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Post by dANdeLION on Jan 18, 2008 14:32:41 GMT -5
Yoda: Told you I did. Obsessed is he. Now, matters are worse. Obi-Wan: That red bass was the last one. He now has every color. Yoda: No. There is another. Blue? They made them in blue? Holy $#!+!!!! The quest begins anew......
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Post by thomasallencummins on Feb 13, 2008 6:38:22 GMT -5
Isn't there another thread specifically for Soundgears?
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Post by dANdeLION on Jul 16, 2008 21:56:50 GMT -5
So?
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Post by thomasallencummins on Jul 24, 2008 18:51:25 GMT -5
Ah. Nevermind. :-)
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Post by dANdeLION on Sept 19, 2008 15:26:24 GMT -5
Another ex-bass of mine:
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Post by thomasallencummins on Sept 22, 2008 13:38:07 GMT -5
I know I've mentioned this before but all of these photos look like they were shot at a mirror.
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Post by menolly on Sept 23, 2008 19:23:51 GMT -5
Lefty guitars and basses are da-bomb. ;D
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Post by thomasallencummins on Oct 8, 2008 14:03:47 GMT -5
I'd agree that they certainly have a "different" look to them. :-)
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 30, 2008 22:26:56 GMT -5
They all look the same to me....well, one has flames painted on the body, and one has no frets and scuffed places on the body (my next project is to take it apart and see if I can buff it out), and I sold 2 of them last month so now there's 3 Soundgears instead of 5.....uhh, what was the question again?
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Post by dANdeLION on Mar 11, 2009 13:11:38 GMT -5
Yoda: Told you I did. Obsessed is he. Now, matters are worse. Obi-Wan: That red bass was the last one. He now has ever color. Yoda: No. There is another. Laser Blue? They made them in laser blue? Holy $#!+!!!! The quest begins anew...... They also made them in Carribean blue...... I still want a Lipstick Red one, tho......then my power will be complete.
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Post by dANdeLION on May 2, 2011 16:15:46 GMT -5
I got a chorus pedal a few months back; an old TC Electronic P210. They sell for $299 new; I found mine used for $20. It worked fine, but looked like it had been through a war. So, I painted it. I still thought it was boring looking, so I added a sticker to it.
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Post by thomasallencummins on May 4, 2011 3:30:24 GMT -5
That is very cool. Looks like you brought it back from the dead. ;D
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 4, 2011 12:41:43 GMT -5
......and a friend gave me a '60's MIJ short scale neck (30"), so I decided to upgrade a bass I made for my oldest son way back around 1998. It had a '60's MIJ super short-scale (25") neck on it, but the neck had a broken truss rod. I bought a 1"x6" plank of pine for the body, and used a highly sophisticated system of piecing it together, using a jigsaw, Elmer's glue, and, instead of clamping it together, I used drywall screws. I found some kind of textured paint at my local K-Mart, and that covered up most of the flaws. My kid was only 5 or 6, so I tuned it really low so he'd have no problem fretting it. Naturally, the favorite thing for all my kids to do on it was 'tune' the bass, and they always tightened the strings when they did that :mrgreen: Originally, I didn't put a pickup in it, but my son said it was a 'fake bass', so I added a Jazz neck pickup and the pick guard. Anyway, all my kids are older now, and they all have a guitar or bass of their own, so this bass just sits around in my living room, and I'm the only one who's played it in the last 5 or so years. A few months back, I went to my local music store and noticed a Montoya neck with a section of the binding missing in their parts/pedals bin. I asked Paul (the store manager) what he wanted for it and he said I could have it. So I widened the neck pocket on my old body, slid the bridge down 3 inches, and that was it until the weekend before last, when I decided to spruce it up. I had a can of dark green hammertone paint lying around, so I repainted the bass. I had to add a knob when I added the bridge pickup, which was easy enough, but I put those Vol. & Tone knobs on the bass years ago, and forgot where I got them from. Turns out they're Fender reissue '74 Telecaster Custom knobs, and I had no problem finding another Vol. knob to match them. I had a 2 saddle bridge on it originally, but recently upgraded my friend's Squier bridge, so I upgraded my bass with his discarded Squier bridge. My headstock redesign is an obvious homage to Leo's Stingray. I replaced the missing binding with a piece of plastic I cut from cookie dough lid. There were no side dots on either side of the neck, so I drilled into the binding with my Dremel, and colored it with a Sharpie. I might put real dots in later. It plays and sounds good; it could use a new nut, or at least a superglue repair to raise the G string a bit. It is fun to play, and about half the weight of my 'real' basses. I think my middle son is using the old neck as a wall decoration (he has a kickass Ibanez SR500 to play!).
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Post by thomasallencummins on Oct 7, 2011 10:37:10 GMT -5
Looks like a really nice job, dAN. I think you are ready to build a bass completely from scratch. All you need to start is a nice big tree.
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Post by dANdeLION on Oct 9, 2011 18:52:31 GMT -5
Funny you say that, as a huge old live oak blew down across the street just a few hours ago......it was a sad thing, but watching the city guys cut it up was a nice distraction from the horrible Bucs game.
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