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05-05-2011, 11:16 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Bubinga, from billet to bass!
I just posted this at FB, but figured I'd also put it here, for all of the non-FB TBers, this is on the QT, but the BBQ will be OT until the LMAOs are all over...or, something like that...   
OK, so, here's photo #1, it is a large bubinga billet that just arrived this morning, it is 48.75" tall and 18.5" wide at the widest point. Here is it "dry" and we're showing what we'd call the "front" (most of the reddish-brown color visible): 
Here is the "back" also a "dry" photo: 
Here is the "front", "wet" ("wet" is a bit of mineral spirits to bring the figure out a bit for photos): 
And finally, here's the "back", "wet": 
As this goes through the process of curing, cutting, milling, glued up to a body blank, cut out, shaped, and finished, I will be taking photos and posting them in both places, so you all can follow one piece of wood through the shop.
Enjoy! 
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05-05-2011, 11:26 AM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | I love bubinga...
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05-05-2011, 11:39 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: behind a bass | | | You are thrillin' me and killin' me in one fell swoop. That two-tone curly bubinga is just the bomb. |
05-05-2011, 12:11 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Just yum. This one will be much fun to witness. |
05-05-2011, 12:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: FEA Labs Effects | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: los angeles, CA | | | my g/f loves bubinga. I'll have to show her these photos after dinner on date night... |
05-05-2011, 01:19 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Encinitas California | | | Bitchin!! An adventure from start to finish. |
05-05-2011, 01:30 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nostatic my g/f loves bubinga. I'll have to show her these photos after dinner on date night... | ...and interesting aphrodisiac.... 
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05-05-2011, 01:53 PM
|  | Well, Ahoy Paloi | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Cape Cod, MA | | | Gard, you know how I like Bubinga........................................... ..............(you bugger!) |
05-05-2011, 02:29 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | This is gonna be fun!
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05-05-2011, 02:36 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: 2k W of the Duwamsh | | | Dang! If it's that big, why don't you just machine the whole bass out of the solid billet?
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05-05-2011, 02:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Edgewater Maryland | | | OMG....... I Love it!!!!!!
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05-05-2011, 03:13 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | That's some crazy figure, especially by Bubinga standards!! Slurp!! |
05-05-2011, 03:24 PM
|  | Hammer On! | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Babbling Brook | | | What a photo series, this is gonna be fun!
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05-05-2011, 04:16 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Well, things are moving quickly! 
The guys checked it out, it was stable, and the moisture content was correct, so, before I even realized it, they did THIS:
Here's top #1, a Standard Plus: 
Here's top #2, another Standard Plus....specifically a Century Standard 6-J Plus (Swamp Ash, Wenge fingerboard) that will be residing at a dealer near one or two TBer's (and will probably be in here to crow about it momentarily): 
Top #3, this is a Custom/Signature top, lots of sapwood, but LOTS of quilt too: 
And finally, #4. Care to comment, Jerry? 
...wow...even I'm drooling...
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05-05-2011, 05:22 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | I'm the wrong Jerry, but:
SLURP.
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05-05-2011, 06:28 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Here's top #2, another Standard Plus....specifically a Century Standard 6-J Plus (Swamp Ash, Wenge fingerboard) that will be residing at a dealer near one or two TBer's (and will probably be in here to crow about it momentarily): | Who me?!? 
I did realize recently that I have a shortage of 6-strings. I've been quietly selling quite a few Roscoes the past couple of months. I'm down to two 6'ers, so I figure some fresh stock can't hurt! Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard And finally, #4. Care to comment, Jerry?
...wow...even I'm drooling... | Jerry B. - Gard actually said this today: "This Bubinga makes the top on my fretless look like cardboard". Booya!!  |
05-05-2011, 07:22 PM
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Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | I'm in here too. Liked this on FB, but I like it two times good.
Aren't #2 & #4 the same?
God Bless, Ray
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05-05-2011, 07:26 PM
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05-05-2011, 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by nostatic my g/f loves bubinga. I'll have to show her these photos after dinner on date night... | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard ...and interesting aphrodisiac.... | Do I actually need to say it? "Honey, I'm gettin' wood."
The rest of you might be above going for the cheap laugh, but someone's got to do it.
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05-05-2011, 10:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | That is one of the most amzingly beautiful pieces of wood I have ever seen! I look forward to watching this one come together.
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