Bad Ideas and Random Projects

[hondo4life]

Thread for random bad ideas.

I want to take another cheap P bass, raise the action, string it with flats, install a sponge, roll the tone back, and play some mean walking bass lines.

I am trying to thin out my bass gear, but the GAS is strong.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Thread for random bad ideas.

I want to take another cheap P bass, raise the action, string it with flats, install a sponge, roll the tone back, and play some mean walking bass lines.

Good idea

 

[hondo4life]

Good idea

Don't talkbass like that. I'll do it. I swear I will.

 

[Stumbo]

Tort, 'burst P...dead flats...delicious

 

[DirtDog]

On the plus side, you'll be set up for slide bass when the mood strikes!

 

[hondo4life]

Tort, 'burst P...dead flats...delicious

Of course! I forgot about the tort. See, I'm not a flats/tort fan at all, but it seems like the only way to build a bass like this.

 

[Stumbo]

Of course! I forgot about the tort. See, I'm not a flats/tort fan at all, but it seems like the only way to build a bass like this.

There's a thread around here somewhere on different tips and tricks to deaden new flats.

 

[hondo4life]

There's a thread around here somewhere on different tips and tricks to deaden new flats.

I bet I can rub them down with steel wool, spray them down with an acid solution, lay them out in the street and let traffic drive over them for a few days, and throw them on the roof of my house and let the squirrels play with them for about a week.

 

[Fat Freddy]

I bet I can rub them down with steel wool, spray them down with an acid solution, lay them out in the street and let traffic drive over them for a few days, and throw them on the roof of my house and let the squirrels play with them for about a week.

Or.....just store them in your pants for an hour...

 

[rllefebv]

Or.....just store them in your pants for an hour...

If THAT doesn't bring the funk, then nothing will!

-robert

 

[ZenG]

Made a piccolo bass out of my Mikro. Then converted it back to normal.

Complete waste of time but idle hands are the devil's playground.

 

[RED J]

I thrive on this stuff. There's winners, and there's losers. But that didn't stop Thomas Edison , or George Washington Carver. Or Leo Fender for that matter.

 

[hondo4life]

Made a piccolo bass out of my Mikro. Then converted it back to normal.

Complete waste of time but idle hands are the devil's playground.

I have three acoustic guitars that I no longer care about. Can turn them into piccolo basses?

 

[hondo4life]

This idea won't go away. I have a strong urge to play in a jazz trio. I want that upright/db-ish sound. That is the easy part, though. The hard part is finding anyone else to play jazz with.

 

[Crusher47]

I have three acoustic guitars that I no longer care about. Can turn them into piccolo basses?

Make a triple neck guitar...err bass

 

[hondo4life]

Make a triple neck guitar...err bass

I have a problem with multi-neck instruments. That is, I think they are ugly and stupid. IMHO

 

[Frank Tuesday]

I have a problem with multi-neck instruments. That is, I think they are ugly and stupid. IMHO

If you put them close together, it will be like having one wide neck and not three separate necks.

 

[hondo4life]

If you put them close together, it will be like having one wide neck and not three separate necks.

Hmmm ... you know I would, but I am fresh out of wood glue.

I really want a to pick up an SX fretless P and do the previously mentioned things. However, I do not see a fretless rosewood fingerboard with 'burst finish. There is a red body, or a 'burst with maple. UGH.

 

[hondo4life]

I still have this Seismic 210 cabinet that I don't really use anymore. I was thinking, what if I wired in a crossover and put a little mid/high driver in it - not quite a tweeter, though. Wouldn't that be great? Kind of like a mini fEARful, and not nearly as well designed.

 

[zontar]

I've mentioned it before--but when I was in high school one of my friends told me why my bass didn't sound better was that the body was too light--it needed more mass.
Since it is an EB3 copy (SG shaped) the plan was to get some denser wood & make a bigger body--switching the body hardware & electronics to the new body and use the body to make an SG copy guitar--I actually did buy a cheap neck & one of the pickups.

Fortunately this stayed int he bad idea category and never became a real project.
I switched to round wound strings (Which some here will disagree with) & removed the bridge mute/foam (Which some here will disagree with) & the bass sounded much better (Which some here will disagree with).
But it was what I was looking for--and I also didn't want to ruin my bass as well-so the project died.

I used the pickup in a guitar I bought a few years later and the neck hangs on a guitar stand.
Maybe one day it will get a body...