yeah i heard the same thing, thats why i'm cutting the tung oil with citrus solvent in a 1:1 ratio, that way it dries faster. With the cut in solvent it should dry at about the same rate as the tru oil, plus it's completely non-toxic
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Spotted this 9 String Wishbass on Craigslist.
"custom made 9 string monster bass guitar by bill wishnevsky of wishbass. fanned frets, scale goes from roughly 34' to 26'. tuned low bass B to high eb. 28 frets "
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Holy crap! I thought the eleven stringer was ugly, but this thing takes the cake.(id still play it though
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You gotta wonder why there are no strings on that bass... The string angle between the nut and the tuners would be interesting.
Never seen a bass with a26 to 34 foot scale.... (ah...Spinal Tap)
Never seen a bass with a26 to 34 foot scale.... (ah...Spinal Tap)
I dunno- I like it. Appearancewise, it's the first Wish I've ever seen that I really liked.
But I'd be leery about a Wish with standard frets, let alone fanned ones. I'd pay $500 for a fretless fiver or sixer like this. If it had standard frets, I'd risk about $300 on it. No way would I pay $700.
EDIT: The lack of strings IS a warning, IMO. Good call.
But I'd be leery about a Wish with standard frets, let alone fanned ones. I'd pay $500 for a fretless fiver or sixer like this. If it had standard frets, I'd risk about $300 on it. No way would I pay $700.
EDIT: The lack of strings IS a warning, IMO. Good call.
take a close look it's not only fanned at the bottom but at the top aswell, i can't imagine how hard it must have been to accurately measure out the frets and have them change angle half way up the fingerboard
Well, my wish came in the mail today
. It turned out A LOT better than i had expected. For an unfinished bass this thing is gorgous. The pic doesnt do it justice.
The neck is a 5 peice lam of maple, purple heart, cherry, purple heart, maple.
The body is padauk with an added bonus i did not ask for. It has a acsent stripe through the middle of the body. Its some kind of light colored wood(maple i think), but you cannot tell from the pic. No visable glue lines and no gaps so far. It does need to be sanded however.
The one MAJOR gripe though.......i ask for it lined. It came unlined.
. It turned out A LOT better than i had expected. For an unfinished bass this thing is gorgous. The pic doesnt do it justice. The neck is a 5 peice lam of maple, purple heart, cherry, purple heart, maple.
The body is padauk with an added bonus i did not ask for. It has a acsent stripe through the middle of the body. Its some kind of light colored wood(maple i think), but you cannot tell from the pic. No visable glue lines and no gaps so far. It does need to be sanded however.
The one MAJOR gripe though.......i ask for it lined. It came unlined.
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The one MAJOR gripe though.......i ask for it lined. It came unlined.
Well, you could do what string players (violin, viola, cello, etc.) do, bust out the pinstriping tape and mark a few positions.
I haven't played that much fretless but I believe that it's better to listen than to watch. Just cop an attitude that you're going to play unlined fretless and you'll do it. Since you already play, your hands already know what to do (muscle memory and all that stuff), it's just your mind playing tricks on you.
You'll probably be happier in the long run...and an unlined fretless bass is much prettier anyway!
The one MAJOR gripe though.......i ask for it lined. It came unlined.
I think you're better off without the lines. Pencil them in where you think they should go and then erase them when you don't need them. All three of my kids learned cello or bass that way and it works fine. In the end, its all in your ear anyway.
Does it have side markers? I'm almost gig ready with my frettless (Wishbass). I don't have lines, but I'm pretty sure I'm always going to need side markers. BTW, I saw an article about Edgar Meyers and he as markers on his bass (stand up).
Good luck, post some pics when you get it finished.
Well, my wish came in the mail today
The neck is a 5 peice lam of maple, purple heart, cherry, purple heart, maple.
The body is padauk with an added bonus i did not ask for. It has a acsent stripe through the middle of the body. Its some kind of light colored wood(maple i think), but you cannot tell from the pic. No visable glue lines and no gaps so far. It does need to be sanded however.
The one MAJOR gripe though.......i ask for it lined. It came unlined.
Very nice, how's the balance?
I have one (can't seem to post the pic) that has a ton of neck dive, but has a really nice warm round tone.
Mine is a lined fretless, and looking back I should have gotten it unlined. The last fret line is slightly raised, and I have to get around to sanding it down.
FINALLY managed to post a pic!!
Here it is #128
Spalt maple Body
Lined fretless neck
Kent Armstrong soapbar (rout is not deep enough, e string bottoms out on the pup in the higher registers)
lacquer finish (gotta remove it)
I also need to weigh down the body a bit (any suggestions?)
Everyone who likes them, says that the tone of the wishbass is in the wood. If this is the case, why not do away with the cheapo KA pickups entirely?
Has anyone tried mouting a Piezos under the bridge for an EUB kind of thing? Sort of a prettier version of the Dean Pace bass. There are a couple of Wish shapes that, if slightly modified, would look great upright on a stand.
I'm intrigued by this because I already have some extra tuners, homemade piezo pickups and a K&K preamp, so all I would have to do is order a wish with no routing, no pickups or tuners, and no finish (tung oil baby!). So many projects, so little $.
Has anyone tried mouting a Piezos under the bridge for an EUB kind of thing? Sort of a prettier version of the Dean Pace bass. There are a couple of Wish shapes that, if slightly modified, would look great upright on a stand.
I'm intrigued by this because I already have some extra tuners, homemade piezo pickups and a K&K preamp, so all I would have to do is order a wish with no routing, no pickups or tuners, and no finish (tung oil baby!). So many projects, so little $.
I have one, but its not very elegant. I have a fretted JB Wishbass that had a bit more neck dive than I could deal with. From your pic I imagine that yours has the same problem for the same reason, not a great deal of mass in the body.
I tried weights and moving the strap buttons to different places, but nothing really had that much difference.
So.... I got a hold of a Ned Steinberger dealer, one that sells the "Bass/Cello". Ned has a pretty interesting device that will attach to the back of the bass and lets you adjust the angle. (called a boomerang) I got one and and put it on the back of my Wishbass and it works great. There are some down sides to this. You do have to drill a hole about a half inch deep and 3/8" in diameter. There is brass fitting that goes in that and the boomerang screws into the brass fitting. I'm not much of a woodworker and I didn't do a great job of it so I had to permanently attach the boomerang to the bass. Also I'm sure that it would negatively impact the resale value of the bass.... if Wishbasses ever become collector items. It solved my problem very well, but I wouldn't do it to anything I was hoping to resell.
This would work. You can order one from Wish like you said. I have a 6 String Bass Viola da Gamba from Wish. (technically not a Wishbass, but a Wishnevsky). It has Piezos on the bridge and a L.R. Baggs pre-amp. The sound is really great. Because of the hollow body and the pups it has much closer to the 'upright' sound than my fretless Wishbass.
One of the things I was thinking of doing was to add a peg to the bottom of the body and play it like a standup.
Wish makes a really nice EUB like that, but it has a 41" scale. I'd ask him if that could be made to 35" or whatever you want.
If you are going that route, one thing I would suggest you think over is the fretboard radius. Wish likes to make them flat on the guitars and I agree that makes the neck easier in some ways, but if you are going to put a peg on the bottom or mount it on a drum stand (I think the Pace Bass does that) you might consider a rounded set up like an upright bass. Playing it as a strickly pizzicato instrument would still work well, but you could also bow the strings if the muses so inspired you to. Seems like it would make the instrument more flexible.
I presume this is for neck dive? Perhaps moving the lower strap button would help. Both my Hoyts have the bottom one off-center toward the top of the bass (E/B string side).
If your upper bout was a lot longer, you wouldn't have that problem. There's a reason that bass bodies are generally shaped the way they are with very long upper bouts.
Silly Wish...
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