Unbalanced basses

[LeftyJ]

[quote name='jdstrings' post='600683' date='Sep 16 2009, 09:24 PM']Liking the table legs! What are they tuned to? I made a similar 2 stringer for a collegue who wanted it for a solo version of Big Noise From Winnetka for a cabaret act:

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It had a piezo pickup under the (wooden) bridge and inbuilt volume and tone controls. In the picture it has bass guitar strings, but these proved not to be up to the job and were replaced with double bass strings.
The main design problem was that it had to be played upright and had to be self supporting at about waist height. In the end it had an attachment (which just about worked!) to secure to a snare drum stand![/quote]

They're tuned EA. They're just square 2x2's of maple (the newer ones are flamed maple) with no separate fingerboard and no radius at all, contrary to yours (which looks great, by the way! Very cool). The only control is a volume knob. Here are some more pics of my first one, the one on the right in that first picture I posted (and yes, that is a rifle bag. Works very well and fits perfectly ):

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[Gust0o]

Perhaps unsurprisingly, my Ironbird has never been a fan of staying put!



It's due for a respray when I sort out some damage to the points, so I'll be moving the front strap knob at the same time.

I don't suppose anyone has tried weighting their strap, have they? The Ironbird is very light, and I'm a bruiser so it might be an idea to keep the neck nice and high.

[retroman]

The main offender I have for this is my Ibanez IC200...Totally unbalanced in every direction!

+1 for the decent strap thing. If you're using a recycled car seat belt, you're waisting your time

[Gust0o]

[quote]+1 for the decent strap thing. If you're using a recycled car seat belt, you're waisting your time[/quote]

After they'd stopped manufacturing those sh*te Head bags that were so popular years gone by, they had a surplus of poor quality polyester left over...

[Zombywoof]

Get yourself a Spector...beautifully balanced bit of kit.

[Musky]

[quote name='retroman' post='601162' date='Sep 17 2009, 11:22 AM']+1 for the decent strap thing. If you're using a recycled car seat belt, you're waisting your time [/quote]

That'd be me as well then.

They're more slippery than a very slippy thing.