Saw these over on the talkbass forums and was pretty pleased, but also pretty skeptical. I LOVE short scale 6-string basses, I'm really glad to see them being produced. That said, like others, there's just something holding me off. Not sure I much care for the 3/5 position switch and I'm dubious on ...

I almost want it for the sheer fact that it's so goddamn terrible.

Eugh.

Hmm, yeah, that could work nicely. You definitely want the biscuits/dowels in there for stability. The majority of the force will be directed towards the body, where the head hasn't been altered, and if you can mount the screws such that they're primarily in that wood as well the rotational force on...

You might want to reconsider reducing the size of the headstock below the bass tuner holes; I think that will reduce the angle on the low E tuner a little too far, which could have some wonky effects on your tuning. you could probably reduce the headstock somewhat, but chances are not quite THAT muc...

I could be very wrong here, but I think you have to wire the two coils together then connect the remaining two conductors to the switches normally. This would eliminate the possibility of coil tapping, however, but without some other mods to the Jag switching you wouldn't get that anyway.

The Mac tuner works fairly well, I've been using that for about a year now when I have no other reference material to tune from. Good ear looks like a pretty handy resource. I've walked off stage from it before. "sorry guys, you're doing the next few without me, I need a beer" And you're s...

I think one trick with the EB-0 to EB-6 conversion, as well as adapting a Squier Bronco or Rondo SX to a BassVI would be pickups. what sort of 6-pole pickups would work that would still allow it to sound like a bass? any guitar pickups? Would they be gutless in the bottom end - all midrange 'n stuf...

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii26/wcm8/IMG_0114.jpg Jazzmasters are quite odd looking. Kinda like a deformed amoeba. I love their retro charm, but objectively they are not as ruggedly simplistic as a Tele, or gracefully symmetrical as a Strat, nor do they look as "handcrafted" as Gi...

Something to watch for with your bridge and string choices is the ball ends on the strings. The Fender VI strings are a bass sized ball, while the Jag Baritone strings are guitar sized. I believe that the d'Addario baritone strings ( slightly smaller gauge than the VI strings) that are popular with ...

Also: this gretsch baritone is tuned E-E. http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/2/9/8/270298.jpg as used by teh bon ivers! Come on, Skinny Love! $549 new. And the Schector Hellcat VI at about 549-599 as well; it has some pretty solid reviews and was designed with input from Robert Smi...

Definitely Cobain's Jag http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/object3/578/22/n38527471236_1133.jpg It set the stage for my love of the Jaguar and off-set bodies in general. From there, the next biggest shortscales are basses for me; Chris Murphy's Fender Mustang Bass, http://i622.photobucket.com/albums/tt309/...