I know what you're thinking...

[prowla]

 

... but no, it's not by he who must not be mentioned!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225086014346

Edited July 23, 2022 by prowla

[yorks5stringer]

Looking at that D string break angle....

[oldslapper]

MDP infection rates are up then. 

[Happy Jack]

It's been designed like that to suit people with enormous sausage fingers.

 

[Newfoundfreedom]

Oh God! It's catching on!

[Woodinblack]

"Everything you need to have your only unique custom bass guitar"

they are not wrong.

[Bassassin]

You have to wonder at what point the 'builder' realised he was hopelessly out of his depth.

 

Fwiw looks like those tuners could be dismantled and reassembled as L/H.

[Steve70]

:.. 's had a night out in Langney, that.

[madshadows]

The sorcerer has an apprentice !!  😛 

 

John 😎 

[lemmywinks]

Is this like the bass version of a copycat killer?

[tauzero]

17 hours ago, yorks5stringer said:

Looking at that D string break angle....

 

If it was wound on the tuner the right way, it would be a lot better.

[yorks5stringer]

16 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

If it was wound on the tuner the right way, it would be a lot better.

True dat....

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The use of B&Q woodscrews to secure the bridge is a nice touch.

[yorks5stringer]

2 hours ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

The use of B&Q woodscrews to secure the bridge is a nice touch.

Now you're just being picky, the Seller does says screws are included........!

 

 

Edited July 26, 2022 by yorks5stringer

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I've just looked up "shou sugi ban" and it seems to be a fancy way of saying that the surface has been charred with a blowtorch. You wouldn't want to be wearing a white shirt when playing it.

[Woodinblack]

Yep, I went to a demo of Ben from Crimson doing it. I think he just likes setting stuff on fire really.

 

[lemmywinks]

21 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

I've just looked up "shou sugi ban" and it seems to be a fancy way of saying that the surface has been charred with a blowtorch. You wouldn't want to be wearing a white shirt when playing it.

 

Larry Hartke went through a stage of randomly sticking basses on his BBQ and posting the photos on Facebook. Tbh most of them looked better than this one.

[Dan Dare]

It's no longer for sale "because there was a mistake in the listing". Shame. It was just down the road from me. I'll keep searching for my dream custom bass.

[TheGreek]

A collaboration between Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles??

[Steve70]

There's a lot of 'bodgery' about...

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274732465561?hash=item3ff754bd99:g:kx4AAOSwy6NgW5u7&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoACmQuPpAxjKHGf7Xf4dIVAvlS0%2BMxNqFgPSZEVImzA0yS1MVJ%2Fa4ArsMuv8e7%2BnIup%2B%2BQp7rgZETutXw5sOx6gXlLHdoU7eefoME36z20S6NhBHX07lwaqyFXZrL622U3HkeBSdJCQYmV6C7cbNbKypFwJGwsSjHAr2ff96lkQ0H4DJ1kXiCTSbyrHpOwjRMAU6DAvqoWdr%2BftsIIEu3tw%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-aO_IXcYA

Edited August 27, 2022 by Steve70

[yorks5stringer]

2 hours ago, Steve70 said:

There's a lot of 'bodgery' about...

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274732465561?hash=item3ff754bd99:g:kx4AAOSwy6NgW5u7&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoACmQuPpAxjKHGf7Xf4dIVAvlS0%2BMxNqFgPSZEVImzA0yS1MVJ%2Fa4ArsMuv8e7%2BnIup%2B%2BQp7rgZETutXw5sOx6gXlLHdoU7eefoME36z20S6NhBHX07lwaqyFXZrL622U3HkeBSdJCQYmV6C7cbNbKypFwJGwsSjHAr2ff96lkQ0H4DJ1kXiCTSbyrHpOwjRMAU6DAvqoWdr%2BftsIIEu3tw%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR-aO_IXcYA

The reason Fender do not make the top horn shorter is so the Bass balances better, so why make it shorter and then have to have that horrible extension thing sticking out...? Custom Smuchtom...

 

 

 

[PaulThePlug]

I had one of those 'flavoured burps' when i saw the 'Fat Dolphin' headstock... Both of which, are not nice.

[Bassassin]

While that's obviously a cheap Jazz copy that someone's hacked around and slapped some Dulux on, the rest of this guy's listings (and there are a few!) appear to be ambitious-but-rubbish bitsas with home-made bodies, probably Chinese necks & random, sometimes quite decent quality components. A lot of looks-OK-from-a-distance finishes that make your skin crawl at close quarters, and it looks like he's been doing this a lot, and for a while. This is maybe what MDP aspires to.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/graeme7760/m.html

 

His sold items consist of a pickup.

[lemmywinks]

42 minutes ago, Bassassin said:

While that's obviously a cheap Jazz copy that someone's hacked around and slapped some Dulux on, the rest of this guy's listings (and there are a few!) appear to be ambitious-but-rubbish bitsas with home-made bodies, probably Chinese necks & random, sometimes quite decent quality components. A lot of looks-OK-from-a-distance finishes that make your skin crawl at close quarters, and it looks like he's been doing this a lot, and for a while. This is maybe what MDP aspires to.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/graeme7760/m.html

 

His sold items consist of a pickup.

 

 

Some of those look ok until you get to the headstocks and the price tags.

[NikNik]

I have never heard of 'Allt Dubh' (Black Stream in Scots' Gaelic) pickups before.