The Last Bass Outpost

Never would have guessed they'd get back together to make another album.
But they did.

There's probably a lot of Sheehan haters here, but I like what he does with Mr. Big.

Here's a few updates on BaCH for y'all:

They are planning to use CTS pots on all their (bass)guitars. I think this woud be a big improvement on the electronic circuitry of their instruments.

They are developing a new bridge for the Semi-Acoustic bass. I've seen pics and sketches of the first prototype and it looks promising.
The bridge is really the last hurdle to take for their long scale EB2 copy (and shortscale too)

They are working on a new "custom color" palette to choose from. Think silver flake finishes etc for real cool pimped basses 

The first run of the Fenderbirds is sold out. The new series wil (hopefully) be made to my exact specs. Fingers crossed.

Anyone ever heard of the Italian name Frudua or Tuscany or Exclusive Guitars? (all from the same Mr. Frudua)

They came up with a new kind of pickup, which I think is interesting.

http://www.exlusiveguitars.com/frudua_esacoil.html








Wonder how it sounds

Stumbled upon this video today:

Remember the start of the Non Reverse Thunderbird by BaCH project?

Some of you guys wanted a barebones model rather than a complete bass.

BaCH agreed to make a few of these. But when push came to shove they never did.

Until now...


http://www.bachmusik.com/en/bth-1-semi-product_p1580


Ideal platform to make your own personalised NR Tbird!





If you'd like to order one, just send me a PM or email

I'm almost done with the finishing of my self built bass.

Now that I have to wait before I can start the polishing/buffing I have time to figure out how I'm gong to wire the thing...


I have two single coil G3 (or S1) pickups. One of them is reverse polarity. I bought them in the beginning of the BaCHbird project. With the idea to put them together as a humbucker. But the Artec turned out pretty good so I never used this pair.

Plus I have an Artec Mudbucker that I've been planning to use since I tested a Stagg EB0 type bass with the mudbucker at the bridge. I liked the effect of the mudbucker in that position.

I want to use a five six position rotary switch to choose the different combinations.
And one volume knob and one tone knob

But I have no idea how to tackle this
Can any of you guys help me out?


Here's a drawing I made with all the components I have :




and a pdf in vector format:

http://www.superfloor.net/bedrading zelfbouwbas.pdf

Epiphone ES335 bas project

Needs real TLC but may go really cheap...

About three years ago I initiated another project with BaCH.
When the BaCHbird was in the making I started an EB2 / Rivoli project with them.
It was supposed to be very easy because they already have an ES335 in their collection. The body of an ES335 and EB2 is the same. Put on a short scale neck and you're go!

Joe (Chromium) helped me out with lots of pictures and measuments. I gave BaCH all the information they needed.

But they couldn't find an affordable alternative for the choke and the bridge seemed to be a problem too.
After several persistent emails from me to them, they finally sent me a picture of a prototype.
It appeared to be long scale...

Guess they found out when they got to the point where they had to install the bridge... because it has none.
The prototype was rejected and the project was put aside (by BaCH).

Despite several attempts from me to pick up the project it never happened.

A month ago when I was emailing about another project with BaCH I asked if they still had the prototype.
"Oh yeah it's gathering dust in a corner here"
So I asked them if I could buy it. And I had them send it over.
Today I picked it up at the post office.

Apart from the obvious scale hick-up it looks beautiful.












I would really like to get it up and running.

But I need a bridge first.
The Gibson/Epiphone three point bridge would be the most obvious choice I guess. But the string spacing would be too wide. Especially for the bridge pickup.
Of course I could try and make new saddles and notch them for a narrower spacing. But I don't really have the tools to make a precise kind of thing like a saddle.

Didn't Schaller make a two point bridge as an intonable alternative for the original Gibson two point with the fixed bar?


Anybody got any suggestions?