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Ryan L.

Ryan L.

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http://www.rocketmusic.net/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=5544

And so it begins. Again. This time without frets.

It's about time I have a fretless bass again, it's been about 10 years since I have owned/played one (and yes, I'm fully prepared to spend some serious time in the woodshed with this one before it goes "live"....).

With the addition of this one to my lineup, I think I will be done ordering basses. Hell, what more could I ever need/want?:confused:
 
#6
Great spec's Ryan.
I think the mahogany body will sound great for the fretless. I'm not sure if the buckeye burl top will help tune the overall sound though. Sometimes buckeye can be a bit a wash tone wise. It'll look cool though. It's certainly a nice looking piece of wood.
I rather suspect that mahogany body, wenge neck center and diamondwood finger board will take the sound totally over the top.

I also really like the finger board face dot idea. I really liked them on Jeff's bass.

Congrat's!
 
#8
Gard said:
...an AGV-JJ....an AGV-PJ....


:bassist:


...I can play this game all day, if you wish....

:hyper:
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Oh, I am sure you could.:D.

The whole "vintage" tone doesn't do much for me, though, so you will have to try harder. Although, there may be room for ONE 6 string in my lineup at some point...........So, maybe there will be one more order from me in a year or two.;)
 
#12
JOME77 said:
Great spec's Ryan.
I think the mahogany body will sound great for the fretless. I'm not sure if the buckeye burl top will help tune the overall sound though. Sometimes buckeye can be a bit a wash tone wise. It'll look cool though. It's certainly a nice looking piece of wood.
I rather suspect that mahogany body, wenge neck center and diamondwood finger board will take the sound totally over the top.

I also really like the finger board face dot idea. I really liked them on Jeff's bass.

Congrat's!
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Yeah, the buckeye top choice was purely based on looks. I have wanted a buckeye burl-topped Roscoe for years.

I strayed away from my normal ash bodies based on recommendations from Gard, SteveC, Greg, and also based on posts from a few of you guys on here as well.

Other than that, my "usual specs" are pretty much there----wide spacing, wenge neck center, wenge shim between top and body, and diamondwood nut. JB pickup placement was chosen based on hearing Gard's "Stormtrooper" bass, the clips that Greg did of SteveC's, SteveC's and other's descriptions of how the JB Roscoes sound.

So, I hope it will be a winner when it gets done in a few months!
 
#14
Ryan L. said:
Yeah, the buckeye top choice was purely based on looks. I have wanted a buckeye burl-topped Roscoe for years.

I strayed away from my normal ash bodies based on recommendations from Gard, SteveC, Greg, and also based on posts from a few of you guys on here as well.
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Don't blame you at all Ryan. That's a killer piece of Buckeye burl and you've got more than enough tone wood in that bass.

I can't wait to see how this one looks finished!
 
#16
I think it's good to have a fretless. I found that while waiting for my fretted to be built, I used my fretless all the time - even in "fretted" situations. It's amazing the array of tones you can get from a GOOD fretless bass.
 

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