Tuning Peg Covers

[ChiefPinero]

In a video from SBL, Scott's has a bass with a frog and a bear as covers on the tuning pegs. Where would one get these from? He mentioned Chris from basschat put them on but nothing else. 

[BreadBin]

Paging @ped 👍

I think they're just finger puppets, but hopefully the man himself can elaborate.

[Reggaebass]

2 hours ago, ChiefPinero said:

Where would one get these from

They are finger puppets, eBay sell them, not as good as peds ones , but my nephew had some 🙂

[ped]

😂 Scott said we’d start a new craze! I can’t remember when I started putting them on but it was around the time I got this bass so maybe 15 years. It just doesn’t feel right without them now. I was called out in a Facebook group for ‘not taking the bass seriously’ for having them which was funny. 

The best ones for Schaller M4 are IKEA puppets whereas for Fender style clovers you need a slightly girthier puppet. 

Some say the extra mass and pair of eyes at the headstock helps with tuning stability, fretting accuracy and sexual attractiveness especially among the puppet community. 

Here’s the original 

 

[ahpook]

3 minutes ago, ped said:

.....you need a slightly girthier puppet.

Advice I didn't think I'd be getting today.

 

[PaulThePlug]

Fun... recognise the IKEA puppets...

[ezbass]

36 minutes ago, ped said:

I was called out in a Facebook group for ‘not taking the bass seriously’ 

 

 

Some folk are so up themselves  

[TheGreek]

I can see a trend starting....off to ebay to see what's available...

[CameronJ]

3 hours ago, ped said:

I was called out in a Facebook group for ‘not taking the bass seriously’ for having them which was funny. 

Oh god, I remember this. A comical exchange.

[devinebass]

23 hours ago, ped said:

Some say the extra mass and pair of eyes at the headstock helps with tuning stability, fretting accuracy and sexual attractiveness especially among the puppet community. 

I can confirm this 100%!

[Bobthedog]

I suspect these are the same type of person that puts animal covers on the heads of their golf bats. 😀

Edited August 10, 2020 by Bobthedog

[Baloney Balderdash]

Little known, but absolutely true, fact! :

Cliff Burton recorded the bass track for "Master of Puppets" with finger puppets of respectively James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett, but strangely enough looking remarkably similar to how they did in their "Load" phase, placed on the tuning pegs of his bass, and with the low E string tuning peg being equipped with a finger puppet of the Grim Reaper himself.

He was truly prophetic like that.

Though the conspiracy theory goes that it was actually really part of a black magic ritual that he performed to place a curse on Metalica, sacrificing his own life as part of the deal, and as an evil ironic stroke of genius using James Hetfield's own words against him, basically having James unknowingly chant the incantation sealing the ritual to the doom of his own, as well as Lars's and Kirk's, creativity :

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by Baloney Balderdash