"Unusual" & "Wacky" bass

[Annoying Twit]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UNUSUAL-VINTAGE-BASS-GUITAR-HOME-MADE-PROJECT_W0QQitemZ320499932030QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item4a9f48db7e"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/UNUSUAL-VINTAGE-BASS...=item4a9f48db7e[/url]

[Happy Jack]

Kinell ... where to begin?

Probably worth >£20 for parts but, far more important, the look on your guitarsehole's face when you pull that out of your gigbag at the next rehearsal - priceless!

[Dubs]

geeeeeezzz - it's even painful to look at

[waynepunkdude]

There is a guy in Cornwall trying to sell this for £750

[url="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3423274&id=511839164"]http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3423...mp;id=511839164[/url]

[Bassassin]

One for a completist Rush tribute band, perhaps?

[attachment=45167:geddyteardrop.jpg]

Geddy's was a 60s Precision once - wonder what this one was?

Jon.

[Dubs]

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='780293' date='Mar 19 2010, 10:19 PM']There is a guy in Cornwall trying to sell this for £750

[url="http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3423274&id=511839164"]http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3423...mp;id=511839164[/url][/quote]

Someone's been doing too much crack

[yorick]

Looks like a hacked up jazz/precision...........

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

hacked up japcrap I'd guess.

It hasn't just been hit with the ugly stick - I think it IS the ugly stick

[paul h]

Coincidentally, I just bought a Squier Strat off that seller and after I googled the serial number, I can tell you he got both in an auction at Tennants for £60.

My Strat was missing the trem arm and the seller managed to find one and threw it in for nowt. So perfectly happy there. Downside is that the guitar smells like fags...so this bass might too.

[Rich]

[b]His adver[size=3]t is very hard[/size] [size=4]to read. I[/size][size=5] wish h[/size][size=6]e'd made th[/size][size=7]e text a bit bigger[/size].[/b]

[Bassassin]

If the pup in this is an old DiMarzio Model P (which it looks like) they can fetch £40-odd alone.

I'm almost tempted... :blush:

Edit: In the (unlikely) event anyone gives a sh!t what it was before its appointment with the bandsaw - it was an Italian Melody:

[url="http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/recanati-castelfidardo/melody/melody70/m5000.html"]http://www.fetishguitars.com/html/recanati...dy70/m5000.html[/url]

The neck's the giveaway - 3-piece, protruding heel-end truss adjuster, dots to 17th fret & that strange skinny neckplate. Shame, 'cos you don't see too many of these.

J.

Edited March 20, 2010 by Bassassin

[Bassassin]

...and somebody just paid £100 for it.

J.

[theosd]

[quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='780566' date='Mar 20 2010, 10:19 AM']hacked up japcrap I'd guess.

It hasn't just been hit with the ugly stick - I think it IS the ugly stick[/quote]

I lol'd.

[Ou7shined]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ260575455120QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3cab81e790"]Here's[/url] another nomination for the fugly brigade

[AndyTravis]

Some people need a poke in the bloody eye.

Even if it's a crap old pbass copy; Leave it the frigg alone if you have zero talent with tools.

Edited March 25, 2010 by AndyTravis

[skankdelvar]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='786413' date='Mar 25 2010, 10:25 PM']Here's another nomination for the fugly brigade [/quote]
In the entire history of the bass guitar, there is not one single point at which that instrument would ever have been regarded as good-looking. You have to wonder what goes through peoples' minds.

[Dandelion]

Dreadful, both of them.

[thunderbird13]

[quote name='Ou7shined' post='786413' date='Mar 25 2010, 10:25 PM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BASS-GUITAR_W0QQitemZ260575455120QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item3cab81e790"]Here's[/url] another nomination for the fugly brigade [/quote]


If you listen very carefully you can just hear it whisper " please kill me "

[discreet]

[quote name='Johnston' post='786763' date='Mar 26 2010, 11:23 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/teardrop-style-bass-guitar-body-with-pickup-for-project_W0QQitemZ230452938532QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item35a810c724"]my turn [/url][/quote]

Excellent! Though I don't think Brian Jones was [i]ever[/i] that shape.

[discreet]

Although actually, thinking about it...

[Ou7shined]

[Happy Jack]

I'm just wondering at what point The Teardrop Explodes ...

[tazza1]

[quote name='Johnston' post='786763' date='Mar 26 2010, 11:23 AM'][url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/teardrop-style-bass-guitar-body-with-pickup-for-project_W0QQitemZ230452938532QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Guitar_Accessories?hash=item35a810c724"]my turn [/url][/quote]

Bloody hell - has someone been releasing something into the water supply or have B&Q had a 99p Jigsaw sale. I think we should form the RSPCB - The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Basses.

I can just imagine the scenario:

I must pop to B&Q and buy one of the jigsaws in their sale. Mobile phone rings..... "coming out for a drink later I fancy getting wasted" "Yeah I'll be there".
15 pints & a bag of grass later "I bought a new Jigsaw today what can I try it out on"? (unfortunately the only wooden item in the room is standing neglected in the corner) - "Aha" plug, switch bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Oh f@ck I think I've made a bit of a mess of that.

Every Friday night it's the same story all across the country, just £2 a month would help the RSPCB to stop this - please help.

[theosd]

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/80s-ARIA-ZZB-EXXXX-EXPLORA-BASS-made-in-JAPAN_W0QQitemZ120542117746QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV?hash=item1c10debf72#ht_1504wt_958"]Another contender for "ugliest bass on eBay" has entered the tournament![/url]

[Musicman69]

Was a guy on here trying to sell a saw the other week...

I wonder if he's responsible for the carnage I see.