Custom bass almost done.

Doctor J

I almost cried when they put this up

http://www.hotwire-bass.de/basses/custom_model/seiten/custom_en.htm





They've just got to do a bit more work on the preamp and then it will be in my hands. Holy ****.

feylya

Aww, that fretboard! :eek:

Karl Hungus

Wow, that looks damn fine! Is the headstock meant to be unfinished?

Doctor J

It's finished, just not with a gloss, matte all the way baby

feylya

I thought you were getting a died ebony board on it? Either way, I'm having a go on it!

Karl Hungus

Doctor J wrote:

It's finished, just not with a gloss, matte all the way baby

Right you are so. If it were me, I'd probably have the headstock matching the body. I think some kind of veneer would look nice. That's just me though.

Ancient1

Damn! Your baby is famous, Doc!!

Just beautiful - almost too beautiful for your greasy kebab hands.

It must be torture to see her up on the website and not be able to play her just yet.

Doctor J

Ancient1 wrote:

It must be torture to see her up on the website and not be able to play her just yet.

Dude you have no idea

ferdi

'Doctor J - A player from Dublin'
i love the matte finish.
nice one.

feylya

Those Q-Tuners look great actually. Can't wait to hear them!

Doctor J

Yeah, it looks a little different to what I was expecting, but I can't say it's different in a bad way

Ancient1

That finish looks perfect, nice precision job.

So - I'm second in line after Fey then. We'll do some quality control and then we'll let you play it!

Quattroste

I'll second that fretboard. It's really nice. What wood?

John

That looks the sex. I'll make sure to ungrubby my hands before I take a place behind Ancient1

feylya

It's ebony I think.

ferdi

John wrote:

I'll make sure to ungrubby my hands before I take a place behind Ancient1

ROFFLE
sorry, i'm a fiend for a double entendre.

John

ferdi wrote:

ROFFLE
sorry, i'm a fiend for a double entendre.

Hehe, dirty fecker!

Eoin Madsen

Looking mighty fine, Doc.

Johnny Storm

Very nice looking, Doc. In what way is it different from what you expected?

Doctor J

Thanks gents. Johnny, I wasn't expecting the fretboard to be any way remotely as figured and I was kind of worried the q-tuners would look out of place on what is essentially a traditional styled instrument. I wasn't expecting fretboard dots either but I can let it go

It's fairly cutting edge, electronically, but it doesn't look like it

Eoin Madsen

The ash looks delish. Did they go with the ebony fingerboard in the end or what exactly? It looks more like figured Rosewood or something like that. Not at all ebony-like anyway.

Doctor J

That's what I thought too at first, I've never seen anything like it, but here ya go

feylya

TBH, most ebony isn't pure black anyway. Most of the stuff you get from wood suppliers needs to be died black. That said, I'm worried about my ebony board now :eek:

Doctor J

I think you're will be none more black

feylya

We can only hope

Doctor J

I think Ran know their strength is with the rock and metal community, none more black you shall have

What gets me is that, ok this bass cost a fair bit, but it still cost less than a 5 string stock stingray in Musicmaker, and I was able to get the body, finsh, colour, electronics, headstock, woods and electronics as I wanted.

When you get away from the big brand names, there are great options for musicians out there to get truly unique instruments for the same price (or less) than regular production models (which are great instruments, don't get me wrong).

John

Doctor J wrote:

It's fairly cutting edge, electronically, but it doesn't look like it

An elaboration if you would be so kind

Doctor J

John wrote:

An elaboration if you would be so kind

Okey dokey, q-tuner will blind even you with science , but the samples I've heard sound fantastic, there are some on talkbass.com too.

The preamp has three stacked knobs, vol & balance (this one is also a push-pull pot which engages the passive circuit), bass and treble cut and boost, mid cut and boost and passive tone control, but it looks fairly nondescript, there aren't an abundance of knobs and switches, all the gizmometry is fairly well disguised

feylya

Aye, you never were a fan of having a lot of knobs at your fingers...

Doctor J

I see what you did there, I get jokes

John

Doctor J wrote:

all the gizmometry is fairly well disguised

The Inspector Gadget of the bass world

Sounds interesting (and you're right about the science blindness!), I'm looking forward to hearing the results