BigRedX

I though Modulus made the necks for Peavey Basses?

That colour scheme's not hard-core enough...

Really like the look of the Streamline. Is there anywhere you can try these other than a trip to Status HQ?

If you can get on with the body shape (I can't - it puts the first fret too far away on the strap and none of the high notes are particularly comfortable above the 15th fret) the go for the Squier. If you intend to upgrade the electronics for an active (and I'd recommend the ACG filter pre over the J-retro for a fretless) you may well need to route out the control cavity as the bodies are slightly thinner than a 'real' Fender Jazz and therefore the control cavity is correspondingly shallower.

Showmanship every time, so long as you've got the room.

Never understood this 'gig nerves' thing...

In real life I'm painfully shy and have great difficulty joining in with 'normal' conversations and social settings with people I don't know very well. To me most of life is play which I've never seen the script to...

However stick a guitar or bass round my neck and put me up on stage and as long as I have a vague idea of what's going on musically, I'm loving it. The more people in the audience the better, but I'll happily put on the same show for the sound man and the person behind the bar if that's all who've turned up (and it has happened).

Playing live can't get enough of it...

Nothing wrong there - that's totally authentic for a late 70s Fender!

It was actually only one photo...

The second was the same pic rotated 90°

I have Burns Sonic Bass that I paid £55 for in 1981. It's probably worth about £75 now...

Here's some more bass surgery pictures...





There's a couple of threads about them on TalkBass and it seems that Toasted has played one...

Also found [url="http://www.thepriors.idps.co.uk/projects/bassurgery_tuner/tuner.html"]this page[/url] about the building of the integrated tuner.

If Bass Surgery was still around, I would have seriously considered them for my fretless as there's a lot of features on there that are what I want from a bass...

That's a Bass Surgery. These would have been in this thread by now if it wasn't for the fact that they no longer appear to be in business...

Made by a (former?) dental technician, they took custom building and attention to to detail to new (some would say absurd) levels. I believe the starting price was around the £7000 mark and went up from there. Lightwave pickups, individually custom-cast metalwork, tuner built into the neck, hand-tooled leather case...

Anyone know what happened to them, and more importantly does anyone know of someone who's actually got one?

Judging from this and your previous posts enquiring about various basses, you seem to be in the market for a J-type bass with about £2000 to spend? That's a massive market that encompasses everything from SX right through Fender, Bacchus on to Sadowsky, Lull and beyond to Fodera and Celinder. As you are probably finding just about every bass manufacturer/luthier offers something in J-type which can make the choice a little overwhelming...

Once you are going to spend £1000 upwards you're very unlikely to get a bad bass, however you might not get [b]the right bass for you[/b]. Unless you have disposable cash about to order without playing or you are prepared to trade your way through the basses that don't do it for you until you find "THE ONE", you are going to need to go and play some basses to figure out what appeals and what doesn't. Start by taking a day trip to London and spend some time at The Gallery. You might find what you like but even if you don't you'll have a better idea then just looking at pictures on web sites.

I can understand that having gone through the whole custom build process once without actually getting a bass at the end of it you'd be inclined to look for someone with a shortish build time, but on the other hand it sounds like you have a pretty good idea of what you want so it would be a pity if you didn't get it absolutely right this time. If the ACG was what you wanted except for the damage then I'd be going back to Alan - unless the idea is far to traumatic for either of you...

Alternatively, take your time, do some research, speak to some luthiers and then sit back and enjoy your new bass as it takes shape...

When I was looking for someone to build me a fretless, I must have spent at least a year looking at luthiers web sites and discussing my requirements with the ones that appealed to me before finally making my decision.

If you want to start from scratch again, then begin by having a look at [url="http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=links&catID=1"]this list of luthiers and bass manufacturers[/url] and see what takes your fancy. It's a little out of date now but at least 75% of the links are still good and there will be stuff on there that you've never seen before...

In the end it'll probably be easier to go with a UK based luthier, but with the weak Dollar don't rule out the US. Also don't be surprised by just how many quality bass luthiers there are in Germany!

Passions second album - just been released on CD for the first time. Now if they'd get on with releasing the other two...

Any reason why you're not going for another ACG, since it seems apart from the delivery damage what you wanted?

Have a good look around the whole [url="http://www.pagelli.com/e/welcome_fr.html"]Pagelli site[/url] there's some amazing instruments on there.

This very bass caught my when I was looking for a luthier for my fretless and so I fired off an email...

... about a year later I got reply directing me to the Marleaux-Pagelli site about a week before it went off line.

That particular bass is a one-off, but is derived from the Pagelli Golden Bass. He's made a couple of variants and then there was a partnership with Marleaux where they produced a range of instruments on the Golden Bass design. Unfortunately that now appears to have come to an end. There were two Marleaux-Pagellis in the Marleaux on-line shop until the site was redesigned and they were being offered at a discount price of €6000...

[quote name='Galilee' post='261523' date='Aug 13 2008, 01:20 PM']Crikey, what's the one on the top left?[/quote]

[url="http://www.pagelli.com/e/2instrum/bass_git002.html#"]Pagelli 5-String-Bass Joel Reif[/url]

Nice bass! I played that briefly last time I was in V&R. Might have thought about buying it, had it been the darker (tobacco?) brown. What sort of stuff will you be playing it on?

It's a [url="http://www.brubakerguitars.com/"]Brubaker[/url].

Sounds like you want a custom mixer rack box, where the top comes off as well as the back and front The V-Bass sits on a shelf on the top and the Pod in a rack mounting below it. I'm guessing 5-6U high depending on the profile of the V-Bass unit. It would just need to be wider to accommodate the V-Bass and then the rack mountings in the lower part brought in the be 19" again. You probably wouldn't even need to have a blank U in this part as there would be extra air circulation around the sides.

The Pagelli is one of my all-time favourite basses for looks. I'd love to have a chance to actually play one!

The last set of Elites I fitted had dark blue silks.

[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='260538' date='Aug 12 2008, 01:20 AM']Allo

Does anyone else have over 50 basses? I'm currently at critical mass (seriously) with 57 basses and around 13 guitars. I must stress that this is not in any way shape or form meant to prove anything (other than that I am completely nuts and am about to lose everything {including my mind!} in my quest for furtherage of bass fulfillment!) but I'm intrigued as there are some really great collections out there in Basschat Land. My collection has grown rapidly and having gotten involved here, I've met some really great people with some really amazing basses.

Am I mad?

Cheers.

Nick[/quote]


Not at all. I currently have 23 basses, 7 guitars and a Yamaha EZEG.

I aspire to be you when I grow up...

More...

One of the luthiers who's work I've admired for so time is Chris Benavente, who makes some great guitars but not quite weird enough for this thread. However he's branched out with [url="http://www.divinityguitars.com/"]Divinity Guitar Works[/url] who's instruments most definitely qualify!

Here's two of the basses so that have been built so far...

The Cerunnos


and the Oracle


An astounding combination of off-beat shapes combined with some amazing woods. And I do like those single-cuts with the holes in them!

And now I'm going to break one of my rules about basses pictured being available, and post some concepts...





My excuse for these is that as far as I can tell they will get built at some point. I'm kind of GASing for the fretless Cerunnos with the whammy... Looking at the prices that'll be around the $5000 mark.

That looks good! Pity it's not fretless...

Fretted or fretless?