EBS_freak Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Ah, so that’s where the designer from Fretking went. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 AI CNC programming for sure ! 🤣 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 (edited) DAVE: Route the bodies correctly, HAL. HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. DAVE: What’s the problem? HAL: I think you know what the problem just as well as I do. DAVE: What are you talking about, HAL? Edited August 18, 2020 by Doctor J 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 13 hours ago, Doctor J said: Just what the world needs, another Jazz clo... wait a minute... what the hell is going on there? They look like they’re in pain! There's a significant scoliosis evident that suggest either traumatic birth, undetected childhood spinal injury, or possibly degenerative neuromuscular disease 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 🤢 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacDaddy Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Fugly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Painy Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Design team initial conversation: We need a new design that will set us aside from the rest of the bass market but we're struggling for ideas. How about taking an existing, well established design and just making a few subtle improvements to make it our own? Nah, it's been done a million times already and besides, coming up with improvements sounds like a lot of work. Okay then, thinking outside the box - how about taking an existing, well established design and instead of making a few subtle improvements, we make one large and completely pointless change that intentionally makes it immeasurably worse instead? I'll bet nobody's tried that before. Perfect! Just make sure it turns out to be a complete horror show - if we actually sell any we could find ourselves on the receiving end of a lawsuit! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Thought they'd turned up here before. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/221028-artisan-bass-works/ https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/292340-you-want-ugly-ill-give-you-ugly/ Mercifully both links pre-date the forum update so there are no images attached. Their website seems to no longer exist so presumably this was not a succesful re-imagining of classic designs. Plenty of stuff turns up when Googled, including the fact that this appears to be a design philosophy to create an instrument that "holds the neck in the playing position with no effort on the part of the player" Hmm. There were also original(ish) designs, but these aren't a great deal less aesthetically challenged than their Wonk Fenders (hidden for the sake of the sensitive): Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Jazz bass with a slipped disc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HazBeen Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 So I take it nobody likes them? 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldslapper Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 The Artist‘s nan bassworks? Bless her, should stick to knitting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDC484950 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 They could have at least put the headstock on a slant too so it lines up with the body. Then it would look even bett... oh, hold on, it’d still be awful! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bolo Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 What if, and I know I'm asking a lot here, what if they play superb, sound great, are super comfy and weigh less than 4kg? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EBS_freak Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 17 minutes ago, Bolo said: What if, and I know I'm asking a lot here, what if they play superb, sound great, are super comfy and weigh less than 4kg? Who is going to want to pick one up to find out how much it weighs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krysbass Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 It’s the sort of bass that someone might buy to naively help make some sort of statement that they (and/or their band) “push the bounds“. But that will either simply fail abysmally and just look silly, or (much less likely); these basses will become so popular among a certain demographic that they become part of the establishment and don’t push any bounds at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 It'll push the bounds out of any standard gig-bag or case, that's for sure. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek99 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 In a weird way I kind of like them, although that top horn would make it really tricky to reach upper frets on the fatter strings, which really lets it down on grounds of practicality 😏 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 18/08/2020 at 00:04, Angel said: It just feels like the body template slipped and when they realised it, they had 1427 of these bodies... "ah, sod it, we'll say we meant it all along" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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