Most Outposters know about the BaCHbird.
They are a great tribute to the classic design from the sixties.
Originally the BaCHbird was meant as a platform to upgrade to anyone's personal preference.
And some of you did actually put different pickups in, or improved on the potentiometers. Some even refinned it.
Others left it stock as it's a fine bass all by itself.
Outposter (and fellow Dutchman) Peter Boer and myself got together a while ago to check out each other's projects and basses.
Peter has built some great hybrid basses such as the
JagBird,
the Lotto and
the Chi-Sonic Jazz.
I was blown away by the Chi-Sonics in particular.
And Peter immediately fell in love with the BaCHbird
We came up with a crazy idea. Why don't we make a small series of BaCHbird Deluxe basses?
An upgraded BaCHbird for those who wish a more high-end quality bass, but don't want to take out the soldering iron and toolkit themselves.
The BaCHbird deluxe will feature:
- A
handbuilt BaCHbird. Cherry picked by BaCH for us. Only the best will do
-
Hanson Chi-Sonic humbuckers. These are the pickus that Läkland uses on some of their basses. Based on the legendary Hägstrom Bi-Sonics
-
CTS pots. Top quality pots. In fact it'll get a whole new wiring with braided wire sprague cap etc.
-
Gotoh Res-O-Lite Reverse wind machine heads. Same shape as the sixties Kluson 546 tuners on the original Tbirds. But these Gotoh tuners are of a light weight alloy and should help tremendously to eliminate neck dive.
-
New pickguard. Slightly modified to fit nicely around the Chi-Sonic pickups.
We're trying to keep the price under a 1000 Euro.
Here's a Photoshop mock-up.
What do you think of that?
