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10-08-2008, 05:42 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | 5939
LG 3005
Burl Myrtle top
Swamp Ash body
Natural finish
Bartolini 3-band preamp
Bartolini/Roscoe pickups
Wenge center neck
Bird's Eye Maple fingerboard
Burl Myrtle 12th fret inlay
Graphite nut
Black hardware
Body finished (awaiting final sanding & buffing), awaiting electronics installation; neck in finish.
Body shots, front & back:
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On a more serious note, I agree with Gard (wow, don't quote me). - Thor (...keep it up, revenge is a dish best served cold, Mr. Thor...:ninja: )
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10-10-2008, 10:04 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | I absolutely love that top. It's so easy to say this because it seems to apply to every single instrument, but this bass is going to be a stunner! Burl myrtle + bird's eye maple = much eye candy. |
10-10-2008, 10:39 AM
|  | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | That is going to be sweet, I can't wait until it is all put together. |
10-14-2008, 10:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Chicago, IL | | | This one's coming to Blueberry Hill when it's ready. We shouldn't be too far out on this one. |
10-15-2008, 08:58 AM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | Does anyone but me see the alien head below the bridge pickup route on this body? |
10-15-2008, 09:06 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CrashClint  Does anyone but me see the alien head below the bridge pickup route on this body? | Personally I think it's a ghost because that top is just plain scary looking! 
Looking at Roscoe tops is a lot like looking at the clouds. If you use your imagination you can see anything and everything in them!  |
10-15-2008, 04:06 PM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Personally I think it's a ghost because that top is just plain scary looking!
Looking at Roscoe tops is a lot like looking at the clouds. If you use your imagination you can see anything and everything in them! | Looking closely toward the bottom of the bass, you are right Joe, it is scary and does look like a ghost. 
Last edited by CrashClint : 10-15-2008 at 04:09 PM.
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10-16-2008, 12:59 AM
| | | | You seeing a ghost?
This is almost scarey- but to me it looks more like a guy stantding up, wearing a hat and plyay ing with h |
10-16-2008, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Chicago, IL | | | This LG will be featured on next Wednesday's episode of Ghost Hunters on SciFi. Grant (co-host of the show) is musician. |
10-16-2008, 10:45 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | On the way yesterday!
Full monty, front & back:
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On a more serious note, I agree with Gard (wow, don't quote me). - Thor (...keep it up, revenge is a dish best served cold, Mr. Thor...:ninja: )
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10-16-2008, 10:45 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Body shots, front & back:
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On a more serious note, I agree with Gard (wow, don't quote me). - Thor (...keep it up, revenge is a dish best served cold, Mr. Thor...:ninja: )
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10-16-2008, 10:46 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Headstock, front & back:
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On a more serious note, I agree with Gard (wow, don't quote me). - Thor (...keep it up, revenge is a dish best served cold, Mr. Thor...:ninja: )
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10-16-2008, 10:51 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | BONUS
Fingerboard & myrtle burl 12th fret inlay:
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10-16-2008, 10:57 AM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | | Wow, that fingerboard looks awesome! Actually the complete bass does! All the woods just compliment each other very nicely! |
10-31-2008, 01:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Boston MA | | | awesome man , but need to be darker f/b to me! |
10-31-2008, 01:31 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | I love the fingerboard, but I'm always a sucker for birdseye maple. The inlay is AWESOME. What a beautiful instrument! |
10-31-2008, 02:05 PM
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Staff Reviewer- Bass Musician Magazine | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Asheville, NC | | | gorgeous, thats some killer myrtle! |
10-31-2008, 02:57 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A Whale's Vag!na, CA | | | That bass looks awesome! |
11-03-2008, 06:51 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Oh Man! The bridge covered up the ghost!
Who ever buys it will never even know that they have a haunted bass! 
This one really finished up nicely though. Great looking bass!  |
11-03-2008, 09:28 AM
| | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Oh Man! The bridge covered up the ghost!
Who ever buys it will never even know that they have a haunted bass! | They will know soon, mmmwwwaaaahhhh!!! When they go to bed and they hear the bass line to "Spooky", it will haunt their dreams. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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