Brooks Thread

[Granny Gremlin]

With the poick there - the angriest of pianos!

[Highlander]

 

[tore00]

Your bass looks great! Today for the very first time I took my Dean 12 to rehearsals with my band. They all said to not bring my Precision anymore!

[Chris P.]

Piece of art!

[Basvarken]

A few years ago I had two prototype bass guitar built by a Chinese manufacturer.
The idea was to offer a medium priced series next to the basses that I build myself (by hand). I was gonna complete the Chinese built bass guitars myself with high quality hardware and electronics here in The Netherlands.
But I abandonded the whole project, because I was not happy with the level of fit and finish by the Chinese manufacturer. There were too many mistakes in the lacquer and other details. I would have cost me too much of my time to get them up to the level that I had in mind.

Eventually I sold both prototypes to a Dutch bass player, who is very happy with both bass guitars.
He completely relic-ed one of them.
And the other was left in its original state. Until two months ago. Then he sent me a request to give the bass a complete make-over...



The original:


The final result after the metamorphosis:












I tried it with a red speed knob as an eye catcher:



Pics of the process can be seen here:
https://www.enkoo.nl/modification-eb-spl-noir.html

[Dave W]

Great job!

[BTL]

Looks great!

[morrow]

Beauty !

[Pilgrim]

Wow, simply wow!

[OldManC]

I saw a photo on Facebook the other day that had two black, double cut Brooks basses and I wondered about those... That is beautiful!

[Basvarken]

That must have been this one



Thank you guys, for all the nice comments

[Highlander]

 

[Basvarken]

I've been playing around with the idea of building a multi scale bass. So with fanned frets. Just for fun. Something completely different.
Last few days I made some drawings.

Based on the model of the Brooks EB-N.
But with Thunderbird-ish headstock. Tuners: 2 above, 3 below
Natural Mahogany with yellow stained spalted maple top



Also based on the model of the Brooks EB-N.
But with Flying-V-ish headstock. Tuners 3 above, 2 below
Natural Mahogany with yellow stained spalted maple top



New body model with a hint of Thunderbird/RD
Natural Mahogany with spalted maple top



Explorer model with Flying-V ish headstock. Tuners 3 above, 2 below
Finish Gun Metal grey.



Explorer model with Thunderbird-ish headstock. Tuners: 2 above, 3 below
Finish White Pearl

[gearHed289]

Wow (as usual)! I've had a little fascination with fanned frets over the past few years. I just feel like I'd have to start playing a bunch of tapped arpeggios on something like that.  What scale lengths are you thinking? Another thing I've been thinking about is a 32'' scale 5 string tuned EADGC. For a multi-scale, I think maybe 35'' to 33'' might be good.

[Basvarken]

These drawings are based on 34-37 inch scale