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ey up, ive not posted in a while because uni has been making my brain melt, i can only nip on the internet for a quick minute right now but was wondering if anyone knew of any luthiers who would build me a bass with a body modeled after the ibanez jet king II guitar:

[url="http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--IBAJTK2"]http://www.samedaymusic.com/product--IBAJTK2[/url]

I really love the design and want to get one built up with 2 darkstar pickups (or something equally sexy) in black with tortoiseshell pickguard and a neck the same as the one on my 1975 fender jazz bass RI (slimmer than normal jazz bass neck - rosewood with block inlays) and then with some reverse gotoh tuners and a badass II bridge or something.

can anyone help? it's my dream bass, and because of something i might actually be able to get it.

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[quote name='Bassassin' post='89510' date='Nov 16 2007, 05:06 PM']The Jet King is Ibanez plagiarising their own 60s back catalogue:



That's an Ibanez Rhythm Series 1900, from 1960. You're gonna kill me when I tell you one of those (the same one) has been through Ebay twice in the last few months.

Jon.[/quote]
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

did anyone buy it?

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Hey Ant,
not sure what you ended up doing about this, but just thought you might want to see this >>

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm[/url]

Looks like Ibanez have been listening...

Eude

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How about the one on the right of these two?

[url="http://www.lecomptebass.com/acidjds/"]Bud's Acid Jazz[/url]

Not quite the same, but getting there. Bud makes a lovely bass -- and look at the price.

And he'll build custom designs. I should say that before anybody points out that these basses look nothing like each other :)

Cheers

Mark

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[quote name='eude' post='117424' date='Jan 9 2008, 09:12 PM']Hey Ant,
not sure what you ended up doing about this, but just thought you might want to see this >>

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm[/url]

Looks like Ibanez have been listening...

Eude[/quote]
Bookasha!

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There's a luthier I highly recommend, having played a number of his beautiful creations. Chris Stambaugh, based in the US, is build-to-order, and not only does so with top-notch quality, but also at a price that's sometimes hard to believe. I don't know what his international business is like, but a worst-case scenario, he says he can't. My bet is he could, and would probably impress you along the way!

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[quote name='eude' post='117424' date='Jan 9 2008, 09:12 PM']Looks like Ibanez have been listening...[/quote]


Save yourself a whole heap of money, an unfeasably long 'lead time' and a huge loss if you decide to sell it...

Just get onto Thomann, buy the Ibanez, change the pickups (probably) and, for £210 or so, you're away :)

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[quote name='ARGH' post='117532' date='Jan 9 2008, 11:21 PM']www.jimfleetingguitars.com
the guys in Ripon,and hes the best in the UK.

And thats not an opinion,its a fact.[/quote]

A fact eh, Ross?
I'd like to see your proofs young man, and have them peer reviewed in a respected journal.
:)

Looks like that Ibanez is the chappie, at least have a go on one before committing a load of wonga (like at least 5 times as much) to a custom project, especially a US based one :huh:

Naturally I'd support the suggestion that Jon Shuker would be a good option but, as has been pointed out, other makers are available - about 30 or so in the UK alone ...

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[quote name='eude' post='117424' date='Jan 9 2008, 09:12 PM']Hey Ant,
not sure what you ended up doing about this, but just thought you might want to see this >>

[url="http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm"]http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_jtkb200_bk.htm[/url]

Looks like Ibanez have been listening...

Eude[/quote]

Looks more like a real functional bass guitar.
The orginal looks like a short scale crapola thing and probably sounds wonderful in that old crapola way they do ...
It's still going to neck dive though ...

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I've played a couple of Jim Fleeting's instruments & I quite liked the quality of them, but the "half fretted bass was just a little too wierd for my tastes. I can't comment on the SEI or Shukers, but they have plenty of fans on this server. Bernie Goodfellow & Status Graphite are the two I know best & their work is second to none. Depends on what you want, really!

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