I use it purely for looks. I absolutely love some of the exotics especially curly Koa and Burl. That being said, I'd rather build a single wood bass and let the form be the attraction .
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Wood p@rn - why do we bother?
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If I see a painted bass, I have little expectation. It could be anywhere from fantastic to a piece of crap.
If I see a bass made of premium woods, I have an expectation that it should be high-end, which includes superior workmanship, not just looks.
When I see a (fairly rare) bass out of high end woods but which has problems do to poor design or poor execution and lack of care to details and quality, it pisses be off that someone would waste good wood and try to pass it off as a good bass.
If I see a poor quality painted bass, unless I know it was high dollar and/or carries expensive hardware, I don't care.
If I see a bass made of premium woods, I have an expectation that it should be high-end, which includes superior workmanship, not just looks.
When I see a (fairly rare) bass out of high end woods but which has problems do to poor design or poor execution and lack of care to details and quality, it pisses be off that someone would waste good wood and try to pass it off as a good bass.
If I see a poor quality painted bass, unless I know it was high dollar and/or carries expensive hardware, I don't care.
Depends entirely on the wood, as there are thousands available, each with unique appearances. (But if you're talking about Lacewood, or one of the "vomit burls," than yes, absolutely horrid.)
Having a good figured top is not necessarily extravagant, either. Like I said, there are a ton of plywood bodies with high grade veneer tops. It doesn't cost much to do an instrument that way.
Well if you wanted to get all technical, anyone who starts laminating multiple layers of timber in fact ends up with... "plywood".
Well if you wanted to get all technical, anyone who starts laminating multiple layers of timber in fact ends up with... "plywood".
Fair enough, let me rephrase. There are a ton of oriented strand board bodies with high grade veneer tops.
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I like red cars, but I see people driving around black cars. Why would anyone want to drive a black car? Apart from visual aesthetics, does the black actually add to the vehicle?
Debate...
Debate...
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mikeyswood said:
You must really enjoy washing your car then
I drive down a gravel road every day, white or silver is the only way to fly.
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Musiclogic said:Mikey looks nothing like Henry Ford...LMAO
Oh wow, I cant believe I didn't catch that.
You must really enjoy washing your car then
I drive down a gravel road every day, white or silver is the only way to fly.
I have a white car and live in Oklahoma. It stays white for a maximum of 3 days before the wind blows red dirt all over it.
I live in the desert and my car is a nice, boring, silver/tan.
Hides the dust quite well, I can just clean the glass and go weeks between washes.
Eminently practical.
Simillarly, while I do appreciate instruments with visually attractive arrangements of striated tree pieces, and have owned at least one myself, I find the praticality not realistic for me. Cost/return ratios and all that.
I still play pretty well on the lower budget stuff I play these days.
The others are beautiful to look at, no doubt impeccably made, but just not for me as a player, or as a repair guy/ attempted luthier. Just my opinion.
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Hides the dust quite well, I can just clean the glass and go weeks between washes.
Eminently practical.
Simillarly, while I do appreciate instruments with visually attractive arrangements of striated tree pieces, and have owned at least one myself, I find the praticality not realistic for me. Cost/return ratios and all that.
I still play pretty well on the lower budget stuff I play these days.
The others are beautiful to look at, no doubt impeccably made, but just not for me as a player, or as a repair guy/ attempted luthier. Just my opinion.
wraub
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HaMMerHeD said:
Yeah white stays pretty clean in south east Texas. I can imagine that red OK dirt being a pain.
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It's not really red dirt, it all the excess streamers, paper signs, and OU wear from the landfills that has contaminated the soil color.
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It's not really red dirt, it all the excess streamers, paper signs, and OU wear from the landfills that has contaminated the soil color.
So its contamination from the scum of the earth college football program in the country? That explains alot
Big Longhorns fan here if you can't tell
It's not really red dirt, it all the excess streamers, paper signs, and OU wear from the landfills that has contaminated the soil color.
So its contamination from the scum of the earth college football program in the country? That explains alot
Big Longhorns fan here if you can't tell
Aye. Definitelt too much ou crap. Contaminates my brain. I like to wear orange when I go to campus. I don't care for Texas any more than I do Oklahoma, but I do like to antagonize the fanatics.
