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5-String Fanned Hybrid Headless

#233
Keep coming back to this, and still impressed, inspired, and awestruck.

Oh, and it also looks good.

I, personally speaking now for the assembled huddled masses, yearning to hear this, request, nay, DEMAND sound clips, audio files, and, yay, great multitudes of sound samples indicating that this instrument is, indeed, truly worthy of being called an electric bass built, truly, with all the hallmark of awesomeness, audaciousness, and absoluteness which it purports to be. I think we, the assembled masses herein, deserve that.
I mean, we all sat through your ridiculously detailed build thread, marveled at your ingenuity, and, collectively, accepted your inherent greatness. The least you could do is record that sH!+.
Come on, just do it. Come on, do it. You know you want to do it. do it. Really. Just do it. Come on, what's the harm?. Do it already. Please don't make me keep typing variants of "Do it." I deserve better, Come on, I have a kid, I work too. You think this is easy for me? seriously, it'd be a lot easier if you'd just do it.
C'mon, really. Just do it.

:D
Please?
 
#235
I'm just sick, Dave. Sick with envy, that is. Your skills are incredible, and that instrument is a fine work of art.

I've had this idea for years that I would start one day with like a kit bass to learn how to put one together, and then work my way up to building something of my own. It is really fun to watch someone who clearly knows their stuff doing it.
 
#236
wraub said:
Keep coming back to this, and still impressed, inspired, and awestruck.

Oh, and it also looks good.

I, personally speaking now for the assembled huddled masses, ... ... You think this is easy for me? seriously, it'd be a lot easier if you'd just do it.
C'mon, really. Just do it.

:D
Please?
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+1

Every morning I wake up and hope to see that bass on one of my stands. Really man, everything comes together so well. That is a dream bass for sure.
 
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#237
Incredible!

Absolutely inspiring, not just for the possibility of maybe one day building my own, but for ANYTHING!
Goes to show that if you put your mind to something, with the right knowledge & tools anything is possible.

Hats off to you sir, that is absolutely gorgeous.
 
#240
Dave Higham said:
Where does the time go?

I just realised that it was back in May that I said "So, when I’ve finished with the Tru-Oil I’ll be putting all the bits and pieces together and hoping it all works. I’ll come back and tell you if it does".

Well, that was then, this is now.

I kept putting coats of Tru-Oil on until I’d used the bottle up. Finishing is my ‘bête noire’ whatever sort of finish I try to use. I did my first bass with nitro (but not ‘luthier’ nitro) and had problems with fish-eyes. By the time I’d got them filled up I’d got too much thickness on, but I only realised that when it had hardened enough to suffer a thermal shock one day and crazed all over.

My first attempt at French polishing, on an acoustic bass, went surprisingly well and I was very pleased with it. My second attempt was on two ukulele and it never properly hardened. A year later they are sitting on an old t-shirt and if I pick them up I have to peel them off the t-shirt. They’re still not finished.

I’m pretty sure I know what my problem is with the Tru-Oil. I’m not putting the coats on thin enough. So after dozens of coats using kitchen paper it had the equivalent of brush marks in the surface. I decided to rub it down with 800 grit wet-and-dry and went straight through it! Aargh!! I’d already rubbed the neck down with 0000 wire wool and wax polish which gave a nice sheen, so the rest of the bass got the same treatment. It’s really quite nice. The only slight regret is that you don’t get the same figure popping effect with a satin finish as you do with gloss but I can put up with that.

So I finally got all the bits together and it didn't work! It was just a minor wiring problem that Aaron quickly sorted out for me. The combination of Aaron Armstrong's custom pickups and the Glockenklang onboard tone controls give it a huge range of possible tones from velvety smooth to out and out clanging. But don't ask me for sound clips. I wouldn't know how and you wouldn't want to hear me playing it.:eek:

So here at the end of the marathon are the glamour shots. Hope you think it was worth it, and thanks for looking.

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omg.

wow.

ever do that in a 6 string? (asking for a friend)

STUNNING.
 

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