[NewChief]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

And is that a Bass made out of a fuel tank? OMFG THAT IS SO COOL. COOLEST BASS EVAR!!

Yeah. Here's a good shot of it. The "jankitytankity" bass.

The Jankity Tankity joined the band in the spring of 2009. Mark's previous bass (nicknamed "The Fat Girl") was showing her age. Or making her age known with various cracks, deformations, and general crappiness. After a particuarly ominous crunching noise during a set break, Adam suggested Mark build his own bass. The original plan was a plywood box with a neck, but Adam salvaged a Saab gastank from the junk pile at a local shop, and the process began. Mark and Nathan had been cutting firewood, but instead began looking for the perfect piece of black walnut from which to craft a bass neck. When the tree was located, Mark began the work of shaping the neck down, a very precise process which involved misusing a chainsaw as a crosscut/planing/rasp for roughing out the face. Most of the final shaping was done by hand with various planes, rasps, and sandpaper. The fingerboard was fabricated from an old piece of oak found in a barn, and has a very hard knot right in the slapping "sweet spot." The tuners are p-bass style tuners from Ebay, and the strings are the fancy weed whackers you can get on Ebay also. Total materials invested amount to under $100. The final result? You'll have to hear it to believe it!