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Vintage73 · Post by **Vintage73** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 6:00 pm

It's not exactly what I really wanted, but I just bought this Fretless Bass.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:26 pm

Nice!

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:48 am

I'm getting some 7 string custom electrics assembled soon...

The bodies are already made and the fingerboard blanks are also cut..

The necks still need to be CNC'd and then things can start to go together..

There will be eight of them in total and all of the bodies except the solid spruce guitars are chambered...All of the spruce is 1/4 sawn and was sourced from a company who also supply the Steinway factory in NY...

Two of them are one piece mahoghany base - 1.75" deep with 3/4" solid spruce tops,two are one piece mahoghany base 1" deep with 3/4" solid spruce tops and the third pair are 2" deep solid spruce bodies..All of these have a 14" lower bout..

The fourth pair are one piece mahoghany 1/2" core with 1/2" bookmatched flame maple backs and 3/4" solid spruce tops with a 12.5" lower bout...I call those guitar models "The Sandwich" and I will be giving to a friend of mine..

They will all have DiMarzio PAF 7 pickups and the only controls will be a HQ Bourns volume pot,a Gibson style 3 way switch and mini toggle switches for the pickup taps.....

They will all be tung oiled so that they breathe and resonate and the necks will all be HUGE (in my usual style) - about the size of a tree trunk

The fingerboards are all Macassar ebony with stainless steel jumbo frets and Graptech nuts and saddles..All of the guitars have fixed bridges with string through as I believe that this really helps to pull the instrument together.

I had some 6 string Tele and Strat style guitars made in a similar way (with solid one piece mahogany bodies and Warmoth boatnecks - maple and ebony with SS frets)and those guitar sound great ! No dead notes and they are totally balanced throughout their whole range..

They have DiMarzio 36th Anniversary pickups - all front p/ups as we found that they sounded better in the rear than the standard rear pickup..Better tone and better balance...

Those guitars have an acoustic property to them but they really kick arse when you crank them up..

So many people have asked me "what model guitars are those?" after they have heard them and I tell them that they are just "no name" guitars that were put together for me out of some old wood

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:54 am

I'm so jealous. I'm also jealous that you have fingers big enough to play something like that. I simply can't......you know.......physics and all

Firebird · Post by **Firebird** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 12:56 am

4lb Kitty wrote:It's not exactly what I really wanted, but I just bought this Fretless Bass.

I always wanted to get one of those.
They have a fantastic sound unique to itself.

digitalboytn · Post by **digitalboytn** » Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:02 am

We all have too many guitars...

I do like carbon fibre as a guitar material now...

It's light and virtually indestructible..

Great for a travelling minstrel

ew · Post by ew » Tue Jan 01, 2013 4:29 am

hibidy wrote:The really heavy strings on "Rosy" are cool because it's a half step down/drop D (or drop C#??)

That's my usual tuning for all my guitars. E flat's been my standard tuning for close to thirty years, but for a long time, the only guitars I'd drop tune were my 12 strings. For the last fifteen years or so though, all of them are drop tuned as well as tuned to E flat.

ew

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:57 pm

4lb Kitty wrote:It's not exactly what I really wanted, but I just bought this Fretless Bass.

Good looking bass! Congrats!

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:06 pm

I'm still lusting over Teles.. but due to my housing circumstances (not financial, for once) I've no place to keep another guitar! Argh!

The bass just isn't working out for me despite lessons, so it's going to go to a new home this month. Just as well, otherwise it'd end up stored in a room Somewhere Else until March..

I'm going to end up replacing the pickups in the FSR Strat with a prewired Lace Hot Gold anniversary pickguard, I'll be buying that next week and will probably end up having a tech do the work.. there's not enough room in my temporary living space to solder.

taijiguy · Post by **taijiguy** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:52 pm

Just received my 2nd of two new guitars. First was a Fender Standard American Strat and second is a Gibson ES-335 in faded cherry. Neither will be modified because they are already perfect. Now to sell a few to help pay for these.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:25 pm

I'ma gonna quit

SuitcaseOfLizards · Post by **SuitcaseOfLizards** » Wed Jan 02, 2013 7:28 pm

hibidy wrote:I'ma gonna quit

Best of luck.

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:11 pm

Big change in direction coming up as I return to my musical home base.

woggle · Post by **woggle** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 9:31 am

polyslax wrote:

Big change in direction coming up as I return to my musical home base.

that is a very lovely looking guitar - what sort is it?

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Fri Jan 04, 2013 10:24 am

woggle wrote:
polyslax wrote:

Big change in direction coming up as I return to my musical home base.
that is a very lovely looking guitar - what sort is it?

Cheers! It's a Krautster, by Nik Huber:

http://nikhuber-guitars.com/krautster.html

Your next guitar?