte]

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cool-looking bass! i'd love to hear all about it!

 

[TripleDouble]

How does it look when playing it, dressed for a gig? I think it might be pretty striking and cool looking if you were to dress kind of GQ smooooth.

 

[The Ryantist]

As others have said, if anything maybe black knobs and black pickup covers to give it a little more contrast. Otherwise the maple looks great.

 

[ThatLowEnd]

How does it look when playing it, dressed for a gig? I think it might be pretty striking and cool looking if you were to dress kind of GQ smooooth.

HAHA, well I play Country music so I dress more like (me in my typical style of garb):

 

[placedesjardins]

Tb,

Recently I received this bass and absolutely love the build qaulity, tone, and playability. I am finding myself feeling a little overwhelmed by all of the Maple and am thinking of having the bass refinished. What do you guys think?

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Well, I'm not a fan of natural color basses, so yeah, get the body dyed to your favorite color. I like red, so I would get it dyed red or black cherry. It would also look good in green or blue.

 

[torres_bass]

I think just having black pickup covers and knobs would be just enough

+1... No such thing as TOO MUCH MAPLE!! Bass looks good. Black knobs and pickup covers (ebony) would do the trick, but keep the maple ramp.... I would personally swap the bridge to a Hipshot A style.

 

[ThatLowEnd]

+1... No such thing as TOO MUCH MAPLE!! Bass looks good. Black knobs and pickup covers (ebony) would do the trick, but keep the maple ramp.... I would personally swap the bridge to a Hipshot A style.

I thought about swapping the bridge. Anyone know if the Hipshot A style will match up to the Schaller bridge holes?

 

[mikecd1]

Agree with others that OP bass is beautiful and would definitely advise against a refin. Not sure what kind of pickups those are, but it should be possible to get darker covers (maybe stain those if they're wood covers?) and some black knobs. My Lakland would look weird to me without the black pickups and knobs for contrast and also has a natural maple quilt top and a maple board.

 

[AngelCrusher]

Plays and sounds amazing. I am not totally sold on changing anything just on the fence.

Read this again. I wouldn't mess with it.