Here - http://www.ebay.com/itm/171023266177?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
The most painful part - "This bass started life with a traffic cone orange finish, but has been refinished in a classic green and yellow John Deere motif with an old school John Deere applique added." :-\ :rolleyes: :sad:
Just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD.
Ah a tractor bass.
I'm not sure what kind of music you would want to play with a bass like that ??? Certainly nothing I'm familiar with :o.
Rick
It's the perfect bass to play in your tractor while you're plowing the fields. You have to wear your JD gimme cap while playing.
THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!! ;D :mrgreen:
(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)
I wear a John Deere cap I've had since I was five when I play and my bass has the same pickups as that one... and the idiot who did that to that bass needs to be kicked in the dick.
I'm far more offended by that headstock.
Quote from: lowend1 on April 17, 2013, 07:13:14 AM
I'm far more offended by that headstock.
True, I could live with the color, I even find it kinda nice :P but that headstock is completely out of place.
Note that the bass is being sold by a store in Wichita, Kansas. This explains many things.
Quote from: lowend1 on April 17, 2013, 07:13:14 AM
I'm far more offended by that headstock.
Isn't that the standard RS Guitarworks headstock shape? This isn't a homemade copy, RS doesn't want to get sued by Fender for cloning their headstock shape.
Since so very few were made by RS I would not be surpised to find that one to be the very same bass that I purchased from Scott and then later sold thru BassNW.
I really don't get on with "Pee" sized necks - The pups, you want to love them 'cause they're chrome but they are a bit on the weak, listless side. Still sad to see it looking this way.
Quote from: Pilgrim on April 16, 2013, 07:39:37 PM
THAT is the perfect instrument to play while singing "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy"!!! ;D :mrgreen:
(Smilies in John Deere yellow & green just for the right touch.)
I was gonna say that!!!!! Well, I guess you can make anything and there will be an audience for it somewhere. Ugh. Say, should JD sue these guys? Everyone else seems to these days.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'm a a IH Farmall man myself. Makes me sorry I sold the poor thing. Well RS is in Tennessee :rolleyes:
Oi karnt reed an' oi karnt wroit but oi cain play a traktor... (to the tune of an old footie chant)
Quote from: godofthunder on April 17, 2013, 02:18:37 PM
Hmmmmmmmmmmm I'm a a IH Farmall man myself. Makes me sorry I sold the poor thing. Well RS is in Tennessee :rolleyes:
No they're not. They're in Winchester, Kentucky, much closer to Ohio than Tennessee. Besides, RS didn't do the John Deere finish. The fact that the music store knows the original color and says it's a refin makes me think they did that finish (or knows who did) but don't want to take credit for it. There's nothing wrong with a tractor-themed bass, but this is one of RS's limited run Explorer-birds. Anyone looking to resell it after painting it like that doesn't get what that bass is about.
Quote from: TBird1958 on April 17, 2013, 11:54:15 AMThe pups, you want to love them 'cause they're chrome but they are a bit on the weak, listless side.
I've speculated that those Fralin custom pickups were designed around a tube guitar preamp. They don't sound very T-Birdy at all until they're fed into a high impedance tube input stage. Then, they get VERY growly. Into most s/s bass amp preamps, they would be pretty listless.
Maybe Derek Smalls commissioned it to play "Sex Farm"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhUBZiwio0w
Your right Kentucky! My bad. When I had the bass it sounded great through the Hiwatts. I know Mark was pretty disappointed in their sound, wonder if he was using SS rig at the time?
Nothing a pair of TB+ can't fix. :)
Quote from: godofthunder on April 19, 2013, 05:46:58 AM
Your right Kentucky! My bad. When I had the bass it sounded great through the Hiwatts. I know Mark was pretty disappointed in their sound, wonder if he was using SS rig at the time?
Yeah, GK 1001RBII. Still, no love lost. It's a sometimes expensive epiphany to realize that one was meant to play a single type of bass - For me that's a Reverse Thunderbird, anything else just doesn't last around my house.
Have you ever tried a prolonged session with an RD...?
Quote from: HERBIE on April 19, 2013, 04:51:22 PM
Have you ever tried a prolonged session with an RD...?
Uwe's re-issue, I had my way with it quite a few times ;)
Has that finally sated that lust or do you still hanker after an Artist for a while...? Mind you, weren't you entertaining the thought of an Explorer (or maybe a Carlo E'bird?) ...?