Author Topic: Bass Whammy? (Read 549 times)

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

hieronymous · « **Reply #1 on:** December 02, 2008, 09:17:13 AM »

Hipshot makes one - should be able to order direct from them?

adriaan · « **Reply #2 on:** December 02, 2008, 09:27:41 AM »

Somehow your search didn't find the HipShot bass tremolo - but then they don't call it a whammy.

Stanley Clarke and John Entwistle had Bigsbys installed on Alembic basses.

caden_vekk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 02, 2008, 09:30:56 AM »

Thanks, I'll see what he says about that

bassman68 · « **Reply #4 on:** December 03, 2008, 07:03:00 AM »

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

dannyj · « **Reply #5 on:** January 31, 2009, 09:51:34 AM »

Hi, here is the Kahler I installed on a bass I am building.

blackelan · « **Reply #6 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)

dannyj · « **Reply #7 on:** September 21, 2009, 09:12:13 PM »

Here is the bass finished with some custom art work.

dannyj · « **Reply #8 on:** September 21, 2009, 09:16:34 PM »

another pic of the headstock !

elwoodblue · « **Reply #9 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,

georgie_boy · « **Reply #10 on:** September 22, 2009, 05:28:05 AM »

LOVE that bass!!

senmen · « **Reply #11 on:** September 23, 2009, 06:25:07 AM »

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

David Houck · « **Reply #12 on:** September 23, 2009, 04:20:13 PM »

Cool!

Author Topic: Bass Whammy? (Read 549 times)

blackelan