Another paradoxical Garden Shed special.

[Bassassin]

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Home-made bass that looks like it's been hewn from a single big lump of mahogany (apart from a scarf-jointed headstock), lots of genuine skill, care & attention has gone into shaping & sculpting this & it's actually a very striking-looking object.

Which makes it such a shame that its creator has evidently never seen an actual bass guitar & has presumably put this together from a box of random P copy bits, using a rough pencil-sketch as a guide.

This'll never work!

Jon.

[richrips]

Damnit.... thought this was my little secret. I keep looking at it and wondering if the neck and body are lined up right..... maybe that in itself is a reason to bid!

[richrips]

looks like dimarzio, though it doesn't look like the most optimal arrangement for the magnetic fields.... at least that leaves plenty of room to say... install a willpower neck pickup, and maybe 2 MM humbuckers..... all that mahogany is making my router hand twitch.

[Ou7shined]

Could be a candidate for a 2 stringer.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Johnston' post='838047' date='May 15 2010, 12:05 PM']Are they Dimazrios with the hex pole pieces???[/quote]
Probably, but not always. You get Schallers that look exactly the same, as do some of the late 70s/early 80s Jap P pups.

Me, I'm none too convinced it would be harmonically correct, even if you could get more than two strings not hanging over the edges of the board - the frets don't exactly look parallel!

J.

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='Bassassin' post='838030' date='May 15 2010, 11:48 AM']... it's been hewn from a single big lump of mahogany ...[/quote]

Does that mean it doesn't need a truss rod?

[steve-soar]

Would burn well in most garden chimineas.

[Bassassin]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='838191' date='May 15 2010, 03:32 PM']Does that mean it doesn't need a truss rod? [/quote]
I dunno but I doubt it's got one!

J.

[Mr. Foxen]

Love the fact he could have reassembled the tuners to be correct, but chose not to.

[OldGit]

"not tested" ie "tested and so rubbish I took the strings off again immediately so that the problems are not even more evident."

[MB1]

[quote name='steve-soar' post='838194' date='May 15 2010, 03:39 PM']Would burn well in most garden chimineas.[/quote]

MB1.
....Arga Friendly?...
..I'll have you know this used to be a lovely Coffee Table!

Edited May 17, 2010 by MB1