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Guitarz reader Paul H. writes:
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Custom handmade short scale bass - Alembic meets Danelectro!
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I'm an old Deadhead, so I love me an Alembic-style bass. This one is weird. Love the rosewood tailpiece/bridge, but I'm not too sure about the Dan-O headstock.The eBay listing tells us that:
This is a custom/proto-type hollow body bass. It is short (30.5") scale and was made as a test platform by a custom luthier to work on ideas for a line of instruments. The body, as stated, is hollow. It's got massive bracing, so there are no issues with feed back, and the tone (when using the recommended "Pyramid" brand strings) is somewhere between a Hofner and a Guild Starfire. (Listen to the bass on Lucy In The Sky or Baby Your A Rich Man and that will give a good idea what this sounds like.)Currently listed on eBay with a Buy It Now price of $1,400.
The body has a Yellow Heart core, with laminations of walnut, quilted maple and the stunning birdseye maple faces. The neck is a Dan Electro that has been modified with peg-head laminations and re-finished in nitro lacquer. The tuning machines are locking Sperzels. The peghead emblem is a slice of English walnut (the actual nut).
The pickups are Duncan BassLine units. The bridge and tailpiece are hand-carved cocobolo, the saddles are hand-cut brass.
G L Wilson
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- Clarke Spellbinder Long-scale Bass As Personally Owned By Stanley Clarke
guitarz.blogspot.com: From the eBay listing: The ONLY right handed long scale made..truly one of a kind !!! Available is the coveted serial #4 long scale Clarke Spellbinder (a personal bass of Stanley Clarke ) only RH LS in existence!!!!...
- Esp Bass Iv - And No, That Isn't A Typo!
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- 1960s Japanese-made Conrad Violin Bass With F-holes And Scroll Headstock
guitarz.blogspot.com: I think I prefer the design of this 1960s Japanese Conrad Violin Bass over that of the Höfner which it is so obviously inspired by (which in turn was inspired by the Gibson EB-0, but because of it being Paul McCartney's bass...
- Veillette-citron - Another Almost Forgotten American Maker Of Quality Guitars
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