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New Bass Day!
Hi everybody!
My guitar player is a luthier and for my 10 year wedding anniversary my wife let me design a bass for Rick to build.
It's been 8 months and I finally got to see it and play it today! It has a few more things to be added to her, but for now here she is!!
Rick and I designed the body, I chose the wood and got all the hardware. Stan Hinesley custom made me the pickups and tone knobs (pots). Baddass 3 bridge. Unbleached bone nut. I will post all the detailed specs later, but without further adieu...

daaaaaaaaaaang.

its like if B.C. Riches were actually tasteful and gorgeous.

ooh! 26 frets too!

This thing is a fucking beast!!! Just wait till she is really done!!

That's a wonderful gift! A lucky man You are congratulations, have to be a wonderful wife, too. Looks very nice, almost like a wereB.C.Rich turning into an Alembic in middle of metamorphosis. What's the top wood?

Holy god damn balls, that shit is metal as fuck.

nad wrote:Holy god damn balls, that shit is metal as fuck.

You could slay teh devil himself with that axe. Nevermind the pick of destiny.

I don't know why more basses don't come with a P pickup by the bridge. Fuck all that pussy Jaco shit, give me some '85 Tom Araya boingaboingaTHUD tones.

nad wrote:I don't know why more basses don't come with a P pickup by the bridge. Fuck all that pussy Jaco shit, give me some '85 Tom Araya boingaboingaTHUD tones.

but, You know, the boingaboingaTHUD is the very reason why PJ -pup configuration rules over the PP in the market, I think, thuogh I'd like to get to try out a PP pup configuration, plain out of curiosity. Though I am more a danga-danga-racka-dacka-rannng-dangTHUD man myself.

leastwise wrote:

...yep, guess so...

back my original question, what's the wood on the top and how does it sound?

Awesome.

This bass screams "Give me my beer and don't fuck with the boom box while Slayer is playing "

The body is Mahogany. The neck is maple with 2 strips of walnut running through it, and since it is neck through body, that continues to the bottom of the bass.
The fretboard is Pau Ferro, with Abalone inlays. I need to get a close up of the fb so you can see how beautiful the Pau Fero actually is. Oh yeah...26 frets! Jumbo frets specifically. Intonated perfectly I might add!
The nut is unbleached bone. Grover tuners. Badass III bridge, so it's obviously strung through the back of the bass! Yeah...my 1st bass like that! Dunlop straplocks. Yeah, ALL hardware is black!
Stan Hinesley custom built me the Pbass pickups specifically for this bass. It sounds absolutely fucking amazing!! I can cop ANY tone I want between the 2 pu's and 2 tones. The pics only show 1 tone knob, but another Stan Hinesley custom push/pull pot is being added today so I can make the bridge pu sound even better. I've never met a bridge pu yet that sounded good by itself.
Believe it or not, this bass is inspired by Entwistles' Buzzard basses. This thing is balanced perfectly and is so easy to play. It is actually VERY comfortable to sit down and play.

This is my guitarist Ricks' website. http://www.bfsguitar.com/
This is his 1st bass build. He also makes the baddest guitars I've ever seen!

I normally don't like that kind of body on basses/guitars, but I must say, this look great!

And you should hear it with some FUZZ!!!!

i thought Buzzard bass immediately when i saw the dual P array