NikNik Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 (edited) Someone's had a go at their Ma's old kitchen table. Love the seemingly random placement of the mono-rails and the G is still well off! And the A string isn't even in its nut slot! As for the fret-job.....🤨 Bass Edited December 19, 2019 by NikNik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mykesbass Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Gulp!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Wow. 🤦🏻♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Wow, I don’t know how they got the mono rails so wrong, they could have used the body stripes as a guide 🙂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 No, Stevie Wonder built it himself. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Wow! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenolive Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 It’s curtains for this builder 🤦♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
machinehead Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Ah, come on lads. Cut him a little slack. That was the first one he built, when he was still in primary school. Frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Say what you like - the chap that built it won't mind as he is dead. He was a bass custom builder and the seller bought up his entire estate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 I hope he kept the receipt if they're all like that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 Perhaps Mr De Curtains thought the 'fanned bridge' might catch on in the way fanned frets have? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said: Say what you like - the chap that built it won't mind as he is dead. He was a bass custom builder and the seller bought up his entire estate Do tell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 2 hours ago, NikNik said: Do tell! We recently purchased the entire estate of custom bass guitar maker David Decurtins. This fine Basses was hand made in the USA by Decurtins, and are made of the finest exotic hard woods with Dual Carbon Fiber Truss Rods. New old stock from the estate that have never been offered for sale until now. This particular bass is a right handed 4 string long scale bass, with mother of pearl fret inlays and a bridge to nut measurement of 33 1/2" and an overall measurement of 42 1/2". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 The nut looks like it's had some odd work done to it, seems like the original slot for the A string is still there but somebody has made a new one in completely the wrong place and used that instead: Seeing as the rest of the bass looks reasonably well built maybe the correct holes are hiding underneath the bridge saddles and the same cackhanded bodger who did the nut has moved them too? Possibly after too many beers during a night out in Lagney? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ped Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 Looks like the A string has just popped out of the nut and the seller didn’t notice for the photo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 1 hour ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: What? Apart from the the fret job, the body shape, the nut, the mono rails, the non continuous body wood back panel (which looks like it was made for a different hole) - apart from that, it looks OK 😀 Assuming it was all made by the same person it isn't a complete wreck, someone at some point would have had to build a working through neck and everything else on it seems straight. That's if it isn't chopped down from an already existing bass for some bizarre reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikNik Posted December 20, 2019 Author Share Posted December 20, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, yorks5stringer said: We recently purchased the entire estate of custom bass guitar maker David Decurtins. This fine Basses was hand made in the USA by Decurtins, and are made of the finest exotic hard woods with Dual Carbon Fiber Truss Rods. New old stock from the estate that have never been offered for sale until now. This particular bass is a right handed 4 string long scale bass, with mother of pearl fret inlays and a bridge to nut measurement of 33 1/2" and an overall measurement of 42 a Aahhh, what a doofus. I only saw the partial description on the ebay app. My bad. There are two others in amongst all that bric-a-brac. The centre laminates seem well made but the hardware looks like its just been eyeballed. Edited December 20, 2019 by NikNik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemmywinks Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 That's what I mean - they all look like someone has taken the time to construct the neck/body laminates then they've been handed over to a complete halfwit for the rest. So odd! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 It's weird - some of the work on it seems really good and other bits are just slap-dash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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