Members fremenblue Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 I think everyone's got one rattling around in your head. I've had a couple. Here's one of mine. For pickups, a Willpower Neck and a Rio Grande Pitbull bridge. No preamp. Selectable dual or single outputs. Volume/volume/tone/tone controls. I think right now I'd like to stuff that in a Thunderbird body, though that is always subject to change. Sometimes it's a Dinky-P body. Give me a maple neck and fretboard with black block inlays, or maybe black triangles a la Ricks, maybe black binding too. Give me that classic black paintjob (or maybe even the line-a-bed paintjob) with a chrome pickguard, chrome barrel knobs like on my P bass. . .. .chrome Fender-style tuners for the p-body, otherwise Gotohs for the T-bird, chrome Badass bridge.
Members Bass8987 Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 I want several frankenstein's. I want a P-Bass Frankenstein. Either natural or sunburst body, tortiose pickguard, maple neck, BAII bridge, Basslines pickups. A thunderbird frankenstein or make a Warmoth Fenderbird as well. And of course, a frankenstein Rickenbacker
Members fremenblue Posted January 8, 2006 Author Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Bass8987 I want several frankenstein's.And of course, a frankenstein Rickenbacker What do you want to do with a stock Ric??
Members tim_1002 Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Bass8987 I want a P-Bass Frankenstein. Either natural or sunburst body, tortiose pickguard, maple neck, BAII bridge, Basslines pickups. sounds like a sx project to me
Members ToeJamFootball Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1128477&highlight=my+warmoth+idea only with a warmoth neck ToeJam
Members 82Daion Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Warmoth Mockingbird, walnut, routed J-P-J, with Bart pickups and preamp. Rosewood/wenge neck. Kahler trem, Hipshot ultralites. Front control plate, brass or gold, with a bunch of engraving like a Zemaitis. Like that'll ever happen...
Members zenfascist Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Moses Graphite neck Any ol' black P body Chrome tuners (good ones, don't care about brand) Mirror pickguard Kahler 2410 in chrome MM pickup in the bridge position P pickup in the middle position Ric "toaster style" pickup in the neck position And lots of phase switches.
Members der oxenrig Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Some sort of Fenderbird.... One of these in a 4 stringer: A Warmoth Explorer 8 string, bookmatched maple top, transparent red/burgundy, cream binding, bound neck, flying V headstock, dual P pickups, bridge with Stew Mac Black Ice Overdrive, optional mono/stereo output, oval inlays, ebony or maple fingerboard, maple neck. I've actually also wanted to try Ric-O-Sounding one of these: (longscale version)
Members NineMinuteNap Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Warmoth P neck - rosewood with block inlays. Brass nut.Warmoth J body - vintage white or black. Black pickguard.Chrome hardware.Elephant ear tuners.Hipshot on the E string for drop D. (optional)Badass II bridge.Lane Poor jazz pickups.Volume knob w/ push-pull switch to bypass volume pot.Pickup blend knob.Series/parallel mini-toggle switch.No tone control (or 3-way mini-toggle switch [bypass, 75% cut, 100% cut with bigger cap]).Schaller straplocks.TI flats or DR Sunbeams.
Members Benjamin Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 +1 Fenderbird. Graphite necked Rickenbacker. From factory of course.
Members Trento54 Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 mm i would dig a thunderbird with mm pick ups and electronics clear black with a white stringray pickgaurd mmm
Members One Bad Monkey Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Bass8987 I want several frankenstein's.I want a P-Bass Frankenstein. Either natural or sunburst body, tortiose pickguard, maple neck, BAII bridge, Basslines pickups. Funny, I'm building that Frankenstein right now. Only differences is that I've got a BAI bridge so it'll fit under the chrome cover, and I'm debating whether to keep the 70's Fender pups in it or toss in the Quarter Pound P-Bass. Another Frank that I built has a Warmoth Swamp Ash J-style body, BAII bridge, Schaller tuners (with a Hipshot), EMG pickups and a neck with an aluminum fretboard.
Members megadan Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 I wanna turn an SX into an 8 string, new neck/tuners/bridge, probably a J/MM/P/J pickups config! :D
Members Banta Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Benjamin Graphite necked Rickenbacker. From factory of course. But why? You'd never see that from the factory.
Members Thumper Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 A variation on the Fenderbird: Warmoth T-bird body Maple-board Jazz neck MM pup Nickel hardware
Members fremenblue Posted January 8, 2006 Author Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by zenfascist Moses Graphite neck Any ol' black P body Chrome tuners (good ones, don't care about brand) Mirror pickguard Kahler 2410 in chrome MM pickup in the bridge position P pickup in the middle position Ric "toaster style" pickup in the neck position And lots of phase switches. I've got about 3/4 of this bass. Moses, check. Black P, check. Mirror pickguard, check. Badass bridge. Willpower Middle pup (p pup), check. Then the Dimarzio X2N-B humbucker at the bridge and no third pup, sorry. I was pretty close, though, and I do have a few switches. One is for the neck, the other the bridge. I like to use the p setting in the hotter-sounding setting and the bridge in the out-of-phase setting. No tone controls, btw, just volume for each.
Members Benjamin Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Banta But why? You'd never see that from the factory. Dream. Wish. I know they'd never make it, and as Jazz Ad said, I might as well get a Vigier. I just think it would sound and look really cool. Apart from that I can't think of any logical reason to Frank a Ric.
Members fremenblue Posted January 8, 2006 Author Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by Benjamin Dream. Wish.I know they'd never make it, and as Jazz Ad said, I might as well get a Vigier. I just think it would sound and look really cool.Apart from that I can't think of any logical reason to Frank a Ric. According to at least one website, the reason Cliff Burton's Ric was Franked-up with an Gibson EB-0 pup in place of the neck pup and a Fender J in place of the bridge pup was because the original pickups were picking up too much noise in the studio. The studio tech said he knew a guy could clean that up and that was the fix. While I can't verify the "why" of the job, I can verify the "what" through pics posted online of his Ric. Would I do the same? No. I love Rics just as they are, though it might be fun to make a copy for myself with other stuff in it.
Members bottomfeeder Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 I want an SX modded with a J/J pickup config with a P pup or Model one added. New contric pots for each pup with series parrallel switch, Gotoh 206 or just drill out string through with stock bridge! and some fat flatwounds of course. Then its on to just building effrects and building my chops so i can keep up with my brother for some cool blues/prog rock!
Members zenfascist Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by fremenblue I've got about 3/4 of this bass. Moses, check. Black P, check. Mirror pickguard, check. Badass bridge. Willpower Middle pup (p pup), check. Then the Dimarzio X2N-B humbucker at the bridge and no third pup, sorry. I was pretty close, though, and I do have a few switches. One is for the neck, the other the bridge. I like to use the p setting in the hotter-sounding setting and the bridge in the out-of-phase setting. No tone controls, btw, just volume for each. Post some pics, man, I bet that thing looks sinister! I'd only have one volume knob, though - the switches would take care of the rest.
Members Super Bass Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 i've got one in the works at the moment, see my sig for the spec! heres a few pictures! http://photobucket.com/albums/y206/achtungjackass/Slappy/ it'll be done in a month or so.....hopefully by the end of febuary. it started last march! but i've been doing it in little bits an hour here and there, and only outside, i've got no workshop to do it in. i've got another idea for a project too... maybe next year. a bright yellow '55 style p bass with black hardware, badass II, maple neck and an EMG soapbar.
Members zenfascist Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by achtung jackass I LOVE the color!
Members Benjamin Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Originally posted by fremenblue I love Rics just as they are, though it might be fun to make a copy for myself with other stuff in it. It could be, but I do wonder if they tackled the problem the wrong way about, if a stray signal was not a problem of the bass, or it just needed more shielding. Ah well, can't complain in the end, Cliff rocked.
Members FreestyleIntruder Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 Jessica Simpsons rack, Christina Milian's ass, Keira Knightley's legs and Megatron's head
Members Super Bass Posted January 8, 2006 Members Posted January 8, 2006 thanks, i saw it on a car, and had to have it. it took me about a year to find the name of the colour.
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