Custom Shop..????

[Hellboy]

Kind of like telling your wife that you really love her but if her butt was smaller you would reaLLY BE HAPPY.

Forgot one thing. My girlfriend tells me all the time that I work/stress too much, that I´m too fat and that I don´t exercise enough. It hurts abit but I know that she´s right and I know that she only say these things cause she loves me and she wants my best. She want me to be around as long as possible and not to die in a heart attack before I turn 50. That thought keeps my heart warm and makes me love her even more. But it still hurts from time to time.

Same thing with what some of us write here on the forum. We love the company and the products and we only want whats best for the company and for everyone that is working at Ernie Ball. But we understand that it hurts from time to time....

Peace, brother.

Sincerely//Jan

 

[Big Poppa]

Hellboy

The wife/butt was humor.

Lets put this to bed. You dont need to defend Pedulla he is fine....Obivously if you want open forums then people actually get to disagree......

I think that forum decorum or manners dictate that when new maybe it is a good idea o feel around post a little get to know the others and more importantly let them get to know you....,

It is kind of like walking into a room and changing the channel on the tele!

 

[Hellboy]

Hellboy

The wife/butt was humor.

What I wrote about my girlfriend telling me that I´m fat and lazy was also humour. The strange thing is that I AM fat and lazy.... but she never tells me...

All fine, my friend. Always good to talk about manners, love, peace, understanding and all that. You are a good bloke, you know. As are a definate majority of the folks on the planet if treated right. You take care now till next time. Over and out.

Sincerely//Jan

 

[Big Poppa]

Im on a 1500 calorie diet because my wife said the same!

 

[Hellboy]

Im on a 1500 calorie diet because my wife said the same!

And we still love them......

//J

 

[Slapfest]

For some reason a few years ago, I purchased a pre-owned custom bass.
A Fodera.....great bass
I played it all the time, so I sold my old, old stingray
Then I thought I might get them to make me a fretless.
2 years later and $8000 australian dollars!
Now it was a pretty good bass, but the maths here dont stack up.
In the end, I ditched them for what I believe to be a superior all-round bass.
Another Stingray....$2000
You want flexability?
Where else can you argue your opinion with the CEO of the company?
I'm not saying that I was ripped off on the $8000 bass, I think it just illustrates what BP was saying about how much the price rises when its "custom" basses.
And I actually agree that an ebony fretboard on a fretless is a great sound, but if I really really wanted that, I believe there are other people who make that.
With Musicman, your getting a superior designed instrument at a rock bottom price, comparitively.
And nothing else sounds like it.
I'm just glad that I have one.

 

[bovinehost]

Now it was a pretty good bass, but the maths here dont stack up.

That sure seems right to me.

 

[BobKos]

Just went to the Fender "Custom Shop" website. What is custom about it? I saw a lot of signatures, tributes, and reissues...nothing that I would call custom. It seems like whenever someone asks for an EBMM custom shop, they are looking for a larger options list (ebony board, wider string spacing, bridge mutes, TTB bridge, etc.) so I thought that is what the Fender Custom Shop was...a huge list of options...then they build it for you, but it's not. They should call it a "nostalgia" shop, which leads to what most people don't understand about the difference in corporate philosophy between Fender and EBMM...Fender seems to be more about nostalgia, while BP and EBMM seem to be more about taking things forward.

Your information regarding the Fender Custom Shop is incorrect. They offer Custom Shop instruments already spec'd and built as you saw them - ready to go. You can also talk to a Fender DEALER and order a Custom Shop instrument how you want it ( within reason, of course ). Once you have started an order with FCS, you will work out details with the builder of your instrument. It is a true custom shop.

 

[Old_Guy]

Why won't this thread DIE? Were it an animate object, I'd keep squeezing to slide lock. (Jack knows what I mean)
It's a question of economics - excess capacity, common parts being recombined into a thousand different offerings, etc. (How MANY J models are there anyway?)
If it were a really great idea, some third party would be doing it - ala Mercedes Benz AMG - they take your stock MB and trick it out, doubling the price, they aren't built that way initially. If I thought I could buy stock EBMMs at wholesale, trick them out and make money..I'd be doing it myself (or rather, I'd hire people and just collect big fat checks). This presumes Mr. BP would sell them to me at wholesale knowing I was going to disassemble them, do voodoo, and finish by putting my logo over his on the headstock. Voiding the original warranty OF COURSE.

 

[bovinehost]

Were it an animate object, I'd keep squeezing to slide lock.

Just watch out for Beretta bite!

 

[Big Poppa]

Im sorry that we dont have a custome shop and we have no plans to add one.

 

[bovinehost]

Well....what about a donut shop?

 

[Jimmyb]

Any chance of a knocking shop?

 

[oddjob]

lingerie shop????Thongs by EBMM????

 

[mathewsanchez]

Or maybe even an EBMM shop that sell mini top hats to go on the headstocks of EBMM basses.

...I'd buy one.

 

[Old_Guy]

Just watch out for Beretta bite!

Yep. "Ouch" I'll note there's no such thing as an "EBMM thumb."

 

[bovinehost]

I shall now completely derail this thread for a moment.

Back in the Bad Old Days, we had to go to the range every four hours. Okay, not that often, but it began to seem that way. Our Evil Masters were Army SF and tried their best to believe that we slackers could someday rescue hostages or kill people using only our eyelashes while simultaneously eating raw meat and making love to Asian women. Perhaps while parachuting from the space shuttle, too - with our hands tied behind us.

Anyway, after one particularly FUN day at the range, leaping about and falling out of moving vehicles and setting up crossing fields of fire and eating live children, we had to fire a million rounds at a distance of 3.4 inches from the target in order to simulate killing people made of paper and splintery wood. (I think they had odd ideas about the Georgians. That's all I can figure.)

I could no longer feel my hands. The only parts of me that seemed alive were the parts that were filled with SAND. Hooray for sand. Mmm, sand.

That's my excuse. I was tired, my hands were numb and I was seriously considering killing our warrant officer (and I liked him a lot, but he needed killing that day). How my hands got into that position, I will never know. But the magazine emptied and guess where the slide went?

I saw drops of blood shoot up my forearm and I said, "I bet that's going to hurt."

Luckily, it was just my thumb, not the webbing. (Yes, I'm amphibious.)

Of course, the evil SF Masters noticed. Maybe it was the screaming, I'll never know. And lo, they did lord it over me, and castigate me, and humiliate me in front of the others, in that inimitable SF way of comraderie.

I smiled and took it because I was out of ammo.

Later, when the SF warrant officer was pressing his bleeding thumb into a nearby wooden table in an effort to stanch the flow of blood, I said, "So I'm not alone."

You know what he said?

He said, "I slammed it in the truck door."

Lying POS. At least I owned up.

 

[DanGouge]

I got halfway through this thread and realized that it was, at its core, all about gold hardware (!)

 

[oli@bass]

No, it's actually about black hardware.


and bleeding thumbs...

 

[sloshep]

I thought it was about getting a custom donut shop. But that won't happen because BP's wife has got him on a diet. Also about shooters thumb.

I think I spent too much time driving this week and not enough time hear.