So 3 months after i sent my $1000 deposit,it's finally under way...

This is the piece of walnut for the 1-piece body.

It's being built for me by BEE basses,out of oregon.

Specs: Walnut body and headstock,figured maple neck fretboard and pickup cover,bee pre-amp,15mm spacing @ bridge,34-inch scale neck,and all black hardware.

It's going to be a 9-string and the tuning will be from low to high(f#,b,e,a,d,c,f,b-flat).


I'll post new pics as i get em.

dude, 9 strings?

what the fuck do you need a 9-string bass for?

im just guessing todd, but i think you'd play it.

dude do you know how much its going to cost to change strings? its going to be like filling your gas tank!

It will be similar to this one.

Bees are awesome, congrats!

jean baudin basses

Well i don't "need" 9-strings, but i just like having the highend,since i played guitar over 20years before i even started bass.

I've had my 7-string for a while now and i've been learning how to tap alot of 2 part harmony's and stuff....it's just fun.

Anthony nli said:

Thanks man.

SACAPAPADOO said:

THE HIDEOUS CLAAAAAW!!!!!!!!!

yea it is, i like to keep it easy with 5 strings though so i dont have to worry about missing and learning theory.. but congrats dude on being the only dude in death metal witha 9 string we gotta jam..

Here's a few more....

Sweet merciful fuck.

i love the conklin with the pic guard reminds me of a retard on pcp

SACAPAPADOO said:


Ya it's gonna be a bitch for the 1st few months or so,adjusting to the 2 new strings

I imagine i'll still be using my conklin at shows for a while after i get it...haha.

practice makes perfect...and dank nug

SHIT GUY!

god damn thats a thick ass neck. also, why doesnt the tuning go F#,b,e,a,d,g,b,e,a?

That is Jean Baudin's guitars. That guy is nasty as all hell. Great tapping skills. I would love to take lessons from him. He posts on www.talkbass.com
I suggest any bassplayer to go there and register

Didn't see the tag on the bottom of the picture

metalguy said:

i use that site, it's really helpful and a great place to get gear.

jean baudin is nasty but i think nuclear rabbit are lame. I dont like their music at all, it's so fucking cheesy.

Yea.. Jean Baudin is coming out wit a solo cd! Long over due if you ask me. I am also not a fan of Nuclear Rabbit

contagion said:


I talked to a few other guys that have 9-string bee's,and they said the necks are thin and play like butter.One of them plays a conklin gt-7(just like the one i have now),and he says his bee-9 is alot easier to play.

As far as the tuning goes,some guys have it set up like you said(guitar style),but i think thats more for chording.Most of the time though they are tuned in fifths.

holy crap

you and the dude from Behold...the Arctopus should start a band together

Behold... The Wood

Shit,i forgot to mention it's gonna have fanned frets.The scale lengths are gonna be 29'-34'(high to low.)

dude theres a $14000.00 bass for sale on ritter-basses.com and its fucking insane looking..

Fanned frets. That is fuckin rad. I would love to have a bass with fanned frets. Only a 6, I wouldn't go as high or as low as you!

the pacman bass rules

whiskey_weed_and_women said:

no shit silly , but why do you need 9-strings , was what I was thinking, and he answered it , Thanks for your input there Sean. go have a frosty or something

You would come up with sick chord harmonies.. And two part melodys.. or... Lay out the chords and line it up with your own melody. Alot of people like that upper register for that kind of thing. One of those things a bass player doesn't get the chance to do right away because of the 4 banger limits. Also... Soloing on some progressions would be fun as well as all that other shit.

that's not black walnut... darn. I like black walnut better than walnut.

this wood is beautiful:

a bass made from a burl? that's crazy... especially since it's a solid piece. that wood itself was probably a few thousand $.

I think that you definitely need like 20 more strings.

yea dude buckeye burl is crazy looking, rev have you ever seen alans regas guitar before his brother air brushed it? my bass has a high flamed AAA ovangkol for the body and its crazy looking, really glows in the light

these are ritter basses and one day when i have a million bucks ill get one:

2 words:

Chapman Stick

play guitar parts and bass parts at the same time. each set of strings has independent pickups, do you can add some distortion to the "guitar" portion, and have anice punchy low end on the bass portion

like a warguitar.

the_reverend said:

its actually a "warrguitar"

are people just not happy with 4-strings anymore? I love having just 4 strings, not as much to tune which is great, and I love being able to move faster around the board.

dwellingsickness said:

are you inviting

whiskey_weed_and_women said:

If you come to the Immolation show @ Mark's, then yeah sure

no def negatory

Well i finally got a couple of progress pics.My pickup is being shipped out on wednesday(form germany).As soon as he gets it he'll start routing.

start weight lifting

SACAPAPADOO said:

well... i either get Blue Steels or Elixer 5 string packs and they go for 45-55 a pack... so... yeah... he is gonna pay a lot more than filling his tank.

How many gallons of sperm do you drink a night before playing that gay thing?

Bradness said:

holy shit you suck. im not ever going to play a 9 string (i wouldnt know what to do with it and i have no interest in doing so) but im really sure if some one is dropping like 3k for a custom 9 string bass, chances are that he/she can and will play that thing to its full potential. bass is a wonderful instrument where you can do it all: melody, rhythm, harmonizing, dual melodies/harmonies, percussion, etc etc... the more strings there are, the more useful it can be and more opportunities to expand upon the sound is created.

watch out guitar players... bassists might take some of your positions soon ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_kQbAFFfs&NR


fucking awesome

thats it Im gonna start playing bass

dreadkill said:

Got this pic this morning.



Should have it sometime next month.

that pickup is huge!

porphyria603nli said:

those are all yours?
what do you do for a living sir?

THAT'S NOT A BASS...


IT'S A SPACE STATION!

xanonymousx said:

Ha,ya right i'm way to poor for that shit. I've had to save like a bitch for the past year and a half to pay for just one custom bass.

Those are jean baudin's,he gets them severely discounted(because he rocks the fuckin hut).

I've never seen anything like it. shits 'fucked!

i just noticed that the second to last one on the right in that picture has a pacman inlay.
most of those basses look like they could of came out of the midevil times.

that must cost at least $50 to restring

I'm no bassist or even guitarist, but those angled frets confuse me greatly. I get why they're like that, but it seems like it'd be harder to play.

it allows for a longer scale on the lower strings, which works wonders for keeping the string tension proper when you're tuned that low.

Yikes... you might as well just get a chapman stick and be done with it.
I'm not sure what this will do more damage to, your wrist or your back?

That being said, it looks cool as hell.

narkybark said:
I would sit it on my lap and do no more damage than typing on RTTP haha.

It's done mother fuckers!!!!!!




He's shipping her out tomorrow(overnight delivery).

That is so fucking insane. Are you gonna be playing it at the O'Briens show?

RichHorror said:


Prolly not,it's gonna take me a while to get used to extra strings,fanned frets,and no fretboard markers.

It's like Salvador Dali designed a bass. Amazing.

that thing is a BEAST

Can I play it?

can i come within 12 feet of it?

immortal13 said:

Sure,i'd let you check it out.


But,if you drop it..... haha!!

Farten_Dust said:

Then you'd haveto buy him a new floor.

how wide is the fretboard and how much does it weight? that thing looks like so much fun.

why do the frets angle like that??

and how is it? you must have it today

cav said:

They are called 'fanned' frets. It improves string tension, intonation, etc. You see it on Novax(sp?) guitars and basses. and it's sortof like what they try to do with the buzz feitin and earvanna system

It adjusts the scale length of each string individually and each string has a differen't 'interuption point' from the frets. If you look inside a piano (and most non fretted stringed instruments), the strings are a different length, which help their performance, and this is what they try and replicate.


With such a wide tuning range, fanned frets can be crucial.

Farten_Dust said:

Dude, if I dropped it I'd kill myself before you could reach me. From one bassist to another, you just don't fuck with another man's bass. It's a more important rule than it is with women. Whenever we get another show together, or if we just happen to hang out or something, I have to try that beautiful piece of machinery.

I thought they always gave the girl the bass.

That's if they fall for the trick Rev. You see, the said woman would say "It's either the bass or me" in which the gullable (sp?) falls for the trick and gives up the bass to said woman, not realizing that said instrument will never cheat on him ever.

you should take it into guitar center and try out some new amps and see their faces drop.

They will try and sell you digitech effects.

With a bass like that they'll realize that digitech is out of the question.

they'll send you right to the boutique amps/pedal section.

Niccolai said:

hahahhahahaha

http://www.moogmusic.com/detail.php?main_product_id=103

farten_dust said:

I would have neeeeever gotten a maple fretboard on that thing, especially since it's not clearcoated. That's going to be a bitch to clean and will likely turn baby-shit green in 3 years.

Maple seems like a great choice to me. That thing will sing with a nice bright maple tone, especially since so much of the playing on it will be tapping out chords and arpeggios.

Maple sounds and looks amazing, but raw maple is very difficult to take care of and keep it looking new.

That's why most production guitars with maple fretboards are clear coated, so hand oils dont turn them green.. and you can't use normal guitar cleaners and polishes either.

It's a hard habbit to get into, but you really gotta wash your hand before you play something like that. you really want to keep your investment looking pristine, you know?

Hmm I see your point. The only bass I've ever had with a maple board was clear-coated, so I didn't deal with that problem. My main bass' neck is Wenge with a small Ovangkol strip so I don't have to worry about dirtying that up.

Anthony said:

The warwick right? you're technically supposed to steel-wool and re oil them with tung oil once a year or some shit but noone ever does.

My bass is a pain in the ass ebcause I have that cosmic black hardware that's impossible to fucking keep clean.


I can't wait to be able to afford a modulus and never haveto clean or do anything to it... you can throw them down the fucking stairs.

The board was acrylisized,so i don't think that should happen.

I hope....

HI... I'M GEORGE ZIMMER - FOUNDER AND CEO OF THE MEN'S WEARHOUSE. I WOULD LOVE TO FLIP YOU SIDEWAYS ON TOP OF AN UPRIGHT PIANO, GRAB YOU BY THE PONY TAILS, AND FUCK YOU DEEP WHILE YOU RECITE THE POEM O CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN. YOU'LL COME SO HARD I'LL NEED AN UMBRELLA. I GUARANTEE IT.

Thing is absolutely insane.Sound is clear and tight,the construction is top notch. I've had a few hours on it,so i'm starting to get used to the extra strings,fanned frets,and no fretmarkers on the board.

Weirdly,i think my ibanez sr-506 is heavier..haha. \

I'll try to post a vid later this weekend.

aaahahhhhh bring it to practice on sunday. i want to see if i can even play it.

blue said:


No problem yo.

I should have it sunday,if not,definately wednesday.

I'm insanely jealous, even though I wouldn't know what to do with it. I can't even look at that thing without hearing "doodle-do-doodle-do-doodle-de-dooloolooloolooloo pa-TANG pa- TANG-TANGGG cachugga" and so on and so forth.

"overnight" doesn't seem to live up to it's name.

Niccolai said:


and they sound KILLER. fucking carbon fiber necks. i want a modulous soooo bad.

the_reverend said:

OK,OK...here ya go.

god damn. i know it's just because i'm not into that type of tony gunn shit when i say that thing is dudes on dicks

trey gunn*

tony levin.

always mix that up

I need some new pants now after seeing those pictures.

The Soundgear looks sad. The new baby's getting all the attention.

Wow, that is fucking awesome.

What's with the sweatband or whatever you have around the strings up by the neck?

When are we starting a Nuclear Rabbit tribute band? "Don't need no toilet paper, I'll use my hands. I'll wipe em on your face, cause I'm the MAN!"

ArrowHead is watching you said:

I'm assuming that, since he mainly uses it for tapping, the sweatband keeps the unfretted strings from vibrating, cutting down on excess noise. That, or because it's metal.

the neck of your bass is wider than my actual neck.

davey jones said:

that's not saying much.

you son of a bitch.