Overwater basses
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I did used to have an Overwater 6 string with a 36" scale. I found it a bit too big for my liking (even with big hands) and also found it very bad for slap style in terms of sound and playability. These basses are meant to be good and you can tell there is some class to the sound, but I prefer my Yamaha BBG5A for general usage (I traded the Overwater in against the Yamaha with a SIMS Led job custom done for me) Steve
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Tried a friend’s once.Nice tone but long scale and a tad unwieldy for my > taste. > Decent basses tho… > SR > just doing a little research, and if you would be so kind as to accomodate > my question i would appreciate it. > simply, " how many of you out there have heard of Overwater bass guitars, > based in the UK. > also, have you had the chance to play or hear them. > regards > Stuart > — > Overwater Bass Guitars > www.overwaterbasses.com
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Tried a friend’s once.Nice tone but long scale and a tad unwieldy for my taste. Decent basses tho… SR
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> just doing a little research, and if you would be so kind as to accomodate > my question i would appreciate it. > simply, " how many of you out there have heard of Overwater bass guitars, > based in the UK. > also, have you had the chance to play or hear them. > regards > Stuart > — > Overwater Bass Guitars > www.overwaterbasses.com
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just doing a little research, and if you would be so kind as to accomodate my question i would appreciate it. simply, " how many of you out there have heard of Overwater bass guitars, based in the UK. also, have you had the chance to play or hear them. regards Stuart — Overwater Bass Guitars www.overwaterbasses.com
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I’ve seen them at www.bassalone.com . That’s also where my experience ends. They look nice 
Not much $$. — -rob O> /() ^^
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> just doing a little research, and if you would be so kind as to accomodate > my question i would appreciate it. > simply, " how many of you out there have heard of Overwater bass guitars, > based in the UK. > also, have you had the chance to play or hear them. > regards > Stuart > — > Overwater Bass Guitars > www.overwaterbasses.com
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Anyone here own one or played on before? Anyways, today I called Overwater because of an ex-demo/used Ashdown rig I saw on their site. One of the techs/guitar bass builders answered the phone and told me sorry (i forgot his name). We started talking about what I as a bass player want from a bass, what I have, what I don’t like and all that. Just to know what a player wants from a bass… I found that quite nice. Talking to an absolute stranger on the phone for the better part of an hour …about bass stuff. And that during office hours (my boss didn’t appreciate it of course!). I was so impressed that if I had the cash I would be interested in talking to them about making me one just because of THAT kind of service/openness/easy-to-talk-to–ness. And he didn’t even try and sell me anything. Cool! — -jake
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The Overwater bodies I saw does remind me of Wal somehow… — -jake
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Anyone here own one or played on before? > Anyways, today I called Overwater because of an ex-demo/used Ashdown rig I > saw on their site. One of the techs/guitar bass builders answered the phone > and told me sorry (i forgot his name). We started talking about what I as a > bass player want from a bass, what I have, what I don’t like and all that. > Just to know what a player wants from a bass… I found that quite nice. > Talking to an absolute stranger on the phone for the better part of an hour > …about bass stuff. And that during office hours (my boss didn’t > appreciate it of course!). > I was so impressed that if I had the cash I would be interested in talking > to them about making me one just because of THAT kind of > service/openness/easy-to-talk-to–ness. And he didn’t even try and sell me > anything. > Cool! > — > -jake
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Anyone here own one or played on before? > Anyways, today I called Overwater because of an ex-demo/used Ashdown rig I > saw on their site. One of the techs/guitar bass builders answered the phone > and told me sorry (i forgot his name). We started talking about what I as a > bass player want from a bass, what I have, what I don’t like and all that. > Just to know what a player wants from a bass… I found that quite nice. > Talking to an absolute stranger on the phone for the better part of an hour > …about bass stuff. And that during office hours (my boss didn’t > appreciate it of course!). > I was so impressed that if I had the cash I would be interested in talking > to them about making me one just because of THAT kind of > service/openness/easy-to-talk-to–ness. And he didn’t even try and sell me > anything. > Cool!
I’ve actually visited Overwater’s work shop, I wrote up the details ages ago, here’s what I said: "Today I was lucky enough to be able to visit the workshop where Overwater make all their bass guitars. My friend was going down to pick up a fretless jazz bass neck he’d order and I got to tag along. Chris May, the head of Overwater had the day off, but I got to meet Lawrence and Hayden Williams, who does work for Overwater but also makes his own guitars too. (Go to http://www.overwater.co.uk and follow the link near the bottom for "Williams Guitars"). They were kind enough to give me a quick tour – details follow: It is a rather small premise, but fully functional. There is a small show room where they have some VERY nice basses on display, including a half finished 6 string – still waiting to be finished, fretted and have electronics install. There were four main rooms where the work is done. A room down stairs with a band saw, router and the other heavy machinery that’s needed for the rough cutting and shaping. On the middle floor I was shown the room where the less dramatic shaping is done. Lawrence showed me a Les Paul double-cut shaped body that Hayden was working on. He was carving the top by hand! It looked fantastic. It’s going to be the top for a semi-hollow bodied guitar. Also in the same room was another LP Double-cut in production, but this time it was a solid body. The other remarkable thing in there was a thru-neck blank for one of the 7 string basses that they make. Upstairs there was an attic room where Hayden has the equipment for bending wood for acoustic guitar bodies. Go through to the next room and you get to where they apply finish and colour to the bodies and necks. They had a few items drying – a 5 string Jazz bass body in 3 tone sunburst with a flame maple top. It is being made for Mark Knoffler’s (sp?) bassist for the upcoming world tour! He said it was going to be finished with chrome hardware and a pearloid pickguard – although I thought that the maple top and sunburst was done so well it’d be a shame to cover it over with anything at all. Lawrence also showed me the neck that was going to be put on the bass – birdseye maple neck, with a matching fingerboard and wood binding. That guitar will be one very pretty bass when it’s finished. They were also refinishing a ‘78 strat neck too. The best part of the whole tour though was seeing the woods that they kept in stock to make basses from. They had a huge slag of budinga – about 6 ft tall and 3ft wide, tulipwood, spalted maple, figured walnut, hard maple, soft maple, wenge and many woods I hadn’t even heard off – especially lots of exotic hardwoods very similar to rosewood. Lawrence also showed me something rather special – a lump of flamed maple that they had acquired. It had the wildest flame figure I have ever seen. It would put a 10 top PRS to shame. I kid thee not – it was the kind of figure that you’d maybe see on a private stock instrument. It was just so tight, deep and intense. They said it was a bit of a fluke that they had got hold of it. It is being kept for making some _very_ nice necks and fingerboards. It is a truly fantastic thing to go see where and how such fine instruments being made. The only problem is that now I have severe GAS for a Hayden Williams semi-hollow LP double cut with a fingerboard made from that special stash of flame maple! I can but dream…" Anyways, my mate spent about
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