Baz Cooper Custom Futura 8

gearHed289 · August 23, 2011, 11:22:42 AM

Quote from: Baz Cooper on August 12, 2011, 09:23:36 PMHey..Tom Petersson....wanna check this one out??

Mmm hmm....

TBird1958 · August 23, 2011, 11:46:46 AM

I venture he'd like the big pinkie too

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 08:47:55 AM

dadagoboi · September 04, 2011, 09:13:13 AM

Sounds fantastic, Baz!...Now get to work

TBird1958 · September 04, 2011, 09:29:22 AM

Wow that's cool, Baz!

Just up the road a little from me......

gearHed289 · September 04, 2011, 11:24:05 AM

Baz, you rule! And so does that bass...

Milwaukee Oct. 8!

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 11:52:02 AM

Thanks Guys!!! It still was...and is...designed by me for me and my band!!!! Nobody makes a cool 8 string so I HAD to build 'em!!! More to come considering the requests that are coming in!! Lot of work a head of me but ooh...what fun!!!

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 11:53:28 AM

AND...MINE ARE LOUDLY and PROUDLY MADE IN THE GOOD 'OLE U.S. OF A.!!!!

dadagoboi · September 04, 2011, 11:57:49 AM

...except for the Indian rosewood fretboards?

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 12:42:24 PM

NOPE!!!!! Made here!!!!!!! Ha!!

Pekka · September 04, 2011, 01:07:49 PM

Quote from: Baz Cooper on September 04, 2011, 11:53:28 AM
AND...MINE ARE LOUDLY and PROUDLY MADE IN THE GOOD 'OLE U.S. OF A.!!!!

I have a couple of basses handmade in Finland (excepting some of the hardware) and of course I'm proud about it but on the other hand I don't give a damn were the instrument is made if it's good.

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 01:16:12 PM

Yeah that's great!!! I personally don't like USA companies that farm out labor to other countries for cheaper labor (And sometimes inferior quality) when it takes jobs out of America. There have been some great Japanese Fenders and Gibsons..(Y'know I love the Orvilles). I hope I did not offended you. I did in no way shape or form mean it that way, Pekka.

dadagoboi · September 04, 2011, 01:33:20 PM

If I had continued to try to make my furniture in the USA I'd be living in a cardboard box.

I turned 65 last week, my prices just went up and I'm farming out bodies and paint work to US suppliers. I'll be doing the new stain finishes myself. If I can't sell my basses for a profit making them here I'll either stop or make them somewhere else...just like every other American company that doesn't get subsidized and wants to stay in business.

Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 01:38:29 PM

Hey....I hear ya. I would like to say that if anything ever happened that I would continue to build here in the USA. But who knows.....But how about...a Lucite...T bird 8?

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Bionic-Joe · September 04, 2011, 01:40:11 PM

Aluminum is for sure too heavy. But Lucite????Anybody hear anything on Lucite basses or guitars??? Are there good qualities?

or bad???