Acebassmusic Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 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'! 😆 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velarian Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 These clamp type devices appeared on Factor basses back in the day, if I recall correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henrythe8 Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Definetely stunning. I'd call it Banana. That's the Headstock shape inspiring me. 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpondonBassed Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 Very interesting. If I was spec'ing this I'd have probably gone for the Kubicki headless approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 25, 2021 Author Share Posted August 25, 2021 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 😉 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 14 minutes ago, MacDaddy said: Like these 😉 That's the one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itu Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 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/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songofthewind Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 That’s it, Phil Kubicki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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