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08-05-2012, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by SteveC  Oh yeah, it does work on some basses, and black doesn't. I used to be a chrome guy but have gone black. | ...once you go black...  |
08-05-2012, 10:52 AM
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08-05-2012, 10:53 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Southwestern Pennsylvania | | Chrome works - if everything is chrome...or if the bass is all black. Gold just goes really nicely with wood tones.
If the pickups are black, then black hardware finishes the style cues. If the pickups have chrome poles, then chrome hardware will pickup the pickups, so to speak, and the woods almost fade into the background.
If you've got a awesome wood top, a significantly contrasting back wood that peeks over the front, and black pickups (maybe even a darkwood tone plate), then a chrome bridge looks like an afterthought.
But that's just me... 
Z
By the way, fret dots on the side of the board on a fretless are the way to go!! Then you don't have to look for the lines on the board. Put your fingers "on the dot," any you're playing fretless - and will amaze your friends!
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08-05-2012, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote Change of plans, or rather change back to the original plan: this bass just became a Standard with tobacco burst finish on an alder body, and the top in the original post became a new order for... something else! I'll start a new thread for that once everything is official on that next week 
Switching to a standard model means no black hardware of course, but that too can be dealt with!
Really this is all just a plan so the folks at Roscoe don't have to feel bad about the delivery time on this one. Now it's all my fault  | Well I guess that the wait might result in a good thing then.
So am I hearing you right Jeff, now you have 2 Roscoe 's in the queue?  |
08-05-2012, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by T. B. Player By the way, fret dots on the side of the board on a fretless are the way to go!! Then you don't have to look for the lines on the board. Put your fingers "on the dot," any you're playing fretless - and will amaze your friends! | Yeah, dots on the side are a minimum for me, with the face dots being an added reference. I've tried lined and actually find it a lot harder to play... could just be that I've played unlined fretless and DB a lot more than lined, so it's what I am comfortable with. Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Well I guess that the wait might result in a good thing then.
So am I hearing you right Jeff, now you have 2 Roscoe 's in the queue? | That's correct. I had an idea I've been kicking around in my head to order "next" at some point after the fretless was done, but ultimately decided it would work even better with this body/top as the basis and doing the tobacco burst finish on the fretless. Both are going to be killer, even if 4 string Roscoes are a bit uncommon/less popular |
08-06-2012, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote ...even if 4 string Roscoes are a bit uncommon/less popular | They may be less common but no less cool or awesome. As I debate what my fretless will be, I often think all I need is a 4 as I would use it mostly for "jazz" gigs which, ideally, would be an upright so 4 is plenty. On the other hand, I use a 5 at church and lots of people say fretless us great for CCM so maybe I should just go 5.
Anyway, I've seen some pretty nice 4's and I'm sure yours will be another. They are really making some nice stuff right now.
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09-26-2012, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | I think it's about time I check in with Gard on where this one is at
I'm actually not sure which is further along, this or the fretted since at the time I made the change the body that now belongs to the latter was about to be glued up, but the neck for the fretless was in the works. |
09-26-2012, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote I think it's about time I check in with Gard on where this one is at
I'm actually not sure which is further along, this or the fretted since at the time I made the change the body that now belongs to the latter was about to be glued up, but the neck for the fretless was in the works. | The body is ready for the final coat of clear, the neck is about ready to have the position markers installed.
Should ship next week.  |
09-26-2012, 09:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | Cool! That's nice news to hear. I can't wait to see it |
10-04-2012, 10:30 AM
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10-04-2012, 10:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | Uhh...  |
10-04-2012, 10:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote Uhh... | Yeah, I thought you might like this....  |
10-04-2012, 10:47 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | | Seriously, great work on nailing everything I wanted in this one. |
10-04-2012, 10:48 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Glad you're diggin' it, frankly, I REALLY dig the vibe here, very classic/classy looking, and it sounds fantastic too!  |
10-04-2012, 10:55 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Niagara Falls, ON, Canada | | Definitely both classic and classy. Though I know a person or two who would say it needs black hardware
That can certainly be made to happen later but I am going to see how the chrome grows on me |
10-04-2012, 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeff Moote Definitely both classic and classy. Though I know a person or two who would say it needs black hardware
That can certainly be made to happen later but I am going to see how the chrome grows on me | There are times when chrome is the right thing.
THIS would be one of those times. DON'T change it, it will lose the vibe, IMO.
(...and Joe, stifle.  ) |
10-04-2012, 11:18 AM
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10-04-2012, 12:14 PM
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10-04-2012, 07:46 PM
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Andre
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10-05-2012, 04:11 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Georgia | | | Awesome Jeff! The side finger board markers look very classy. great idea.
That's a very traditional looking Roscoe. Old school class! | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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