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Other Bass Brands / Mystery Bass
« on: March 25, 2013, 07:16:01 PM »




More/bigger here:

http://www.use.com/5d6d9b405a6726d8b0ab#photo=1

I've had this one a number of years.  Nobody on Talkbass had any idea, for all I know it's the product of a local luthier but I thought I'd try here. 
At least it's an excuse to post some horrible pics.  Made me think of an Overwater C Bass/Gibson hybrid when I saw it, so I had to buy it.  I'm guessing late 80's/early 90's
from the styling and condition.  Besides dings and scratches, it has a fair amount of finish cracks.  Neck is angled slightly back like a Les Paul.  34" scale, so it's not a very exact C bass copy, but the body resembles one.  I tried to string it with a set of .105 D'addario nickel rounds but the E was too big for the nut.

Bought it here in the US, North Dartmouth Massachusetts to be exact.  The store had taken it in trade and knew nothing about it.  Schaller pickups,bridge, and tuners.  Passive, I believe 2 volumes, 2 tones and 2 coil switches.  Sounded good but had too much feedback to be usable, so I changed the pickups and electronics.  Original knobs were all chrome, not the mess I've got on there now - that's what I had that would fit the pots I had.  Original pots were 2 300kOhm, 2 500kOhm, marked "Japan."  Set neck, wider and thicker than the Jazz type I like but comfortable.  I modified a beat up old Explorer bass case to fit it.

Thanks for looking, I don't expect anyone will recognize it but you never know.

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Gibson Basses / My Explorer, currently exploring the interior of its case.
« on: July 17, 2010, 11:06:08 AM »
Just joined recently, it's pretty cool here.  Thought I'd post pics of the poor, abused Explorer I rescued a while back.  In other words, stupidly bid on and unluckily won.  I wish I could say I was drunk at the time.  I guess I have a soft spot for the cast off victims of man's cruelty, like the 3 legged stray cat I took in ..and this bass.  I know they both are doing the best they can, the cat gets around OK considering and he seems very happy to have a home.  Similarly, the bass sounds great when played between the 3rd and 7th frets, but isn't usable otherwise.



Yes. it's been converted to a 12 string.  Not by me.  I think it might have worked out if the guy hadn't decided to string it up with guitar strings and tune them to the pitch they would be on a 25" scale guitar, and leave it like that.  Got tension? The fretboard looks to have started coming off near the neck pickup, and been screwed back down into place.  When I got it, I couldn't even tune the thing in less than half an hour;  there was no sense string-tuner arrangement, I had to physically trace the course of each string to find the proper tuner to adjust.  I think his criteria there was just to get the guitar strings to reach the tuners.

I cannot get the bow out of the neck, the truss rod works but I have turned it as far as it wants to go, and being but an amateur don't want to push my luck.  With no strings, I can adjust it so it it seems fine, but the neck has the strength of a wet noodle and doesn't even like being a 4 string.

I don't really consider this a "project" at the moment as I have no time or money to invest in it.  I know a luthier who wants to see it, who can fix it if anybody can.  I also know that if that doesn't work out, my brother has converted set neck basses into neck-through 8 strings before with Carvin necks, and that might be the most affordable route as I have the hardware already, but I'd lose the 32" scale which I like. 

So, just thought I'd post possibly my dumbest bass purchase, maybe someday it will be functional (ugly I'm OK with) but figured the pic would be good for a laugh (or tear) or two.

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