aguacollas

I can smell the beach on this one. 

Amazing, 6 string fretless perfection.

Too bad I can't afford it right now  

GLWTS. 

Slightly customized.

What a nightmare...

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A bold design, not that ugly to me. I don't like the upper horn, but the rest is fine, just different looking than most of the basses I'm used to. I like that, it's refreshing. 

It gets boring looking at just the same shape of bass again and again. 

I fell in love with the sound of fretless many years before playing bass. I also fell in love with trumpet, oboe, cello, guitar,  piano... I just never began playing those lovely instruments. 

Once I began playing electric (fretted) bass, fretless sound was there haunting me every time I listened to a song with that sound. Many many great songs I can't even recall were played with fretless bass or double bass. It wasn't who played fretless (that came later), it's the sound and the expressiveness and subtlety in playing that you get from a fretless  that I love. 

Amazing bass, Oscar. Are you located in Spain?

¿Estás en España?

¿guardabarros? 

you mean Fender. Only a machine would translate fender to guardabarros in spanish. And this is an english forum, you should translate it to english.

Great bass. I wish I could afford it. GLWTS. 

Maple and ebony with Barts, great combination on this SSI. GLWTS. 

You can always have an unlined fretboard and draw lines with a pencil, erase them as you learn and get more confident with it, as a removable easy guide. 

The pickguard ruins it all, he should have used an oak leaf as a pickguard. 

'One to ruin them all'

On 20/01/2018 at 14:42, EssentialTension said:

Tapewounds are wound with plastic and are usually roundwound under the tape ...

http://www.bassstringsonline.com/Black-Nylon-Tapewounds_ep_49-1.html

 Thanks for that pic, I was thinking about removing a bit of the rubber on every string to let it  be in touch with the metal saddle of the bridge. I have them on a Corvette fretless and I love the way they feel and sound, but it has passive pickups and an active -noisy MEC- preamp, and sometimes it's noisy. The strings are not to blame, but it may help a little. 

I have D'A Chromes on a Vantage P bass and love it, Thomastik flats on my old cherry Streamer and love them, and the tapewounds on my Corvette. Other basses have rounds, but I love the tone and feel of flats. 

There's a mistake I keep doing, though. Now I know I have to play a bass or set of strings for at least a month to really know how I feel about it, and how I can make it sound. I am an amateur player, of course, not playing four hours a day, but it is something important I have to remember from time to time. Of course, that helps me bond with my basses strongly, as everytime I grab one I haven't played for some time it just feels and sounds uncomfortable to me, but then I keep playing for some days and magic happens 😄 

Pyramid tapewounds are very different than d'Addarios. I have cut them on the silk area, but I wouldn't cut them on the regular zone of the string. Maybe you could bend the string, cut carefully and apply a drop of cyanoacrylate glue to keep the tapewound from leaving the core of the string. 

On the silk zone you can cut it without any problem, though. 

7 hours ago, Woodinblack said:

Love gold or black hardware. Not a great fan of silver, or plain metal.

But it looks ok on some basses.

Same here, and I'd really like having more color options, like wine red tuners or dark copper or green, I'd like to have that option too. 

Fenders, double basses,  all-tube amps, any bass with a short upper horn, heavy weight basses...

Just curious, does it have the tag in the preamp compartment with the woods used in it?

Congratulations, definitely a nice find. Banana Wal 😄. Enjoy it. 

Great bass, I have among others an indonesian Lakland 44-02 which I love, and the korean ones are supposed to be even better and closer to the american ones. I too think this is an improvement over the original design. 

GLWTS 

I/We are thinking about western music, but what about the ragas of indian music and people like Ravi Shankar? what they play and improvise is just unbelievable. 

Congratulations, these old japanese basses are great, I bought an old Matsumoku P-bass last year for less than 200£, battered but perfectly functional like yours, and I love the sound and feel, looks fantastic and always gets compliments when I play it. 

Enjoy it. 

3 hours ago, charic said:

Thought I would embed the playlist so you can check it from here

 

 

Nice, but it isn't working on my phone. Let's see if I quote it. 

Glad you could do it, and good choice of songs, too. 

I just click on the three points at the right of the song and a menu opens, one of the options is "add to playlist", then choose the playlist and the song is added. Hope it helps. 

I can't find many good songs in Spotify, some albums from King Crimson or Peter Gabriel, Deodato, Kroke, Dulce Pontes, Gill Scott-Heron...

Added some more. It's just a pleasure to listen to those songs and to build a great bass song bible.