alittlebitrobot

I played one in my local music shop a couple of times. It feels and sounds amazing, and surprisingly affordable. I just can't honestly justify the expense or the space it would take up in my wee house. If I had a bigger house, I wouldn't be able to hold back. Enjoy!

Yeah, I make and repair guitars for fun so this is definitely tempting for me, at this price. 

Still no bids. Possibly one to keep an eye on..

Oh yeah. That definitely looks like a fun project, although I wouldn't be ready to pay much more than the starting bid, tbh.

10 minutes ago, snorkie635 said:

Never played a Ritter, but have owned one of their gig-bags and tried a couple of their chocolate biscuits. 😉

Say what you want about Jens, but the guy has range.

1 minute ago, Waddo Soqable said:

For all they know you might be loaded ! Just go for it 👍

Next time I pass a music shop with a Stingray in it, I'm popping on my monocle and asking for a plugged-in go on it.💪

2 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

Back in the day when we used to go and try stuff all the time, I'd first always pick up a bass ( and occasionally a Git just for a lark) and have a strum on it not plugged in, loads of times you can just go "Nah.." to yourself at that stage,  as it immediately doesn't appeal by the feel of it. 

Obviously if it passes the 'pick it up and twang it a bit' test, you can then ask them to steer you towards an amp and see what it sounds like. 

Funnily enough despite the fact we always looked like scumbags I don't ever recall being refused to try anything in a music shop. Maybe they didn't want to risk it in case we'd just signed a record deal or something 🤣

2 basses I've tried unplugged that felt amazing (but didn't get a chance to plug in) were a Fodera (don't know the model) and a Peavey Cirrus. Peavey basses are so underrated.

On the guitar shop thing, I always feel weird asking the staff if I can play a guitar I have absolutely zero hope of buying. But I know that's silly behaviour, really. It's not as if every other person in there has a pile of cash burning a hole in their wallet.

omg, I have a million. Truncated list:

For straightforward interest in tone and feel:

Rob Allen mouse

Stradi symphony fretless

Reverend Dub King or Rumblefish (not sure why)

MM Stingray (I know these are everywhere but, like @MichaelDean, I don't spend much time in guitar shops trying everything I like the look of)

Something properly vintage - like a 60s/70s Fender Jazz - just to see

And out of curiosity for the absurdity of it:

That Ibanez Ashula thing

A Basslabs something or other

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wow wow wow. Beautiful shape, stunning colour. Personally, I wouldn't let a scratchplate within a mile of this bass.

I bought this set a couple of years ago for a bass I was going to build but then changed the design. I have opened the box to check the contents but never actually took them out, so the kit is brand new.

More details on the Thomann page:
https://www.thomann.de/ie/emg_j5_set.htm

Buyer beware: I'm in Ireland, so if somebody in the UK buys these, we can expect some customs shenanigans. These are also listed on an Irish classifieds site, but I wanted to give BC a shot too since I've bought a couple of things here in the past.

gizza listen

Wow, I too am planning a fretless, 5 string, short scale, somewhat headless, strung with tapewounds build.

I want to go E-C so I bought a 4 string set of d'addario short scale tapes and then found a site selling individual strings so I was able to buy a high C. 

The fun of making guitars is that you can make things that you can't find for sale anywhere else, but it does mean that sourcing parts at the beginning can be an absolute nuisance 😁

Good luck with the build! Watching with interest. 

wow, congrats! and thanks for making this post.

These basses have fascinated me for a long time and, like Ritters, I just find it hard to believe that they really exist.

This is my Ibanez 6 string. The nut is 50mm across and there's so much space between the edge of the C string and the roll-off of the fret. Even if this was a BEADG 5 string, if this C was as thick as the G, there's still plenty of space for the string to flex without choking out on that fret end. Very strange design, if intentional.

cool! Maybe the photo makes it look worse than it really is, but the original position of the string is ridiculously close to the edge of the fretboard!

This is interesting for me because my brother is big into 3D printing and when he recently bought a good one, he gave me his old not-so-good-but-still-functional printer. I haven't set it up yet, but I was recently looking up plastic acoustic saddles on eBay for an upcoming build. Why didn't I realise I could just print one with the exact dimensions I want?

Thanks!

For people that want to use tree cookies as a table and keep the bark, or have a waney edge board with the bark intact, the tree should ideally be cut in winter when it's dormant and dry. That way the shrinkage during drying is minimised.

With this tree being cut now, those sections are going to develop big radial cracks as they contract quickly and dramatically, so it's highly doubtful that they'll remain as one cross section.

The cross section of the trunk is the direction in which the wood expands and contracts, so even if you did get a body out of it, I'd worry about the various cavities, the neck pocket, the bridge location all drifting out of alignment and cracking the body along the way.

If those logs are yours, you could mill (or have them milled) into planks to make a laminated body. Maybe.

EDIT:

It is a crying shame, though. My parents had an ash tree in their garden (nowhere near the size of yours) that was due to come down. I asked my dad if I could cut it down so I could get the wood that I wanted from it. A few weeks later, I found out that he'd gone ahead and done it, and then said "the wood was boring. Just pale and all straight-grain. You wouldn't want it." so he gave it all to my auntie for her fire 😩

This is cool! 

Personally, assuming the p/ups are black, I would go for the black pickguard so there's a clearer visual idea; dark hardware, p'guard, p'ups with a light body.

I think the contrast would be stronger. But either way, I think this is fun (and something I've thought about doing in the past so I'm glad I can see how it goes without having to go to the bother of actually trying it myself) so I think you can't really go wrong here.

Love this. I'm looking forward to seeing more 👏

Excellent pic. Looking forward to this one.

Top marks.

Nice set of strings at a good price, communication was spot on, and they were posted quickly.

Highly recommended 👍

Hectic one, this 😀 

Haven't been on BC for a while (3 years according to soundcloud 😮), and just remembered the Composition challenges, only to find it was deadline day. My beloved Ableton8 is no more, so I had to make this with version 9 "Lite" (meaning only 8 tracks, and I LOVE lots and lots and lots of tracks).

This is not so much a composition as a bunch of ingredients for what should have been some kind of arrangement.

Still, at the eleventh hour, here 'tis.

Looking forward to next month already 😁

I played an Aria Feb fretless acoustic in a local music shop and it has me split in half.

The GAS-having musician part of me is bursting to own it.

But the pragmatic, sensible half is saying "what would I play on this that I can't play on my 34" scale fretless I already own (whose tone I love)?". Also, where would I put it? It's pretty big..

Some day, when I'm having a rough time, I know I'll snap and buy it in a rush of retail therapy. Plus, the shop have made it perfectly clear that if they've sold the one they have in stock, it's no problem- just say the word and they'll order another one for me...

NOT HELPING, lads..

Nice. That looks very satisfying to use.

Hi,

just wondering if postage to Ireland is an option and, if so, at what cost.