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08-30-2007, 06:07 PM
| | | | BUBINGA-To cut or to not- solid body or lam?
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I just bought this awsomw piece of Bubinga. And I don't know weather to use it as a one piece body or cut it up. I could easily get two bookmatched top set and two back sets. Also I'm not sure what core wood to use if I cut it up? I was thinkinh Maple or Mahogany, or maybe Walnut? All with completely different sounds, but which would work best with the Bubinga. Bubinga has a ton of sustain, bright mids and highs, and a solid low end.
I bought the piece on the right.
Last edited by smudgel : 08-30-2007 at 06:29 PM.
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08-30-2007, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: New York, NY | | | I think it makes more sense to cut it - you make many basses w/ that wood, as opposed to just one.
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08-30-2007, 06:31 PM
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08-31-2007, 01:09 AM
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Shawn Ball - Owner, SDB Guitars | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Coeur d'Alene, ID | | | Something light, if you are going to hse that as a top and back both... I'd probably go with something like Spanish Cedar (super light weight) or swamp ash (lighter than most) to counteract the weight of the bubinga.
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08-31-2007, 03:56 AM
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Owner and builder Clementbass | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Central Florida | | | If the back is as pretty as the front cut it up for sure..Very nice piece it must have cost a pretty penny...t |
08-31-2007, 06:30 AM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | I'll provide a slightly opposing opinion.....cut 1 and do one as a 1 piece body. How many 1 piece, Waterfall Bubinga bodies have you ever seen??? Would be a very uncommon piece. |
08-31-2007, 06:58 AM
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Owner and builder Clementbass | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Central Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Musiclogic  I'll provide a slightly opposing opinion.....cut 1 and do one as a 1 piece body. How many 1 piece, Waterfall Bubinga bodies have you ever seen??? Would be a very uncommon piece. |
I think he only has the one on the right. Not sure how thick it is though....t |
08-31-2007, 08:11 AM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | Cut it and get as many tops as you can (within reason). Put it on a lightweight core/back. Why not start with mahogany and do walnut on the second one?
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08-31-2007, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: the Santa Cruz bubble | | | 1-piece! You only live once! and it could be a good excuse to make YOURSELF a bass. (I saw that beauty on the Gilmer site). |
08-31-2007, 08:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lima - Perú | | | Cut it and use some mahogany (you would have to check the weight of the mix) or walnut and use some maple or whitish veneer to add some contrast.
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08-31-2007, 08:55 AM
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Owner and builder Clementbass | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Central Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JSPguitars 1-piece! You only live once! and it could be a good excuse to make YOURSELF a bass. (I saw that beauty on the Gilmer site). |
That site drives me nuts. 80% of the wood on the site is sold. The neck blanks don't mention if they are 1/4 sawn or flat sawn. If you are going to have a web site keep it up to date. 
Sorry about the rant but I see that way too much.....t |
08-31-2007, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: somewhere in middle America | | | Cut it into several nice tops!!!!!!! Using it for one bass is a waste of beautiful lumber. Besides, bubinga is often really heavy when used as a core wood. Unfigured bubinga could be used as a core if really desired.
I haven't seen a chunk of bubinga that gorgeous before. |
08-31-2007, 01:24 PM
|  | .............. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Stockton, Ca | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tjclem That site drives me nuts. 80% of the wood on the site is sold. The neck blanks don't mention if they are 1/4 sawn or flat sawn. If you are going to have a web site keep it up to date.
Sorry about the rant but I see that way too much.....t |
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They have various rare woods on their site that I've inquired about, only to find them long since sold. |
08-31-2007, 01:30 PM
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Owner/designer; SGD Lutherie | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Montclair, NJ, USA | | | Wow that's the most beautiful piece of bubinga I ever saw!
I'd cut it for tops. For body woods... anything is good. Mahogany, alder, cherry, swamp ash, walnut... even poplar if you are putting a back plate on (poplar is a but drab to look at but sounds great for bass. |
08-31-2007, 09:33 PM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | Gilmer is annoying, I don't even go to their site anymore, it's always a tease...LMAO |
08-31-2007, 09:36 PM
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Builder: ThorBass | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: NH | | | Yeah, I would probably re-saw it for tops. But it depends a bit on the exact size of the block. |
09-01-2007, 04:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Moldova, Republic Of. Chisinau | | Damn beautyfull bubinga
i would use it as top, and mahogany or bubinga as core  |
09-01-2007, 07:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Gaithersburg, Maryland | | | I personally don't mind a heavy instrument, but a lot of folks do....a 1-piece body from that stuff will weigh a ton.
Go with something that has a reddish tint; mahogany or even padauk (but I'd chamber the padauk, its also heavy). |
09-01-2007, 11:52 AM
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Owner/Builder: HJC Customs USA, The Cool Lute, C G O | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Southwest Michigan | | | I would have to disagree, it would be heavier than the 8 lb bass everyone plays these days, but I have a solid Bubinga bodied neck through in the works, and it is going to come in about 10.5 - 11 lbs......not too awful bad, to me. |
09-01-2007, 12:39 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Central Southern Massachusetts | | Halve it on the thickness, and use it as core body wood with clear acrylic top and back.  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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