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Wishnevsky!!!!!!

#281
what's this, what's this? wishy must have been lurking at the boards, 'cause this one has a truss rod!

i've said it before: i dig his weird body shapes. if his quality/attention to detail were to improve drastically, i'd give one a go. just needs to route better, use higher quality materials and the like i guess. here's the link:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=919811985
 
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#285
If I were to have put a single pickup at that steep of an angle I would have reversed it. The way it is there you're going to have super bassy E and a thin G. I'd rather have the angle reversed so the E (being picked up closer to the bridge) would have more distinction and the G (being picked up closer to the neck) would have more fullness and body.

I know other manufacturers do this (at lesser of an angle) the same as the Wish bass, but this has never made sense to me. Still many other manufacturers do it my way.
 
#288
I think the only "problem" associated with "neck" rods is that Wishy doesn't know how to lay them in.

Someone should buy that bass & autopsy it. I'll lay odds it's nothing but a piece of hardware store brass or steel rod he slipped down a hole drilled into the neck or something. You note he adds things as he progresses -- "deluxe" features like truss rods (please someone buy this!!), side dot markers and strap buttons. IMO, that's only because he didn't even know what the hell they WERE until people started asking him WHERE they were!

Later, I'm off to frolick across the stage, unencumbered by a burdensome strap across my shoulder! :D
 
#290
Originally posted by john turner
given the track record of build quality, i'd be very cautious about fret placement on that instrument. furthermore, a fixed bridge on a fretted instrument is a horrible idea - there's no way to adjust intonation, rendering the instrument potentially unplayable in an ensemble.
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This made me wonder about something... On a fretless does the correct place to play a note, (as an example the "A" on the E string) travel a bit back and forth as the wood expands / contracts , as the strings stretch ... etc etc ...

Would this be part of the "mwah" phenomenon as you make minor adjustments during the playing of each note?
 
#291
Originally posted by Gabu
This made me wonder about something... On a fretless does the correct place to play a note, (as an example the "A" on the E string) travel a bit back and forth as the wood expands / contracts , as the strings stretch ... etc etc ...

Would this be part of the "mwah" phenomenon as you make minor adjustments during the playing of each note?
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In a word - No.

Different time scales altogether - you're comparing hours/days in the first case with fractions of seconds in the second.

Mwah has more to do with how the vibrating string interacts with the fretboard and your finger tip.
 
#292
hello to all...

ok, so my curiosity got the better of me and I parted with $200 and bought one of these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=915145799&rd=1

then I played it - don't get me wrong - it looked pretty cool hanging on the wall and all and my girlfriend who is a fine artist appreciated it and thought it was cool but it was darn near unplayable

so...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=921191592&rd=1

funny thing is, it sold about 2 hours after I put it up there - same price & all. Now it is what it is, ya know - but I couldn't have an instrument I couldn't play - you couldn't even really bang around on it - the low notes on the G-string fretted out and there was no possible way to intonate it - he put "side dots" on it and the 12th fret octaves were a step-and-a-half sharp - I figured I could take it to the beach house in the summer and stuff- that idea ended after 5 minutes of play - I couldn't justify keeping it for my purposes - I figure I can get a "real" bass for $150 or so and at least an "A" is an "A" - as a piece of art - it's definately a neat piece of folk art, but the "playable instrument" thing has a ways to go...

so there's a user experience for ya
 
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