hamerhead Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 https://madison.craigslist.org/msg/6092174499.html They are perfect.
george4th Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 Just in case nobody has heard of Wish Bass, here is a link to their website. Very cool concept and cheap as all getout for what you get, 100 bux a string! That is their motto... http://wishbass.com/homewishbasscom.html G
polara Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 I've heard interesting things 'bout Wish basses...
cmatthes Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 I HAVE heard of WishBass. I'll just warn that the only wish you'll have is that you didn't piss away your money on overpriced firewood.
mc2 Posted April 17, 2017 Posted April 17, 2017 Yeah, the Wish Bass brand name comes from the saying, "I WISH I hadn't bought one." HFC member Odell, who owns the Creamisickle B12S, made the mistake of ordering a Wish Bass 12ver before bis Hamer. ....many tales of woe. I would buy a Krappy brand bass before a crappy Wish Bass. The luthier down in Tupelo, MS who worked on my '64 TBirds and build one-offs for Tom Petersson, Garry Tallent and others...had a Wish Bass laying in a pile of junk in his shop. He pulled it out and was surprised I knew what it was...said, "this is the only bass to come into the shop that I can say is a complete POS."
unfun75 Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 I picture this guy taking a big ol' hunk of wood, carving it to look similar to a guitar, and then bolting hardware on it. No actual luthiery involved.
cmatthes Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 It may even be less than that. I'm thinking 4th grade shop classes could make a more playable (and aesthetically pleasing) instrument.
dhuber Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 Yeh but you are getting 3 for $600 that's $200 a piece. Bargain!
cmatthes Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 32 minutes ago, dhuber said: Yeh but you are getting 3 for $600 that's $200 a piece. Bargain! I'd rather have the $600. Hell, I'd rather have $6.00.
polara Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 The impression I got, from hearing some shit about them, is that they're fretless becuase the builder isn't skilled enough to put frets in the right places. I haven't played one, but from photos and a few bits of scuttlebut but yeah, Chris' assessment seems about right. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/wish-bass-ii-review.148570/
Steve Haynie Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 13 hours ago, chromium said: Once you hear it action, you'll come around... After a while I could not listen to any more of that.
cmatthes Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 13 hours ago, chromium said: Once you hear it action, you'll come around... That was fantastic! That intonation is spot on. I guess if you were were gunning to play bass in a really bad Captain Beefheart tribute band...
chromium Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 Lol just needs Henry J on lead... The first time that vid was posted, one of the youtube comments read: "Uh oh... Wilford Brimley got into the LSD again"
HAMERMAN Posted April 18, 2017 Posted April 18, 2017 16 hours ago, dhuber said: Yeh but you are getting 3 for $600 that's $200 a piece. Bargain! He's asking $600 each! I will say the three he has look considerably better than some of the ones on the website's gallery but that still isn't saying a whole lot. I can (maybe sort of but not really) understand somebody ordering one on a lark but I have to wonder about somebody who orders three of them. :-)
LefThanDed Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 "All custom built Wish Bass basses built with indigenous North Carolina wood" That would be either Sweetgum or Pine... or both! I remember this when it happened. The "shop" appeared to be a backyard tool shed. Totally forgot about it until now... Quote In the early morning of February 17th, 2015 Steve Wishnevsky's Winston-Salem shop burned to the ground. https://www.gofundme.com/mmr1a4
cmatthes Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 SO much wrong with this statement: This shop was home to Wishbass, where instruments of great quality were created (not true). Please help us help Steve in rebuilding his shop, and let this master luthier (not true) continue to do the work he is meant to be doing (not true). Show your love of music by giving what you can, and plan to buy some great instruments (not true) in the future.
Boomerang~Junkie Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 23 hours ago, chromium said: Once you hear it action, you'll come around... Cripes, are all three of these old coots flat deaf?!?!?! No joke - ten minutes of listening to THIS and I confess to killing Hoffa. And I was 12 when Jimmy was "retired".
dhuber Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 2 hours ago, LefThanDed said: "All custom built Wish Bass basses built with indigenous North Carolina wood" That would be either Sweetgum or Pine... or both! I remember this when it happened. The "shop" appeared to be a backyard tool shed. Totally forgot about it until now... "In the early morning of February 17th, 2015 Steve Wishnevsky's shop burned to the ground." I know nothing about Wishbase or what happened here, but bells and sirens are going off in my head.
polara Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 10 hours ago, cmatthes said: SO much wrong with this statement: This shop was home to Wishbass, where instruments of great quality were created (not true). Please help us help Steve in rebuilding his shop, and let this master luthier (not true) continue to do the work he is meant to be doing (not true). Show your love of music by giving what you can, and plan to buy some great instruments (not true) in the future. Come on, it takes mad skills to bang brads into the side of the neck at random intervals to serve as markers.
hamerhead Posted April 19, 2017 Author Posted April 19, 2017 You guys are real jerks. Look at the one on the right. It takes great skill to curve a neck like that.
cmatthes Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 Those things would give Jon Kammerer nightmares...
Steve Haynie Posted April 19, 2017 Posted April 19, 2017 I am glad someone else noticed the neck on the right looks curved. It could be from digital camera distortion, but the discussion this thread now makes that uncertain. It is unfair to compare these to the Kammerer guitars. Kammerer makes consistent looking instruments, and Vintage Guitar gave a favorable review to one of his acoustics. I still want to try one out.
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