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03-01-2013, 05:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bar Mills, Maine | | | New Upton In the Works
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03-01-2013, 06:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Nashville | | | Congratulations on the new bass! What a lucky guy you are to have such a wonderful wife, and this beautiful instrument..
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03-01-2013, 08:02 PM
| | | | Congrats.
That top looks great.
I would have been tempted to leave it like that, I'm sure the end result will be amazing.
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03-01-2013, 08:58 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Dallas, Texas | | | Thats probably the best looking Upton I've ever seen!
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03-01-2013, 09:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2012 Location: London, Ontario | | | That is one attractive looking bass.
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03-02-2013, 07:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Cleveland, Ohio | | | Congrats on the beautiful bass, mine is going to varnish next week so I should be getting mine roughly around the time you get yours. I can't wait to actually get it. |
03-02-2013, 07:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: New Hampshire, USA | | | Looks to be the start of a beautiful bass. I've been considering an Upton Bohemian as a possible new bass. Love the lines on them. |
03-02-2013, 08:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bar Mills, Maine | | | The big consideration is that I play with a community "big band" and wanted a bass that would pump a lot of sound... hence the hybrid status... although I also added the deluxe top for combo work where maybe you'd be able to hear the bass more than the amp. The other thing was that the upper bout was "supersized", here again to support an extended "pump" sound... move a lot of air.
It'll have a Full Circle and probably (I'm still kicking this around) a mixture of Mittels (on the E-A) and possibly obligatos on the D-G... I'm a "bottom feeder" and really want to have a real growl... I have to see what their set-up guy suggests on this.
Maybe late next week ?... it's be "sweet" !
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03-02-2013, 08:42 AM
|  | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur; Mem. #1, EPC | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by artfahie  The big consideration is that I play with a community "big band" and wanted a bass that would pump a lot of sound... hence the hybrid status... although I also added the deluxe top for combo work where maybe you'd be able to hear the bass more than the amp. The other thing was that the upper bout was "supersized", here again to support an extended "pump" sound... move a lot of air.
It'll have a Full Circle and probably (I'm still kicking this around) a mixture of Mittels (on the E-A) and possibly obligatos on the D-G... I'm a "bottom feeder" and really want to have a real growl... I have to see what their set-up guy suggests on this.
Maybe late next week ?... it's be "sweet" ! | Congrats! Looks really sweet. Especially because you're interested in a big sound, I suggest that you go mittels all the way or even Evah weich. I (and others) have found Oblis to "give up" on the bandstand, although they have a nice warm sound and sound great in one's living room.
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03-08-2013, 08:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bar Mills, Maine | | | 3 New Photos.... The Birth of a Bohemian...
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03-08-2013, 02:06 PM
| | Oracle, Ancient Order of Rass Hattur; Mem. #1, EPC | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Connecticut | | Quote:
Originally Posted by artfahie ...I also requested the neck be blended into the head stock & body, rather than have a clear line of "definition" between the finishing coats of the two. | Looks beautiful! Now, uh... it's a double-bass. It has no headstock. It has a scroll and pegbox. 
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03-08-2013, 02:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Bar Mills, Maine | | | Les... Okay... a scroll & a peg box.... got it... apparently the frets haven't been installed yet either !
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