Sporkbasster 1

TTony

Sporky said:

I think one of the techs has done some enhancement - 31 are real.

Actually, I added 32.

Sporky

Me too!
:-<

Sporky

So... who had "just under 4 years" in the when-will-Sporky-ever-finish-this-damned-bass sweepstakes?

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/spb1/010517 finishedish/01 whole.jpg

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/spb1/010517 finishedish/02 body.jpg

Plays very nicely, sounds ace, needs a control cavity cover and new pickup covers.

TTony

Sporky said:

So... who had "just under 4 years" in the when-will-Sporky-ever-finish-this-damned-bass sweepstakes?

Me !!!!!

So, do I win it as my prize?

viz

Wow it's beautiful!

UnclePsychosis

That's cool as anything. 

That said, it's not a stingray and we all know sporky's opinions on basses that aren't stingrays...

Sporky

TTony said:

So, do I win it as my prize?

Soon as I get your two-grand entrance fee.

UnclePsychosis said:

That's cool as anything. 

That said, it's not a stingray and we all know sporky's opinions on basses that aren't stingrays...

I may have to revise that view, as SPB1 is good enough that I'll be putting my Stingray up for sale.

VimFuego

love the teeny tiny headstock with the oversized tuners.

Winny_Pooh

Very cool, the sexiest dumpy body I've ever seen. It shouldn't work but it does. Pickups? EQ?

Sporky

Obligatory geeky detail!

Body is three bits of flamed abrosia maple - bugs carrying fungus, making the little black holes and the green/grey/blue streaks. Sandwiched in are two bits of ebony. Finished with brushed-on polyacrylic in a very, very thin coat.

Neck is flatsawn maple, ziricote fretboard, stainless steel frets. Two carbon rods for reinforcement. 850mm scale, 500mm radius.

Pickups are Oil City hand-made - biiiiig humbuckers,  16 polepieces in each. Glockenklang 2-band preamp; controls are blend, volume (push-pull to switch to passive mode in case the battery goes), treble and bass. It goes from dub to ball-bearings-rolling-down-a-metal-pipe. Lovely, lovely collet knobs - I wish I could remember where I got them 'cos they are ace.

Hipshot ultralite tuners, Warwick just-a-nut, Hipshot bridge.

Sporky

VimFuego said:

love the teeny tiny headstock with the oversized tuners.

Ta!

For some reason whenever I draw a headstock it looks huge. When I machine it it comes out tiny.

VimFuego

lots of things look big in our imaginations.

Sporky

Well played!

fretmeister

I like that a great deal.

Well done sir. I'd love to try it.

Sporky

I am sure an opportunity will present itself.

BTW - did you recommend a while ago a set of strings that sounds like proper strings but isn't quite so much like a round bastard file? And would you be so kind as to do so again?

pintspiller

Sporky said:

http://monkeyfx.co.uk/pictures/builds/spb1/010517 finishedish/01 whole.jpg

Gives me the horn that does

fretmeister

Sporky said:

I am sure an opportunity will present itself.

BTW - did you recommend a while ago a set of strings that sounds like proper strings but isn't quite so much like a round bastard file? And would you be so kind as to do so again?

EB Cobalt flats.

Flats for people who like rounds.

Or GHS Pressurewounds 

fretmeister

I'd probably pick the Cobalts over the GHS.

The are smoother and yet have more clank. React very well to a treble reduction too.

Sporky

Coolio - thanks chief.

I do like a bit of clank.

fretmeister

I'm not sure I can think of anything more useless than a YouTube string demo, but they are there!