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Trees grow in Canada! by McSpunckle, on Flickr

I already posted the guitar before, so the bass!

I... somehow keep ending up going for Canadian gear.

McSpunckle wrote:
Trees grow in Canada! by McSpunckle, on Flickr

I already posted the guitar before, so the bass!

I... somehow keep ending up going for Canadian gear.

Well, that might be because of maple.

Trying to compete maple with alder is like trying to beat scissors with paper.

Does that Godin bass have a 5 way? If it doesn't,...what the fuck is wrong with Canada?

McSpunckle wrote:
Trees grow in Canada! by McSpunckle, on Flickr

I already posted the guitar before, so the bass!

I... somehow keep ending up going for Canadian gear.

Whoa, Canadia represent.

That whole mess looks great.

How do you like that Richmond?

warwick.hoy wrote:Does that Godin bass have a 5 way? If it doesn't,...what the fuck is wrong with Canada?

5 way, and a push/pull. From bottom to top, it's bridge, bridge/middle, middle, neck/bridge, neck/middle, then in that same position, pull the tone knob to get just the neck.

Chankgeez wrote:That whole mess looks great.

How do you like that Richmond?

It's fantastic. It feels like a Gibson Faded SG in a Les Paul shaped body (but still thin and beveled like an SG), and... I'm not really sure what it sound like. The bridge pickup is basically like you'd expect from a fairly normal output humbucker, but the neck pickup is reaaaaaly deep was a ton of bass.

Wahhh I wanna try one of those basses. Looks so nice.

Thanks, I've been eyeing that company since they first popped up.

The model you've got, but with the P-90s would be pretty sweet too.

Godin always builds quality stuff.

that Godin is fucking sexy

Got a cheap acoustic/electric bass, and I'd been wanting a semi-hollow bass for a bit now, so...SO MAY AS WELL APPROXIMATE ONE
Behold this feat of engineering genius:


MUDBUCKERS.
It doesn't shift around but for symmetry's sake I need to put the other screw in sometime...but holy crap it's a pain in the ass to do it this way.
Nevermind, I soldered the screw head to the end of a coat hanger and fished it in there, lulz.
Anyway, sounds neato, not as completely muddy as my mud-P and not as wuss-thin as the default piezo in the bridge.

I've been thinking of doing this to both acoustic guitar and bass

any feedback "issues"?

Indeed, feedback is never an issue...but yeah, it feeds back rather easily.
I read that stuffing some mattress foam or whatever into it helps eliminate it, I might try that. I've only played it sitting right in front of the amp though, gotta test it out at a distance.
Someone on a Telecaster forum suggested cutting a hole into one of those rubber soundhole feedback stopper thingies and mounting a pickup there, but I didn't wanna deal with that. For a smaller pickup, like a Jazz one, that might be a good idea though.

SFTCCPP (sorry for the crappy cell phone pic)

This is my groovin', fingerstyle-friendly corksniffer handmade coffeetable/potato bass. It's a Sukop 5-string (B-G tuning) from about 1992 or so, lacewood top, prob mahog back, wenge fingerbboard and a wenge pickguard/lapel thing I made to cover the grody holes worn into the top by some nasty slapper-popper previous owner who must have had long ass fingernails. Seriously it was like poking two open sores, so I had to make a cover. Otherwise I see no point in a pickguard on bass. My 4-string for aggro pick playing is a generic Epiphone Thunderbird, which I promptly took the giant stupid white plastic pickguard off of. What's the point? You want mojo on that fucking thing anyway, so scratch that bitch!

H18 wrote: My 4-string for aggro pick playing is a generic Epiphone Thunderbird, which I promptly took the giant stupid white plastic pickguard off of. What's the point? You want mojo on that fucking thing anyway, so scratch that bitch!

I did the same when I had one. They look so good without a pickguard.

theavondon wrote:

H18 wrote: My 4-string for aggro pick playing is a generic Epiphone Thunderbird, which I promptly took the giant stupid white plastic pickguard off of. What's the point? You want mojo on that fucking thing anyway, so scratch that bitch!

I did the same when I had one. They look so good without a pickguard.

So good. It's not a bad looking piece of wood for a sub-300 dollar instrument. I replaced the stock Gibbystyle knobs with some giant old 70's mixer knobbies and it's starting to have its own character. Would post pics but it's at my jam space.