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Wishbass Club pt. 2
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Once you decide you want it, there is no point in waiting. That's just a recipe for dissapointment.
BTW, I would like to thank our president, (edited for politically biased content)...... to give me back some of my taxes, so I could buy another bass. Peace, James
I have 4 string 'lobe'. The tone in my opinion lives up to the description from the website. It is the best fretless I've ever played. Period. A lot of people get stuck on the the minor finish flaws, but I like that. I looks like it was made by a real man, not a robot. That to me means a lot more than a mirror finish on some cookie cutter bass. And I have the kind where he alternates different kinds of wood. Its great. I always get people saying "Is that a carl thompson?' to which I reply 'no' and then whip out my real carl thompson!
Understand, this was a used one, and was treated with the tobacco smell from the previous owner, not from the "factory". In case I wasn't clear.
oh, okay. Well, I thought that one of the ones I got from Wish smelled funny, but it may have been the wood, and finish rather than smokes...
James; Geez! You didn't even give us a chance to snag the new Hyper! 
Please give us a report on what it's like when it arrives. I am very curious about the purpleheart body - it looks way kool. (Wish will ship my walnut Stude next Thursday too.) Some of your comments make me wonder if I should email Wish and have him NOT put in position markers on my Fantasy custom - he does seem to get that wrong at least some percent of the time. I'm aslo rethinking the wenge fingerboard - hmmmm ...
Please give us a report on what it's like when it arrives. I am very curious about the purpleheart body - it looks way kool. (Wish will ship my walnut Stude next Thursday too.) Some of your comments make me wonder if I should email Wish and have him NOT put in position markers on my Fantasy custom - he does seem to get that wrong at least some percent of the time. I'm aslo rethinking the wenge fingerboard - hmmmm ...
Can I request first crack at old #88 if you ever decide to sell it? I have GAS too apparently. My poor wife, she's so understanding, but ......
BassChuck; Thanks for the insight. On this one I wanted to coat the control cavity with non-conductive paint for hum reduction. That kind of dictated my removing everything. Plus, Wish had not cut out the half circles for the J EMG (screw mount) ears evenly and I used a dremel to make those cut-outs true half circles. They look better now except for the fact that Wish got their positions uneven a little bit - that I could not correct unless I put in a bigger pup - which I may do later. (For now though, I want to see how this one is going to play before I do too much more to it.)
We'd love to see a pix or two if you have the time and wherewithall. I plan to do a group shot once my other 2 Wishes get here (may be a while) ...
Non conductive paint won't help. Gotta be conductive. Also, throwing a new PU that's hum cancelling will get you much lower noise than the single with shielding.
Duhhh, I meant to say CONductive paint! I just looked at the label on the can - my bad. I plan to check out a different pup at some point too - a few guys have also said that is pretty fool-proof. Keep in mind, I am more drummer than guitarist at this point = big learning curve! THanks ...
Sure.... I'll sell it for..... a million dollars, that's it, a million dollars, yeah. More likely though, to quote the late, great Charleton Heston, you'll have to "pry it out of my cold, dead, hands."
For any spouse that doesn't understand I would put it this way, Sure, I'll give up music gear and redirect that energy to other women....... Our wives don't know how lucky they are. Well, mine at least....
James; Geez! You didn't even give us a chance to snag the new Hyper!
With respect to the Wenge fingerboard. I don't think this was a matter of Wish not sanding enough. I have talked to a friend who had a Warwick high end fretless with a Wenge fingerboard, and he couldn't figure out why he didn't like the tone, seemed to have less sustain than he expected too. He brought it to a luthier who felt quite certain the Wenge was the issue. The grain is always so pronounced, it's hard to make it really flat, so the contact between the string and the board has more variables. None of the same issues with frets, string to metal. I felt immediately that the Wenge scarab sounded somewhat thuddy, as in, where are the felt mutes hiding? FWIW maybe you should ask around TB, see if anyone supports this opinion. Luck to you, James
My Wish has an ipe fingerboard, which doesn't seem to suffer from the grain problem. It got even slicker after I had it planed to fix a couple buzzes.
I would think some sort of filler - maybe epoxy-based? - might help the wenge issue? Like the whole Jaco marine epoxy legend? Fill-sand-repeat-ad-nauseum?
I would think some sort of filler - maybe epoxy-based? - might help the wenge issue? Like the whole Jaco marine epoxy legend? Fill-sand-repeat-ad-nauseum?
And another thing We all love our Wishes dearly, but there's one of his construction techniques that drives me absolutely nuts - every closeup photo I've seen of a Wish with a Kent Armstrong has got two gigantic filled-in holes in the top which I can only assume are from where Wish nails down his router jig. The filler never matches the top, so you end up with these two honkin' zits in some otherwise cool wood.
Dude! Clamps!
We all love our Wishes dearly, but there's one of his construction techniques that drives me absolutely nuts - every closeup photo I've seen of a Wish with a Kent Armstrong has got two gigantic filled-in holes in the top which I can only assume are from where Wish nails down his router jig. The filler never matches the top, so you end up with these two honkin' zits in some otherwise cool wood. Dude! Clamps!
No.
I brought my wishbass to the guy that refrets my stuff to ask what he'd charge to put frets on a wishbass...he thought it'd cost ~$150 or so (and he's a really hungry guy just starting out), but that it would be more difficult to do after-the-fact than it would be to do when building the instrument.
Gentlemen: Is there anything I need to know different about the way a black nylon string would be strung into the tuning machine before I install these new Rotosounds onto my Banana bass? (In other words, is it any different than the way Wish wraps his strings?) I've never used these before. Thanks! Happy 4th, by the way ...
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