Whats your favorite bass.

[fargone]

Originally Posted by teledeluxe

I practice there a couple of times a week and get the opportunity to play around with all kinds of basses. I even played Keith Richard's hollowbody bass when it came into the shop for a tune up.

so.... where's there, tele?

[teledeluxe]

at the Lakland factory.

[lukedavo]

Homemade by myself. Carved to personal preference, choose your own pickups, ability to do own repairs if needed, choose your own color or finish, basicly completely custom. Only cost was for raw materials, and wood shop tools. Total cost was around $300 for a completely custom bass. The only problem was how intensely time consuming the process was. It took me about 5 months during high school wood shop and various weekends to shape the wood, route, biscuit, hammer, saw, plane, wire, solder, and document the whole process. In the end however it was worth every second of time and drip of sweat lost to this process. Still have not had any problems except for a loose tone knob easily fixed.

[runpre311]

i've got a fretless musicman which is absolutely beautiful. The neck on it is amazing- solid and smooth like a standup's. can't beat the fender p bass for its multi application, though.

[johnS]

Originally Posted by lukedavo

Homemade by myself. Carved to personal preference, choose your own pickups, ability to do own repairs if needed, choose your own color or finish, basicly completely custom. Only cost was for raw materials, and wood shop tools. Total cost was around $300 for a completely custom bass. The only problem was how intensely time consuming the process was. It took me about 5 months during high school wood shop and various weekends to shape the wood, route, biscuit, hammer, saw, plane, wire, solder, and document the whole process. In the end however it was worth every second of time and drip of sweat lost to this process. Still have not had any problems except for a loose tone knob easily fixed.

Post a snap! I'd love to see what it looks like.

[johnS]

I really dig my early 50s P-bass reissue (80s Japanese). Awesome piece of design, imho. Even sting and that guy from Blink 182 can't destroy my love for it.

[lukedavo]

analog photos without a scanner in sight, pm me, I may even let u touch it!

[johnS]

You mean your home-made bass doesn't have its own Web site?

[Nubus]

i just got my reggie hamilton standard jazz bass which rules ten times over. got active OR passive j-bass and p-bass pickups for your ass, plus a detuneswitch that drops the fattest string a step. Booyeaaaaaaa

[lucidlou]

Originally Posted by 40 oz

Favorite bass and what would you buy in each price range.


Favorite: MM Stingray or Sterling
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Under $500:

Fender MIM, Ibanez Sound Gears


Under $1000:

Fender MIA P or J bass


Under $1500:

Lakland

G&L

MM Sterling or Stingray

I totally agee. The MM Stingray is the quintessential rock bass.