Tom's Custom "Shorter" Scale Bass

[tbrannon]

Too cool....  
 
Thanks for the size comparison shot Mica.

[David Houck]

Gorgeous!!!  Congrats Tommy!!
 
Oh, and Tommy; I got a chance to talk To Mica earlier today and she said it sounds amazing.  In fact, she really wanted to keep it for herself!

[tommy]

LOL!  Yeah, I hear it's got some serious bottom. Well..hopefully this will become the prototype bass for  small adults and little rich boys and girls. ;}

[jacko]

They say good things come in small packages and this sure is a small package. Very nice.
 
Graeme

[eligilam]

That's pretty sweet.  I bet that build would make for a great tenor or piccolo bass.

[pierreyves]

a tenor or a piccolo bass have standard size, just different tuning no ?

[mica]

That's the typical way to do it. Retuning this bass tenor or pic wouldn't be a bad thing. Although, if it were my bass, I think it sounds so great the way it is, I wouldn't even want to try roundwounds. I would be content the way it is.  
 
We are going to make one of these shorter scale basses for our showroom, so you'll see at least one more of them, but I hope we get to make even more.

[altgrendel]

Thanks Mica.
 
Seeing the side-by-side shot made me smile. My wife will testify that that's not an easy thing.
 
Tommy:
 
I bet some action shots in the Showcase section will complete this for all of us (when you get the chance).

[tommy]

Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

[tbrannon]

I've been searching for a picture I took about 12 years ago at Arches National Park in Utah- the way the grain flows down towards the bottom of the bass looks nearly identical to my memory of a rock formation I saw there.  
 
If I find the picture I'll post it here-  
 
Sorry for the Princess Bride interruption- back to it:
?Do you want me to send you back to where you were - unemployed in Greenland?!?

[tommy]

You've beaten my giant, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could've put the poison in your own goblet, trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my Spaniard, which means you must have studied, and in studying you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.....!

[pierreyves]

What's happend here, are you well tommy??? nothing understood...

[pierreyves]

I understand now!!
Never seen this movie ;o)

[cozmik_cowboy]

A fun movie, but one that raises the eternal philosophical question, Is a Peter Cooke cameo actually cool enough to counteract a Billy Crystal cameo?
 
Peter

[fmm]

It would take a miracle.