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12-27-2006, 02:25 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | | AAARGH! I quit!
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Forget it. I'm just ordering this up. This is exactly what I want. DAAAAAAMN IIIIIIIIT! I coulda gone on living in complete ignorance, without seeing this perfect finish. There's no way in Hell I'm gonna get a finish like that.
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12-27-2006, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Northern Virginia | | | while I agree that it's a very beautiful finish, it is fairly simple to apply. he uses dye directly on the wood and mixes the yellow and red in several shades to achieve the transition. Not difficult at all. Practice on scrap and you'll see.
__________________ don't ask me what wood produces XYZ tone ...I JUST DON'T KNOW! http://www.ramirezbass.com got mid-hump®? WENGE FOR QUEBEC, DANG IT! |
12-27-2006, 03:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lima - Perú | | There is a saying in Peru which says: "La experiencia hace al maestro" ...not sure how I should translate this  ...but the meaning is that you have practice a lot!!!
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Originally Posted by Nelson Guitars  Nothing like standing in a pile of fresh wood shavings you just made. | |
12-27-2006, 05:21 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | You what really sucks?
The more I dig.... the more gems I find! Time to look at Ritter basses...      
At what point does a man say... "Yup, I've thought of every possible conception. I'm done."
??????? Other-worldly.... and this is wood. This is being done, with CHUNKS OF TREES.
Outstanding. Humbling. |
12-27-2006, 05:29 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | | brian this is what I was talking about today
the tiger eye or late lounge
yellow on sanded back dark red
my okon
& above doing that last one with the macc ebony would be cool! and fairly easy
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12-27-2006, 05:45 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | | Insane.
IIIN..... SAAAAANE.
If that bass looks as good in person as I'd expect an internet picture to hide, I'm not coming over!! You'll have to aim a shotgun at my head the whole time I'm there!!!!
Man oh man... it just feeds me so many more ideas.... and I can't do them all with one bass.
I must make three. Where's that credit card.... |
12-27-2006, 05:51 PM
|  | I took the one less traveled by | | Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Reims, Champagne, France | | Quote:
Originally Posted by eleonn There is a saying in Peru which says: "La experiencia hace al maestro" ...not sure how I should translate this ...but the meaning is that you have practice a lot!!! | "Practice makes perfect" |
12-27-2006, 07:03 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Detroit | | | Oh trust me... I'll be practicing... daaaamn right I'll be practicing... 3-4 times more after I even feel like I got it right! I might as well just get a whole 1/8" veneer and slice it up into 4 pieces. I think that'll be the smartest way to go. |
12-28-2006, 07:31 AM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | Just remember that a great finish is all in the sanding. Make the wood nice, thoroughly sand lacquer to 1500, polish liberally, and voila.....mirror....LMAO |
12-28-2006, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lima - Perú | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jazz Ad "Practice makes perfect" | Merci beaucoup monsieur!
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Eleonn Quote:
Originally Posted by Nelson Guitars Nothing like standing in a pile of fresh wood shavings you just made. | |
12-28-2006, 11:04 AM
|  | so far, so good | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tribal3140 brian this is what I was talking about today
the tiger eye or late lounge
yellow on sanded back dark red
my okon
& above doing that last one with the macc ebony would be cool! and fairly easy | Hey Todd, very nice! what's the fretboard on that one?
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12-28-2006, 01:31 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | | its just african, but not rubbed with black.
just gabon black with streaks |
12-28-2006, 01:41 PM
| | so far, so good | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | | OK. It looks blue and green swirled in the pic / on my monitor. I thought maybe there was some funky dying going on.
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12-28-2006, 04:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Atlanta/Loganville | | | The examples you've shown are not Jens Ritter's first tries. They probably weren't even his 100th tries at finishes like that. However, the natural finish basses are all pretty much standard high gloss finishes - whatever their base composition. The black might well be also but it's hard to tell when it comes to solid finishes like that. Hell, that could be Teflon for all I know. I do know that the guys above are right - practice, practice, practice and smooth, smooth, smooth. The mirror gold is one of several products that are commercially available now but are very, very expensive (over $150 pint!) and usually require specialized application techniques and sometimes equipment. It wouldn't surprise me to hear that one was done by a contractor specializing in those types of top coats.
The Tobias effect can be had in any number of over-the-counter and all lines of professional products. If you want a certain look, there's probably something that can give it to you nowadays. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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