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Author:  fivebass52 [ June 20th, 2009, 2:14 pm ]
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Came across this builder from the Netherlands... Jeroen, have you heard of this guy? He certainly builds odd looking basses, but he knows what he's doing. Bas Wittenberg is his name, and he lives in Barendrecht. Here's the link to his page -

http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=home

Hard to say which is my top choice, but his bass called "Rack" is right up at the top of my list...

Author:  Jeroen [ June 20th, 2009, 3:47 pm ]
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Yes, I know him. He had some help of another Dutch builder, Sander de Gier, and got to use his workshop and some tools for some of these basses. One of them actually IS a Sander de Gier Origin, covered in pieces of shattered mirror: http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=bassen&BassenID=23

Some of his creations are truly mad. He was just experimenting, really. Some of his creations turned out fun, some didn't. With some of his experiments, playability, tone and practicality didn't seem to matter at all. That two-string for example, it was built with bits of wood that remained after building the Les Claypool style 'Zebra'. But because of the narrow neck, there was no room for a trussrod. And by now, that neck is bowed like hell (I know its original owner, who actually gave it away. He also owns that Punkbass (which spends most of its time hanging on the wall) and used to own that crazy plywood bass with the Kubicki-like laminated neck (this one: http://www.bas-extravaganza.nl/?page=bassen&BassenID=25 ) that he had a luthier paint metallic purple.

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Author:  fivebass52 [ June 20th, 2009, 8:11 pm ]
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He certainly is an artist. I was wondering about stability/playability, and you answered that. I especially liked the puzzle-piece bass. That would be cool to play, and I'm sure it would get a lot of compliments.

Author:  pjmuck [ June 20th, 2009, 11:29 pm ]
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Were there enough players clamoring for a Wishbass for the European market? ;)

Interesting that his "Midi" bass model is one of his cheapest offerings. If he offered a lefty I'd grab that in a heartbeat. I also like his take on the old Westone Rail bass too.

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