Club Alleva-Coppolo (Part 18)

[Chef]

I don't believe so; just 'true to old Fender' trussrod, but with easier neck heel access
(though I think he did a few with headstock bullets at one point?)

 

[svtb15]

I did see a couple demo necks at the shop with re enforced graphite neck.. neither he nor i liked it.... it seemed to move some of the deep deep lows that we are used to with vintage style necks up to more low mid area...
They were thrown in the wood chipper. None that i know of ever were in production or ever made out to a UPS truck for delivery to anyone.
That was 2 years ago... Im sure he will continue to experiment and try different things.. It never ends

Do they have reinforced necks ?

 

[Chef]

"Fargo"

 

[esoxhntr]

"Fargo"

Awesome Chef. Coke everywhere, but awesome. This should be a new verb:

"Boy, he totally Fargoed those necks."

 

[Joelc73]

Without a doubt my favorite of all time, but then again i am biased to the natural with maple fretboards, Straight up YUMMY right here:

Pretty bass but some of these new ones just look odd to me. What's with that little awkward bump by the bass side of the bridge?

 

[Ivan M]

Joel its hard for me to see what you are talking about. If you get a closer shot of an AC with what you mean i want to see it. Be blessed.

 

[ricksy]

Pretty bass but some of these new ones just look odd to me. What's with that little awkward bump by the bass side of the bridge?

I think it's just the and we shot it...there's not really any bump there...

 

[ricksy]

Oops sorry... Guess I misunderstood where he was talking about.... Are you talking about by the bridge or by the neck?

 

[Joelc73]

Hi, no not the manufacturing bump that Jimmy does in the treble side of cutaway. I meant that odd bump on the rear upper bout. It just doesn't have that smooth J-bass flow like his older bodies did.

 

[sps500]

Wow! That's an awesome spot Joel!

 

[YCBass]

I guess I misunderstood also... Sorry! Then I will revert back to Rick's original response that it's more the way it was shot. Maybe that's the sheet/background or the piece used to stand it up... Rick?

EDIT: Previous post deleted so I don't sound like a complete idiot, lol.

 

[ricksy]

Yea that's where the curve of the arm contour starts-- as much as I try to get a perfect straight-on shot, there's always a little lean to keep the bass from tipping over.. I guess the angle makes that turn look like a bump...

 

[diglo]

My Hippy KBP5 in production:

 

[diglo]

My Hippy KBP5 being cut:

 

[Mitchthebassplayer]

My Hippy KBP5 being cut:

sweet pic Dig! So it looks like the ugly Tom Barney bass with the black outline shall be MINE!!!! Gettin ready to beat that thing up!!

 

[vision]

Yea that's where the curve of the arm contour starts-- as much as I try to get a perfect straight-on shot, there's always a little lean to keep the bass from tipping over.. I guess the angle makes that turn look like a bump...

+1...you can see from the reflective glare above it that the "bump" is just where the arm contour is angled down.

 

[diglo]

sweet pic Dig! So it looks like the ugly Tom Barney bass with the black outline shall be MINE!!!! Gettin ready to beat that thing up!!

Cool!!!

 

[Joelc73]

+1...you can see from the reflective glare above it that the "bump" is just where the arm contour is angled down.

That could definitely be the case.

 

[bassarama]

That's from Namm last year I believe... I think a true "TB'r" had it-Tom Barney.. but don't quote me on it... It's a fantastic bass!

OK I will leave this alone after this RICKSY but do you recall that bass having an 18 mm nut/width thing and was that ash body terribly heavy ? Doesn' t Mr. T Barney prefer his axes to be garbed as such ?????

Just curious as I have a 12.5 pounder Ash LM Deluxe and on a recent recording I found I favoured its tone over my LG Classic- a 9 pounder alder . In fact, until I recently checked my notes, I gave credit to my LG on my favourite track when in reality it was the LM Deluxe.

Sorry Mike X, as we had this conversation about the LG working better overall than the LM for you on your last recording and at that time I agreed.

I AM NOT EVEN REMOTELY SUGGESTING ANY MODEL WHETHER LM, LG, 1600, RA or Hippy Trippy is a superior instrument over its brethern. We all know and appreciate the fact it is more subjective ( tone ) than objective- definitive. PEACE .

Maybe it's a Monday morning thing but my Heart Belongs To Daddy ( the LM Deluxe )

 

[ricksy]

It was heavy. Yes....and it sounded great... When we started filming the meet your maker stuff and doing photos, we actually picked out 2 sets of ash planks for my lm4-- one heavy, one fairly light, with the idea that we would compare them at the end of the build.. I ended up favoring one bass and we kind of forgot about that... But... The all-white bass from BPL was my 2nd choice--- and mine isn't painted and we are still working on the neck... If it can get done before the white one finds a home. We may be able to do a weight:tone comparison...