This one ranks right up there for me.
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Your prettiest bass
- Thread starter LastJaguar
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I guess I will play:
My Stambaugh is the prettier of the two, but my Clement is quite the workhorse!
My Stambaugh is the prettier of the two, but my Clement is quite the workhorse!
Yep, it really punches thru nicely.Must be a tone monster
Here are a couple tracks using the custom Cabronita for our last album.
I don’t go in for cosmetics too much beyond a bass not looking hideous. But I do have two that have covergirl looks:
A DiAngelico Excel
And a Willcox Lightwave Saber VL (That’s my younger sister getting her first fretless lesson from yours truly. She’s an genuine natural at it! Amazingly good intonation in just the first 5 minutes. Even gets ”the look” and the stance right out of the gate. But she was born a rockstar so I’m hardly surprised.)
Most of what I own looks more like this. Functional, working bass player, utilitarian looks like my Spector
A DiAngelico Excel
And a Willcox Lightwave Saber VL (That’s my younger sister getting her first fretless lesson from yours truly. She’s an genuine natural at it! Amazingly good intonation in just the first 5 minutes. Even gets ”the look” and the stance right out of the gate. But she was born a rockstar so I’m hardly surprised.)
Most of what I own looks more like this. Functional, working bass player, utilitarian looks like my Spector
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This is such an odd thread because beauty is so subjective. I love this thing, partly because I refinished it myself and partly because every time I look at it, it makes me smile -
Others will scoff at it.
I also think this thing looks beautiful -
And I have an attraction to this thing that I'm still building -
So it's hard for me to pick just one.
Others will scoff at it.
I also think this thing looks beautiful -
And I have an attraction to this thing that I'm still building -
So it's hard for me to pick just one.
They’re all nice looking. This one has the most class.
I had this built by Bruce Wei Arts in Vietnam a couple of months ago for $825 shipped to Los Angeles. I saw his tenor uke in the style and asked if he could make it as 23" scale bass uke. It came out great, but he doesn't do electronics, so I had my guy Eric's Guitar in Van Nuys, CA install a preamp and pickup I had for $180. Added Kala/Galli flatwound nylon core strings.
Congratulations on owning that one.
I think they're all quite pretty but if I have to pick one:
I don't have the best lighting (built a soundproofed basement for music, didn't realize it was also effectively a dungeon), but you can see the wood grain okay on the body (swamp ash) and fretboard (wenge).
I don't have the best lighting (built a soundproofed basement for music, didn't realize it was also effectively a dungeon), but you can see the wood grain okay on the body (swamp ash) and fretboard (wenge).
