Apeiron Bass: More Strings, More Options, Design Your Own!

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Part two of two where I expand my original fretless design.
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[@horse_dog]

that 5 string fretless is mighty tempting...

[@floydlay9189]

One day Tim,,I will own one of your basses,,always love the sound,and your craftsmanship,,my bucket list!

[@timsway]

I have a pretty massive coupon code running for a couple more days, advertised on my instagram, 17.76% off!

[@faroironandcustoms6577]

Brilliant!!!! Linus and Lucy takes me back to marching band. Back in the pre bass guitar days when I played the brass bass. LOL, I need to catch up on your videos.

[@pdbowman]

Guaraldi for the sweet finish, love it. : )

[@sgsax]

Yeah, I dig it. The sound, the look, the whole package. Looking forward to seeing its final (maybe) form. Thanks for sharing!

[@TheKruizr]

Charlie Brown is suing for copyright.. 😆 Two great basses, nice work! 😊👍

[@timsway]

I think CB would be ok with it, but Lucy would sue the sh!t out of me.

[@TheKruizr]

@@timsway oh, no doubt... 😆

[@MangledGuitars]

I actually dig this design. Looks extremely comfortable and ergonomic

[@RyoCanCan]

Apeiron is one of the cooler basses I've seen in a while. I'd love to see a single-cut version of it as well!

[@sapelesteve]

Great work on those Base guitars Tim! Keep on tweaking my friend! 👍👍🎸🎸

[@jonsnothere84]

damn those fretless versions sound so nice

[@WilliamLutesMaker]

Totally worth the watch …… mostly because of Linus and Lucy at the end. 😘

[@kumoyuki]

That's maybe my favorite bass tone since my Guild B302 fretless. If you know, you know. That bass has a very special sound, too.

[@michaelsharp2795]

They all sound great. I really like the humbucker set up. Thank you for sharing.

[@johnbhumphrey]

The coolest basses on the market.

[@CoffeeAndGuitars]

Dang. I will own one of these eventually. They sound phenomenal.

[@DeadKoby]

Interesting projects as always. The website looks to me like all the functions are there.... but maybe a description for people who haven't yet seen the YT channel.

[@jbee3]

I would love one of those fretted 5 strings with 2 single coil pickups angled and positioned near the bridge like a Warwick thumb. An actual *ergonomic* Warwick thumb is my dream bass. ❤

[@timsway]

that's not quite one of the options on the website now but absolutely within the range of my abilities via a custom build (we MIGHT have to lose a couple of the extra high frets to accommodate both pickups, but they're superfluous anyway). Contact me directly via newperspectivesmusic.com to discuss and get a quote.

[@stubrakon9683]

This is great design Tim! Love it😀🤘😎👍

[@worksucksletsdrink6011]

Good shit Tim!

[@garagemonkeysan]

Nice video. Love this Apeiron line. Mahalo for sharing! : )

[@MikMech]

Great Numbers on the Bass - 812mm Scale (32"), 500mm Radius (20") and a 38mm Nut (1.5"). Just needs your logo on the front of the headstock. _NPR_ 🤟

[@timsway]

I put the logo on the back cav cover on this one, to keep the front clean :)

[@GeoffBosco]

Whoa! This video just randomly popped up in my feed, and I had no idea what these basses were about when I clicked. I've been looking for an upright-like sound in a convention bass guitar form factor for a long time! Some of the Ibanezes get kinda close, but no cigar. These are exactly what I've been looking for. It's not a pressing need, but I'll definitely keep you in mind when the time comes.

[@timsway]

cheers and welcome!

[@I.O.M.]

Sounds great!

[@valentetorrez3398]

I always read that name as ape iron. Can’t shake it.

[@timsway]

I should probably buy all the misspelled versions of the word's URLs, too.

[@LukeTheJoker]

Love these.

[@_Olorin]

I've been following your Apeiron basses since the beginning, I immediately loved the design. That 5 string fretless and the black fretted one you made before with the whammy are my vibe, I can see that the design is more and more refined and mastered! I like the wooden knobs on the front, but I gotta say, the back-knobs like on your first one had a lot of charm such as to keep the front clean! Have you thought about allowing narrower string spacing on the 5 strings? I know that many 5 string people (me included) like a narrower string spacing. Although I recognize that might mean adjusting more stuff like neck width as well. I have a whole bunch of other little ideas relating to my personal preferences for a bass, but I will leave it at that since it's less relevant haha. These look very nice, it's my favourite design of yours, very clean and elegant.

[@timsway]

Stay tuned for next week’s video. You will like it. As for string spacing, yea I can do all that , but I think we’d have to go the custom route for now. Building out the options can get too complex. Trying to find a balance … As always, you can always contact me directly via newperspectivesmusic.com to discuss and for quotes.

[@horse_dog]

also, something that could possibly be interesting for the fretted apeiron's is, if anyone really wanted the sound of a wood bridge, you could probably fabricate wooden saddles. I know hipshot's kickass bass bridge has removable inserts for the saddles, and they sell brass and zinc inserts. However, they also have the dimensions of the inserts on their website so you can make them out of whatever you want.

[@timsway]

absolutely. you can also "carve" intonation into it that'll get you most of the way there.

[@kalidesu]

very nice

[@Hank-ip8rl]

Hell yeah

[@josephmcphee9143]

Hey Tim. You might want to add your new website for the bases to your list in the notes. Love your videos

[@timsway]

right! It's at the top right now. cheers!

[@peterrahill9263]

57th listen-view about to happen... 13th pre-LIKE posted. :0/ 6:23 - the 3 little "X" reinforcement pieces in this one sort of dress it up by resembling bow-ties; (not that I'm a fan of bow-ties - and not that there's anything WRONG with that) - it's just that it's a good-looking adornment besides adding structural stability to the cracks. For whatever that's worth. It works aesthetically, IMHO; v. the others tend to resemble stitches you'd use on, say, Dr. Frankenstein's monster. LOL... :0/

[@timsway]

they are sometimes called bowties (also butterflies) in woodworking and often the shape looks even more like a bowtie, but I went with Xs to be a little more rock n roll :)

[@peterrahill9263]

@@timsway Okay - well, I reckon Frankenstein (apologies to Edgar Winter) woulda been more of a Rock n Roll dude, less-likely to wear a bowtie! Your mileage may vary.

[@jonsnothere84]

Hey Tim, any chance you might do kits in the future? unfinished wood just off the CNC

[@timsway]

I was doing that with my diy guitar kits. I offered CNC plans or you could buy the parts partially made, but honestly they weren't selling so I haven't been restocking. There might be a few parts still in stock at newperspectivesmusic.com

[@jjfloyd618]

Red Hot Chili Peanuts?

[@timsway]

lol. It could be a whole album! "Sometimes I feel like I don't have a football. Sometimes I feel like my only friend, is a black and white beagle, who sleeps on his doghouse. Lonely as I am, the psychiatrist's in..."

[@pdbowman]

@@timsway lord yes.

[@jjfloyd618]

@@timsway 🤣I love it. I rewrite popular songs lyrics in my head all the time except mine tend to lean pretty hard into the reprehensibly filthy.

[@Reverend_Taco]

With those cool recessed wooden brides, I wonder how it would sound to put an acoustic saddle pickup under it for piezo acoustic tones.

[@timsway]

you could very easily add one. I do not because I'm not a fan of piezos on bass, personally,

[@Reverend_Taco]

I used to have a company making pickups for upright basses, so it’s always on my mind 😅

[@timsway]

@@Reverend_Tacooh yea? I’m working on a dbl bass pickup right now! A design I’ve been trying to get to for years and years. What was your company?

[@Reverend_Taco]

@@timsway TM Pickups. I have a design for a new one in my head for years, but I’ve been having trouble finding the motivation to get it out.

[@gustavito7]

Can you make the Apeiron 34' scale? It's beautiful

[@timsway]

I can but that would be a custom build. You can contact me via newperspectivesmusic.com to discuss and get a quote.

[@markschwarz2137]

Can anyone identify the tune he played at the end? I recognize it, but I just can't remember what it is.

[@DommoDommo]

Charlie brown I think the peanuts

[@markschwarz2137]

@@DommoDommo That's it! Thanks.

[@timsway]

the song is called "Linus and Lucy" and the artist is the Vince Guaraldi trio which is a fantastic band.

[@allenmitchell09]

I don’t think you should expect to get any cease and desist notices on these designs.

[@timsway]

lol. It's tough finding an original design in the guitar world that doesn't look "too weird," y'know?

[@allenmitchell09]

@@timsway yeah people have been experimenting for ages now, it’s good to see you’ve managed to strike a balance there Tim.

[@familyengineering5591]

That 4 string fretted the strings look way off center on the fret board

[@timsway]

just camera angles and lenses playing with your eyes

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Like deployed 👍

[@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1]

🤓

[@DE-GEN-ART]

i would sell my soul for a CNC. where is Satan when you need him?😂

[@timsway]

they're not THAT expensive anymore. Maybe just sell a kid instead?

[@VarionJimmy]

Hope you’re ok. Beryl wasn’t nice…

[@hfbdbsijenbd]

Lil' body replete with a carpel tunnel inducing wrist angle. At least they sound good.

[@timsway]

which hand do you think is susceptible to bad wrist angles? And how does the body being a little less than 1" narrower than a Pbass effect that?