Contribution to the tonewood debate - a unique take (Bacci)

[three]

Without wishing to open the can, I particularly enjoyed the marketing copy in this at Andertons:

 

https://www.andertons.co.uk/bacci-guitars-amrita-woodworm-michael-league-signature-maple/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=surfaces&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADujoUqVDRQwkN1bWBZcEzip5ciCn&gclid=Cj0KCQjwzrzABhD8ARIsANlSWNOy6ZK_8WuK66VSG5h7Z3UTqmDDDEChjBNvC49jOeUAn4kUKGS7GKkaApxEEALw_wcB 

[bloke_zero]

 

| Each hole is meticulously cleaned and cleared for maximum acoustic impact.

🤯

[three]

5 minutes ago, bloke_zero said:

 

| Each hole is meticulously cleaned and cleared for maximum acoustic impact.

🤯

Yes, they sort of missed a trick here 'organic micro-chambering'

 

It could be a fabulous bass (I'd love to find out) and League is no slouch... but...

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[JoeEvans]

You can't help but suspect that the luthier had an otherwise nice batch of timber that had got ruined by woodworm, and decided to make the best of the situation...

[HeadlessBassist]

Visually, it looks like a £400 bitsa. Sorry, but it does.

 

Questions: Did they clear all the Woodworms out of their delicious home?  (I've seen the resultant damage on plenty of 2-300 year old Cellos.)

 

Why is Lee Anderton trying to hawk a £7k bass when he knows most professional musician's cars aren't worth that much?

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[dclaassen]

1 hour ago, HeadlessBassist said:

Visually, it looks like a £400 bitsa. Sorry, but it does.

 

Questions: Did they clear all the Woodworms out of their delicious home?  (I've seen the resultant damage on plenty of 2-300 year old Cellos.)

 

Why is Lee Anderton trying to hawk a £7k bass when he knows most professional musician's cars aren't worth that much?

There have been many times in my life, including now, when the bass I’m carrying is worth more than the car it is in…having said that, can I charge more for dings, which are asynchronous unintended organic tone divots?

[Beedster]

Well f*** me sideways, I think I've seen it all now  

[Lozz196]

I’d like to reserve judgement until playing one, but given the price it’s highly unlikely. 
 

Anyway, it’s lunchtime and for some reason I fancy a bit of Edam cheese……..

[ped]

Always makes me wonder, when it says 'designed in collaboration with' - when it comes to a FSO, surely the input is 'this pickup, these knobs, that colour, make the pickguard extra ugly'. Hardly 'design', is it?

[Cato]

Bacci make some genuinely interesting instruments.

 

I really like the look and concept of these

 

 

 

https://www.andertons.co.uk/bacci-guitars-leonardo-dual-outputddsatin-bosco-roasted-maple28-scale-celeste-radiance/

 

For the uninitiated it's a baritone guitar with a separate pickup for the lowest three strings which opens up various options like putting them through a bass amp or a synth pedal while the other pickups send the signal from all six strings into another amp.

 

If nothing else, it's a bit different.

 

The bass in the OP, on the other hand,  is just a very expensive P bass.

 

 

[FugaziBomb]

Wow.  I really hate it.  

 

 

That looks especially awful.  I do love the FSO look with the big round overs on the edges, though.  Imagine how nice that would look finished in candy ANYTHING without all the worm holes in it.

 

Also, £7,300 is a crazy price for a P Bass.  There's nothing you can do to a P Bass to justify that kind of price tag to me.

[Lozz196]

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

I wonder whether they are specially bred toneworms?

[Chienmortbb]

FFS. 

[80Hz]

Hoo boy, toanworms.. get rid of the silly marketing copy and I can appreciate some of the aesthetic choices here - I'm reminded of knotty pine "barncasters".

 

But I'm sure there's any number of luthiers could put together something like this with a distinctive piece of wood while leaving 6 grand in your pocket (edit: and leave out the worms!!)

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[Terry M.]

And there's me thinking the price of vintage Fenders was over the top. I'll see myself out...

[neepheid]

If you stop contributing to the tonewood debate, it might go away?

 

Wishful thinking, I know...

[eude]

3 hours ago, Cato said:

For the uninitiated it's a baritone guitar with a separate pickup for the lowest three strings which opens up various options like putting them through a bass amp or a synth pedal while the other pickups send the signal from all six strings into another amp.

 

If nothing else, it's a bit different.

Nothing new there I'm afraid, Charlie Hunter has had that pickup and output set up on his guitars for as long as I've been listening to him, possibly the best part of 2 decades! Jeez I'm old!

 

Back on the topic of the bass at hand, I really don't see anything special to it, whatsoever, but some folks are willing to pay lots for custom instruments, that others think is silly, it's just another example of marmite in the bass world...

[Hellzero]

You can get that weight with non destroyed wood.

 

When you think you've read and seen all, someone is there right the next corner waiting with his bullshìt marketing.

 

Next one will be totally rotten wood falling apart glued with punks' spittings?

 

That said, I'm on the tonewood side, but when stupidity hits the target, all I can do is 🤦🏻

[tauzero]

5 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

I’d like to reserve judgement until playing one, but given the price it’s highly unlikely. 
 

Anyway, it’s lunchtime and for some reason I fancy a bit of Edam cheese……..

 

ITYM Swiss cheese.

[Beedster]

3 hours ago, neepheid said:

If you stop contributing to the tonewood debate, it might go away?

Wise word young jedi 🙏

[Beedster]

I knew I shouldn't have clicked the link......

 

 

This is surely a joke............?

[Cosmo Valdemar]

They've had that for ages. I'll be amazed if it ever sells.

[Burns-bass]

Late stage capitalism.

[Doctor J]

Each hole is perfectly sized to attract and provide a habitat for wild Mojos.