Get yourself a fretless Rickenbacker

[7enderhead]

This is too good to be true

[url="http://cgi.ebay.de/selbstgebauter-E-Bass-Bassgitarre-no-Rickenbacker-/270619342707?pt=Antike_Musikinstrumente"]eBay Link[/url]

(scroll down for hilarious pictures)

[yorick]

Don't know what the question in German at the bottom means, but hopefully it translates as "are you having a laugh?"

[Happy Jack]

That is absolutely bloody wonderful - so many great features that it's hard to know where to start.

I'm torn between the headstock stained with Magic Marker and the fretlines cut by hand with a Stanley knife by a blind monkey suffering from Parkinson's.

[willyf87]

I don't even know what to say.....

[7enderhead]

[quote name='yorick' post='926552' date='Aug 16 2010, 03:24 PM']Don't know what the question in German at the bottom means, but hopefully it translates as "are you having a laugh?"[/quote]
No!

It roughly translates to:

[i]
This is my first go on building a fretless copy.
It is playable, but is built rather amateurishly.
It is very leightweight (body is made of plywood and hollow).
The neck is made of leightweight wood too and has markers instead of frets.
It sports fretless Jazzbass strings.
The strings are well preserved.
The bridge parts are made of wood.

Also nice as a decorative element on your wall.

[/i]

Also great is the posted question and answer:

[i]
Q: I'd like to know whether there are any impediments concerning playability. Is the neck straight? What's the scale lenght? Could you send me a sound file?

A: Hello, with 'playable' I meant that you can create sounds, but they don't sound good and the playability is mediocre. The neck is not straight, has bumps and is coarsely done. So the bass has limited playability and is meant as a decorative piece. If you send me your mail address, I can send you a sound sample.
[/i]

[7enderhead]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='926596' date='Aug 16 2010, 03:56 PM']That is absolutely bloody wonderful - so many great features that it's hard to know where to start.

I'm torn between the headstock stained with Magic Marker [...][/quote]

No, no, no! You got it all wrong! Those are Vermilion wings on the headstock...

[willyf87]

ha ha haha that person was actually considering buying it!!! Least the guys taking the piss out of his own work though

[wesfinn]

the back looks look an unfinished plasterboard wall!

[Annoying Twit]

I've now got a recording of this bass, but I haven't heard it yet (laptop has faulty audio). Will listen later this night.

[wesfinn]

[quote name='Annoying Twit' post='927808' date='Aug 17 2010, 06:08 PM']I've now got a recording of this bass, but I haven't heard it yet (laptop has faulty audio). Will listen later this night.[/quote]

please post this!

[Annoying Twit]

[quote name='wesfinn' post='928085' date='Aug 17 2010, 10:04 PM']please post this![/quote]

Sorry, I can't. The file I have is incomplete.

[7enderhead]

I got the soundfile too:

[attachment=56911:Bass.wav]

[Stacker]

That's fkn brilliant! He's gotta be havin a laff!!