Hey Everyone out there in PG Land!
I'd like to submit the Dr Seuss Tribute, 8-string bass for GOTM consideration.
This guitar has been on PG for quite some time and the great members of this forum have really helped me decide where to take this beast. Sometime back in the early phases of this project, someone mentioned how "Seussical" the headstock looked. Now I've always been a big Dr Seuss fan so when that got in my head I decided to go for it. I went and hand-painted a "Cat In The Hat" emblem at the 12th fret and then made a very "Suessical" truss-rod cover that resembles something like a Trufula tree.
Electronics: All passive pickups with a Seymour Duncan bass-tone pre-amp. It features a set of Seymour Duncan P-bass pickups in the neck and a standard neck pickup. The pre-amp has a blend knob, volume knob, and then a stacked set with bass/treb on the bottom and top (respectively). The volume knob actually has a pull on it to switch over to "slap" contoured EQ.
Hardware: The tuners are all Gotoh and basically it is a set of 4 bass tuners and 4 guitar tuners. It's got a Gotoh 8-string bridge (not much selection for these bridges).
Woods: The lightest colored wood is Ash and the rest is Mahogany. There is also a single piece of maple sandwiched in the neck to make it good and sturdy.
Hope you guys like it. As always Rock On!
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