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HELLonWHEELS
03-29-2007, 01:42 PM
I saw this bass in this weeks Bass Guitar Mag and also some stuff about it on TB. I wanted to show it everybody that hasn't seen it yet. The design is really genius and it looks great.

Ed Frieldand playing it/video review

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLi8pOa6zYk

Offical site-

http://www.littleguitarworks.com/torzal/

http://www.littleguitarworks.com/layout/pmaple.jpg
Thonk
03-29-2007, 01:55 PM
http://www.littleguitarworks.com/layout/proto2.jpg

sorry but i think i just threw up.
Ting
03-29-2007, 01:58 PM
At first i didn't see what was wierd, then i clicked the link and i saw the pic Thonk posted
AG
03-29-2007, 01:58 PM
It is very ugly, but still. I'd be interested in playing one.
ChimPz
03-29-2007, 02:15 PM
The twisty thing looks weird. I can imagine they're fun to adjuct the action on. And what if your neck starts warping ... will you eve notice?

The backside look nice tho
Thonk
03-29-2007, 02:19 PM
I'd be interested in playing one.
definitely.

i would never pay $3k for one, though.
HELLonWHEELS
03-29-2007, 02:24 PM
definitely.

i would never pay $3k for one, though.

Thats because you don't have problems. But if this bass is the difference between playing at not playing I think 3K would be worth


PLUS: In the mag it said he was working on a cheaper bolt-on twist model.
BassVirtuoso
03-29-2007, 02:25 PM
Yeah how would you make a truss rod for that?
moghes69
03-29-2007, 02:49 PM
Yeah how would you make a truss rod for that?

you could put 7 or 8 in there all pulling at a different angle... that'd be such a pain in the *** to adjust.
cheezeebass
03-29-2007, 02:50 PM
If u think thats fugly,check out the other stuff they have on this page: http://www.littleguitarworks.com/instruments/custom.php
BassVirtuoso
03-29-2007, 02:53 PM
^Oh god the one on the bottom looks...honestly it looks gruesome. Like a torture device that's going to be in Saw IV.
HELLonWHEELS
03-29-2007, 02:55 PM
If u think thats fugly,check out the other stuff they have on this page: http://www.littleguitarworks.com/instruments/custom.php

You thinks thats ugly??

You obviously haven't been on wishbass.com recently

http://www.wishbass.com/images/600_xs1.JPG
Low_End_Communications
03-29-2007, 10:42 PM
I'm pretty sure there's only one truss rod, and the action isn't that hard to adjust. Just imagine each string being on it's own plane. The string still travels in a straight line from nut to bridge.

It actually looks extremely nice in the video, and sounds great. I'd love to try one (5 or 6 string). Just imagine it with fanned frets, too.
irishslappop
03-29-2007, 10:50 PM
i dont think its ugly at all, i mean, thats like saying a perapeligic's wheel chair is ugly.


kinda...too bad it cost so much.
thelowsoundofbass
03-29-2007, 11:12 PM
I like it, and it wouldn't be any harder to set up than a regular bass. There is a 35 degree twist from nut to bridge, that means that there is only about a 24 degree twist in the neck portion, one truss rod would work fine, it isn't like there is a huge 90 degree twist in the thing.

lowsound
naut
03-29-2007, 11:41 PM
Just imagine it with fanned frets, too.

i know there's some company that makes an ergonomic bass like that with fanned frets. can't remember though...it was posted here like three years ago.
HELLonWHEELS
03-29-2007, 11:49 PM
i know there's some company that makes an ergonomic bass like that with fanned frets. can't remember though...it was posted here like three years ago.

Conlkin if i remember correctly made like a like 11 string bass for Jean Baudin that twisted and had fanned frets. I could be wrong though.
thelowsoundofbass
03-29-2007, 11:50 PM
Conlkin if i remember correctly made like a like 11 string bass for Jean Baudin that twisted and had fanned frets. I could be wrong though.

The one just has fanned frets, it was posted in the casual earlier today.

lowsound
Pluperfect_Arson
03-30-2007, 02:03 AM
I knew about that bass before it was posted in this week's Bass Guitar.

I think they are ridiculously interesting, and I would love trying one out.
bottlerocket
03-30-2007, 02:11 AM
Eh, I highly doubt it's really worth it. :p

But thanks.
sixner
03-30-2007, 05:01 AM
i too would like to play one.

i dont understand the last bass in that link... it boggles me.
-sixner
d-basser
03-30-2007, 05:17 AM
i would like to try one, looks 'interesting'
naut
03-30-2007, 07:33 AM
Conlkin if i remember correctly made like a like 11 string bass for Jean Baudin that twisted and had fanned frets. I could be wrong though.

nah, the one i remember was only a four or five string.

and yeah, as lowsound said, that Conklin was just fanned.
HELLonWHEELS
03-30-2007, 09:02 AM
I think the fanned frets give the elusion that its twisted.

http://a339.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00349/83/35/349695338_l.jpg
thelowsoundofbass
03-30-2007, 11:53 AM
I think the fanned frets give the elusion that its twisted.

http://a339.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00349/83/35/349695338_l.jpg

That isn't even his conklin, unless you were just using that as an example.

lowsound
AG
03-30-2007, 12:03 PM
He puts his foot like I do.
HELLonWHEELS
03-30-2007, 01:50 PM
That isn't even his conklin, unless you were just using that as an example.

lowsound

I thought it was a Conklin but was sure thats the bass I was thinking about. Do you think its twisted just a bit?
Polyamarous
03-30-2007, 01:56 PM
He puts his foot like I do.

Congratulations, you're a retard!

Joking of course.


Thinking about how that bass would work hurts my brain.
Sablate McNuff
03-30-2007, 01:58 PM
i too would like to play one.

i dont understand the last bass in that link... it boggles me.
-sixner

It's a really weird design. But look at how that strap goes in! It's got some built-in strap-lok type of deal on it. I'd love to see it in person and try that out.