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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2009, 10:37:17 PM »
Wow, I never thought of balsa as a particularly fine tonewood... 
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2009, 11:31:21 PM »
Wait!

Billy F. Gibbons states it are Bolin guitars, but that other book or magazine say they're Gibsons? Could there be a pair of Bolin's and Gibsons? I'm sure BFG knows what he says and the ones in the book are certainly not Gibsons. No logo, strange red pick ups, ...

About them boing hollow or not: The pics in the BFG-book shows real diamond holes but with something silver behind it. Like it's stuffed with foil or something.

@ Saf: 102/3 is great but I like the Cadzzila even better. And I just love the Gretsch Billy Bo Jupiter Thunderbird Bass. The name's already perfecttly long:)
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #17 on: March 04, 2009, 11:44:48 PM »
Myabe BFG is talking about a different pair. I don't think an article about the Gibson Custom Shop would just make up specific information like that.
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2009, 12:47:47 AM »
Bill Gibbons likes to raise confusion. You never know what he makes up or when he's serious.
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2009, 04:34:25 AM »
Whew, that thread developed nicely, thanks for everyone's input! I just have two questions:

1. Why did no one of you guys dig this up before?

2. Anybody got Dusty Hill's home number? I wanna buy a bass off him.

And balsa ain't no bad tone wood at all: My Yamaha RBX4 A2 A.I.R. (Alternative Internal Resonance) is made of balsa laminated by some harder wood. The sound? Warm and blurry, yet retaining a certain airiness. Great sound for an unplugged session where most piezo equipped acoustic basses would sound harsher. What it doesn't have is ball-shaking sublows like you would have from a, say, maple solid body , I always notice that when playing the Yamaha in a rehearsal space with a loud drummer, it then doesn't have quite the authority of other basses. Yamaha should offer a fretless version of it, that would sound perfect.

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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2009, 10:51:04 AM »
Dusty Hill: 555 - 7492745
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2009, 10:52:15 AM »
BTW: We ALL knew about these basses, but we decided not tell you for several reasons.
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2009, 12:27:55 PM »
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2009, 12:39:40 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 05, 2009, 12:27:55 PM
her German husband can arrest her for us!
he died in 2002...  :o :mrgreen:
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2009, 12:49:51 PM »

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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2009, 01:07:51 PM »
Quote from: Basvarken on March 05, 2009, 12:39:40 PM
he died in 2002...  :o :mrgreen:

Small logistic issues like that have never held us back.
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #27 on: March 08, 2009, 02:29:52 PM »
Quote from: uwe on March 05, 2009, 01:07:51 PM
Small logistic issues like that have never held us back.



Nope, that was never the problem here...  ;D
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #28 on: November 29, 2011, 10:04:13 AM »
Strange... I got a facebook message from Mat Klein the other day (oddly shows up on my phone, but not online) about these instruments. Pretty much confirms what's already been said - He made the white ones. The green ones were copied and made by Bolin. Klein has worked at Gibson since '86 and apparently still does.
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Re: What type of bass is this, anybody got a clue?
« Reply #29 on: November 29, 2011, 10:23:03 AM »
Quote from: gearHed289 on November 29, 2011, 10:04:13 AM
Strange... I got a facebook message from Mat Klein the other day (oddly shows up on my phone, but not online) about these instruments. Pretty much confirms what's already been said - He made the white ones. The green ones were copied and made by Bolin. Klein has worked at Gibson since '86 and apparently still does.

If he's still there, then Uwe ought to be able to get one made. At least it doesn't have an Indian rosewood board.
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