Lefty Photo Gallery

[Silvia Bluejay]

Hi Polymad, and welcome. The best way to post photos on Basschat is to upload them to a site such as Flickr or Photobucket or Picasa etc., then copy the link to the JPG file and paste it into the box that appears when you press the photo icon in your reply field (the square button with a green tree, in the toolbar above the typing field).
There is also the option of uploading the pic to Basschat, but the system is pretty buggy and cumbersome and best avoided.

[polymad]

Hi Bluejay,

thank you so much! Will do so then

[Transmogrifier1]

Here is my latest purchase, a lefty mahogany Kala Ubass.

[blablas]

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1397148928' post='2421216']For the pickguards I'm still undecided which I like more:

This one.

Or this one.
[/quote]


And this is the one I made for it yesterday.

Edited October 13, 2017 by blablas

[sblueplanet]

Excellent job blablas. Let us know if you ever decide to start making custom pickguards for fellow lefties.

[blablas]

Made another pickguard today, This one is for my OLP MM2.

It's not really a job I like to do, if you want to do it right it is rather time consuming and boring to make one.
However, it's a nice simple way to get a instrument with a different look and in the end it is worth the effort.

Edited October 13, 2017 by blablas

[blablas]

And today, for the time being, I've made my last pickguard, mint green for my Squier Precision.

Almost boringly traditional, but somehow I like it.

Detail shot for chamfered edge.

That's how it should be done.

Edited October 13, 2017 by blablas

[sblueplanet]

Aww man, wish I was able to craft stuff with my clumsy paws :-(

[blablas]

Practice makes perfect.

And I am educated in making stuff, it's not something you learn by trail and error alone.

[blablas]

New toy!

A lot of bass for a very nice price.

[blablas]

[b]And one more...[/b]
Today this one arrived at my doorstep.

Warwick ProSerie Corvette Std 6 FL

Ever since I build me a fretless six string a couple of years back, on which I was just not able to play decently due to it having a 35 inch scale, I wanted a fretless sixer.

I'm able to play fretless fairly well on a 34" and have been doubting for a long time to build me a new one but with a 34"scale, when all of a sudden these Warwick basses came by at Thomann (big German music store) at a very nice price, roughly about the same as it wold cost me in materials and parts, I did not need to think very long and just bought me one.

For the time being I'm done buying!! [size=1](I hope)[/size]

[Bonin-in-the boneyard]

Nice Basses

Edited September 19, 2014 by Bonin-in-the boneyard

[Subbeh]

Bought back my 02 Ray, cleaned, repaired and sounding great, very happy to have it home

[url="https://flic.kr/p/pjGneT"][/url]

[blablas]

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1410636267' post='2551542']
New toy!

A lot of bass for a very nice price.
[/quote]
And now with a full maple neck.

Edited October 25, 2014 by blablas

[blablas]

Just for fun... A up to-date picture of my complete electric herd.

Edited October 13, 2017 by blablas

[timmo]

My new Warwick PS Streamer LX

[Subbeh]

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1414336420' post='2588356']
Just for fun... A up to-date picture of my complete electric herd.

[/quote]

Blows me away every time I see that pic, what an awesome room! [size=4] [/size]

[blablas]

Thanks.

[rogerstodge]

[quote name='Subbeh' timestamp='1414859268' post='2594052']


Blows me away every time I see that pic, what an awesome room! [size=4] [/size]
[/quote]where D'ya keep the rest of em?

[blablas]

The rest are two acoustic basses, a four string and a five string, they are standing in my living room.
And then there is an old double bass thing that stands in the way somewhere in a corner in another part of my living room.


.... Or do you mean the empty spaces? That's a work in progress and will be filled in due time.

[rogerstodge]

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1415057743' post='2596334']
The rest are two acoustic basses, a four string and a five string, they are standing in my living room.
And then there is an old double bass thing that stands in the way somewhere in a corner in another part of my living room.


.... Or do you mean the empty spaces? That's a work in progress and will be filled in due time.
[/quote]said in jest matey , as in, "is that all you've got". I own 7 basses and got moaned at cos i was looking at another on ebay.
Got any Ps for sale?

Edited November 7, 2014 by rogerstodge

[blablas]

English is not my native language, these are the kind of subtleties I miss out on sometimes.

[blablas]

New toy, a BaCH BPB-60 butterscotch.

Custom-order, started out as a bit of a 'lack of lefty offers' jest on a Dutch bass guitar forum, the Dutch importer took up on it and did some asking around with BaCH, this bass is the end result.

A big thanks to Rob at [url="http://www.numberoneguitars.com"]NumberOneGuitars[/url].

Edited November 29, 2014 by blablas

[blablas]

And the most recent new toy, hopefully I'm done buying for a longer period of time now!

Harley Benton PB-Shorty.

Fun little bass, unbelievably well built for its price (70 euro's at Thomann, this one was even cheaper, 60 euro's B-stock).
Mechanically everything is okay, reasonably well finished, no sharp fret ends, only the tuners sometimes feel a bit vague.
The thing that really needed to be done was a proper shielding job, this is absolutely necessary. Also sanded the back of the neck lightly with 1200 grain sandpaper, and of course put on a set new strings and done some fine tuning.

For its 30" scale it almost sounds as a full sized P-bass, at least to my ears.

Edited December 17, 2014 by blablas

[Silvia Bluejay]

Blimey, I've been studiously avoiding this thread because I knew it would give me huuge GAS, I soo knew that...

Gorgeous basses, guys. Keep the pics coming...