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bass solo, take one
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:13 pm
by lorez
OK RPS-10 managed to persuad me to take off his hands this bass from a miss spent youth and it needs some TLC to get it back to playing as it should. Now I'm not a perfectionist so my first aims is to get 4 strings on the beast, see if the electrics work and take it from there
now other than the dancing girls I love the existing decorations but first thing is to get 4 strings on this shortscale beast and take it from there.
Re: bass solo, take one
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:19 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
lorez wrote:other than the dancing girls, I love the existing decorations
yr gay
i think it looks great!
Re: bass solo, take one
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2011 11:31 pm
by lorez
hotrodperlmutter wrote:lorez wrote:other than the dancing girls, I love the existing decorations
yr gay
i think it looks great!
I have 2 girls who are aged 5 & 3 and a wife so I need to have some kind of feminist backuo argument somewhere I can look cool to a degree but not to chauvinistic. but to be fair I actually think other than the tuners this could be quite sweet tbh
and yes, your not the first person to say I'm gay but we won't go there
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 7:18 pm
by endsjustifymeans
Cover the girls up with some makeway stickers.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:11 pm
by Pens
endsjustifymeans wrote:Cover the girls up with some makeway stickers.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:20 pm
by Dave
what endsjustifymeans and Pens really shoulda wrote:SPUNK.
Re: bass solo, take one
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 8:34 pm
by rps-10
lorez wrote:OK RPS-10 managed to persuade me to take off his hands
You begged to have it!! you did!
This is going to be an excellent thread. needs MOAR SPUNK! - but yeah cover with Makeway stickers etc is a good solution too.
If you can, keep the Slam City Skates sticker at all costs!!
Anyone else notice the odd truly accidental placement of the letters "h" & "o".. didn't have the same connotations back in 87.
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 9:57 pm
by lorez
endsjustifymeans wrote:Cover the girls up with some makeway stickers.
already on it, i also have planned some lowrez stickers that wwrrss is designing at the moment. either that or i'm going to spray it orange. i just can't decide.
Re: bass solo, take one
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:00 pm
by lorez
rps-10 wrote:lorez wrote:OK RPS-10 managed to persuade me to take off his hands
You begged to have it!! you did!
This is going to be an excellent thread. needs MOAR SPUNK! - but yeah cover with Makeway stickers etc is a good solution too.
If you can, keep the Slam City Skates sticker at all costs!!
Anyone else notice the odd truly accidental placement of the letters "h" & "o".. didn't have the same connotations back in 87.
i think then that the stickers would be the best idea.
i'm now looking at the tuners, bridge and electrics.
also I realise why you took a chunk out of the headstock, you tried to make it look like a bc rich
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:40 pm
by rps-10
No I think that was inspired by the old Kramer aluminium neck headstocks.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:12 am
by wwrrss
Yo, just saw one of these converted to a Bass VI in a rough manner, thought you'd be interested.
http://www.ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php? ... 30#p319641
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:45 pm
by lorez
you just made my stomach do an flips sean. interesting idea indeed
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 6:52 pm
by wwrrss
lorez wrote:you just made my stomach do an flips sean. interesting idea indeed
Seeing it made me want a Bass VI-a-like too, I reckon I could do with one.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:12 pm
by rps-10
It's a very interesting idea, I like the "stripped down" colour of it too. Plus looks like I'm not the only one who has used masking tape to hold pickups on.
Found a picture of what the bass version was like, this hasn't got the orginal tuners though.
The Bass had 1 pickup the 6 string guitar had 2
I may still have the guitar neck in the attic somewhere which Chris is welcome to have if it's ever found.
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:42 pm
by lorez
thanks Si but at the moment I think I'm going to get the electrics working and then look at the possibilities of the baritone. I guess the main issue there would be the headstock/tuners and nut but given the masking tape inspired post from I<3Fuzz its very tempting
