Club Alleva Coppolo (Part V)

[Phillip Jordan]

WoW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jimmy strikes again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[peterpalmieri]

Because the neck is also ash, Jimmy was able to paint the back of the neck & headstock to match exactly.

I have never been a fan of painted necks!

 

[basses55]

ok..so whats the story with the Fender box on the hooks in the background?

 

[Vic]

I have never been a fan of painted necks!

+1

Definitely no painted necks for me.

 

[biggreddbass]

ok..so whats the story with the Fender box on the hooks in the background?

As you can guess, Jimmy is a vintage Fender freak ...
The box holds a body guard from the mid 60's for a jazz bass.
It was used to keep belt buckle scratches off of the back of the bass.
Jimmy says that it is a very rare piece & there were not many made.

 

[thndrstk6]

So is the painted neck going to be an option in the future?

Or is it already an option?

 

[Morfman6]

I don't know, if the fingerboard was painted .....my battered credit card might just have to show up.

I wonder if Jimmy would do a Larry Graham (all white) LM-5.

 

[esoxhntr]

Those look simply killer.

 

[biggreddbass]

I doubt that the painted neck is going to become an option, unless there is a high demand for basses like just these with an ash neck (aka the Booker King model).
To date, Jimmy has only done a handful of painted necks ... they are not super popular, as can be seen by the response here on TB.
I know that the whole Alleva Coppolo line is about to be revamped for 2009.
Jimmy is dividing the basses up into categories that will have specific options and after that, there will be no other choices besides the color.

Here's a body shot of the new basses.

 

[smakbass]

I dig em.....

 

[peterpalmieri]

I know that the whole Alleva Coppolo line is about to be revamped for 2009.
Jimmy is dividing the basses up into categories that will have specific options and after that, there will be no other choices besides the color.

I am glad my bass was built in NYC and before the CNC machine showed up. I hope the change is for the better but you never know!

 

[biggreddbass]

I am glad my bass was built in NYC and before the CNC machine showed up. I hope the change is for the better but you never know!

Awwwww ... c'mon man ...
Have some faith that Jimmy knows what he's doing.

 

[Halftooth]

I am glad my bass was built in NYC and before the CNC machine showed up. I hope the change is for the better but you never know!

In some ways, having some things CNC-ed makes them better, at least IMO.

It shouldn't make much of a difference one way or the other outside of maybe getting a few more basses built per year.

 

[Ace Of Bass]

Wait.........ASH necks..........?.........wait......PAINTED ash necks......?.....Wait.....on HEAVY ash bodies.......?..........why now, Jimmy.......?........why so late....?....

 

[XavidmanX]

Wait.........ASH necks..........?.........wait......PAINTED ash necks......?.....Wait.....on HEAVY ash bodies.......?..........why now, Jimmy.......?........why so late....?....

+1

 

[Basseroni]

Wow, the heavier the better for you guys, huh? LOL I'm going to let you have that. I can't mess with that heavy stuff. My Musicman is heavy enough and I'm PRAYING that my LM5 gets to me lighter than that. At least between 8.5 and 9 pounds. The Musicman is almost 10 pounds.

 

[Ace Of Bass]

Awwwww ... c'mon man ...
Have some faith that Jimmy knows what he's doing.

I'm sure it'll be fine.......... having a machine around that will free up time in order for him to do other things is definitely a great thing.......Good Vibrations............

Yo...........someone out there mentioned a while back about the claim that Chris Celinder chrome ashtray pickup covers will fit the A-C bass.......anyone ever get a confirmation about this.......?

 

[Ace Of Bass]

Wow, the heavier the better for you guys, huh? .

I likes 'em big............................did you request a light piece of ash......?

 

[NYJimmy]

I am glad my bass was built in NYC and before the CNC machine showed up. I hope the change is for the better but you never know!

From this post it seems that there is a potential concern with my new CNC machine and about the quality of my past instruments vs. my future instruments. The reason for the machine is to speed up production and to guarantee more consistent cuts. If anything the quality will get better... that's right, better! Most of the work is still hand done. I will still have to prep the wood before it goes into the machine and after the machine makes the few cuts that it is programmed to do, I will still have to contour, finish and hand sand the final product. I think there is a big misconception to what all a machine like this actually does. It's not like placing a piece of wood in and out comes an instrument... please don't give it that much credit, it's just a nice tool to have to make life just a tad bit easier and safer. It’s going to be a while before I learn how to use this tool, but I am looking forward and very eager to using it. If any of you have any concern or would like to be better educated on how I will run my machine, please do not hesitate to call me. Don’t waste time on this thread or any others for that matter on a shop tool that I will be using in the future, you’ll be just wasting time and stirring up a lot of confusion over nothing.
-Jimmy Coppolo
Alleva-Coppolo Basses & Guitars

 

[Dave Hill]

This should reduce cost?