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Wishbass Club (part IV)

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Deluge Of Sound said:
No way to put up pics tonight, but I've had #00022 for, uh, about five years? Would've posted it earlier, but I don't spend too much time in the "basses" part of TB. :p

Stude body shape, Dano lipstick pickup, one volume knob... I'm a huge fan of the baseball-bat style neck, not such a huge fan of the weak G string, but hey, I dig it. Nice mellow tone, even when tuned down a step or two.
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D of S: I have #0003 of that same line of Studes - what I call Wish's "econo-line". In case you didn't know it, this line of Wishbasses is a separate production run from his others. They all look similar (so I am told), but I have not actually seen another one. I would love to see a few photos of yours if you can post them. I would be glad to put up some of mine too (I did that already in the old thread) if that intersts you. Anyway, welcome to the thread - thanks for sharing ...
 
#42
Well, I was going to take some pictures and post the finished Cherry Hipper 1061, but Thunderitters Walnut beast and photographic skills have put me to shame.

Very nicely done, I vote for calling it the Wishbone.

I will still post some pics, this refin wore me out.............

Peace, JBY
 
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So I kept putting on coats of Tung oil until my new tuners arrived, about 10 coats in all. Installing the tuners was easy, the ultralites lined up exactly where the grovers did, no new holes.
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I broke three brass wood screws installing the bridge. One I was able to extract with a vice grip. the other two had to be drilled and filled. One I could understand, but three, I must be ********. Though I measured the bridge perfectly, when the first screw went in, it shifted the orientation about 1mm towards the E string. The string alignment is not perfectly symmetrical, but I actually prefer a little extra space for the G string, as I sometimes pull my G string off the board when I get frisky. It feels good and sounds fine, so I'm gonna leave it as is.
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I had to bring down the nut slots significantly. Using a paper clip as a guard worked well again, and the nut filing was a success. My biggest relief came when I first strung her up, and found the fingerboard leveling to be wholly acceptable. I can't find any buzzes or dead spots, whether I pluck hard or gently. This was huge for me, as every other attempt to level the board has been met with 70-80% success, only to be completed by a luthier.

The first attempt at wiring was a disaster, I'm still not quite sure why. There were conflicting instructions to be found, and I think I misread the cap value for the tone, when I raided my work's tech shop. But even after I took the tone knob out of the circuit, it was plooked.

So I started over tonight, new pots, a tone cap from another wiring harness, and a new output jack. Electronically it's perfect. I'm trying a DiMarzio model J for the first time. I don't have my regular rig so I can't be sure, but I think it delivers as promised, more mid and upper mid bite than the Barts, and a little higher output. The bad news is that the pots I got tonight are the larger sized ones, and I had to install the control cover in a slightly different orientation, which caused my very careful grain alignment to go off. ARGGHJHHHH. Hopefully the sexy redwood burl knobs will distract the eye.
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So while it was somewhat frustrating pulling this one together, the end result is that I love the color and shape of the body, the feel of the neck, the sound of the pup and the bass overall, and the brass bridge. I also added gold strap buttons to further the color scheme. I just need to find brass screws for the cover plate, and black screws for the pup. The black ones that came with it are too long.

Once my Traynor head comes back from the tech, I'll really know what this puppy sounds like. Til then I will fine tune the setup, and start having fun with it.

JBY
 
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49sfine said:
D of S: I have #0003 of that same line of Studes - what I call Wish's "econo-line". In case you didn't know it, this line of Wishbasses is a separate production run from his others. They all look similar (so I am told), but I have not actually seen another one. I would love to see a few photos of yours if you can post them. I would be glad to put up some of mine too (I did that already in the old thread) if that intersts you. Anyway, welcome to the thread - thanks for sharing ...
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Sure thing--I should be able to get some pictures up tomorrow, but it might have to be post-Labor Day, depending on the festivities.
 
#46
JBY; Really nice work on your Hipper. I hope you will post a photo of it with your others , or at least one of your others so we can see it in 'context'. I know what you mean about Thunderitter's photos - that "suspended in space" thing he does is somewhat intimidating! Also, I have a metal bridge assembly (although it's chrome and I wish now it was black) I bought off of Ebay that I am tempted to put on one of my Wishes. How do you determine whether or not the thing has to be routed into the body wood, besides just eye-balling it? I've seem them done both ways is why I ask ....

Thunderitter: Wishbone looks really, really good. It's kind of a shame you are selling it, but doing 'em up is more than half the fun, isn't it? Keep us posted.

Deluge of Sound: Can't wait to see #0022! I will post pix of mine once yours are up so we can do a "side by side" comparison ...
 
#47
Thunderitter said:
(did you pre-drill the holes for the brass bridge screws?)
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Yes, but because I wanted the bridge screws to have a good grip, I think I drilled a little too narrow. It worked for 3 of the 5 holes required. The one into the purpleheart broke once, and one of the others broke twice. I think there was a knot inside that was my undoing. I hadn't drilled quite deep enough, and when the screw was almost all the way down, it would snap.

That's all history now :-)
 
#48
49sfine said:
JBY; Really nice work on your Hipper. I hope you will post a photo of it with your others , or at least one of your others so we can see it in 'context'. I know what you mean about Thunderitter's photos - that "suspended in space" thing he does is somewhat intimidating! Also, I have a metal bridge assembly (although it's chrome and I wish now it was black) I bought off of Ebay that I am tempted to put on one of my Wishes. How do you determine whether or not the thing has to be routed into the body wood, besides just eye-balling it? I've seem them done both ways is why I ask ....
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I suppose you could try and measure to determine if the bridge needs to be recessed, but that seems like a difficult thing to predict. In this case, I mounted the bridge on the surface. The E and the G saddles are all the way down, and it feels average in the action. Some of my basses play with lower action, in a perfect world I would be able to go lower. I have decided to wait and see how I like this action, knowing that I can always route it out later. I have also considered cutting the string slots in the saddles a little deeper, but I don't have much experience working with brass. So for now I play.........


JBY
 
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#52
49sfine said:
JoJo: Interesting question; and certainly a very valid one. It's rare to be able to do all this gear purchasing within a marriage. My situation is unique (like everyone's) in that I am a newlywed really, and late in life (I'm 60). My wife came on board knowing what my passions were and I made sure she was the type of person who would be supportive of who I was, not the opposite. (I had a 'lifetime' of that with my first wife.) The other thing that helps is my wife would really love to be a musician herself and lives vicariously thru me (to some degree) with all of this. She is also very supportive of my practicing and everything else that goes with being a music person. I try to involve her when I can and she really just enjoys almost any knd of music and is quite encouraging. I can't tell you how wonderful that is and how much I thank her and God for it all.

Right now though, I am probably at the limit of my acquistion phase. With my moving and now not having a job, etc., etc., any money I spend on my hobby has to be generated from within the hobby. So, until I either start gigging or selling a refinish job or two, I have come to a stopping point in my purchases - especially after I just got a Fender B-Dec practice amp to help me hon my bass playing skills. My focus now has to be to create a shop out of the 17' x 17' garage I have; and I am finally making some progress on that. I hope to have AC out there in two weeks; which means I can actually start all the drywall work, painting, etc. I did promise photos, so I will get those up when the time arrives.

Anyway, kudos to my gal - she's a rare one! God's good ...
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All you drummers mucking up the threads. :D

Very cool. Glad to see people have wives who support their hobby. My wife is very understanding about musical habits as well. I'm only 26 and just married 4 years today. But my wife is very supportive. She's a musician as well. She has her degree in music actually. She's a singer though, so she doesn't have to purchase any instrument. She carries hers around with her wherever she goes. But she handles with gentle grace all of my guitar and bass gear. Yes, I am a guitarist too. It's my secret shame. :hiding: I have lots of guitar amps. Only a couple bass amps though.

Anyone else think that this thing is just ugly?

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#53
jojobean39 said:
....Yes, I am a guitarist too. It's my secret shame. :hiding: I have lots of guitar amps. Only a couple bass amps though.
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At last count I had more guitars than basses and I'd class myself as a bassist although some folks might differ! :)


jojobean39 said:
Anyone else think that this thing is just ****?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Bass-Fretless-4...itar?hash=item1e583d68a3&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
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You can't use that word on Talkbass unless you own the bass! So I suppose you're just going to have to go and 'Buy it Now'! If not just call it 'unusual' for now! :)
 
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Thunderitter said:
You can't use that word on Talkbass unless you own the bass! So I suppose you're just going to have to go and 'Buy it Now'! If not just call it 'unusual' for now! :)
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Well, no one owns it yet, so until then, I may have found a loophole. Maybe when someone buys it the bass will gain "unusual status". But, as it stands right now in its unowned state, it's ugly. Someone might like it though. And maybe it just takes more imagination than I have to see the diamond in the rough. It just looks REALLY unfinished.
 
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JoJoBean: Keep in mind I own and drive a Honda Element, so that right there tells you my sense of aesthetics is "off"! The Conq would be right at home being taken to a gig in my "box on wheels/it's so ugly it's kinda' kool-mobile"!
 
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Hehe. Okay okay okay guys. :D It's unusual, not ugly. It's funny that people in the Wishbass club dislike the word "ugly" in describing an ugl... err, unusual Wishbass. I play a Steinberger, so I know what ugly is all about. And I play a Parker electric. I think those look awesome, but others disagree.
 
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