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Alembic products => Dreaming... for now => Topic started by: caden_vekk on December 02, 2008, 08:42:33 AM

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: caden_vekk on December 02, 2008, 08:42:33 AM

Hey, it's me again and I have a few projects in the planning and I'm souping up a bass of a friend of mine. We were going back and forth with ?ber cool ideas on how to make his cheapish bass a BA Boomer. Some how, in our fantastical conversation, the idea of a bass tremelo system came up. My thinking is Why not, it could work......(maybe) and so I looked online and saw that YES some basses have been made with a tremelo system. Well, I first went to StewMac and then all of the other Luthier supply stores, but it seems that Bass tremelos aren't in high demand enough to sell them.  
 
So, Alembic (or anyone else who may know), is there any way we could work together and get some quotes on this?  
 
Thanks alot guys and gals

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: hieronymous on December 02, 2008, 09:17:13 AM

Hipshot makes one (http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=4 target=_blank) - should be able to order direct from them?

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: adriaan on December 02, 2008, 09:27:41 AM

Somehow your search didn't find the HipShot bass tremolo (http://store.hipshotproducts.com/cart.php?m=product_list&c=4 target=_blank) - but then they don't call it a whammy.
 
Stanley Clarke and John Entwistle had Bigsbys installed on Alembic basses.

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: caden_vekk on December 02, 2008, 09:30:56 AM

Thanks, I'll see what he says about that

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: bassman68 on December 03, 2008, 07:03:00 AM

Kahler make a bass tremelo as well, that is supposedly an easy retro-fit.

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: dannyj on January 31, 2009, 09:51:34 AM

Hi, here is the Kahler I installed on a bass I am building.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/402/60697.jpg)

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: blackelan on January 31, 2009, 01:48:39 PM

I would have to say the Digitech Bass Whammy pedal is the way to go if you can find one instead of a bridge tremolo.
 
Listen to Tool's Disposition to hear what I mean.
 
I forgot to add to my post I beleive Kahler is reissuing the tremolo bridge systems they were common on the 80s Jackson Charvel bass guitars.
 
(Message edited by BlackElan on January 31, 2009)

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: dannyj on September 21, 2009, 09:12:13 PM

Here is the bass finished with some custom art work.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/402/70681.jpg)

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: dannyj on September 21, 2009, 09:16:34 PM

another pic of the headstock !
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/402/70684.jpg)

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: elwoodblue on September 21, 2009, 10:47:02 PM

That's a fantastic job,
Looks like an instrument with alot of mojo that'll just get better with age.
 
congrats,

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: georgie_boy on September 22, 2009, 05:28:05 AM

LOVE that bass!!

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: senmen on September 23, 2009, 06:25:07 AM

hey Danny,
that is really a cool bass. Love it....
Oliver (Spyderman)

Title: Bass Whammy?
Post by: David Houck on September 23, 2009, 04:20:13 PM

Cool!