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01-13-2013, 09:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | | Warwick woods inspired Beardly 6 string fretless.
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01-13-2013, 09:06 PM
| | | | Looking nice Purpleheart is a beautiful wood.
Best of luck. Subscribed.
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01-14-2013, 04:03 PM
| | | | Oh man, that purple heart with the dark woods is excellent. Subscribing now!
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01-14-2013, 08:41 PM
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Fingerizing the slappity plank since 1996......
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01-15-2013, 08:31 AM
| | | WOW!!  Wengé and Purple Heart neck
Subbed!!
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01-15-2013, 08:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: Norman, OK | | | Purpleheart and wenge look brilliant together.
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01-20-2013, 07:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | makin' progress.
headstock cut out 
wings glued to neck  
chiseling out the neck pocket 
and a sweet as can be cocobolo fingerboard.  
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01-20-2013, 09:41 AM
|  | Registered muser | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: US-NY-NYC | | | What wood is the fingerboard?
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01-20-2013, 10:08 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by pilotjones What wood is the fingerboard? | Cocobolo
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01-20-2013, 10:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Louth UK | | | Nice start, looking forward for this one to unfold. subed |
01-22-2013, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | pickup routed out 
fingerboard glued on 
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01-22-2013, 01:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Durham, United Kingdom | | | Nice choice of timbers.
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02-01-2013, 06:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | fitted the headstock for temporary tuners. 
i am in the process of sanding sanding sanding. yep, the part i hate....
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02-01-2013, 09:04 PM
| | | | That's looking great man. My bass has a wenge/purpleheart neck as well and I love it. |
02-03-2013, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | got the nut and bridge slotted and prepped with a junk set of strings today. i finished all of the heavy sanding this morning and will move to the next sanding stages tomorrow.  
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02-03-2013, 09:20 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by nirvana1410 That's looking great man. My bass has a wenge/purpleheart neck as well and I love it. | Thank you!
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02-03-2013, 10:34 AM
| | | | Love it! |
02-04-2013, 01:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | i put the finishing touches on this project this morning.
The final specs:
Bubinga body
Wenge/purpleheart neck thru
Cocobolo fingerboard
36" scale length
Single EMG Hz wired to a single volume control wired to a jack
Black hardware
Warwick tuners
Finished with Howard's Feed-n-Wax
Strung with Darkhorse Strings
9.2 lbs on the bathroom scale              
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02-04-2013, 06:43 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Crystal Lake, IL | | | Damn you work fast. Looks fantastic.
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02-04-2013, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Washington, Pennsylvania USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyLiBass Damn you work fast. Looks fantastic. | Patience was never one of my virtures.
Thank you!!
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