For the lurkers in the Roscoe forum...

[JPJ]

What are you guys (and girls) plotting and scheming about? When you finally decide to pull the trigger on a custom Roscoe, what tops are you looking at, what pickup and preamp combos are you debating, what type of fingerboard are you planning to go with?

Just curious.

[doctorjazz]

When I get the cash (years from now):

SKB3006 Fretless
Spanish cedar body w/ sunburst back
Spalted maple top
Cocobolo fingerboard
Diamondwood nut
Bart/Bart electronics

[theNoseBleedKid]

I have a few thoughts;

SKB 3005
Plain Ash body without top - enhanced grain
maple/purpleheart neck and maple fretboard
Nordstrand Fat Stacks and Dementer pre
Fretted

Or

SKB 3006
Spanish Cedar Body
Quilt top
Amber/Brown finish
Maple Neck and fretboard
Bartolini Pickups

[Strokey]

One day, I would like to order:

Century V
Ash body
2-tone aboyna burl top
bird's eye maple fingerboard/aboyna burl inlay
wenge wedge neck
Nordstrand DC5/audere pre

Just thinking about this brings a smile to my face.

[J.Wolf]

I'm thinking about a LG3005

cedar body, flamed redwood top
wenge fingerboard
Big splits/OBP3

lightweight, resonant, toneful, and sexy!

[Scoopbass]

I'm just a week or two away from ordering...

SKB3000

Exhibition flamed redwood top
Spanish cedar body
standard maple / purpleheart neck
African tulipwood 'board
Nordy DCs
Audere

[joelb79]

LG3000
Spanish Cedar Body
Figured Maple Top
Wenge/Wenge Maple Neck
Wenge Fingerboard
Nordstrand Pickups
Aguilar OBP-3
No Fretboard Inlays
Natural Gloss Finish, possible grain enhanced.

I'm going for the clean and simple look.

[sarin1]

for my second roscoe:
swamp ash body engraced grain and tobacco sunburst in the back (maybe)
redwood top
diamondwood figerboard
no lines, no inlays
bart pickups
bart pre
custom jack

[J.Wolf]

Originally Posted by sarin1

for my second roscoe:
swamp ash body engraced grain and tobacco sunburst in the back (maybe)
redwood top
diamondwood figerboard
no lines, no inlays
bart pickups
bart pre
custom jack

whats a custom jack?

Lotsa redwood mentioned in this thread, time to check the woodpile Gard

[sarin1]

IN THUESDAY MY BASS WILL COMMING HOME, SO WHEN IT IS HERE I´LL TAKE A PHOTO., THE I´M GONG TO SEND YOU,

but now here some pic of the process:

[Jeff Moote]

I really like that jack placement - very practical! I've always found any other location to be inconvenient as you must feel around to find it, and then it's pointing down and needs to be looped back around to get to the strap.


On topic for this thread, I think the specs I'd go with if ordering another would be:

Century Std. VI
Alder body
Figured Walnut top
Stock neck
Spalted Purpleheart sapwood fingerboard (little to no purple )
Diamondwood nut
Bart/Roscoe pickups (possibly to be swapped with Nordstrand Big Splits aftermarket)
Aguilar OBP-1 (add passive tone control)

or a fretless, a slight variant of the "Gard model":

Century Std. VI
Black Limba body
Bubinga top
Wenge Wedge neck
Birdseye Maple Diamondwood fingerboard
Diamondwood nut
Bart/Roscoe pickups (possibly to be swapped with Nordstrand Big Splits aftermarket)
Audere 4-band pre


I really like the Century body style and to me it looks even better when not carved. Between that and the lower price, I'm surprised we don't see more Centry Standard models.

[T. B. Player]

Originally Posted by doctorjazz

When I get the cash (years from now):

SKB3006 Fretless
Spanish cedar body w/ sunburst back
Spalted maple top
Cocobolo fingerboard
Diamondwood nut
Bart/Bart electronics

oooooOOOOOOOOoooooo -

You have an Icon 6 fretless - ebony board? I'll lay $$$ that it doesn't have 19mm string spacing.

[T. B. Player]

Originally Posted by Jeff Moote

or a fretless, a slight variant of the "Gard model":

Century Std. VI
Black Limba body
Bubinga top
Wenge Wedge neck
Birdseye Maple Diamondwood fingerboard
Diamondwood nut
Bart/Roscoe pickups (possibly to be swapped with Nordstrand Big Splits aftermarket)
Audere 4-band pre

Jeff -

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!

And now with a shot fridge, microwave AND diswasher, (not to mention TWO kids in college now, guess our next $3000 is going for....) Sorry, Jay - I'll think I'll have to live vicariously through Jeff's Roscoe dream for the forseeable future.

[bassmahn]

When I have the available fundage to "pull the trigger" I will be ordering a fretted and frettless LG3005.

Fretted:

Ash Body - Enhanced Grain
Flamed Myrtle Top (Kinda like the one on your site! )
Maple/Purpleheart/Wenge neck
Either Ebony FB with Sapwood, or Figured Katalox... Can't make up my mind on that one.
Abolone FB dots with Ab. "S"
Bart soapbars with 3 band Bart pre.
Satin finish

Frettless:

Ash Body - En. Grain
Flamed Redwood top
Same neck as above
Black diamondwood fb with lines
Same electronics and pu's as above
Satin Finish


The only thing that I am on the fence with is the neck. I would really like to know the neck diamentions of the wider string spacing neck option and the "thin" neck profile option compared to stock.
I am really looking for a fast profile...

Cheers.

[jusplayinmybass]

i will either get another 7 or try and convince Keith to do another 9 string.

Se preamp
KB3007 or 3009
Buckeye Burl top
Spanish Cedar Body
Maple and Purpleheart neck
Cocobolo fretboard
Nordstrand pickups
Audere Preamp with coil tap switches
Gold hardware (I like Bling on my bass)
Piezo Bridge

[Jeff Moote]

Originally Posted by T. B. Player

Jeff -

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!

And now with a shot fridge, microwave AND diswasher, (not to mention TWO kids in college now, guess our next $3000 is going for....) Sorry, Jay - I'll think I'll have to live vicariously through Jeff's Roscoe dream for the forseeable future.

It's all a dream for me as well, for the time being. I wanted to order a fretless like that but had to settle for a great deal on a used LG3005 which is working out fine as far as covering the "fretless Roscoe sound" for now. Given that I'm taking delivery of a custom SKB this week that I spent way more than I should have on, it will be awhile before I'm ordering any basses, but the next will most likely be one of the above

[doctorjazz]

Originally Posted by T. B. Player

oooooOOOOOOOOoooooo -

You have an Icon 6 fretless - ebony board? I'll lay $$$ that it doesn't have 19mm string spacing.

It doesn't, I believe it's about 16.5. Tight as hell, but actually feels pretty good once you get used to it. Keeps me from having to stretch my right hand out very far at all.

[Basso Gruvitas]

Originally Posted by JPJ

What are you guys (and girls) plotting and scheming about? When you finally decide to pull the trigger on a custom Roscoe, what tops are you looking at, what pickup and preamp combos are you debating, what type of fingerboard are you planning to go with?

Just curious.

All the Roscoes for sale on YOUR SITE, sucka!!

[JPJ]

All the Roscoes for sale on YOUR SITE, sucka!!

[maurilio]

Hey Jay,
wassup?

No updates on your blog for a long time... been busy?

Hope you're doing great....

M