Now with Pics! Shuker 3. Extended db type fret board 😱

[Acebassmusic]

3 hours ago, MacDaddy said:

 

It's not often you see totally unique developments in the shape / ergonomics of a bass. Mr Shuker certainly does some extraordinary work. I think I would confuse myself silly trying to tune up mid gig....."just tweak the E a little....darn that's the D.....now the D which is really the E....or is it? 😕🤔🤣🤣" That is one wonderfully different instrument you have there, I hope you have fun playing it.

[MacDaddy]

4 minutes ago, Acebassmusic said:

It's not often you see totally unique developments in the shape / ergonomics of a bass. Mr Shuker certainly does some extraordinary work. I think I would confuse myself silly trying to tune up mid gig....."just tweak the E a little....darn that's the D.....now the D which is really the E....or is it? 😕🤔🤣🤣" That is one wonderfully different instrument you have there, I hope you have fun playing it.

 

Yeah, it's definitely a case of 'look before you tune'! 😆

[Velarian]

Call me obtuse but it’s not clear to me how this actually works 🤔.

 

The things I’ve circled in red below appear to be acting like mini capos clamping the string to the zero and -1(?) frets. If this is the case then is there a mechanism to release each of these to get to Eb and D?

 

 

[songofthewind]

These clamp type devices appeared on Factor basses back in the day, if I recall correctly.

[Henrythe8]

Definetely stunning. I'd call it Banana. That's the Headstock shape inspiring me. 🙂 

 

[MacDaddy]

13 hours ago, Velarian said:

Call me obtuse but it’s not clear to me how this actually works 🤔.

 

The things I’ve circled in red below appear to be acting like mini capos clamping the string to the zero and -1(?) frets. If this is the case then is there a mechanism to release each of these to get to Eb and D?

 

 

They are on a spring, and pivot away from the fret when not needed.

[SpondonBassed]

I've just noticed that the E tuner is furthest from the nut and the G is closest.  I am more used to seeing them the other way around.  Is a custom set of strings used?

[MacDaddy]

1 hour ago, SpondonBassed said:

I've just noticed that the E tuner is furthest from the nut and the G is closest.  I am more used to seeing them the other way around.  Is a custom set of strings used?

Not custom,  just long scale - I think, tbh I can't remember 😖 - but Jon said something about them needing to be cut to length before stringing.

[chris_b]

Very interesting.

 

If I was spec'ing this I'd have probably gone for the Kubicki headless approach. 

[MacDaddy]

1 hour ago, chris_b said:

Very interesting.

 

If I was spec'ing this I'd have probably gone for the Kubicki headless approach. 

 

Like these 😉

 

[chris_b]

14 minutes ago, MacDaddy said:

 

Like these 😉

 

 

That's the one.

[itu]

19 hours ago, songofthewind said:

These clamp type devices appeared on Factor basses back in the day, if I recall correctly.

I... think the Factor bass had tuners in the head, but you meant Ex-Factor.

It seems that there are nowadays two Factor models on top of the Ex-Factor: https://kubicki.com/

[songofthewind]

That’s it, Phil Kubicki.