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01-08-2013, 12:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Toms River,NJ | | | Thanks...I'm doing an acoustic duo/trio thing lately and this might just be the perfect fit!!! |
01-08-2013, 01:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: D'Shaw | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CTC564  Thanks...I'm doing an acoustic duo/trio thing lately and this might just be the perfect fit!!! | I have a similar gig for which I use a DIY shortscale EUB with a body made of a tightly flame maple 1x6 planking I bought at, believe it or not, Home Depot. I'm the only one not purely acoustic. My favorite wood is still tight flame koa so now I'm looking for a stain for the maple body that will make it look more like koa.
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01-11-2013, 01:36 PM
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01-11-2013, 02:09 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL | | | Dark, busy, heavily figured walnut. But I'm also partial to spalted maple and some types of koa (more warm, "molten" style).
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01-11-2013, 02:14 PM
|  | El Nada | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Another vote for walnut here.
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01-11-2013, 02:17 PM
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01-11-2013, 02:24 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Northern Virginia | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassman10096 Coco bolo | 1+ |
01-11-2013, 02:52 PM
|  | Ultravisitor | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Obviously it really depends on the individual piece of wood. Take something like maple that has countless permutations and can look completely different from piece to piece.
That said, if forced to choose I'd probably say that redwood is my favorite. Here's my ACG 6:   |
01-14-2013, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Western Washington | | I fell in love with this when I saw it. Nothing like Buckeye Burl 
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01-14-2013, 09:43 PM
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Claro Walnut!
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01-14-2013, 10:52 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Western Washington | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesGoodall
Claro Walnut! | James you are a better man then me. I don't think I could do a standard 4Hr night or even a 45 min. set with that one.
Beautiful. 28 frets and 11 strings WOW. Nice
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01-14-2013, 11:07 PM
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Originally Posted by sforzato James you are a better man then me. I don't think I could do a standard 4Hr night or even a 45 min. set with that one.
Beautiful. 28 frets and 11 strings WOW. Nice | Well, she just got here this morning, and she does make my Warwick 6er feel like a lovely short-scale 4. Ironically enough, the strain on my back is still more bearable than the lower horn stabbing my thigh. My workouts have been adjusted accordingly to now focus on shoulders, back, and legs though.
No band as of yet, just something about always having an essay to write or a midterm to study for gets in the way of it. BUT! I will play it at a church this Wednesday and Sunday and see if my body can manage it for an hour or so. That will be the true test of endurance and whether I am in over my head or not with this one. I'm still getting accustomed.
Thank you for the kind words 
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01-15-2013, 05:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand | | | Good old quilted maple
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01-16-2013, 12:54 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | | This question is tougher to answer than I expected.... I like burls alot, but ebony and cocobolo are probably my all time favorites. Bocote is beautiful as well |
01-16-2013, 01:11 PM
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If I could have a bass to match these plugs, and...well I'd probably make that plug into 3 smaller plugs rather than stretch that big, but yeah! Amboyna burl I believe is what that one is. Maybe Camphor or Redwood... Beautiful regardless
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01-16-2013, 02:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: London, England | | | The Rob Allen is wonderful!
So Cliff do you have a favourite ?
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01-16-2013, 02:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Davenport, Iowa | | 
All of them! |
01-16-2013, 03:56 PM
| | | | I like the darker woods as a top for bass(walnut, cocobolo). I used to have an eye for flamed/quilted maple. That changed as I got older. |
01-16-2013, 04:05 PM
|  | Am I on time? | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: WA State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JamesGoodall
Claro Walnut! | WOW - how does that tune? String spacing?
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01-16-2013, 09:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Dallas | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Solarmist WOW - how does that tune? String spacing? | Tuning is "standard" for 11 strings:
C#0-F#0-B1- E1-A1-D2-G2-C3-F3-Ab3-Eb4, with the bold being a your standard four string
String spacing is 16.5mm give or take depending on string gauges.
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