What's your "signature bass"?

[CPCustomdubwise]

18 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

A custom made 6 string, 30" scale, Bass VI type bass, with a 47mm graphite nut, a slim modern C profile, bolt on, 5 piece laminated Jatoba/Maple (just 2 relatively narrow layers of maple in between 3 wider layers of Jatoba) neck (or perhaps just a 2 piece Jatoba, the second piece being the tilted headstock joint), with graphite rods enforcement and a double action trussrod, a tilted 3+3, classic B.C Rich inspired, headstock, but overall slightly more narrow, and with the "devil horns" slightly shifted, so that the upper slightly larger "horn" is sitting a bit more forward than the slightly smaller and slightly retracted lower "horn", and a 24 medium jumbo stainless steel frets, 14" radius, figured Ebony, fretboard, with an ESP LTD F-204/F-1004 style inspired Mahogany body with a spalted maple top, in a transparent matte black burst finish, and equipped with a single middle position dual blade/rail mini humbucker in a dark blood red transparent plexi/poly glass cover, with a gold plated series/parallel switch, and an active LPF and HPF tone filter control, equipped with knobs made of solid transparent dark green plexi/poly glass encapsulated in hollow gold plated cylinders with a thin spiraling gold rib going upwards around them, the bridge being 6 gold plated steel mono rail pieces (or perhaps a wammy/tremolobridge).

 

Equipped with custom roundwound stanless steel hex core strings gauge .080 - .060 - .045 - .034 - .026 - .020, tuned G1 - C2 - F2 - A#2 - D3 - G3, as in G standard tuning, 3 half steps above E standard tuning.

 

 

So you've not really given the idea of a signature bass much thought, then? 

[Baloney Balderdash]

1 hour ago, CPCustomdubwise said:

So you've not really given the idea of a signature bass much thought, then? 

 

Yeah, I figured that since it would not be very likely ever to happen it would be waste of time to go in great details about it. 

 

 

Edited June 9, 2022 by Baloney Balderdash

[ead]

On 21/05/2022 at 10:19, javi_bassist said:

I'm also thinking about "creating" my dream bass with different parts. I think it would be:

 

-Yamaha BB735. I'd change the finish to creme white with a tort pickguard (not very original, but classy IMO :P)

-Humbucker pickup instead of J in the bridge. 

-Passive/active electronics. With a switch to use the bridge pickup as single or hambucker. 

-Markbass preamp

-Delano pickups.  

 

Sandberg could make you something fairly similar...although not sure that the switching option on the humbucker is part of the std spec.

 

[ead]

It would have to be my ACG fretless J Type:

 

[javi_bassist]

48 minutes ago, ead said:

 

Sandberg could make you something fairly similar...although not sure that the switching option on the humbucker is part of the std spec.

 

 

Yep, I have had Sandberg under my radar for some time. However, I must say that the neck of my Yamaha feels so so good, that I haven't felt that way with any other bass. And the Sandberg doesn't have the strings trough body option (if I remember correctly) and that is a must for me.

[ead]

6 hours ago, javi_bassist said:

 

Yep, I have had Sandberg under my radar for some time. However, I must say that the neck of my Yamaha feels so so good, that I haven't felt that way with any other bass. And the Sandberg doesn't have the strings trough body option (if I remember correctly) and that is a must for me.

 

Good point ref through body.  Sandberg necks for me are absolutely the best out there outside of my custom ACG basses.

[iplay5strings]

Here's mine 😁. Northern Ash/Ash/Maple 535 with my personal custom electronics package 😎

[Chris2112]

I guess if I hit the big time I'd be happy with a Spector. Probably with the curved NS body in quilted or flamed maple with EMG single coils. Basically what Yoshihiro Naruse was playing in the 80's. 

 

I love signature basses and I'll defend them to the hilt, particularly when the model you can buy is the one that the artist actually uses. However, over recent years I have noticed a slew of no-name bassists claiming their own signature model just because they've paid for a custom build to their specs. It's a bit cringeworthy IMO. Ultimately that's just a custom build. 

 

You can get a bass built to your specs and call it your signature bass but unless you have the profile to warrant a sig you're just cosplaying at having a signature bass, sort of like buying a privateer entry into a race series and being crap rather than getting a factory seat. If the manufacturer doesn't propose the deal to you, it's probably not the real deal. 

[Badscrew]

It would be a Takamine TB-10 but with the fretboard and strings farther away from the body than on the normal model to be able to actually bow it and clear G and E strings.

 

[AndyTravis]

54 minutes ago, Badscrew said:

It would be a Takamine TB-10 but with the fretboard and strings farther away from the body than on the normal model to be able to actually bow it and clear G and E strings.

 

my favourite looking bass

[Badscrew]

I actually had one and would’ve kept it if it could be played with a bow

[AndyTravis]

1 minute ago, Badscrew said:

I actually had one and would’ve kept it if it could be played with a bow

One of the few I’ve not owned - played one once, but didn’t have the fretless thing down at the time:

 

still don’t 😂

[Badscrew]

It’s wonderful