A few years ago I checked Rain Song guitars with graphite necks...big bux though...I saw the pics you posted of your basses....nice stuff...ugo wrote:i never got to try that ibanez 8. i've only seen pictures of it. i did get to play an aluminium necked kramer 8 string a year or so ago though. i really dig multi string basses like 8's and 12's. i've got a Tune 8 string thats awesome.Hink wrote:Do you remember the monster 8 string bass Ibanez had 'bout 1/4 century ago? An old bass player of mine had one, you damn near needed a hydrolic hoiste on your strap to pick it up.
actually, one of the heaviest basses i ever held was a kramer aluminium necked flying v bass. we had a used one at the old shop i used to work at. someone ground the frets down (instead of properly removing them) to make it a fretless, put a bartolini musicman pickup in it, and did painted the body blue...badly. man, that thing was damn heavy and uncomfortable. i used to play it with the lower point of the v on a stool while i played it standing, like an upright.
I am thinking about a Seagull, I sold them for years and should got one when I had the chance.
i sometimes think that about the norman's we used to sell! though what i really wished i had the money for back then was for a taylor 12 string...and a warrior bass...and an esp...and...
that was the problem with working at a small guitar shop. i got discounts, but i still didnt make enough to actually buy the good stuff. i could have bought a norman, but once we started carring taylor, i got spoiled. someday i'll at least buy myself a taylor 355.
man, i havent built anything in years. i was seriously considering building a new bass, but now that i've got my new (used) modulus Q6, the custom itch has eased up. for many years now i've been saving several boards of beautifull flamed koa that i had picked at a hardwood dealer when i was in hawaii. one of these days, that wood will become a bass or two. (i've still got some cool looking monkey pod left too.)As far as electrics go I'd so rather build it. I love my Warmoth hardtail strat. The best neck for my hands...
ouch thats a pretty expensive neck. i understand your pain though. there's a good chance my next custom will have a graphite neck. thats going to run me some bucks too.The neck I want will run me over 500 (including a new locking nut and scgallers...always schallers)
-ugo
I think I probably had something really cool to say that would make a difference. Oh well. 
I also sold about a million penny whisteles to the irish in Boston...Ocrinas too...