@@Effenjae thank you so much for listening and the kind words 🙏

Is that a Squirtle?

@@metalhuevo thanks for checking it out 🙏

@@Shuffl3PlayBand 🙏🙏

@@Shuffl3PlayBand I'm starting to really dig it. This one fought me the longest. It's still a little odd live for single reason. Just very boomy. But it's action is about perfect.

@@nic.plesko you are far too kind. I'm definitely a figment of some imagination.

@@Escapetosea well ...it's not quite a real Thunderbird, more of a Funder bird. I made it. It has a P-bass style neck and bridge with J-bass style pickups. Only thing Thunderbird is the shape. But I DO have a lot of genuine old bows from the early 70s on; Ben Pearsons, Bears, Browning's, old Black Widows. Half of my bows are newer customs made for me by Harvey Archery. I been. Hunting with a trad bow about as long as I been playing, almost half a century now.

@@Metal2TheMaxxx yeah this one experimental hole in the end of my left index finger really isn't helping much at all. Twas a bad idea. Don't try it.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 I have holes in my head and face, but I don’t think fast…. That’s where coffee is my liberator.

@@M_EvoBass thank you 🙏

@@MikeNevill3 thank you so much for listening 🙏

@@chakuseki gonna take a lot more than that. It's hard to see. Many of my old haunts have been swept away. So thankful my buddy Pinkus's place was spared.

@@archibaldgregory1348 other hand. Index finger of my left hand. And use a pic?!! Hush yer dirty mouth! I ain't no guitar player. Hahaha.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 was it to the bone?

@@archibaldgregory1348 oh no. Relatively minor really. Straight into the tip. 1/8" bit. It'll heal up fine and I'm sure I'll be good to go for this weekend's shows. Thank you for your concern.

And there are plenty of awesome bass players that use a pick; Grahem Many, Chris Squire, Steve Smith to name a few. I was just joshing.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 I know. Your opinion would mean nothing to Paul McCartney who I believe uses a pick lol. I only ask because my dad did the same thing too a little while ago.

@@onebritishboi9892 they get used. They are how I hunt and get our meat. We live way up in the mountains.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 thats very cool! Rock on man 🤘

@@DanVaDoo well I appreciate you taking the time to check it out 🙏

@@hanovergreen4091 "and I wish I had all the money we used to spend on dope. I'd buy me a used car lot and I wouldn't sell any of em. I'd just drive a different car every day ... depending on how I feel " That's pretty much it. I pick one up based on how I feel that morning. Sometimes I set it back down and pick up a different one. I tend to like the three I've built with raw necks the most though.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 Sounds great :) I'm moving and have been giving away guitars. Down from 29 to 14. Was not easy :). Best Regards and Best Wishes!

@@hanovergreen4091 wow. That's quite a collection. I actually only had one bass for 36 years. I have built 6 more now. I have 4 or 5 others that just sit mostly.

@@hanovergreen4091 well I have been pretty active on all of the trad bow forums and groups over the years. Kinda backed off though. You know how it gets with those folk. But something to think on I guess. The bows are definitely related to the bass in my world.

Funky was also my first idea :)

@@paulginaven7986 I love it when ya stop by and listen. Thank you

@@puebloblau420 it's just me playing completely clean with totally flat EQ through a 10 watt Boss Dual Cube desktop amp recording with my phone leaned up against it. I'm really into tone, which to me is mostly a product of technique and the instrument. I build all of my bases with this goal and just try to capture and amplify what they sound like without any electricity at all. Just clean. This particular bass is very low endy. It is a one piece swamp ash body and a goncalo alves neck and fingerboard that is just finished in hand rubbed lemon oil. The pickups are Seymour Duncan Proactive Jazz Bass pickups, what I consider to be my reference pickups.

I started on fretless. I never wanted to play fretted, though I occasionally do for odd sounds. I have played for 46 years.

@@M_EvoBass thanks my brother. I don't promote this channel. I just let it ride and see who it finds it.

@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 Well, I'm glad I found it brother.

@@M_EvoBass me too

@@M_EvoBass thank you for checking it out 🙏

@@donovanvonbrendel7017 oh man that is awesome! Yer gonna love the fretless. And thank you so much for listening 🙏

@@hanovergreen4091 back at ya my friend

@@LightyxYT3245 thank you very much for listening to it 🙏

@@joshferguson9703 ha! I'm a chicken hawk!!!

@@tatelabianca666 it's really just a phone leaned against a coffee cup. That's the point of this channel; low tech, lo-fi, just hit the red button first time I touch the bass every morning and go, no matter where I am. A phone will always work because I am sometimes in some very inaccessible places when I do these. Ain't gonna haul around a bunch of other gear besides my bass and my little desktop amp. Plenty of folks out there giving polished produced hi-fi stuff. I'm the other end. See how much I can do with the absolute minimum of everything, including thought and preparation. All 100% off the top of my head in that moment. I don't even listen to em, I just post and move on and accept em for what they are. Not for everyone, I concede that. Thank you for listening though.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 aight, appreciate the explanation. I like that idea for a channel, and I'll listen in again.

@@tatelabianca666 I appreciate you checking it out 🙏

@@Metal2TheMaxxx hahaha. My next set of shows are high end "sonic wallpaper" gigs for hipster scene dinner joints so I ain't been going to noise lately. Mid October I got a freeforall show so lemme get through these mellow moments and I'll get back to noise chasing for ya.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 I’ll get my fix at the Amorphis/Dark Tranquility show on Tuesday followed up with Kreator/Testament/Possessed on Thursday. After that i get a break until Mayhem, then King Diamond, and Black Dahlia Murder with Dying Fetus…. Might do Dying Fetus VIP…. Debating still. So in short; you have time… click bait me again, I’ll start sending you custom post cards not even the mailman delivering it or the people sorting the mail wanna see.

@@andrewmoore-p6d 🙏

@@joshferguson9703 man that is very kind of you. I am humbled. Thank you 🙏

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 you are more than welcome but I may have missed it but did you happen to get an elk

@@joshferguson9703 I did not. It is very difficult they way I hunt. I don't always get one but I do always see them and get the experience of them. I still have another chance and I'm still hunting deer.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 that’s hunting it’s not about getting a kill it’s about being in nature and feeling at peace and one with the creator

@@joshferguson9703 well...while bass playing does pay a bit, the bulk of my income these days is from doing stunts. Last night Nickelodeon aired the newest episode of the Really Loud House, the Odyssey is the name of the episode, and I fall down twice in it. Decent pay check and hopefully some residuals as well.

@@LOLZZZ824 thank you for checking it out 🙏

@@notjoquin Thank you so much for the kind words and for listening 🙏

@@funfair-bs7wf wow that's relevant as far as I'm concerned and a quite a statement to be in the same sentence as Mr. Bailey. I am humbled. And I agree, you need fretless.

@@hanovergreen4091 thanks for listening. I appreciate you continuing to check this stuff out 🙏

@@nic.plesko thank you for listening 🙏

@@sausage_helmit thanks for coming back to check things out

@@sausage_helmit man I doubt I'd be much help on things like that. All I know is to be as authentic as possible... always.

@@Metal2TheMaxxx high 30sF here in the mornings.Our summer is done.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 hang on while I translate that first part…. Oh. So like almost at freezing point? Good…. Then that means black metal season is almost upon us… right now it’s time for King Diamond; then slowly switch to stuff like Dissection, Emperor and Darkthrone when the days are cold and dark.

@@Metal2TheMaxxx don't forget Mayhem

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 Only THE TRUE mayhem…. It all ended in 1994

@@Metal2TheMaxxx of course. All i have is the old stuff.

@@JameaJimea1175 yea I build all of these basses. It's very satisfying and the easiest way to get the tones I want. I'll hopefully be getting to Ohio again eventually.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 that would be great!! Hey idk if you can answer this but I had a music shop put thinner gauge strings on my cheap Ibanez bass and the G string cuts out after the 12th fret.. Could this mean The saddle height needs adjustment or is it because it isn’t meant for the thinner bright rotor sound strings?? Sorry if Im asking to much I am rather ignorant on this..

@@JameaJimea1175 it's more likely ba truss rod adjustment. My guess is with less tension you now have less neck relief, or bow. That would cause that. I'd suggest loosening the truss rod about an 1/8 of a turn, and give it a day to settle. You may need to loosen it another 1/8. But go small and let it settle for an entire day between each adjustment.

@@mymorningimprovpaulcrowwil2195 Thank you kindly for the advice (: I took a screenshot so I have this saved.