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caden_vekk
Junior
Username: caden_vekk

Post Number: 29
Registered: 3-2008
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 8:42 am:   Edit Post

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 über 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
Senior Member
Username: hieronymous

Post Number: 482
Registered: 1-2005
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 9:17 am:   Edit Post

Hipshot makes one - should be able to order direct from them?
adriaan
Senior Member
Username: adriaan

Post Number: 2014
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 9:27 am:   Edit Post

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
Junior
Username: caden_vekk

Post Number: 30
Registered: 3-2008
Posted on Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 9:30 am:   Edit Post

Thanks, I'll see what he says about that
bassman68
Member
Username: bassman68

Post Number: 64
Registered: 10-2007
Posted on Wednesday, December 03, 2008 - 7:03 am:   Edit Post

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

Post Number: 14
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 9:51 am:   Edit Post

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

blackelan
Junior
Username: blackelan

Post Number: 41
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2009 - 1:48 pm:   Edit Post

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
Junior
Username: dannyj

Post Number: 25
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 9:12 pm:   Edit Post

Here is the bass finished with some custom art work.
dannyj
Junior
Username: dannyj

Post Number: 26
Registered: 2-2003
Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 9:16 pm:   Edit Post

another pic of the headstock !

elwoodblue
Senior Member
Username: elwoodblue

Post Number: 855
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 10:47 pm:   Edit Post

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

congrats,
georgie_boy
Senior Member
Username: georgie_boy

Post Number: 961
Registered: 8-2005
Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 - 5:28 am:   Edit Post

LOVE that bass!!
senmen
Senior Member
Username: senmen

Post Number: 919
Registered: 7-2003
Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 6:25 am:   Edit Post

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

Post Number: 8767
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 - 4:20 pm:   Edit Post

Cool!

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