The Last Bass Outpost

I'm in a Buzzard phase and I visit the Custom Shop pages often.

What do you think of this, I 'designed' my perfect bass on paper.
 
Warwick Buzzard
neck through: maple neck with rosewood fretboard
mahogany wings
one passive MEC vintage humbucker in the middle position
kill switch only like a blackbird.
 
I guess it'll be a bit Rick 4003-ish with this maple neck and body-mid section, but also a bit Bird-ish with the mahogany wings and passive humbucker.

Here she is:





= I only played her amplified through my little warm and modern Vox T-25. 25W and 1x10. She sounds very warm on it! Especially with the switch on the bassiest sound. Warm, full. I know my T25 sounds a bit like my Orange rig, but on a lower volume, so I think I kinda like her!

- The headstock break is very bad repaired on the front (you almost don't see it at the back), but i think I know someone who can do something about it.

- It has a single coil. You can hear some hum, when it's turned to the amp, but it isn't very noisy. No real problem. I have to get the chrome cover off, but I guess it's a 50s P single pick up or something. It still has a switch for two sounds, the one being more bassy and having more volume than the other.

- The wood's very nice, especially the back side.

- The colour is much more amber than my girlfriends Sheraton.

- Action and so are good.

- Do all Korean Epiphones have the jack input side mounted?

- Is the 2-way toggle normal? Shouldn;t that be a little push switch?

Some pics:







The single coil:

Has anyone tried one out?

New Kays. What about 'm? I think they're nice!

On the site you can see two basses which are both P-copies. But in thios brochure you'll see two great new reissues!

http://koolkollection.kayguitar.com/index.html

It seems I have won the Jules barebone EB-0. We jsut have to sort out some payment and shipment things.

So: The Explorerbird (strange name, cos it has to be called something like an Explender) has to wait for a while and you have to help me out with this.

Colour:
- Off White
- Cherry
- Gold (I saw an Epi SG gold guitar and it looked better than I thought it would)
- British Racing Green and two cream or chequered competition stripes. (Like the LP/SG GT or G-Love Gretsch Corvette)

Pick Up:
- Single Darkstar (I have one)
- Mudbucker
- DeArmond Goldtone humbucker (I have one)
- Fender P split pick up (sorry, just a bad joke....)
- Other

Pickguard:
- No
- Black
- White

Bridge
- Three point
- Fender-ish/BadAss
- 60s bridge (see other topic)
- Warwick bridge

Other options?

Thanks!

Of course the Non-rev BaCH will be here this year. I'm also bidding on Jules' EB0-body (and I have a Darkstar in a box somewhere), but what would be a nice idea to do with a fake F****r-decalled maple black-block Jazz neck I have.

- Fenderbird. Putting the Jazz neck at a Thunderbird type body, JAE-style.
- Explorerbird. Putting the Jazz neck at an Explorer type body. JAE-style.
- Buzzer. Putting the Jazz neck at a Buzzard type body.
- Billy Bender. Putting the Jazz neck at a Gretsch Billy Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Bass type body.
- Other. Please post.

And if you voted:

Pick ups:
- Darkstar?
- Trying to put my two Epi T-bird pups in the two 70s chrome covers I have.
- One Epi in chrome cover
- Other?

I dunno if I do something with the results, but maybe you come up with some nice ideas:)

http://www.gitaarmarkt.nl/index.php?ct=basgit&md=details&id=88654

De geinteresseerde verzamelaar/belegger weet dat dit een unieke,kans is deze basgitaar aan te schaffen. Van deze bas, zijn er slechts 42 gemaakt door de custom shop van Gibson. Hiervan zijn er in deze uitvoering slechts 16 gemaakt,waarvan er 5 in Europa terrecht zijn gekomen. In onberispelijke,mooie staat! Biedingen vanaf € 10.000,-- tel.0413741519/0653154920   

EB750 for sale in Holland. No pics.

Translation:
The interested collecter nows this is an unique chance. The Gibson CS made only 42 of these basses and only 16 is this rendition. Five of them came to Europe.  10.000 euros. There's one for sale in the US for 5.000 dollars. which is 3.500 euros.

Hi guys,

I'm gonna write an article about Acoustic bass amps for this Dutch bass magazine. I know there are some fans and owners here and I would love to hear some info, stories, history, everything!

Thanks in advance!

Chris