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03-04-2010, 05:54 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar amps | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: usa | | | So i'm gonna pull an "edgar meyer"...
...and i dont give a flyin crap!
So, i can play my URB in tune with my eyes closed....
but i think this is awesome.... 
DOTTTTZZZZZ
i'm doin it
i'm thinkin abalone...teehee 
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Last edited by Bassius : 03-06-2010 at 07:16 PM.
Reason: added a COMMA to clarify my "eyes closed" statement
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03-04-2010, 11:36 PM
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Luthier: Bresque Basses, rep: Paulin EUB | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia | | | While you're at it, why not do fretlines as well? |
03-04-2010, 11:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: NorCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Matthew Tucker  While you're at it, why not do fretlines as well? | That would be friggin ugly.
The dots aren't bad looking though. |
03-04-2010, 11:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | Forget dots, a few years back I played this lovely 5 string european bass with an elaborate design inlaid into the FB using strips of light coloured wood. It was strung up in some strange tuning, I really wanted to get some spiros on it  |
03-05-2010, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Gearhead43 That would be friggin ugly.
The dots aren't bad looking though. | Uh-huh, gives the fingerboard that bowling alley aesthetic. 
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03-05-2010, 07:13 AM
| | AES Fine Instruments | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Brewster, NY, USA | | | Do not use abalone; it will destroy the tools of the next luthier who dresses the fingerboard. Use face-grain wood. |
03-05-2010, 10:05 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar amps | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: usa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer Do not use abalone; it will destroy the tools of the next luthier who dresses the fingerboard. Use face-grain wood. | other luthiers dont touch my bass...
i do all my own luthiery 
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03-05-2010, 12:40 PM
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Vice President: Upton Bass String Instrument Co. | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Warwick, RI & Stonington, CT | | Quote:
Originally Posted by arnoldschnitzer Do not use abalone; it will destroy the tools of the next luthier who dresses the fingerboard. Use face-grain wood. | put them on the side then... |
03-05-2010, 12:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Las Vegas | | | I like it~ I'd love to see one with LEDs
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03-05-2010, 05:14 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: New Jersey | | Do a dragon inlay!!!!!  |
03-05-2010, 06:12 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers, Eminence Basses. | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickyBass Do a dragon inlay!!!!! | You're a genius, Nicky! |
03-05-2010, 06:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy Darrow You're a genius, Nicky! | You sound surprised.
Hope all is well with you. Let me know when you're in Philly again. |
03-05-2010, 09:13 PM
| | proprietor, Condino's String Shop | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: asheville, nc | | | I'm in the Edgar club, but I generally prefer to use a simple white out pen for one simple reason: I regularly go from guts to spiros to whatever the string of the week is on the same bass and the intonation / dot position can be different among different setups. The whiteout can be changed quick and easy. I've seen dozens of abalone dot basses where things were off a fair bit with the current setup. Nothing like a late night bar gig where the best case scenario is that your reference points are off even when the guts are in tune....
Anyone who works on guitars or slab basses has to deal with a lot of shell inlays on the fingerboard whenever you do fretwork. My worry is alway more about how it treats my lungs than how the tools are holding up; nasty stuff.
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03-06-2010, 05:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ellicott City | | | Maybe someone already latched onto this but:
"So i can play my URB in tune with my eyes closed...."
If you install dotz- wouldn't you have to have your eyes open to see them?
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03-06-2010, 07:51 AM
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Endorsing Artist: Genz-Benz Amplifiers, Eminence Basses. | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nashville, TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by NickyBass You sound surprised.
Hope all is well with you. Let me know when you're in Philly again. | I'm not surprised a bit.
I'll be passing through there sooner rather than later. We've got a new baby who needs to be shown off. |
03-06-2010, 03:19 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar amps | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: usa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pmad_bass
If you install dotz- wouldn't you have to have your eyes open to see them?
| they're not for me to look when i play...but for others to look at...and question my existence.
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03-06-2010, 04:35 PM
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Builder for Audiokinesis and Fearful speakers Endorser for EA, Roscoe | | | | | I used to be a snobby purist about that stuff. I remember when my high school teacher (principal of the CSO) used to make a pencil mark way up the board for a Strauss piece. I thought it was low class and pedestrian. I was an arrogant doofus. After seeing Edgar's bass---why not? I go back and forth between double bass and EUB and while I pride myself on having decent intonation why not do something that would improve it? I really can imagine playing things that I'd be hesitant to try. After all on electric, Gary Willis is my fav. He looks at the fret lines. I've never heard the Bach suites played any better on ANY instrument.(than Edgar) If dots help him do that, sign me up! |
03-06-2010, 04:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Australia | | | Im thinking the Venus de Milo inlaid in the FB, using a mixture of epoxy, ground up blood diamond, ivory and baby seal. |
03-06-2010, 05:26 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Aguilar amps | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: usa | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JtheJazzMan Im thinking the Venus de Milo inlaid in the FB, using a mixture of epoxy, ground up blood diamond, ivory and baby seal. | DOOD!!!
perfect!
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03-06-2010, 05:44 PM
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Originally Posted by JtheJazzMan Im thinking the Venus de Milo inlaid in the FB, using a mixture of epoxy, ground up blood diamond, ivory and baby seal. | bling yo  |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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