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03-11-2009, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Columbus, Oh | | | New to me lined fretless
This is the third and final installment to my Roscoe collection.
A fretless SKB 3005 #4974
Unbeleiveably awesome in feel, tone and looks.
I could swear the fretlines are metal! Am I crazy?    
And finally a couple shots of the three amigos:  
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03-11-2009, 10:17 AM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | | Just awesome! That is a gorgeous fretless, and I'm sure it sounds even better than it looks. Congratulations. |
03-11-2009, 11:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Columbus, Oh | | | It does indeed sound awesome. I've had it a few days but have been too speechless to discuss it! The action is impossibly low. It's incredible!
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03-11-2009, 11:22 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by radmin 
I could swear the fretlines are metal! Am I crazy?
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They're aluminum.
And I wouldn't mind staring at these 3 rears ALL DAY! Eat your hearts out!  Quote:
Originally Posted by radmin |
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03-11-2009, 11:57 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by radmin And finally a couple shots of the three amigos: | Added to my bass porn folder! 
Love the three amigos!
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03-11-2009, 01:09 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by radmin I could swear the fretlines are metal! Am I crazy? | As the poachDOG has correctly pointed out, the lines are indeed al-you-min-eee-um, which the last time I checked was indeed a metal. 
...what does this have to do with your state of mental stability? 
Metal or not, I'm certain you're certifiably nuts...why else would you be in this forum?  
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03-11-2009, 01:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Columbus, Oh | | | Are all your lined fretless aluminum? I was surprised. I guess I figured wood would be easier to work.
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03-11-2009, 01:57 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by radmin Are all your lined fretless aluminum? I was surprised. I guess I figured wood would be easier to work. | Wood is less stable than metal. Wouldn't want wood to wiggle itself out of the board. Aluminum is HARD stuff, not like the soda cans which are thin.
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Like to snag every Roscoe just as quick as I can
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03-11-2009, 02:16 PM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by radmin Are all your lined fretless aluminum? I was surprised. I guess I figured wood would be easier to work. | Aluminum works surprisingly easy, actually, and is very stable. It also just looks cool.
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03-11-2009, 02:19 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard Aluminum works surprisingly easy, actually, and is very stable. It also just looks cool. | Does it not wear at a different rate than the wood, or do you coat your boards in something?
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03-11-2009, 02:25 PM
| | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Gard As the poachDOG has correctly pointed out, the lines are indeed al-you-min-eee-um... | Always good to see the proper Queen's pronunciation in use.
I had no idea. Yet another new cool piece of trivia I can use to get the Mrs. all glassy-eyed. I shall keep my jokes about not playing too fast lest ye fretboard metal expand. Wait, was that my outside voice again? |
03-11-2009, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike or do you coat your boards in something? | Yes, epoxy. Quote:
Originally Posted by VroomVroom I shall keep my jokes about not playing too fast lest ye fretboard metal expand. | Jerry, it's a good thing we can play bass. We'd BOTH be starving comics. 
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03-11-2009, 02:57 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dataBASS5 Yes, epoxy. | Last thing I needed....
More GAS........ 
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03-11-2009, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike More GAS........ | 
You'd better pay the Piper first!
*sweating bullets over here* 
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03-11-2009, 03:03 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dataBASS5 | Hahaha! Don't worry dude, that's in hand! And far more important! (I suck without frets!)
Eh, afterwards, maybe I can see an organ or two....
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03-11-2009, 03:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Raleigh, NC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike Hahaha! Don't worry dude, that's in hand! And far more important! (I suck without frets!) | *phew* I thought I was going to have to sell it to the other guy. . .
Glad she's going home to TB family! 
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Like to snag every Roscoe just as quick as I can
So when you see me a thievin',
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03-11-2009, 03:07 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dataBASS5 *phew* I thought I was going to have to sell it to the other guy. . .
Glad she's going home to TB family! | So am I!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
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03-11-2009, 06:25 PM
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03-13-2009, 05:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Seattle | | Quote:
Originally Posted by dataBASS5 Yes, epoxy. | Is this true of all Roscoe lined fretless'?
BM
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03-14-2009, 06:45 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Whoops, just caught this, and need to correct it: Quote:
Originally Posted by dataBASS5 Yes, epoxy. | No epoxy on the fingerboards. Epoxy is used to hold the aluminum lines in, or we can use it to create a colored line (epoxy and wood dust) in a fret slot. However, NONE of our fingerboards are coated in epoxy.
Keep in mind that a diamondwood fingerboard essentially IS epoxy - it is a laminated birchwood product that has an epoxy resin drawn through it via a vacuum process. The wood is essentially a matrix to hold the epoxy and give it a nice appearance. It is sonically the equalivalent of an epoxy coated fingerboard, but it is not "coated".
Our fretless ebony fingerboards are sealed to limit moisture issues, but NOT coated in epoxy. Quote: |
Jerry, it's a good thing we can play bass. We'd BOTH be starving comics. | ...who told you you could play bass?
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