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07-13-2009, 10:36 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | 6038
SKB 3005
Spalted Flame Maple top
Swamp Ash body
Tobacco Sunburst finish
Bartolini 3-band preamp
Bartolini CB pickups
Bird's Eye Maple fingerboard
No 12th fret inlay
Graphite nut
Black hardware
Body finished shaping, first color (sunburst starts with yellow stain, then the red & black are sprayed on later in the process) and sealer coat applied; fingerboard glued on neck, awaiting cut to shape.
Front only (and remember, this is the beginning of the color process!):
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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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07-13-2009, 09:49 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Oooh.. this one is destined for my store, too!
If I recall, I was inspired to order this bass by a Sad**sky similar to this one: 
I just think a sunburst over Spalted Maple is tooooo cool, especially when the wood itself already has that sort of bursted coloration naturally. |
07-13-2009, 09:53 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard  SKB 3005
Spalted Flame Maple top
Swamp Ash body
Tobacco Sunburst finish
Bartolini 3-band preamp
Bartolini CB pickups
Bird's Eye Maple fingerboard
No 12th fret inlay
Graphite nut
Black hardware
Body finished shaping, first color (sunburst starts with yellow stain, then the red & black are sprayed on later in the process) and sealer coat applied; fingerboard glued on neck, awaiting cut to shape.
Front only (and remember, this is the beginning of the color process!): | The sunburst on this top is going to be SICK!!! Can't wait to see it |
07-13-2009, 09:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | By the way Gard??
Is that a BUBINGA top I see in the background????? |
07-13-2009, 10:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | | Nice one Gard! You guys are so stinkin cool. When my new baby girl gets a little older I'm gonna drive over from Greenville and see you guys. BTW, we had sent messages back and forth about the GTG and I told you I couldn't come because of the birth to come....well...she's beautiful! 7lbs.6.3oz....ten fingers....ten toes...my eyes and her mother's beauty.
OK...now back to the pretty bass potential......
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07-13-2009, 11:03 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by ubone Is that a BUBINGA top I see in the background????? | No sir, that's Amboyna Burl. 
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07-13-2009, 11:04 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by two fingers Nice one Gard! You guys are so stinkin cool. When my new baby girl gets a little older I'm gonna drive over from Greenville and see you guys. BTW, we had sent messages back and forth about the GTG and I told you I couldn't come because of the birth to come....well...she's beautiful! 7lbs.6.3oz....ten fingers....ten toes...my eyes and her mother's beauty.
OK...now back to the pretty bass potential...... | Nothing beats the beauty of a new baby girl man, nothing. Congratulations on the happy healthy baby!
As for a visit, at your convinence, just give me a head's up!
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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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07-13-2009, 11:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard No sir, that's Amboyna Burl. | Nice.. And when my friend might we get a good look at that?? |
07-13-2009, 11:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Greenville, NC USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Nothing beats the beauty of a new baby girl man, nothing. Congratulations on the happy healthy baby!
As for a visit, at your convinence, just give me a head's up! | Will do!
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07-14-2009, 05:33 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic Oooh.. this one is destined for my store, too!
If I recall, I was inspired to order this bass by a Sad**sky .... | Sad**Sky .....  Is that an American Indian owned company?
Sweet looking top Greg! Spalts and burls make me do impulsive things! 
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07-14-2009, 08:52 AM
|  | Appointed President of the Roscoe Owners Club | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Ohhh Amboyna, it is so dreamy. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard No sir, that's Amboyna Burl. | |
07-14-2009, 11:05 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | I'm diggin the Amboyna, and the lines of the (three??) wood laminate top. C'mon Gard, give us a peek?? |
07-14-2009, 11:45 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Oh, ok...it's a bass destined for "Down Under"...so it's not going to be ending up here in the US....
...here's a shot of the front:
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07-14-2009, 11:49 AM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Oh, my goodness!!! I LOVE that Wenge in the body, I really dig being able to see so much of it. I guess that's due to the top being a tad thinner than usual? |
07-14-2009, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | OOOOOOooooooooohhhhhhhhhh... Now that is nice. The exaggerated exposure of the Wenge with the (Maple??) really make the lines of the body shape stand out. I can just imagine what an Ash, or Alder body and a three laminate (Wenge, Maple, and Bubinga) top would look and sound like... Say like a lined fretless 6x2 SKB or a Century.
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