wizbat

I,ve used Ibanez 5 strings for years but as I,m currently weilding my sixes full of shukery goodness I don,t see my self going back to fives. I do own a ric 4003 but it mostly lives in its case( bought it cos I always wanted one), it comes out occasionally to play along to 'red barchetta'. :-)

I drive a 450 kwid volvo 940. I,m not even going to think about how many £450 volvo,s I could buy with what my latest toys have cost!!! :-)

[quote name='eude' post='453548' date='Apr 3 2009, 05:33 PM']Thanks Wiz! Glad you like the tunes too! You can listen to a fair few more tunes here >> [url="http://www.reverbnation.com/tenstoreyshigh"]http://www.reverbnation.com/tenstoreyshigh[/url] Including some live ones! Cheers, Eude[/quote] Yup! that was the site I found. The live version of dysfuntional was great (acoustic band made up of metal heads!! Hehe. loved it.)

hey Eude! nice basses man! And I checked out ten storeys high tonite, I love fragile and dysfunctional, some great stuff going on there. As for serial numbers, Jon numbered mine one and two, now if I could remember which one is which!!!!. :-)

That,s nice man! john birch was a great man and produced some fantastic work. Nice to see some of it on here.

That looks fantastic dood! All the best Shukers have green LEDs

Plans are 'in the pipeline' for a fretless version.... I,m thinking translucent blue with flamed maple wings.

Well I,ve always thought 'whats the point of have one dream bass built' I have a habit of breaking strings (builders hands) and if at a gig I need to change basses, I don,t like the idea of having to use a different 'backup' bass then have to fiddle with the amp eq etc to get going again. Now I just pick up number 2 and carry on, it also means I can keep one at the rehearsal studio and have one at home for practice as I sometimes go to practice on a motorcycle. See the 'who rides a bike thread'

Well spotted my good man! When I asked jon to build them I said that as much as is possible I wanted them to be an identical pair so for example jon selected one piece of wood for the left side of the neck that was cut in half to make two left sides and so on, when it came to the quilted maple tops jon showed me a piece that he,d been holding onto for some time that had very straight grain thru it so that when it was cut the quilt was virtually identical. The fingerboards were again cut from the same piece as are the rosewood headstock wings and centre strip. The cream around edges is where the solid color stops and it does look like binding as it comes around the contours of the body, I chose cream or actually old english white as I wanted them to be a bit of a tribute to my bass hero Chris Squire and Wizard made the pickups as close to the original ric specs as they could. Oh yeah and the strings were made in the piano string stylee for extra 'Twang!!'. I,ve compared them against my ric 4003 and there is very little difference in sound on the E A D G strings,they have that loverly ric growl but the lower strings are just amazing, imagine a ric with a low B and F# and there you go!. They have dual truss rods and four carbon fibre rods in each neck for extra stabilty with my own headstock design so that all the strings run straight thru the nut unlike the original ric design, the sustain is ridiculous :-) .

Just replace the sponge with springs mounted below the pickup base. job done!

Speak to Bassassin (jon) . He can do ric style trc,s with any name you like except ric of course.

Go for it!! Go see mr S, I,m sure glad I did!!!.

They are strung F# B E A D G so it,s quite easy to adjust from the five string basses I,ve been using til now. They have a wonderful Growl on the lower strings.

I,m still stunned at being an endorsee,, I love the basses, jons a star and I,m walking round with a silly grin all the time!!. I don,t want to give away the cost in case the taxman is watching tho suffice to say I did get a discount for buying in bulk!!

Gordon Smith produced a few basses under the 'Gordy' brandname.

Hey smash, I,m in spalding in lincs which is not a million miles away from norwich and you,re welcome to come and try out my 4003 of you wish.

I can! Jon Shuker..

I,m absolutly chuffed to bits to say that the twins are finished!!, and that today I woke up an endorsee of shuker basses.

My new toy. I,ll add some more pics tomorrow.

Geddy Lee from Rush used to use a ric and he,s a big fingerstyle player.

That bass looks superb.

I have a mate with an amg merc sporting B11 SHT. :-)

That just about sums it up! Keep playing, keep looking and something will come up

My band is Lime Shark, www.limeshark.com We play original music and try to do it like bands used to.