Bovine Signature

[Franky]

Color:
Frets:
Hardware:
Strings:
Pickup Config.:

and any other details...

what do you think would make a good Bongo custom bass....

 

[TSanders]

I think there was a pic that circulated that was the "Bovine Bongo".

 

[Franky]

yea, but if it couls have a 7" radius neck, carbon fiber neck, 25 frets, black and white spotted strings, be a zepplin double bongo style guitar, etc...

 

[midopa]

Your talk of a 7" neck radius on a Bongo reminds me of a story...

I was jammin' with a friend of mine who happens to play the electrik violin. I decided to grab his bow and try it out on the Bongo. I couldn't really bow the A or D strings because of the neck radius, but I really dug the sound that I got by bowing the E string! Of course, all the rosin from the bow got on the bass and strings so that was a bit of a chore to clean up. Nice sound, though. So that got me thinking for just the smallest bit of a fraction of time about a Bongo with the neck radius of something like a cello. Then reality settled in.

That was a good story.

 

[Franky]

you cant get a (loud/good) sound on a bass guitar using a bow, the way it works is the bow makes the bridge vibrate, and the vibrations go into the hollow body and make a sound...

 

[jongitarz]

you cant get a (loud/good) sound on a bass guitar using a bow, the way it works is the bow makes the bridge vibrate, and the vibrations go into the hollow body and make a sound...

Don't tell Jimmy Page that ok?

 

[bovinehost]

Hmm, okay:

Color: gloss black with yellow and orange flames.

Frets: wouldn't change a thing on the Bongos.

Hardware: maybe some orange knobs to match the flames.

Strings: TI Flats.

'Pickup Config.: Dual Humbuckers.

There, that shouldn't be so hard. Someone wake Dargin up.

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Jack...wasn't the Bovine (Moo Cow) Bass going to be the prototype

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[bovinehost]

Well, it actually ended up looking more like urban camouflage.

 

[tkarter]

That works, but it does need factory installed strap locks.

tk

 

[bovinehost]

Got Dunlops on all my basses. The original photo was taken the day I got it, thus the standard buttons.

So what about the flames?

 

[FireAarro]

you cant get a (loud/good) sound on a bass guitar using a bow, the way it works is the bow makes the bridge vibrate, and the vibrations go into the hollow body and make a sound...

But before it makes the bridge vibrate it makes the strings vibrate, thus with electric instruments it makes the strings vibrate which the pickups sense and so forth...

Jeannie Pickguards sells cow pickguards I think. If I ever get a Bongo it'd be something like Desert Gold with a cow pickguard.