Ugliest BASS known to Man?

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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24578
    I’m trying so hard to hate that. But it’s just making me smile tbh
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71957
    I don't know, but it won't be anything like that - it will be some multiple laminated exotic wood five- or six-string horror with a ridiculously extended upper horn, dozens of controls and brass hardware.

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  • Winny_PoohWinny_Pooh Frets: 7732
    I've certainly seen better looking chopping blocks 
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  • SchnozzSchnozz Frets: 1926
    Best - Ken Smith
    Worst - Wishbass
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4945
    Don't understand why there are three pickups on the bass. One middle is enough, a second near the bridge if you must but usually one is all that is needed. Assuming it balances well on a strap, the shape does not disturb me.
    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. [Albert Einstein]

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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71957
    Rocker said:
    Don't understand why there are three pickups on the bass.
    There aren't...

    Rocker said:

    Assuming it balances well on a strap, the shape does not disturb me.
    Balance is not going to be the strong point of this design! Although the originals were Russian, and from the other Soviet-era guitars I've played it's likely the body was very heavy, which might have helped.

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

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  • AlexCAlexC Frets: 2396
    Looks like an Ovation Breadwinner that someone’s taken a chainsaw to.
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  • BorkBork Frets: 252
    edited March 2018
  • StrangefanStrangefan Frets: 5845
    That is absolutely horrific! 
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  • RockerRocker Frets: 4945
    Oops! I mistook the bridge for a pickup :) 
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  • BucketBucket Frets: 7751
    edited March 2018
    As good an idea as a 5-string with a high C could be, I think you really have to go some to make an uglier bass than this misshapen monstrosity from Fender, of all people. Manages to look stretched and stumpy at once.

    http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0195/7232/products/IMG_4774.JPG?v=1444113057
    - "I'm going to write a very stiff letter. A VERY stiff letter. On cardboard."
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  • Ibanez happy whale:



    I'm just a Maserati in a world of Kias.
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  • StrangefanStrangefan Frets: 5845
    Absolutely horrific! But that ibanez and wish bass are cooooooooooooool
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    Anything that's not a white or black Precision  ;)
    If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
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  • FunkfingersFunkfingers Frets: 14322
    My vote goes to the Russian thing sometimes played by Jermaine Clement of Flight Of The Conchords.
    Be seeing you.
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71957
    Bucket said:
    As good an idea as a 5-string with a high C could be, I think you really have to go some to make an uglier bass than this misshapen monstrosity from Fender, of all people. Manages to look stretched and stumpy at once.
    That's one of the coolest instruments ever made. Although perhaps not in banana yellow... try this ;)

    http://guitars.com/sites/default/files/field_instr_image/BF3048a.jpg

    I would still string it with a low B too. I very rarely even use the G string on a 4-string bass, why would I want a higher one?

    "Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski

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  • DrBobDrBob Frets: 2998
    I came here feeling certain there would be a picture of an EBMM Bongo !
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  • ICBMICBM Frets: 71957
    DiscoStu said:
    Conklin make some stinkers by virtue of ignoring the 'less is more' memo.
    That's pretty much what I described earlier, I just drastically underestimated the number of strings someone would think you can put on a 'bass'...

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  • Why does the shape remind me of one of these?


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