Ever seen a bass with 14+ neck bolts?

[Psycho Bass Guy]

If not, check this out:

http://nashville.craigslist.org/msg/2098575975.html

[Dave W]

I wonder if there's some sort of logic to that bolt pattern.

I wonder even more why anyone expects to sell a $5200 boutique bass on CL, even in Nashville.

[nofi]

when i saw the thread title ritter instantly came to mind. is there a legit reason they use so many bolts on their basses.

[Pilgrim]

I wonder if there's some sort of logic to that bolt pattern.

I wonder even more why anyone expects to sell a $5200 boutique bass on CL, even in Nashville.

One-a them good ole' boys gonna trade his pickemup truck fer it!

[Highlander]

An exercise in overkill...

Looks like one of the kids got loose with a morph function in photoshop prior to the workshop getting the plans...

[dadagoboi]

"S" for STOOPID.  I especially like the bottom horn (antler?)

[sniper]

would it be condescending to say i would rather have a NOS 61 EB3 than this 250,000$ Ritter with it's gold inlay and black diamonds?

[Highlander]

looks like the beastie's made of "tigers-eye"

In my avionics days I worked on the Sultan of Oman's B720 A7-AAA (first civil aircraft registered in that country) - there was this huge six-seater table running length-ways in the mid-front part of the cabin - it was made of all sorts of exotic woods and had CHUNKS of gold that was used for inlays all over the place...

[Basvarken]

Another fine example that extreme wealth is no guarantee for good taste...

[dadagoboi]

Another fine example that extreme wealth is no guarantee for good taste...

IMO it's usually an indicator of the opposite.

[Denis]

I wonder even more why anyone expects to sell a $5200 boutique bass...

Fixed that for you.

Another fine example that extreme wealth is no guarantee for good taste...

My old boss told me once that "some people sit on their taste". Brilliant!

[Dave W]

One-a them good ole' boys gonna trade his pickemup truck fer it!

I hear tell there might be some musicians in Nashville too. All the seller needs is one with plenty of cash and a taste for the hideous.

[uwe]

The Ritter stuff is too much art for art's sake for my taste. But they certainly are boutique basses. From a two man boutique that only produces about 50 of them in a year. Ritter has refused offers fron Far-Eastern firms to license his name to basses they produce according to his specifications and he also refused a golden offer from a US millionaire to move everything to the states and build his basses there (in somewhat larger numbers).

Ritter is actually a mechanical engineer, not a luthier or artist. So there is nothing on those basses that gets in the way of sensible playing, believe it or not. And he holds up the doctrine that wood means everything, hardware and pups very little, so all his basses have relatively neutral sounding electronics to bring out the wood. You can bet your ass that that S shaped alignment of thoses neck bolts is most likely based on some fancy computer program deciding where goes what.

All that said, I find those basses overdone. People who have played one say, however, that you immediately gel with them and feel at home on them like on no other bass. He even measures your arms' length and has that go into the design of his basses. Bespoke tailoring.

Uwe

[Dave W]

All the more reason not to buy someone else's  used one. If you like the style and sound of his basses and you have that much money, have him make one just for you.

[Highlander]

and I quote... "If you can't do it with a P..."

Some other world... must be... doesn't have any relevance...

(Beam me up Scotty...)