amigarobbo
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This is very much in prototype planning stage, I don't need it, and this will definitly be the last guitar/bass build I do.
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Here's the Plan, well, a fretless Bass VI with a Sustainiac. For all your ambient electro-cello needs! It's sorta based on my Sustainiac Ziggycaster, which Is great for wibbly wobble ambient/Alien Flying Saucer Attack noises* and I was thinking of getting a fretless neck for that, the problem of fretless guitars is the lack of sustain on the skinny strings, but on second thoughts it's going to be too much work to swap them back and fourth what with the pickup height Floyd Rose and all that, and I also like fretless basses, so to kill 2 birds with one stone, a fretless Bass VI!
Even with bass strings I can still stick a capo on the 12, err... fret, and get a short scale fretless guitar, sorta. and the world's my oyster for baritone options.
I've got access to a Fender Pawn shop one, and I think I can cope with the tight string spacing, and If I was to go for a 5/6 string bass, I'd be more tempted to get a high C these days.
Pickups will be two Creamery Lead Bass VI pickups with the Sustainiac in the neck position, controls will be a 4 way switches, 3 to turn the pickups on, with the final one to turn Sustainer on, and a small rotary control for type of sustain next to it.
I was thinking of a standard looking, but non-trem system, a fixed Mastery bridge with a non-wobble plate from Faction Guitars https://store.factionguitars.com/collections/bass-vi-plates/products/bass-vi-hardtail-plate. Maybe.
I was thinking a dark, rich colour like purple or Turquoise, something, well, psychedelic. But I'm thinking Shell Pink in Satin, :icon_thumright:
Very early days on this one, but I've been bothering Sovereign_13's thread for too long. http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=29219.0
* Both the group, and the real thing.
:icon_biggrin:
Here's the Plan, well, a fretless Bass VI with a Sustainiac. For all your ambient electro-cello needs! It's sorta based on my Sustainiac Ziggycaster, which Is great for wibbly wobble ambient/Alien Flying Saucer Attack noises* and I was thinking of getting a fretless neck for that, the problem of fretless guitars is the lack of sustain on the skinny strings, but on second thoughts it's going to be too much work to swap them back and fourth what with the pickup height Floyd Rose and all that, and I also like fretless basses, so to kill 2 birds with one stone, a fretless Bass VI!
Even with bass strings I can still stick a capo on the 12, err... fret, and get a short scale fretless guitar, sorta. and the world's my oyster for baritone options.
I've got access to a Fender Pawn shop one, and I think I can cope with the tight string spacing, and If I was to go for a 5/6 string bass, I'd be more tempted to get a high C these days.
Pickups will be two Creamery Lead Bass VI pickups with the Sustainiac in the neck position, controls will be a 4 way switches, 3 to turn the pickups on, with the final one to turn Sustainer on, and a small rotary control for type of sustain next to it.
I was thinking of a standard looking, but non-trem system, a fixed Mastery bridge with a non-wobble plate from Faction Guitars https://store.factionguitars.com/collections/bass-vi-plates/products/bass-vi-hardtail-plate. Maybe.
I was thinking a dark, rich colour like purple or Turquoise, something, well, psychedelic. But I'm thinking Shell Pink in Satin, :icon_thumright:
Very early days on this one, but I've been bothering Sovereign_13's thread for too long. http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=29219.0
* Both the group, and the real thing.
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