I want one of these !

[edstraker123]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Equester-acrylic-silent-bass-guitar-handmade-short-scale-headless/392084881906?hash=item5b4a1481f2:g:A-0AAOSwUANbLWyb

[TheGreek]

"Silent bass guitar"???

With the original quadro-piezo pickup under rosewood bridge generating a powerfull and beautiful tone, with new sound quality and higher volume without any preamping.

 

Plug it directly to your amp to get a rich tone from this new pickup technology.

 

I see this as an impulse buy you'd soon regret...

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

£600! It looks like a toy that would cost a few tenners from Wilko at xmas

[Guest]

It would look good hanging in my bar.

Then again, so would Boris Johnson. 

Both are massively overvalued. 

[anzoid]

At least you could reshape it when you got tired of its current vaguely pointy ugly shape. Or use it to make biscuits.

[Bassassin]

The pics are rubbish - can't really work out what's going on. Is the acrylic bit the neck/fretboard & tuner assembly, and the body's a strip of aluminium bent to the vague shape of an ugly guitar?

Looks like an interesting concept that's unattractively & shoddily executed. Speaking as someone who's typically drawn inexorably towards see-through things that light up in the dark, I will make an exception for this.

[fleabag]

Clusterfeck

[edstraker123]

4 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Speaking as someone who's typically drawn inexorably towards see-through things that light up in the dark

Exactly ! It obviously should be £60 not £600 !

[yorks5stringer]

Might be helpful to see around the rear of it rather than 9 photos of it displaying different colours. I can't work out how the Tuners are located...

[Dan Dare]

"Quadro piezo" pickups, huh? No doubt one piezo for each string. You do need a decent preamp to make any piezo sound half reasonable, whatever our pal in Poland says.

[tauzero]

On 08/03/2019 at 13:09, Bassassin said:

The pics are rubbish - can't really work out what's going on. Is the acrylic bit the neck/fretboard & tuner assembly, and the body's a strip of aluminium bent to the vague shape of an ugly guitar?

Looks like an interesting concept that's unattractively & shoddily executed. Speaking as someone who's typically drawn inexorably towards see-through things that light up in the dark, I will make an exception for this.

Coming late to the party and reviving this - you could get a better-executed and more attractive one from Aliexpress for £225 (plus £45 duty and VAT if it happens to get done for it): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-Acrylic-4-string-Headless-Electric-Bass-guitarra-Fingerboard-transparent-acrylic-body-with-LED-light/32947033280.html  Oooh shiny

[Bassassin]

24 minutes ago, tauzero said:

Coming late to the party and reviving this - you could get a better-executed and more attractive one from Aliexpress for £225 (plus £45 duty and VAT if it happens to get done for it): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/In-Stock-Acrylic-4-string-Headless-Electric-Bass-guitarra-Fingerboard-transparent-acrylic-body-with-LED-light/32947033280.html  Oooh shiny

That's much more like it - LEDs everywhere and 2xP. I want one of those!

[tauzero]

I expect an NBD in the next few weeks.

[edstraker123]

5 hours ago, Bassassin said:

That's much more like it - LEDs everywhere and 2xP. I want one of those!

If you could fill it with water and keep a fish in it it would be even better !

[prowla]

Generally you lose the headstock to make the overall instrument shorter; this one has the length of a headstock plus more added to the body's length.

Well, when I say the body - it's just an outline around the central plank.

Incidentally, on that theme, I tried a Yamaha Silent Guitar the other day and I could hear it quite clearly - what the heck's that about???