Signs a luthier's off ones rocker

[jebroad]

Please feel free to let me now of ways a luthier can be mad,

e.g. Tune-o-Matic on a strat

SG with a floyd rose

[fleabag]

Try the Seymour Duncan forums or post it here maybe ??

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/97-guitars/

[Mykesbass]

16 hours ago, fleabag said:

Try the Seymour Duncan forums or post it here maybe ??

https://www.basschat.co.uk/forum/97-guitars/

I'm sure we can find some bass related luthier tomfoolery. Disappearing frets, whammy bars on bass, Wishbass (although they have their fans on here), and of course there are a couple of favourites in the Ebay section - the Tennessee, and he who shan't be named.

[uk_lefty]

2 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Wishbass

You beat me to it.

[kodiakblair]

5 hours ago, Mykesbass said:

Wishbass

 

2 hours ago, uk_lefty said:

You beat me to it.

The Andrew Jackson Fodera has no truss rod or graphite bars because Jackson thinks they affect tone.

Wishnevsky thinks the same.

[spectoremg]

You've made me look up Wishbass - I can't un-see those now!

[Woodinblack]

The bridge on the Bass VI. I think that probably says enough.

The bridge.. no the pickups.. no the neck.. on a rickenbacker

 

[Woodinblack]

1 minute ago, spectoremg said:

You've made me look up Wishbass - I can't un-see those now!

Same here!

[BreadBin]

3 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

Same here!

And here, I was surprised how cheap they are...

[kodiakblair]

Cracking basses. The Ambrosia Maple (right) weighs 7lb, Bloodwood (left) weighs 12lb. Bloodwood doesn't float in water,that's how dense it is 

 

Though Steve-W briefly worked for Ovation Guitars he's always been involved in hillbilly music. That's his market, $200-$300 hand made basses,that they look hand made is intentional. Let's face it a $20K Fodera AJ would look out of place in North Carolina (median family income $48K).

[BreadBin]

I quite fancy one now!

[kodiakblair]

3 minutes ago, BreadBin said:

I quite fancy one now!

Before you go and order one I strongly advise you borrow one of mine. The thick necks are an eye opener.

[kevin_lindsay]

1 hour ago, kodiakblair said:

The Andrew Jackson Fodera has no truss rod or graphite bars because Jackson thinks they affect tone.

While the Fodera Anthony Jackson has no graphite stiffening bars in the neck, it does use a truss rod - a titanium one.

[kodiakblair]

10 minutes ago, kevin_lindsay said:

While the Fodera Anthony Jackson has no graphite stiffening bars in the neck, it does use a truss rod - a titanium one.

In the $35K Presentation II but not in the plain old Presentation.

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation/

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation-ii-2/

[lozkerr]

1 hour ago, spectoremg said:

You've made me look up Wishbass - I can't un-see those now!

Eww, nor can I. They look like something from Alien.

[Guest]

7 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

In the $35K Presentation II but not in the plain old Presentation.

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation/

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation-ii-2/

I think you may be slightly mis-reading the text. In other blurb and in interviews with Mr Jackson a single truss rod placed in a proprietary location is mentioned (whatever that means). On a more obvious level, the pics in the first link show a truss rod cover at the headstock end...

Edited May 8, 2018 by FDC484950

[BreadBin]

7 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

Before you go and order one I strongly advise you borrow one of mine. The thick necks are an eye opener.

I do like a thick neck, if I remember correctly you are at the opposite end of the country to me as I am in the south west (although we are quite likely to head north later in the year, family homeland and all that) 

[kevin_lindsay]

7 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

In the $35K Presentation II but not in the plain old Presentation.

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation/

http://www.fodera.com/anthony-jackson-presentation-ii-2/

The old Presentation model has a truss rod- but as you correctly stated earlier, there are no stiffening rods or materials in the neck construction  (a truss rod doesn't act as a "stiffening agent", rather it is there to counteract the tension exerted by the strings on the neck). I've played Dave Swift's presentation model, and yup, there is definitely a truss rod in there.

Crazily expensive basses!!!

Edited May 8, 2018 by kevin_lindsay

[kodiakblair]

Aye my mistake, was going by a TB thread over the weekend. $30k is mental. I bought a 3 bed house for £25k back in 01 :-) 

[CameronJ]

Surely whether the bass has a truss rod or not isn’t the issue - but the prices being discussed are what make these Fodera’s eligible for the thread title! Absolute madness.

[Mykesbass]

19 minutes ago, CameronJ said:

Surely whether the bass has a truss rod or not isn’t the issue - but the prices being discussed are what make these Fodera’s eligible for the thread title! Absolute madness.

Not the luthier's madness in this case though...

[musicbassman]

Ah! - so here's the guy who's turned up for the audition with the blues rock pub band.

I don't think this is going to go well.............................

 

[uk_lefty]

30 minutes ago, musicbassman said:

Ah! - so here's the guy who's turned up for the audition with the blues rock pub band.

I don't think this is going to go well.............................

 

Silly boy's not wearing shoes. Not happening in my band!

[spectoremg]

4 hours ago, musicbassman said:

Ah! - so here's the guy who's turned up for the audition with the blues rock pub band.

I don't think this is going to go well.............................

 

The venue must be prestigious - a Van Gogh!!

Edited May 8, 2018 by spectoremg

[Woodinblack]

23 minutes ago, spectoremg said:

The venue must be prestigious - a Van Gogh!!

That’s why he isn’t allowed to wear shoes!