Tonefuchs

Basvarken · January 14, 2011, 03:10:32 AM

Tonefuchs Extreme Sport Bass. Weird hybrid.
With Lollar pickups.
That neck pickup looks a lot like a Charlie Christian pickup doesn't it?

It ain't exactly cheap...
http://www.musik-schmidt.de/gb-Tonfuchs-Guitars-Extremsport-VS.html

exiledarchangel · January 14, 2011, 04:26:32 AM

Love that thunderjag body shape, wish I could say the same for the headstock...

Freuds_Cat · January 14, 2011, 05:32:23 AM

Body Shape looks a lot like PeterB's Jagbird shape, Tele controls, P bass in the back pups and bridge, Lollar Charlie Christian pup in the front, PG has the Big Al thing happening.
The headstock is pure ugliness
I love the body wood and burst and even the shape but I still think it looks like a bit of dogs breakfast as far as basses go.
No way I'd give up US$3500 for it.

Basvarken · January 14, 2011, 07:20:53 AM

Agreed.
Head stock is fugly. And the whole design is a bit of a mishmash.

And I don't like the split P-pickup next to the Charlie Christian one.
I would've preferred the look of two Charlie Christian pickups.

godofthunder · January 14, 2011, 07:27:10 AM

Tone Fuchs? oh the fun we could have.

Denis · January 14, 2011, 08:24:21 AM

The headstock looks like a mitten.

dadagoboi · January 14, 2011, 08:52:32 AM

Quote from: Denis on January 14, 2011, 08:24:21 AM
The headstock looks like a mitten.

That's the Dive Mitten^TM designed to produce maximum neck descent. A player's manliness quotient is increased by overcoming it, justifying the $3500 expenditure.

Basvarken · January 14, 2011, 08:55:17 AM

Hence the name Extreme Sport Bass

Dave W · January 14, 2011, 09:01:40 AM

Headstock looks like a boat to me.

Lollar has made a Charlie Christian pickup for several years, wonder if this is a different version for bass.

jumbodbassman · January 14, 2011, 09:47:49 AM

looks like a modified VOX headstock from the 60's

uwe · January 14, 2011, 10:46:42 AM

Uhum. How you have all forgotten me!!!!

That was my concept. I ordered the first one. And Uwe (the maker of Tonfuchs guitars, we share the first name) first laughed about my insistence on a front pup directly after the neck ("very strange to have that these days, you don't slap, do you?"), he jokingly then called it "Extremsport" (he calls all his basses Sport and adds something or other to it) becuae he found my vision of the bass extreme only to later on say "I'll make a regular model out of it". I really should claim royalties.

I ordered mine years ago.

Pics of the prototype he made for me (all korina, set neck and in blue) are still on his site, just scroll this gallery here down:

http://www.tonfuchs.de/sportbass.0.html

Dave W · January 14, 2011, 11:05:19 AM

Now i remember! I have those pics of yours in one of my bass pic folders. I knew there was something familiar about the name.

But I misread the name. My folder is titled "Uwe's TomFuchs bass." I thought the builder's name was Tom Fuchs. Not tonfuchs (tone fox).

D'oh! (_8^(I)

Highlander · January 14, 2011, 12:02:27 PM

The headstock is a stylised foxes head... surprised no-one made the connection...

Is there any bass (brand) you don't or have not owned, Uwe...? (hmm, don't remember Alembic in your canon, mind you I'm still a newbie, technically speaking...)

uwe · January 14, 2011, 12:03:18 PM

He's called Uwe Fuchs, a common German name. The "ton" is just an addition for his instruments.

Basvarken · January 14, 2011, 12:07:26 PM

Hey Uwe, I like your blue Tonefuchs!
Why didn't he keep the pickguard / controls lay-out from your concept?
And why did he make such a mess of the whole design. It was perfect on your prototype.

But what's with those two screws at the end of the fretboard?

Did Tonefuchs come up with a similar idea that I had on my Brooks bass?
On my bass the last part of the fretboard is the trussrod cover. The 24th fretmarkers are screws.