Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Your favourite (non-boutique) bass manufacturer has contacted you. Due to your reputation as a bass player other bass players look up to, they want to make a signature bass model for you. This could be based on one or more of your existing basses or something you've always wanted which hasn't until now existed. You would have full control of every aspect of the specification and customisations. It will be distributed to the shops they usually sell in and you would get a royalty for each one sold. In as much detail as you like, what would you tell them to build, and realistically how much would you expect it to cost when it goes on sale? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Based upon Yamaha BB2024Mx Reverse the P. inlays white - not black, white Pearl pickguard… VVT 2 Colours Available Orange Metallic (like my 414) Shelby Blue Metallic (like the late 90’s AES800b) it Would be made in the Indonesian facility (effectively a 1024) would come with that ace yamaha gigbag, be about £799/£899 and I’d want £50 a bass 😉 Edited October 25, 2021 by AndyTravis 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sven Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Based on my cherished 1984 G&L El Toro, G&L finally listen to the (at least) half a dozen guys on forums that ask repetively for a reissue, and they offer it again. Exactly as they did in the 80s, same options, same woods, same colors, and most important, same pickups. Actually they're not even that far from it, since they started to offer the L-2000 in the CLF Research series they have most of the specs on hand. The main issue is the pickups that they will need to retro-ingeener. As far as a signature model goes, I don't even want my name on it, it'll just ask for my share of the royalities in the form of one of each of the different color options. And maybe a few in some custom shop colors such as the sparkles or the flamed maple tops. I'll be touring internationally in stadiums with them, I promise ! Edited October 25, 2021 by Sven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thodrik Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 A five string Sadowsky but with a zero fret and a neck constructed with the Vigier 10-90 carbon system in the neck. The pickups will feature a single J in the neck and a humbucker in the bridge that can be coil tapped (like the Sandberg TM line). preamp will be the standard Sadowsky. Bridge will be the big hulk of metal they use in the Excess. Roger Sadowsky and Patrice Vigier can then licence Warwick to manufacture the instrument at a cost of £30,000 and then the design will be amended against my wishes to include the Just a Nut iii and be made of solid bubinga and will weigh 13lbs. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 40 minutes ago, AndyTravis said: Based upon Yamaha BB2024Mx Reverse the P. inlays white - not black, white Pearl pickguard… VVT 2 Colours Available Orange Metallic (like my 414) Shelby Blue Metallic (like the late 90’s AES800b) it Would be made in the Indonesian facility (effectively a 1024) would come with that ace yamaha gigbag, be about £799/£899 and I’d want £50 a bass 😉 This, but black with the maple board (some figuring would be nice) and no inlays... 🙂 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 When Bernie Goodfellow rings I'll ask if can make me a headless Rumour, Ebony board, figured top and SIMs pick ups. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 Before 2018 mine would have been exactly like the Daphne blue JMJ sig but without the roadworn treatment. Since JMJ has nailed that bass and I can live with the roadwornedness of the one I bought, I would get Fender to build something based on my Squier SS Jaguar with a few tweaks for my own sig. Alder (rather than agathis) body with Candy apple red Nitro finish neck dimensions - exactly as the squier Rosewood fingerboard Fender High Mass bridge Hipshot lollipop tuners Fender Yosemite pickups with CTS/switchcraft loom including greasebucket circuit - these sound thunderous on my squier Thomastic JF-324 flats Rosewood fingerboard chrome thumbrest correct 60s style Jazz bass knobs Chrome thumbrest on the bass side Extra long comfort strapp and red grolsch thingies This would be a MiM instrument with a target street price of around £1000 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Actually, given that Jon Shuker makes a Jean Jacques Burnel Sig bass, can I have a Shuker instead? If that's the case, I've already got mine... 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Made in Yamaha's Indonesia factory laminated neck an exact copy of their BB424 neck: 40mm nut, 22mm / 25mm thick at 1st / 12th frets body an alder P bass copy but with Yamaha diagonal-through-body stringing copy of the G&L split MFD pickup 3 versions: shell pink / maple / white 3-ply lake placid blue / rosewood / tort metallic candy apple red / ebony / no pg sell for about £500ish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Fender already made them, the US Standard Precisions from 2013-16, no matter what other basses I try these are the best for me so that’s what my sig bass would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Kramer Striker five string fretless. The modifications from stock... Kiogon loom with the magic sauce that makes the cheap stock pickups world beaters. I'd like an epoxy type coating on the fretboard. Maybe some better quality woods in there, but really for a cheap bass this is still going almost twenty years since getting it and I have used it in every band I've been in. The headstock shape makes it a bit lairy and not suited for everything but having said that I think that's part of its charm. It really looks out of place at an acoustic blues gig. Especially when you've just been told "it's 12 bar blues in *whatever key* you'll be fine" and expected to play competently for a whole gig.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) A 6-string, fretted version of the Jaco Pastorius tribute Jazz Bass, still with his name on it instead of mine, just to p*ss off everyone that ever said "Jaco only needed four". Seriously though: I'd love Rob Green to build me a lefty, headless 5-string version of the classic Status Series 2000 model, with the pickups in the Chris Wolstenholme positions but with the controls simplified with the mid boost/cut pot between the bass and treble controls rather than placed by itself, and with the mid frequency knob moved to the inside of the control cavity as a set-and-forget option, with a slightly more subtle and useful filter sweep. Edited October 25, 2021 by LeftyJ Profanity filter bypass 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linus27 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) Mine would be easy, an unlined fretless Fender Jazz, based on the specs of a 1966 Fender Jazz, made in Japan, Ebony board, gloss neck, nitro finish, Bartonlini pickups and available in two colour's black and Sherwood Green. Edited October 25, 2021 by Linus27 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 The Epiphone neepheid Signature Jack Casady Signature bass? Wait, that doesn't work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 When I were but a lad, I spent hours with an italic nib practising my fantasy signature. Can't remember what it looked like now ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) - Edited March 15, 2022 by Jus Lukin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4000 Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Either a copy of my main Rick 4001 but in the Azureglo of my spare, or a checker bound, full-width crushed-Pearl inlayed, heavily flamed-maple Rick 4004 in trans blue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 55 minutes ago, neepheid said: The Epiphone neepheid Signature Jack Casady Signature bass? Wait, that doesn't work They do signature Les Pauls 🤷🏻♂️ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 minute ago, AndyTravis said: They do signature Les Pauls 🤷🏻♂️ The JC effectively is a Les Paul Signature Bass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyTravis Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 minute ago, LeftyJ said: The JC effectively is a Les Paul Signature Bass Signature of a signature of a signature…it’ll be reet… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 This will end up like a plaster cast at this rate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnt Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) This might be weird, but here goes anyway ... I've always liked the look of the Yamaha SG-2000 guitar, and have sometimes wondered why they never made an equivalent bass, a SB-2000. So I would spec out a 5-string (SB-2500?) with a body of similar size or slightly larger, and a small headstock with lightweight tuners (since neck dive would be a risk). For electronics, I would want their nicest TRBX pickups, simple passive volume & tone for each , then to split outputs as on the Attitude. For woods and finish, I would look for something lighter than the SG-2000, maybe a quilted maple top or a light green tint. PS I might want to spec EMG soapbar pickups, such as the 40DCX at the neck and 40TWX at the bridge. Edited October 25, 2021 by bnt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 (edited) - Edited March 15, 2022 by Jus Lukin 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 30 minutes ago, bnt said: This might be weird, but here goes anyway ... I've always liked the look of the Yamaha SG-2000 guitar, and have sometimes wondered why they never made an equivalent bass, a SB-2000. So I would spec out a 5-string (SB-2500?) with a body of similar size or slightly larger, and a small headstock with lightweight tuners (since neck dive would be a risk). For electronics, I would want their nicest TRBX pickups, simple passive volume & tone for each , then to split outputs as on the Attitude. For woods and finish, I would look for something lighter than the SG-2000, maybe a quilted maple top or a light green tint. PS I might want to spec EMG soapbar pickups, such as the 40DCX at the neck and 40TWX at the bridge. They did - Yamaha SB-35. I had one, should never EVER have sold it. 32" scale. Sigh. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 It does look good...you must be chuffed 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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