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Main Forums => The Bass Zone => Topic started by: Freuds_Cat on June 28, 2011, 08:37:13 PM
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Came across this cool site documenting a Mahogany 51 P bass build with TV Jones Thundertrons and even a maho neck.
Looks like a great concept. I'm not sure I would have put the Badass2 on it though. I reckon I would have tried something like one of Scotts bridges.
http://www.cyrguitars.com/CG_PBassProject_TV_Jones.html (http://www.cyrguitars.com/CG_PBassProject_TV_Jones.html)
(http://www.cyrguitars.com/CG_Bass_Completed_01.JPG)
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Is it just me or is that thing short scale?
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I don't think so.
I do like the pickup placement.
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I do like that. Not a Badass fan here either, but overall one mighty attractive and interesting bass. Love to hear what it sounds like.
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Steve Cyr makes interesting stuff but his turnaround time is unacceptable. I had to prepay for a neck about 15 months ago and still waiting. these pictures showed up in march and still no word from him ???
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/SCROLLS/CYR1.jpg)
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/SCROLLS/CYR2.jpg)
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/SCROLLS/CYR3.jpg)
scroll body i supplied
(http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/ac102/desantisjn/SCROLLS/CYR4.jpg)
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Hey, don't feel bad. I was on a 2 year wait list for my Johnson Scroll bass, and it took three years to get it. It's a beautiful bass, and well worth the wait, but Bruce has a lot of commitments, so be prepared to wait and adjust your expectations.
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I don't see what's "51" about it, other than the headstock shape.
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Hmmm, I'm not convinced either Bret. Headstock looks too large. The controls are in the wrong place the jackinput is plain ugly...
When I saw the title I thought you had discovered an old BaCH bass.
I had their 50's P bass with mahogany body and neck (maple fretboard)
That's where my whole history with BaCH starts.
(http://www.superfloor.net/telebass7.jpg)
I soon replaced the two saddle bridge for a string through body four saddle bridge.
And I placed some chrome covers.
(http://www.superfloor.net/stringthrubridge.jpg)
(http://www.superfloor.net/pimpedbach.jpg)
I sold it because it was too heavy. And I just didn't use it enough to justify keeping it.
But it was a fine bas with a very authentic P bass sound (maybe a bit warmer).
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Easy boys the 51 tag is their quote not my opinion :) "The body is two-piece, cut to the classic '51 Precision Bass shape, but with forearm and belly contours"
Now that I see it I remember that Bach bass Rob. I've gotta admit I dont like the placement or design of the controls either. Or the strat style jack input. I just thought it interesting because of the Mahogany body and the Thundertrons in a 7end3r setting.
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"The body is two-piece, cut to the classic '51 Precision Bass shape, but with forearm and belly contours"
Bad sign IMO when a builder does not know the contours were added in '55 by Fender pre split coil '57.
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Who says he doesn't know?
He just chose to make it more ergonomical
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Who says he doesn't know?
He just chose to make it more ergonomical
'55, '56,'57 Chevrolets are almost exactly the same; They share doors, roof, windows, trunk, etc and most mechanicals. But anyone who knows vintage Chevys can identify a '55, 56 or '57 from probably 100 yards. The early Fenders are the equivalent in basses. That's why I inferred from his description he doesn't know his Precisions.
I know very little about "Hobbits" but I'm sure the different versions are easily IDed by aficionados. Ditto Ricks.
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The guy does say "a 51 BUT WITH forearm and belly contours". Suggests that he realises a 51 didnt have them.
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Hey, don't feel bad. I was on a 2 year wait list for my Johnson Scroll bass, and it took three years to get it. It's a beautiful bass, and well worth the wait, but Bruce has a lot of commitments, so be prepared to wait and adjust your expectations.
bruce has my deposit for a devil bass since 2004..... i was on the wait list for the scroll until a few guys ahead of me cancelled..
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The guy does say "a 51 BUT WITH forearm and belly contours". Suggests that he realises a 51 didnt have them.
I don't understand his implying he's done something unique if he knows differently. Easier to say what it is exactly... '56 P style body' maybe, since all of them that year were like that.
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Aside from the body contours, body wood, neck wood, fretboard wood, tuners, pickups, pickup placement, bridge, jack, control plate, controls and missing pickguard, it's EXACTLY like a 51 P. ;D
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now that's funny, Dave!
;D
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If you look at the pics in the link closely, the body (aside from the aforementioned contours) seems to have the harder slab-style edge than, for example, Rob's Bach. Maybe that's the reason he used "'51". Also, the Squier "51" guitar has the same mismatched features - not that it has any bearing on this particular project, but there you go...
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I don't see why it has to be a carbon copy of a '51. That has been done to death for 60 years. I'm happy with something that captures the spirit and visual appeal of the '51.
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'55, '56,'57 Chevrolets are almost exactly the same; They share doors, roof, windows, trunk, etc and most mechanicals. But anyone who knows vintage Chevys can identify a '55, 56 or '57 from probably 100 yards.
Aye... Even when we've mixed and matched our favorite touches between years.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/gcarlston/dudepit/562101-1.jpg)
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Aye... Even when we've mixed and matched our favorite touches between years.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v47/gcarlston/dudepit/562101-1.jpg)
Ask any kid to find the gas cap on a '56 through '59 Chevy....good for a chuckle.
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I don't see why it has to be a carbon copy of a '51. That has been done to death for 60 years. I'm happy with something that captures the spirit and visual appeal of the '51.
It doesn't. I was just having a little fun.
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Ask any kid to find the gas cap on a '56 through '59 Chevy....good for a chuckle.
"Kid"? Maybe in 1975. These days gas station attendants are of a decidedly different, er, stripe - but they couldn't find it either. They can't even find the cap on my '79 Chrysler (under the license plate like the '59 Chevy). As a former gas pump jockey, I can find the others. (pats self on back)
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I stumped a fellow college student about the gas cap location on a '57 Chev back in 1971.
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I stumped a fellow college student about the gas cap location on a '57 Chev back in 1971.
I used to call up parts stores back in the day and ask for a radiator hoses for a Corvair. It's no fun anymore unless you get an old guy. Nowadays most people don't even know what a Corvair is.
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I used to call up parts stores back in the day and ask for a radiator hoses for a Corvair. It's no fun anymore unless you get an old guy. Nowadays most people don't even know what a Corvair is.
The Corvair radiator hoses are located on the shelf right below the Wankel pistons.
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The Corvair radiator hoses are located on the shelf right below the Wankel pistons.
..close to the muffler bearings
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The Corvair radiator hoses are located on the shelf right below the Wankel pistons.
Hey even I get that! :o ;D
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..close to the muffler bearings
Next to the large display of blinker fluid
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Next to the large display of blinker fluid
And the windshield washer pump for the 1968 VW Beetle.
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... or a present day innovative Fender design...
Full circle...