BaCH shortscale semi acoustic

[Granny Gremlin]

Ooooooo; white. 

[Highlander]

+1

Smitten but presently otherwise challenged... It was a white EB2 I nearly bought when I stumbled on the PC...

[Chris P.]

The Bruce Foxton one?

[Highlander]

That's the one (was it a Rivoli? - it was £200 and the PC was £180). What a shame I had to settle for second best...

[daan]

Dang I didn't need to see this...
I had a fake EB-2 for a while, typical 70's Japanese copy thing. Really low quality. It looked just like the one you posted though. What are these constructed like inside? The one I had was totally hollow inside except for a postage-stamp size chunk of plywood holding up the (2-point) bridge. DO the Bach's have a center block, or what? My EB-fake weighed 6 pounds and some and was totally neck heavy. I got to play a real EB, and that felt about 3 times heavier because of the real wood and the bracing inside. Anyway thanks for letting me ramble. What does the 385 Euro translate into $, and what does a case and shipping add to that? Maybe I can donate a lot of plasma before you get your saddles made...

[Basvarken]

The BaCH semi acoustic basses have a mahogany center block just like the real real.
They are not neck heavy. Even the longscale isn't!

€ 385 today is $ 507.

BaCH does not have cases for these basses yet.

Shipping is € 180 ($237 today).


I got a plate of Nylon Polyamid. And yesterday I cut the first set of four saddles.

[Basvarken]

I cut the Nylon saddles. Bass is now ready to rock. 

[godofthunder]

Beautuiful!

[Granny Gremlin]

I can't afford to be gassing so hard for this right now. 

[Pilgrim]

You should publish that photo on TalkBass to prompt a string of 30+ people screaming about how having the silks in contact with the saddles kills the tone, muffles the sound, makes large cracks appear in the earth and probably will make fire rain from the skies.

[Basvarken]

You should publish that photo on TalkBass to prompt a string of 30+ people screaming about how having the silks in contact with the saddles kills the tone, muffles the sound, makes large cracks appear in the earth and probably will make fire rain from the skies.

Whaaahaaa!

[Dave W]

You should publish that photo on TalkBass to prompt a string of 30+ people screaming about how having the silks in contact with the saddles kills the tone, muffles the sound, makes large cracks appear in the earth and probably will make fire rain from the skies.

And they know this because they read it on Talkbass!

[dadagoboi]

You should publish that photo on TalkBass to prompt a string of 30+ people screaming about how having the silks in contact with the saddles kills the tone, muffles the sound, makes large cracks appear in the earth and probably will make fire rain from the skies.

You don't have to go that far, I'll say it right here.  It may not be true for that particular set of strings but it is for many if not most, having the string wrap on a saddle is a bad idea.

From a physics/acoustics stand point the best saddle is an unnotched "knife" edge...that's why it's the standard for acoustic instruments. No other bridge I know has that 3 point quirk.

[ramone57]

looks good, Rob.  nice job on the saddles.

[Rob]

And they know this because they read it on Talkbass!

  ;Dhahahahahahaha