Stainless Steel Bass

[Jabba_the_gut]

Just stumbled across this bass....quite different....

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJPatcYPWw&list=UUJEEXmo1YHTHZ1QppWxX_qQ"]Stainless Bass[/url]

Edited November 13, 2016 by Jabba_the_gut

[Happy Jack]

Hmmmm ... apart from offering you a real opportunity to scrap your existing technique and learn to play a cylindrical bass, what does it actually do that a normal bass can't do?

[ambient]

You'd be for ever cleaning it.

Looks horrible.

[HowieBass]

How do you set any kind of relief with that (unless the neck gets thinner towards the middle) and what happens when you want to dress the frets or replace them?

[mikel]

Love the shape and finish, for once a bass that looks a bit different. I have two basses that I have played for over 10 years without having to re fret so its hardly a first thought for me.

Edited November 13, 2016 by mikel

[Jabba_the_gut]

I don't quite get it either, but it was just something completely different!

[url="http://stashstainlessbass.com/"]Website[/url]

Edited November 13, 2016 by Jabba_the_gut

[HazBeen]

That is the ugliest thing I have seen for quite a while...

[Jabba_the_gut]

And another website of some quite different basses....

[url="http://www.atlansiaguitars.com/Bass-Guitar.php?type=bass"]Another lot of different designs[/url]

[Cato]

I can't decide if if a cylindrical neck would make fretting hand muting easier or harder.

It'd probably require a bit of adjustment on the left hand slap/percussive mute (not sure what the technical name is) thingy though.

Edited November 13, 2016 by Cato

[alyctes]

The interesting thing about that is that the frets go all the way round. That might do interesting things to LH thumb position.

Also, if you took the bouts off, you could play it with a bow

Edited November 13, 2016 by alyctes

[6feet7]

I absolutely love it (but then I used to be a GUS player, so metal tubing on an instrument isn't new to me).

[Bassassin]

I think it's intriguing, would love a shot on one. IMO the model in the video's pretty ugly, but there are a couple of different styles available. [url="http://stashstainlessbass.com/shop/stash-stainless-model-e"]This one's much more like it[/url], IMO.

[fleabag]

Didnt we already do this ?

http://basschat.co.uk/topic/291239-stash-ss/page__fromsearch__1

[leschirons]

Any good for metal?

And probably a good investment as of this morning, stainless scrap is £650 per ton.

[Happy Jack]

And why do they never state the weight?

They can hardly argue that stainless steel is an organic material and that weight will vary with the growth rings ...

[SICbass]

Wouldn't tuning with temperature variations be a bit of a nightmare?

Edited November 14, 2016 by SICbass

[Happy Jack]

Not if your technique is good enough.

[SICbass]

[quote name='Jabba_the_gut' timestamp='1479070981' post='3173747']
And another website of some quite different basses....

[url="http://www.atlansiaguitars.com/Bass-Guitar.php?type=bass"]Another lot of different designs[/url]
[/quote]

There's some fun-looking stuff there. I like the one with f-holes, but what are those 8-pole pups all about then?

[BigRedX]

[quote name='SICbass' timestamp='1479124150' post='3174056']
Wouldn't tuning with temperature variations be a bit of a nightmare?
[/quote]

IME from owning an all steel Born To Rock Bass, the tuning is actually more stable because the body and the strings (made of similar materials) act more evenly to changes in temperature compared with a wooden bass.

[lowdown]

So, I presume the six string version has the low B and high C strings somewhere around the back of the neck.

Nice sound though.

[SICbass]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1479125125' post='3174069']


IME from owning an all steel Born To Rock Bass, the tuning is actually more stable because the body and the strings (made of similar materials) act more evenly to changes in temperature compared with a wooden bass.
[/quote]

Really. That's interesting, I hadn't thought about it like that.

[SICbass]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1479124316' post='3174059']
Not if your technique is good enough.
[/quote]

That's me knackered then 😘

[MoonBassAlpha]

I would like to have seen a straight pull micrometer style tuning system.

[Happy Jack]

Either that, or spot-welded.