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11-29-2006, 08:15 PM
| | swm | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: southeast michigan | | | pale moon ebony 6
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6 string, pale moon ebony top (thanks again todd), flame maple/ebony neck, ebony fretboard, chinese "6" inlay. should be fun!
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11-29-2006, 08:37 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: north of chicago | | | wow, sounds heavy and expensive, yet amazingly cool
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11-29-2006, 10:06 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Louisville, KY | | | I'll bet whoever is buying that is one bad ass player (and super cool guy).... |
11-30-2006, 07:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Lima - Perú | | This is gonna be a great looking bass!!!
I want two of them, some french fries and a coke please. For delivery!!! 
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12-01-2006, 12:14 AM
|  | Blah blah blah | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Tuscola | | | And I want you to feed me. Key is under the mat.
nice bass |
12-08-2006, 04:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ennui | | | Where, oh where can one find this elusive pale moon ebony?
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12-08-2006, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by andvari7 Where, oh where can one find this elusive pale moon ebony? | Well exoticwoodbrokers has some but it ani't cheap!
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12-08-2006, 08:40 PM
|  | so far, so good | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | | Most other vendors call it mun ebony, which is probably a more proper name. You can search on that, too.
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12-08-2006, 11:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: New Haven, CT | | | Just FYI, that "Chinese 6" is written incorrectly (or sloppily, at best)- 2 of the 4 strokes are incorrect, and 1 of the remaining is marginal.
It'll look really, really bad to have that inlayed like that. |
12-09-2006, 10:19 AM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | I have heard it called "black and white" ebony as well. It's relatively new to the US retail market, hard to get wide and clear. The wide stuff I have seen has been around $100/bf.
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12-09-2006, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Louisville, KY | | | the balck and white ebony is actually from Africa. This stuff is from Asia and is much rarer (and very hard to get a big piece, esp with a book match)....Only prob is it cost me mega bucks, but what the hell... |
12-09-2006, 01:15 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | the " pale moon ebony" can be called black and white ebony but the moniker "pale moon ebony" is more common.
it is a variety close to the mun ebony family but not mun ebony.
doisyrus .spp or diosyprus mun are different genuses.
when one refers to black and white ebony they can be referring to either but more commonly refering to african black and white
which is gaboon ebony and its juxaposed cream sapwood, which also can have a marbleing effect on the heart too, hence the black and white ebony.
when I say pale moon ebony I mean
diospyrus embryopteris
which is from LAOS and thailand
(asia minor).
a very different breed than the african black and white which is the common referral.
the "pale moon ebony" is very rare for several reasons.
one, it dries very very poorly! so the largest average pieces you see in the worlds market are pen and small spindle blanks.
finding it in large instrument sizes is about the rarest occurance in the timber trades!
its about 100x easier to find pink ivory and skakewood in larger sizes!
I cant go into prices here but matts right, because of those factors it is among the most expensive timbers in the world!
hey I do know something after all! 
T
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12-09-2006, 01:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ennui | | | While I am absolutely grateful for that straight-forward answer, I am (understandably) disappointed. And here I was hoping a fingerboard would come under $150. Oh, well.
Having settled that, are there are other similar-looking, hard (for FBs) woods that are significantly cheaper and easier to come by?
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12-11-2006, 12:15 PM
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Owner: FBB Bass Works | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Maryland | | | My experience has been that fingerboards are easier to find than wide tops for the pale moon/pale mun. I was able to get a fingerboard blank for well < $150 at a lumberyard. Even at $100/bf, a fingerboard sized blank should come in at 1bf or less. What the eventual price you get from a luthier/lumber seller may come in higher depending on how much searching/processing/minimum order they have to do to find a piece that meets your requirements.... Alembic gets $300 for a macassar ebony...
Maybe marblewood will suit you just as well, though. It's very tough and much less expensive.
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12-11-2006, 04:37 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | | alembic charges $1500 for a buckeye top and another $700 for a full top!
now thats insanity.
that macc fingerboard sounds good comparitvely! |
12-11-2006, 05:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Ennui | | | But that's just Alembic. They overcharge for everything, even Alembic t-shirts.
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12-11-2006, 06:33 PM
| | | | sick!!!!
if you dont mind me asking how much did you spend on this bass?, its kickin by the way |
12-11-2006, 07:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Louisville, KY | | New pic 
Here's what the finished product will look like. (minus chinese inly and maple border around black swirl)  |
12-11-2006, 07:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: near detroit...uh | | | damn! shawns cooking on this already!
lookin Good! |
12-11-2006, 07:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Louisville, KY | | Hey Todd, he just sent me this  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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