Back from ze House of Pain ... (Dave Warning: Spalted Maple Content!!)

[Freuds_Cat]

* Freuds_Cat is speechless 

[uwe]

More fungus porn:

[uwe]

Let me say without any irony or joking that I really like it. I'm not a fan of gold hardware at all yet it looks beautifully in place on that bass. You took a wallflower and turned her into a prom queen (Supertone and all)! She looks like the custom shop beauty she (now) is.

Where can I sign up to join the Republicans? Danke, George! 

[exiledarchangel]

Pickup positions are original? Seems that bridge pup is closer to bridge than a non-fungus epi explorer.

[uwe]

Same pos. The Epi Explorers come stock with pleasantly "frontal" positioned neck and bridge (actually: more middle) pups.That is another one of their advantages over the Gibson 80ies Explorers which had unfortunate pup positions among other things.

[Dr. Aquafresh]

I love the upgrades to this bass, it's Big Pimpin.

Any information on the process?

Was the neck removed and then re-attached in the House of Pain?

I have been kicking around the idea of a new project... what's next?

[uwe]

Mathias is on vacation now, but I do not think he removed the neck because he complained that fitting and book-matching the spalt maple (which breaks quickly) top was hard work on a non-bolt-on. He took off a little of the original Epi limba to make room, the spalt maple is about 1/4" thick.

There was nothing wrong with the Epi hardware except that it looked horribly cheap, both in structure and the reddish gold. That is why I added the Hipshot stuff. Putting in the gold TB Plus and replacing the prior soapbar TB Plus was cosmetic too, it's the same pup after all though the metal cover ones sound a bit sharper and more aggressive. They were off an LP Doublecut Bass by the way (left overs after the line was deleted) and are identical with what you have in LP Standards in chrome. 

I always wanted a long scale Explorer that looked and sounded the part. The one that Gibson for reasons of their own failed to ever make. Something Spyderish a la JAE. It wouldn't have made sense with a Gibson Explorer whose medium scale is a major letdown and whose maho body/maple neck combination is bland and has none of the warm, lively fuzzy resonance of the Epi models with their soft "wonder wood".

Uwe

[gearHed289]

I like the pup positioning. Very Ric like. I like having one right against the neck, and one somewhere between "bridge" and "middle" for lack of a better term. Looks like the bridge saddles are pulled WAY back to intonate.

[OldManC]

Let me say without any irony or joking that I really like it. I'm not a fan of gold hardware at all yet it looks beautifully in place on that bass. You took a wallflower and turned her into a prom queen (Supertone and all)! She looks like the custom shop beauty she (now) is.

Where can I sign up to join the Republicans? Danke, George! 

See, Uwe, we Republicans are mostly victims of bad press. We aren't adverse to or even afraid of 'change', we simply prefer it to be practical, well thought out, and an improvement over what was previously there. while it is also quite fanciful, your project fit all my other Republican requirements. 

[uwe]

I like the pup positioning. Very Ric like. I like having one right against the neck, and one somewhere between "bridge" and "middle" for lack of a better term. Looks like the bridge saddles are pulled WAY back to intonate.

That Supertone is the exact opposite to the old TBird bridges: It has way more range than you could ever need on any bass. The saddles are now about 2/3rds back, astoundingly enough all of them in the same position which just looks "wrong" to me, but what can you do if that is the way they intonate? Very German, alles ordentlich. 

[chromium]

Its the Ex-spore-er!   

I like it.  I don't consider myself a boutique bass guy, but I've always been attracted to Alembic's take on the Explorer - and visually, that's what this reminds me of a bit.

Just try to avoid any bad trips when licking the top.   

[uwe]

See, Uwe, we Republicans are mostly victims of bad press. We aren't adverse to or even afraid of 'change', we simply prefer it to be practical, well thought out, and an improvement over what was previously there. while it is also quite fanciful, your project fit all my other Republican requirements.  

I always wondered what "compassionate conservativism" was about. Now I know! 

[uwe]

Its the Ex-spore-er!  

I like it.  I don't consider myself a boutique bass guy, but I've always been attracted to Alembic's take on the Explorer - and visually, that's what this reminds me of a bit.

Just try to avoid any bad trips when licking the top.  

f***ing brilliant! Exsporer!!!  

A bass to really rot out with.

[TBird1958]

 Soooo............

The inevitable question arises.

What does the well dressed Moderator wear while playing the Fungus Explorer?



Snakeskin assless chaps.........

Camo Spandex.........


Uwe's reply: Zis here, whizz ze orange loincloth being of optional nature:

[chromium]

do you need to use any special cortisone polish on it?


Uwe: Cortisone? No, this here:



As always, most effective if lovingly applied by both partners. Vice versa, medicine treatment can be fun.