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Title: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: Blazer on December 07, 2008, 04:53:52 AM
http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/thebeast.html
(http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/images/thebeast.jpg)
(http://www.zonguitars.com/zonguitars/images/beast_controls_detail.jpg)
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: Basvarken on December 07, 2008, 06:36:45 AM
OMG that is ugly :puke:
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: Lightyear on December 07, 2008, 08:27:06 AM
Quote from: Basvarken on December 07, 2008, 06:36:45 AM
OMG that is ugly :puke:

I would go as far as to say FUGLY! :P
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: nofi on December 07, 2008, 09:05:59 AM
it was after all his first and we have all seen worse. :o
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: TBird1958 on December 07, 2008, 09:42:57 AM

Woof! I think I just threw up alittle in my own mouth........ :-X
We should all pray that there is only one of these and that it will head off to a lonely extinction soon.
Thank goodness Gibson always got it right!

Maybe this will will help

(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd306/veronicasteed/Greenie.jpg)

Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: Dave W on December 07, 2008, 10:34:27 AM
Joe Zon builds some very nice sounding basses even if they aren't all that attractive (at least to me). Considering this one was his first effort at age 18, I can forgive him for the misshapen body and the obvious experimenting with the electronics.
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: chromium on December 07, 2008, 11:00:04 AM
Humble beginnings!

Not to everyone's taste, but he's made some slight advances  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY4Ra2KOyas&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx1RccwlF5g

Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: Blazer on December 07, 2008, 01:51:54 PM
Quote from: chromium on December 07, 2008, 11:00:04 AM
Humble beginnings!

Not to everyone's taste, but he's made some slight advances  ;D

That was cool, and I'll raise you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUpeQytOCLE
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: chromium on December 07, 2008, 02:09:15 PM
Oh wow!  Those tuners had caught my eye recently when I was searching for something else:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tuners/Banjo_tuners/Schaller_D-Tuners.html

(at least I think those are the same ones)

Very cool application of them!
Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: PWV on December 07, 2008, 10:00:59 PM
Looks like an early prototype for this:


(http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04Mw7AU2UrfMx/340x.jpg)



:mrgreen:



Title: Re: ZON-build Fenderbird.
Post by: uwe on December 08, 2008, 04:40:08 AM
That thing is so endearingly ugly, it touches my heart! probably sounds great though.

On a related note: I like Manring's lyrical style and I use harmonics when playing melodic stuff too, but his rushing to the headstock to the hipshot tuners (oviously four of them) is a silly little circus stunt in that first vid. All credit to his playing elsewhere though.