Is the drummer trying to pull off a young Adolph Hitler look? Takes balls to grow a mustache like that!
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Is the drummer trying to pull off a young Adolph Hitler look? Takes balls to grow a mustache like that!
He reminds me of John Cleese doing Hitler back in Cleese's Monty Python's Flying Circus days.
+1 on 'Dolf the lefty drummer.
That 3-minute video gave me more insight into Wish than anything I'd read before, or than any of several short-and-to-the-point emails I've got from him over the years.
And where, pray, did that semi-conventional headstock on the guitar come from?
That 3-minute video gave me more insight into Wish than anything I'd read before, or than any of several short-and-to-the-point emails I've got from him over the years.
And where, pray, did that semi-conventional headstock on the guitar come from?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Wishbass-Lobe-M...oryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I guess I don't really need to ask why.
I guess I don't really need to ask why.
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31" short scale
body: Bocote top & bottom, holly with a thin maple laminate
Purpleheart/maple neckhru
Ebony fingerboard
Four strings, at first
2 kent armstrong humbuckers
2 volumes, 1 tone
black hipshot type A bridge
black grover tuners
truss rod
SIDTI (Stuff I Did To It):
Added 5th tuner (E A D G C tuning)
5 string hipshot bridge
Graphtec nut
copper shielded, star grounded control cavity
anti-shock circuit
varitone switch
switchcraft jack (had an extra one laying around)
D'Addario nickel half round strings
ebony knobs
tung oil
First of all, the neck was much wider than it was supposed to be. I wanted 1.5" and i got over 2"... I thought about returning it and having wish fix it but then i realized it was the perfect size for a fairly narrowly spaced 5 string. (When you can easily turn a 4 string into a 5 string, you know the neck is wide So I ended up replacing the bridge, and adding an additional tuner. Wish didn't string through the body like he usually does, so i was able to drill the holes to string through with the 5 string bridge. The headstock was so "tall" there was easily enough room for that 5th tuner (except i had to put it on the right side due to the way the existing ones were staggered). Also replaced the Wish usual corian nut with a pre-cut graphtec one that was close to a perfect fit.
Did some sanding on the neck, body, and peghead. Dyed the ebony fingerboard so it's nice and uniformly black (looks really good in person).
The bass sounds nice, (maybe a little *too* much mwah on that thin high C, but it's the most fun string to play on). The fingerboard is perfectly flat, no dead spots anywhere on the neck. It's just over 2 octaves in range.
It is VERY heavy, it's much more comfortable to play seated. Can't imagine how it wouldve been if i had gotten a 34" scale or so! At some point I'll probably look at some ways to shave off a few ounces especially on the neck end to balance it a bit better. I use those little strap lock discs to keep my strap on, I fear if the bass falls from my shoulder it will crash through the floor. Has the Wish "baseball bat neck" which is more comfortable than i thought, it plays very well (I have almost no experience with a fretless though). My main bass is a Birdsong Cortobass, after playing the wish, the Birdsong neck feels like a toothpick both in size and weight If i ever order another one, im going to have to have him make it out of poplar or something super light, since i know whatever wood it is, he's going to use a whole forest worth of it.
Aside from the weight and wish ehhh not exactly following my specs, i'm pretty happy with it. I'm glad I decided to make it a 5 string, it's more versatile and a lot more proportional looking that way. I certainly learned a lot working with it as i really had no experience sanding, oiling, or drilling much with wood, so i guess it was worth it for that. So i got a nice sounding bass with a ton of features for fairly cheap. Just had to do some work on it after i got it (which I've seen others mention as well). I should add that it was perfectly playable when i received it, most of my mods were just adding "extras" to the instrument.
And there's plenty of wood left to attempt more work on it later
body: Bocote top & bottom, holly with a thin maple laminate
Purpleheart/maple neckhru
Ebony fingerboard
Four strings, at first
2 kent armstrong humbuckers
2 volumes, 1 tone
black hipshot type A bridge
black grover tuners
truss rod
SIDTI (Stuff I Did To It):
Added 5th tuner (E A D G C tuning)
5 string hipshot bridge
Graphtec nut
copper shielded, star grounded control cavity
anti-shock circuit
varitone switch
switchcraft jack (had an extra one laying around)
D'Addario nickel half round strings
ebony knobs
tung oil
First of all, the neck was much wider than it was supposed to be. I wanted 1.5" and i got over 2"... I thought about returning it and having wish fix it but then i realized it was the perfect size for a fairly narrowly spaced 5 string. (When you can easily turn a 4 string into a 5 string, you know the neck is wide
So I ended up replacing the bridge, and adding an additional tuner. Wish didn't string through the body like he usually does, so i was able to drill the holes to string through with the 5 string bridge. The headstock was so "tall" there was easily enough room for that 5th tuner (except i had to put it on the right side due to the way the existing ones were staggered). Also replaced the Wish usual corian nut with a pre-cut graphtec one that was close to a perfect fit.Did some sanding on the neck, body, and peghead. Dyed the ebony fingerboard so it's nice and uniformly black (looks really good in person).
The bass sounds nice, (maybe a little *too* much mwah on that thin high C, but it's the most fun string to play on). The fingerboard is perfectly flat, no dead spots anywhere on the neck. It's just over 2 octaves in range.
It is VERY heavy, it's much more comfortable to play seated. Can't imagine how it wouldve been if i had gotten a 34" scale or so! At some point I'll probably look at some ways to shave off a few ounces especially on the neck end to balance it a bit better. I use those little strap lock discs to keep my strap on, I fear if the bass falls from my shoulder it will crash through the floor. Has the Wish "baseball bat neck" which is more comfortable than i thought, it plays very well (I have almost no experience with a fretless though). My main bass is a Birdsong Cortobass, after playing the wish, the Birdsong neck feels like a toothpick both in size and weight
If i ever order another one, im going to have to have him make it out of poplar or something super light, since i know whatever wood it is, he's going to use a whole forest worth of it.Aside from the weight and wish ehhh not exactly following my specs, i'm pretty happy with it. I'm glad I decided to make it a 5 string, it's more versatile and a lot more proportional looking that way. I certainly learned a lot working with it as i really had no experience sanding, oiling, or drilling much with wood, so i guess it was worth it for that. So i got a nice sounding bass with a ton of features for fairly cheap. Just had to do some work on it after i got it (which I've seen others mention as well). I should add that it was perfectly playable when i received it, most of my mods were just adding "extras" to the instrument.
And there's plenty of wood left to attempt more work on it later
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Wow, I cannot believe he is up to 800 basses. Have his basses really gotten any better in terms of construction?
Strangely, i kinda like it
Did you do any "after-wish" work to it?Do you play it angled like a typical guitar?
You should record some sound samples...
woho a nice Wishbass 6er in England... you just have to clue the good place and set up the bridge right there. The pickgard is backside
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/6-String-Fret...oryZ4713QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
It didn't sell with the reserve he had on it, so he relisted it at £200.00 ($400) and I bought it. It arrived at 11:30 last night! I think that we're going to get on fine as soon as I put another bridge on it (you can see daylight between the bottom of the bridge and the wood). Is anyone able to recommend one, bearing in mind that it's a six sting and thru-body?
Regards,
Mike.
Contact him and ask for a new bridge, he'll send on cheap. I had to file mine down to lower the action.... a vise and flat file will do the trick.
Interesting looks and great sound. I used my fretless last week to sit in with a big band, I was replacing a player who used upright. The guys in the band loved the sound, nobody missed the upright, and several audience members came up during breaks to comment on the bass and how pretty the wood is.
Great instrument at a great price.
but they look really low quality and look bad. If they sound good that's ok but hmm. I wouldn't buy one.
If they look so bad, why did people go up to basschuck and compliment him on it?
But yeah, aesthetics are far down the list for wish, although a lot of times there can be a lot of "beauty" to his instruments simply due to the different woods being naturally beautiful to look at. I'd feel a little silly claiming the way an instrument looked was anywhere near important as the way it sounds... No one wants to play a piece of doody stained particle board, but still 
"Bad" looks that have something to do wtih low durability might be an issue, but I'd say my wish is *extremely* strongly built with the thickness of the neck and body. I'd be more concerned about the floor than the bass if i dropped it
I bet Wish can make a custom bridge that looks like his Corian bridge but using Purpleheart, Rosewood, etc.
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