The Last Bass Outpost

I made one a while ago,
 I put the bass on top and guitar on the bottom, my reasoning being that when i play guitar I play it slung low, but I play bass fingerstyle so having the bass on top seemed like the way to go.

 I'm making another one , not because of the positioning, but because the last one was too heavy and undbalanced to use for long periods. I am going with the guitar on top this time , mainly because I am a better bassist than guitarist so its easier for me to have the instrument i'm more familiar with in the uncomfortable position.

what a thoughtful gift

oh ok,
 I thought piccolo was defined  by string guage, I came accross the term here in reference to the Manowar guy shredding on a shortscale Ric with superlight strings
  I'm definitively still E1 on my tuner, same as my regular bass, so the travelbird is just  a medium scale 5er with odd tuning and light gauge strings, doesn't trip off the tongue as easily does it?

so the travelbird has been through a lot over the past few years, test bed for both my 3 string special needs setup and a bass VI, Ive also used it to learn to shoot a burst with a rattlecan, (this is the third attempt, the next one will be a keeper I'm sure) but I think it's now found it's final configuration
 The neck has grown by a couple of inches, I got a short scale P for the bass VI project but that turned out to be 32' not 30' so i swapped the necks. the P headstock  didnt have the right bird feel  though so I glued some mahogany offcuts to it then carved it back to a slanted bird shape.
  I did a royal blood esque project at college with two basses and drums and  the other guy was playing the traditional bass parts , and as i never seemed to use the low B string i restrung it EADGB and was off, really great fun to play "lead" bass on and I've fallen in love with it all over again.
 at some point i will strip it down and  finish the paintwork, but at the moment its my perfect workhorse  for school prep and college homework, the room where I do this is a small box room and there isn't room to play a full size bass without endangering the pc screen with the headstock, its amazing what a difference a few inches make

my attempts at   cookie monster

https://soundcloud.com/paul-selkirk/my-little-shoggoth-parlour-trick

oooh that red one !
 is the fingerboard just painted regularly? doesn't it wear off with play ?

I liked it, nothing exceptional but damn fine blues shredding doing justice to the tune

nice bass