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Wishbass Club (part IV)

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jojobean39 said:
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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I thought you'd pick up a level of sarcasm in my post!
 
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#65
Very nice video! To my ear, the bypass tone sounds best, and that is a really nice tone. The various settings all sounded pretty good too, did you use the HAS varitone unit?

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#67
wave rider said:
Very nice video! To my ear, the bypass tone sounds best, and that is a really nice tone. The various settings all sounded pretty good too, did you use the HAS varitone unit?

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I think you will find that those cutting tones play much better through a pungent, Hi-Fi rig, where you can really hear what they are doing.
 
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wave rider said:
Very nice video! To my ear, the bypass tone sounds best, and that is a really nice tone. The various settings all sounded pretty good too, did you use the HAS varitone unit?
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As far as I know it is the HAS unit - I have the wiring harness made up by a guy in CA - he does a great job for only a few bucks more than it would cost me to buy the parts and his finished harness is very neat indeed.

jbybj said:
I think you will find that those cutting tones play much better through a pungent, Hi-Fi rig, where you can really hear what they are doing.
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Yeah, I shot it with an 8yr old camera using the internal mike, which I think is the main reason for the lack of HI-FI sound. It sounded a lot better in real life, particularly the bassy tones. I thought about recorded tracks, but most of what I was wanting to achieve was showing the bass in action and to give an indication at how good it sounds for my eBay auction.

My personal preference is the mid scoop tone, which is what I did the last bit of playing on. I'm not a personal fan of too bright a fretless tone, but hence the variable tone option giving anyone the ability to dial in the sound they like!
 
#69
Folks: I am seeing things or does it look like the latest ambrosia Lobe up on Ebay started out life as a 4 string and ended up a 5 string? That one's a candidate for a metal bridge set-up for sure if that's the case! I wouldn't be very happy with the existing arrangement at all ...
 
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49sfine said:
Folks: I am seeing things or does it look like the latest ambrosia Lobe up on Ebay started out life as a 4 string and ended up a 5 string? That one's a candidate for a metal bridge set-up for sure if that's the case! I wouldn't be very happy with the existing arrangement at all ...
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Interesting indeed. Looks fine at the fingerboard, but that's a fair bit of angling over the bridge.
 
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#1083 came in yesterday, here are a few impressions...

This one has the "baseball bat" neck alright, the business end of the bat! :D I like it. Happened to pick up a Peavey Fury the day before, here is a Mutt and Jeff photo:
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A fungo bat at least, works well for me.

The not so good: The fingerboard is going to need a lot of tough love. Leveling for sure. The rosewood fingerboard is rough wood in general; there are some bore holes and bit of punk wood on the B edge and some other "furrows" elsewhere that have been filled. I may end up filling them with something else when I get done sanding the board.

The good: The wenge wood looks great and the rest of the bass construction is solid. Twelve pounds on the old bathroom scale.

The very good: When Wish refers to "the hot Kent Armstrong Humbucker Pickup," HE"S NOT KIDDING!! I plugged into my bigger rig so I could feel the B string and, no kidding, immediately flipped the bass over and looked for a battery cover. I'd not had the compressor kick in with the other Select equipped models. I usually add some bass with the other Wishes, this one sounds pretty good flat. I'll probably settle on a little bass boost.

It sounds good. So good that I don't care if I get splinters from the fingerboard...:D

More later,
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Rip Topaz said:
Can we see the rest of it, wave?
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49sfine said:
+1 on that!
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:o Here you go. I forgot that not everyone followed this one...

Steve has his blanket photos and so do I...
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The back gives a better idea of the sharpness of the claw.
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Sturdy neck, B string is solid.
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Curved control plate cover. I blew it out just a bit in Photoshop to highlight the grain.
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Mr. Curious wonders when he will get his couch back.
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If I have time, I'm going to work on the fingerboard some this weekend.
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#77
Magnificent beast, I say! Now that's a Wishbass! Thanks.

On another note - I am finally making headway with my garage-to-shop conversion. The electricians came today and wired the room with 4 additional ceiling lite locations/fixtures and another 8 wall plugs. They return Monday to put in a bigger breaker panel. The AC unit is ready now for the HVAC guy who will hopefully come next week as well. I am already busy with drywall patches and such as I wait for these guys to finish. I'm excited!
 
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49sfine said:
Folks: I am seeing things or does it look like the latest ambrosia Lobe up on Ebay started out life as a 4 string and ended up a 5 string?
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Ab-so-RUTE-ry. Having just done exactly that to my Lobe 4 (now 5), I recognized the slightly low placement of the A tuner... though I spaced mine evenly and wound up "in the round" on the inside of the headstock. BillyB tells me I'm lucky I didn't break the tuner when I cranked the washer into the wood, so I imagine that's why the clearly more knowledgeable Mr. W settled for a slightly off-kilter look.
 
#79
49sfine said:
Magnificent beast, I say! Now that's a Wishbass! Thanks.

On another note - I am finally making headway with my garage-to-shop conversion. The electricians came today and wired the room with 4 additional ceiling lite locations/fixtures and another 8 wall plugs. They return Monday to put in a bigger breaker panel. The AC unit is ready now for the HVAC guy who will hopefully come next week as well. I am already busy with drywall patches and such as I wait for these guys to finish. I'm excited!
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Glad to hear your shop is coming together, can't wait to see some more refinishing photos. From your description, your shop sounds like it will be pretty full featured; are you going to start building your own line of basses? :D

The bass is the Beast with the Heart of Darkness, I'm liking it more and more.

I've looked a some at the literature on the "hot Kent Armstrong Humbucker" and I see that it can be set up to switch between parallel, series, and split, whatever this all means. It sounds like an interesting way to get different tones, does anyone know anything about it?

Two other observations:
1. This one came with white "silk" on the strings, my other three came with silkless strings.
2. The KA Humbucker is really quiet. I can sit by the TV or computer with no hum at all. The Selects on the others have me squirming around to get in the position with the least hum, I'm hopeful that copper shielding will get rid of most of it.

Surf is up, so I haven't worked on the neck. Maybe tomorrow...

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wave rider said:
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2. The KA Humbucker is really quiet. I can sit by the TV or computer with no hum at all. The Selects on the others have me squirming around to get in the position with the least hum, I'm hopeful that copper shielding will get rid of most of it.
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From my experience I think you'll find that shielding will alleviate some but not all of the hum.
 
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