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Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:31 pm
by bigchiefbc
A 335 bass. The Epiphone Jack Cassady is almost there, but I want dual buckers and I want it in cherry red.
Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:19 am
by Ghost Hip
SG Jr. with P-90 in the neck.
Short scale Jazzmaster.
They need to make the Eastwood rocket again.
Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:13 pm
by Blurillaz
Ibanez, do something cool for once and reissue the one in the middle, thanks.

Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:40 pm
by magiclawnchair
Blurillaz wrote:Ibanez, do something cool for once and reissue the one in the middle, thanks.

i will take a moderne knock off too!
good call blu!

Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:21 am
by masked elwood
the ibanez futura is indeed bad ass. i think it's funny that they copied a well known moderne fake instead of the original design.
i always thought the gibson futura was so much kooler than the explorer:

& i always thought these hendricks were pretty trick, especially the "la warpa" (orange) as it was concave:

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Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:42 am
by devnulljp
Blurillaz wrote:...I imagine it would be the most diverse guitar for recording, but it would be really hard to use live...
A lot of people have made guitars like that with a thousand switched and buttons and dials...
The old Shergolds were infamouse for it -- coil taps, phase switches, bypasses...all sorts of stuff.
60s Kawais and Tiescos
People still end up wanting an Esquire instead
Look at this thing...beautiful yes, practical no.



Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 11:05 am
by moose23
Taking a bit of inspiration from the fuzzhugger guitar and John Entwhistle's Fenderbird I'd love to see a bass with a chambered alder body Gibson RD based body with Koa wood top and back and a maple Jazz bass neck with possibly a reversed headstock. For pickups I'd just go with a set of jazzes with one volume and one tone pot. I will make one of these guys sometime this year all going to plan.
Here's some Fenderbirds, it has a Precision where I'd go with a jazz.


and the RD bass:


Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:59 pm
by effetebomb
Yamaha SBV reissue

Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:07 pm
by moose23
Never seen them before, very nice.
Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:09 pm
by masked elwood
the Bond Electraglide:
<<The Bond Electraglide was a carbon fiber electric guitar manufactured by Bond Guitars between 1984 and 1985. It resembled a matte-black, 3-pickup Gibson Melody Maker (although with the 1962 onwards double cut-away), with a unique stepped aluminum fingerboard (anodized black) instead of traditional frets. Pickup switching, volume and tone controls were completely digital, powered by a large internal motherboard.
The player selected pickups via five pushbuttons; volume, treble and bass were incremented numerically via digital rocker switches, confirmed by a three-colour LED readout.
The guitar required an external power supply pack and given the state of engineering at the time, was relatively bulky; it never really caught on in the marketplace and only about 1400 units were ever manufactured >>
only found one pic (and it doesn't show the stairstep fretless frets) :

Re: Guitars/Basses you'd like to see made.
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:21 pm
by 1,2,3, Pull Out!