chrispurchase
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Have Warmoth every thought about doing a bolt on single cut like this?
http://www.cyrguitars.com/OO_SingleCut5StringBassProject.html
http://www.cyrguitars.com/OO_SingleCut5StringBassProject.html
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DangerousR6
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Not interested, good craftsmanship I'd imagine, but kinda bland looking to me... :dontknow:
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I'ma agree with Doug here; I'm all about tung oil, but quilted maple deserves a little more effort.
We might be able to talk them into offering the full-scale G4 in singlecut someday, depending on how the short-scale is selling...
We might be able to talk them into offering the full-scale G4 in singlecut someday, depending on how the short-scale is selling...
Personally, I like the idea of a singlecut (and used to own one) but I see two main issues:
1.) It is a niche product in the bass market and in this market I do not buy the 'build it and they will come' argument. There isn't much demand compared to traditional shapes.
2.) As line6man already mentioned, it would not fit with the existing neck tooling. Warmoth would need to come up with a new neck design and tooling for a niche product. That would likely make for a very long ROI.
Again, I like singlecut designs and used to own one myself. I'd love to make it happen, but the probability is quite low. Here's my old ThunderBee from Bee Basses.
1.) It is a niche product in the bass market and in this market I do not buy the 'build it and they will come' argument. There isn't much demand compared to traditional shapes.
2.) As line6man already mentioned, it would not fit with the existing neck tooling. Warmoth would need to come up with a new neck design and tooling for a niche product. That would likely make for a very long ROI.
Again, I like singlecut designs and used to own one myself. I'd love to make it happen, but the probability is quite low. Here's my old ThunderBee from Bee Basses.
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Cagey said:
That is the elephant man of bass guitars. Maybe they can amputate some of that overgrowth on the side of the neck?
However, I've recently come across a singlecut shape that I rather like. How about this?
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Cagey said:
Look at you with your growing collection of Telecasters. If the Tele isn't an ugly girl with a neck goiter, a floppy foot penis for a head (According to Marko.) and no contour on her body, I don't know what else you could take to the pig party. :icon_jokercolor:
I'd still much rather have a double cut, but it's the least offensive of the singles I've seen.
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How about a G4 or G5? They already so the short scale G4 in singlecut, why not the full sized models? I would definitely get a singlecut G5 what I get around to my second build.
Update: For the hell of it, I sent an email to the sales department, and the response I got was fairly promising. There are currently no discussions of adding another singlecut bass as a standard option, but it should be possible o scale the short-scale, singlecut G4 to standard G5. The only hitch is, since if would be a one-off, it would probably need to be handmade...
Update: For the hell of it, I sent an email to the sales department, and the response I got was fairly promising. There are currently no discussions of adding another singlecut bass as a standard option, but it should be possible o scale the short-scale, singlecut G4 to standard G5. The only hitch is, since if would be a one-off, it would probably need to be handmade...
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Cagey said:
Hold up. Did Cagey just argue that something is better because it's older? What's next? "Because that's the way Leo did it"? :laughing7:
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John St. Jelly said:
Cagey, he's kinda gotcha there - "They keep using it because it works" is not necessarily compatible with your tendency to upbraid folks for using stuff just because it's traditional (see, e.g., six-screw tremolo bridges). It ain't always obvious why folks do what they do, is all I'm sayin - and sometimes "because it works" and "because tradition so dictates" overlap a lot.
Anyway - I have nothing really intelligent to add to the discussion, just seemed an interesting point.
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I know, and it's kinda lame to qualify my statement now, but what I've always bitched about (and will continue to) has been poor hardware and electricals, not the instrument design. No one has ever heard me bad-mouth the Strat design, for instance, and I've seen the light on Teles. It doesn't get too much older than that in the electric guitar world.
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