Yeah I will continue to drive 6 hours to Kingston every year on my birthday to pick up a bass. So far i did it twice and i will be doing it again jan 2017. What a great experience!
What an awesome experience it is!! My wife and I are planning a trip soon so I can drop off my 635 for some tweaking. I've never been satisfied with a bass like I've been with MTDs.
Sorry, but Sepele is not a species of mahogany within the Swetenia Genus! It is similar to mahogany in properties, but not just a different species, but not even of the same genus. It is in the same family, but evolutionarily speaking as far apart from mahogany as cats from elephants. Also, I don't care how well he makes instruments (he does), he's still either deluded about the "Tonewood thing", or playing on your ignorance. It has been thoroughly scientifically debunked! The only thing that counts is a materials properties, and after a certain stiffness (not density either) which mainly makes no audible tonal difference (only in sustain), and out of the range of human hearing! No material can "Add" tone either! It can not add brightness or bass, only loose bass or brightness, and again it's inaudible. If you can hear a difference between two instruments made of different woods but the same pickups and electronics, then one is very flexible and therefore unstable with tuning issues... and the other way stiff, and the latter can be had with carbon fiber reinforcements, or you are experiencing the placebo effect, because you believe way too much in a myth! Face it: There is no such thing as tonewood! Just look up the actual science behind how mechanical waves travel, or look up the many Stratocasters with original pickups, made of all sorts from cardboard, over plastics, to concrete: They all sound like Strats, every freaking last one of them, with only a very small noticeable difference where material properties are very far apart: There's plenty of equipment that can deal with it, like the controls on amps and effects! Not saying that different woods don't look amazing, or have a better feel when used for fingerboards, but even that is way exaggerated when guitarists and bassists are together (Cult mentality), whereas no one not conditioned to believe the marketing snake oil of the past centuries can tell any difference at all accept for in looks! I have been building and repairing stringed instruments for over 40 years now, and being a physics/engineering geek, I heard way too much crap that raised red flags early on, and so delved into the related sciences deeper, instead of just drinking the Koolaid and running with it, as most do! I was using carbon fiber, stainless frets, better glues and construction methods and woods others wouldn't touch all the way back in the early 80's, and people shit on it back then for being misinformed, but now it's common, and there's a good reasons for it: Many people recognized the advantages of some things, and started demanding them, and there's not enough traditional woods to go around. What little there is has become very regulated and expensive, so even the companies that spread the myths in the first place all but few (Gibson: the P.T. Barnum of guitars) use other woods now, and most pretending it's always been that way, or adding the same snake oil to them! BULLSHIT! Show me an instrument with paduke, purple heart, wenge... used for anything but embellishments or at all, made before 1980 by some obscure builder, or from a factory earlier than the mid 90's. Good luck with that. OK, so Alembic actually did, but used their own brand of snake oil to try and compensate for indoctrinated purists (Using 4 to 7 different woods as "EQ's"; BULLSHIT!) so they would sell, but it still didn't work out well for them in the end. Also, Michael and son must have heard why it is imperative to wear not just a face mask, but a full blown respirator when working with any dust of any kind, and that's been consent since at least the 40's, so anyone who has respiratory problems as many wood workers do, are ignorant, whether by not educating themselves, or out of sheer misplaced convenience and comfort, and it's catching up to them in the form of serious health problems! Also keeping the shop meticulously clean and even having air filtration is highly recommended the latter although very expensive.
That is a gorgeous bass they made for you. Amazing
Is it just him and him son building basses? Nice post! Tell Michael to throw an MTD my way!
It's Michael, Daniel and a gentleman named Charlie building all the basses. 3 man team!!
Amazing! I thought it was more than that. How long is their usual build time? Is it a year or so?
+Daniel Paduck I'm not sure where they're at right now. I'd say 10-12 months. My first bass was finished in 4 and my second took 10.
Just Bass It do you have videos playing your MTD basses?
Yeah I will continue to drive 6 hours to Kingston every year on my birthday to pick up a bass. So far i did it twice and i will be doing it again jan 2017. What a great experience!
What an awesome experience it is!! My wife and I are planning a trip soon so I can drop off my 635 for some tweaking. I've never been satisfied with a bass like I've been with MTDs.
I live outside of DC..can a brother roll wit ya..?
+AGC517 Yes you can!
Then you can pick me up after DC in Jersey!! Make a bass road trip!!
+Just Bass It yeah let's do it!
Sorry, but Sepele is not a species of mahogany within the Swetenia Genus! It is similar to mahogany in properties, but not just a different species, but not even of the same genus. It is in the same family, but evolutionarily speaking as far apart from mahogany as cats from elephants.
Also, I don't care how well he makes instruments (he does), he's still either deluded about the "Tonewood thing", or playing on your ignorance. It has been thoroughly scientifically debunked! The only thing that counts is a materials properties, and after a certain stiffness (not density either) which mainly makes no audible tonal difference (only in sustain), and out of the range of human hearing! No material can "Add" tone either! It can not add brightness or bass, only loose bass or brightness, and again it's inaudible. If you can hear a difference between two instruments made of different woods but the same pickups and electronics, then one is very flexible and therefore unstable with tuning issues... and the other way stiff, and the latter can be had with carbon fiber reinforcements, or you are experiencing the placebo effect, because you believe way too much in a myth!
Face it: There is no such thing as tonewood! Just look up the actual science behind how mechanical waves travel, or look up the many Stratocasters with original pickups, made of all sorts from cardboard, over plastics, to concrete: They all sound like Strats, every freaking last one of them, with only a very small noticeable difference where material properties are very far apart: There's plenty of equipment that can deal with it, like the controls on amps and effects! Not saying that different woods don't look amazing, or have a better feel when used for fingerboards, but even that is way exaggerated when guitarists and bassists are together (Cult mentality), whereas no one not conditioned to believe the marketing snake oil of the past centuries can tell any difference at all accept for in looks!
I have been building and repairing stringed instruments for over 40 years now, and being a physics/engineering geek, I heard way too much crap that raised red flags early on, and so delved into the related sciences deeper, instead of just drinking the Koolaid and running with it, as most do! I was using carbon fiber, stainless frets, better glues and construction methods and woods others wouldn't touch all the way back in the early 80's, and people shit on it back then for being misinformed, but now it's common, and there's a good reasons for it: Many people recognized the advantages of some things, and started demanding them, and there's not enough traditional woods to go around. What little there is has become very regulated and expensive, so even the companies that spread the myths in the first place all but few (Gibson: the P.T. Barnum of guitars) use other woods now, and most pretending it's always been that way, or adding the same snake oil to them! BULLSHIT! Show me an instrument with paduke, purple heart, wenge... used for anything but embellishments or at all, made before 1980 by some obscure builder, or from a factory earlier than the mid 90's. Good luck with that. OK, so Alembic actually did, but used their own brand of snake oil to try and compensate for indoctrinated purists (Using 4 to 7 different woods as "EQ's"; BULLSHIT!) so they would sell, but it still didn't work out well for them in the end.
Also, Michael and son must have heard why it is imperative to wear not just a face mask, but a full blown respirator when working with any dust of any kind, and that's been consent since at least the 40's, so anyone who has respiratory problems as many wood workers do, are ignorant, whether by not educating themselves, or out of sheer misplaced convenience and comfort, and it's catching up to them in the form of serious health problems! Also keeping the shop meticulously clean and even having air filtration is highly recommended the latter although very expensive.