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Future Grabber - Norton bass
« on: March 23, 2012, 07:55:02 AM »
Just when i thought i've seen everything in the bass world, it's even uglier than the railbass: http://www.nortonguitars.com/#mi=2&pt=1&pi=10000&s=1&p=8&a=0&at=0

But hey, you can't discuss taste......

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2012, 08:50:13 AM »
Obviously for metal...or one-a them genres.
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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2012, 09:28:35 AM »
Could have been worse.
Looks kind of industrial. Which is not ugly per se

Controlplate looks clumsy though

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2012, 09:41:44 AM »
I would take that one over any organic-shaped humped single-cut boutique bass any day.
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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2012, 12:52:48 PM »
TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE BAT
HOW I WONDER WHAT YOU'RE AT

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2012, 01:21:42 PM »
They look like engineering marvels - nothing I would want to play though.  Two things I noticed was that one, you have all of this precisely machined aluminum and yet you bolt a chromed BadAss III bridge on it!?  WTF - sticks out like a whore in church.  How hard would have been to mill a bridge out of all of those recycled beer cans?  It looks like they bolt a standard maple neck on to a huge aluminum center structure - would this not casue tuning issues if the metal expanding or contracted with temperature? 

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2012, 02:02:24 PM »
it wears its liver on the outside.
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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2012, 02:21:51 PM »
it wears its liver on the outside.

Is that why it looks like it needs a colostomy bag?

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2012, 07:57:18 PM »
Maybe this is the offspring of a Traben bass and one of those all aluminum things :P

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2012, 03:43:39 AM »
It's a supermodel bass, the result of many nights of cocaine and bulimia.

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2012, 08:01:54 AM »
 It looks like a "Borg " bass to me
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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2012, 10:05:17 AM »
I prefer all wood...

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2012, 10:06:29 AM »
Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #13 on: March 24, 2012, 10:11:35 AM »
Is that keypad connected to ADT?

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Re: Future Grabber - Norton bass
« Reply #14 on: March 24, 2012, 11:14:54 AM »
Is that keypad connected to ADT?
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