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10-26-2009, 02:56 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | A couple cool things...
...first, we got this really nice piece of spalted quilt maple recently, it was thick enough to make a matching front and back. However, the back was a bit "wobbly" on it's own, so we needed to get it glued up right away, so we laminated it up to a really nice piece of Spanish cedar, and cut it to be a Century (or potentially Century Signature) V. Here's the front and back of it:
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10-26-2009, 03:02 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Thing #2
OK, we came across this INTENSE quilted bubinga sapwood, just amazing stuff. However, the thing with sapwood is it's near the exterior of the tree, close to the bark. This piece was REALLY close to the bark....
...heck, it has a whole bunch of bark in it! 
Anyhow, the quilt is just too good to not try and build something with it, so...we glued it to a piece of ash and cut a Century (or Century Signature) V (notice a trend?  ).
Here is a photo of the raw wood and the bass just after it was rough carved. Note: we are leaving some of the bark in to make the top fill in - we think it looks great, but we also realize some folks might just not "get it", and we won't be offended if you don't.
Personally, I dig the heck out of this!
Anyhow, photos! 
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10-26-2009, 03:16 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | WARDROBE! I loves 'em both, but that second one....my diaper runneth over.
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10-26-2009, 03:20 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Jerry, yeah, that is one killer piece of wood. It's screaming to be a fretless...
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10-26-2009, 03:35 PM
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Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | I'm usually the GAS-giver, but I must say I now have the GAS... Yeah, #2 is #2 inducing in the best possible sense |
10-26-2009, 03:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: West Side SA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard  that is one killer piece of wood. | TWSS
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10-26-2009, 03:37 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | Oh yeah...
...all those black lines on #2: Spalting. 
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10-26-2009, 03:48 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Wow, they're both incredibe, never would have guessed about using bark on the top, and it looks truly great.
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10-27-2009, 04:43 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | I'm sucker for spalted maple so I'm going to have to say that I like #1 better. I realy like the symetry of it too.
...........Although I'm sure that #2 will realy have some bark to it's tone!   Ruff, Ruff!  |
10-27-2009, 06:58 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Wake Forest, NC | | Insane I tell you, insane!   |
10-27-2009, 04:52 PM
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Owner: Bass Direct | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: UK | | Oh my - just when I thought I had seen everything
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10-28-2009, 03:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Toulouse France | | | Just...WWWWWWWWWWWWooooooooooooooooooooooWWWWWWWWW WW!!!!!
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10-28-2009, 10:21 PM
| | | | Gard what a great job you have to work with people that make such, wow!!, amazing basses. Outstanding!!!! Mike W. |
11-03-2009, 05:02 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Looks like the spalted maple one found a future home .......Lucky Sha! At least I'll get to see and play it!  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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