knuckle_head

[quote name='Protium' post='719251' date='Jan 20 2010, 09:55 AM']Is there absolutely no way to send them outside the US without the massive postage cost?[/quote] We've lost a few sets after sending them surface/less-than-secure methods and ended up springing for a second set plus a second round of shipping. We're investigating other, less expensive ways but we won't risk moneys handed to us in good faith.

We know about the huge dime on shipping outside the US - it's even worse to Australia. Biggest mission for Circle K this year is to secure EU distribution. We'll get it figured out.

[quote name='owen' post='647742' date='Nov 6 2009, 03:40 PM']I have spent 8 hours of my life travelling to and from Music Live today. While on the road I started thinking about ERBs. I have no desire to play rich chordal passages. I have no desire to have 3 octaves available without moving my hand. Other people love that stuff, but it is not for me. I would like to have a genuinely useful bottom F sharp. I know all about scale length giving better tension for the strings that can moonlight as towing cables. I am also a Double Bass player. So I was thinking - how about an upright fretted 41" scale six string strung F sharp to G? I know Barker in the US make an upright sort of thing but it is only 34" scale ( [url="http://www.barkerbass.com/"]http://www.barkerbass.com/[/url] ). I am thinking more in line of an EUB with frets. The fingerboard can have a normal Bass Guitar radius on it. I will never need to bow it. It can essentialy be a plank because I will not need a body to make it look groovy. Has anyone done one of these? NS Design seem to be doing a 34" scale one [url="http://www.nedsteinberger.com/instruments/omnibass.php"]http://www.nedsteinberger.com/instruments/omnibass.php[/url] but I cannot find a 41" one.[/quote] Hiya.... It's kinda funny that you should be query-ing - Lee Barker and me are putting out a bastard child between us. My scale length on his platform - it'll even fit into one of his gig bags. I'll have it with me at NAMM it's looking like. I thought certain that NS Designs has a 3/4 variant on at least one of their eub's. Maybe a past model?

[quote name='ahpook' post='200772' date='May 16 2008, 02:33 PM']plus the one - lovely looking basses...if one turned for sale on ebay i'd be all over it like a rash[/quote] Hhmmm.... methinks I know you from somewhere

[quote name='BigRedX' post='199607' date='May 15 2008, 06:32 AM']I'm definitely going to have to find a way to check out a Quake at some point. But in the mean time, that new Knuckle fretless bass is very nice indeed - thanks for posting. Cool details like that jack socket location always make instruments more appealing to me. Quite similar in feel to this Tune which is also 36" scale[/quote] I appreciate your having found me - I am still obscure, and am working at getting more well known. There are only three Quakes in Europe right now, with two more basses headed that direction this summer. None in England at present. I can live with a Tune comparative - though it is an unintended likeness.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='199257' date='May 14 2008, 11:48 PM']Welcome to BassChat knuckle_head. That new bass looks interesting - more details please, especially since it appears to be fretless. Is that 39 1/2" scale too?[/quote] This one is a bolt on - 36" scale length, and very light. I bet the bass weighs about 7 pounds. Maple/carbon neck with a limba body, it has Nordstrand classic single coils with a volume/tone pot per pickup. The detail players seem to like a good bit is the jack inset; I am in process of adjusting pricing (upward I'm afraid), so this bass would go for $2500 US. Quakes are now in excess of $3000.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='196673' date='May 11 2008, 12:28 PM']Time for something new... Here's a pair of Quakes form [url="http://knuckleguitarworks.com/"]Knuckle Guitar Works[/url]. All looks pretty standard really - except these basses have a 39 1/2" scale length! The extra scale length allows either thinner strings to be used which allow the higher harmonics which help define the note to be produced more clearly. Alternatively with the appropriate strings you can tune down to an octave below the standard bass. The standard 5-string model costs $2749 - 4 and 6 string models are also available.[/quote] Too cool that you found me - I build these. Hope you don't mind me posting something recent;