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Me, too. I'm eagerly awaiting to see what the headless is like. I'm very on the fence with going headless vs. standard. Once I'm done paying off the guitar gear (sorry guys) from my recent bender, I'm planning on ordering a fretless Ball 6.
I've already stated that I'm in the next batch. But reading what you guys have ordered reminds me of how I've changed about every aspect of my order. Cliff has been VERY pleasant with every new request/change.
Originally: Ball5, 35", 18mm spacing, Nordy dual coil PUs
Now: McNeely5, 32", 19mm spacing, Nordy MM & Jazz PUs
About the only thing that has remained the same is the wood: ash body with figure walnut top & claro walnut back and figured pau ferro fret board. Cliff is a prince among luthiers.
Originally: Ball5, 35", 18mm spacing, Nordy dual coil PUs
Now: McNeely5, 32", 19mm spacing, Nordy MM & Jazz PUs
About the only thing that has remained the same is the wood: ash body with figure walnut top & claro walnut back and figured pau ferro fret board. Cliff is a prince among luthiers.
I'm in this batch, with the one-piece Curly Makore top and Birdseye Maple fretboard. I hear it's shipping on Monday!
Ya tend to leave Cliff alone when he's building your bass.
Who is in this batch, besides Tim?
Who is in the next batch?
Cliff has been extremely patient and prompt when answering my many e-mail inquiries! I so look forward to the day that I am able to place my orders with him.
...and one of them will very likely be a headless 4-string.
Tslicebass
Commercial User
Very cool. On a side note, I think Cliff is building himself a bass, which he mentioned in the fretless group. Not many details other than a Dymondwood fingerboard.
i honestly fall in love with your bass , can i request a quotation? i may be saving money for a year if the price is right =). so beautiful...
It's an extremely durable fingerboard. I have it on my Conklin. The last time I took it in to get a lose wire fixed, the repair guy was wondering if I played it since the fingerboard looks pristine. Years of roundwound abuse and it hardly has a mark.
Fingerboard materials can expand and contract, and my Conklin has only moved a hair in 5 years despite huge changes in humidity with my local climate.
The sound is different from normal wood. It doesn't quite sound like a polyester/epoxy coated fingerboard, either. I know Roscoe uses it quite often and Zon uses phenowood, which is about how I approximate the sound.
Yeah. I have Dymondwood on my Roscoe fretless. Once you go Dymondwood, you don't go back to anything else on a fretless.
It's functionally superior to wood or coated fingerboards. Sonically, I find it to be very bright. I tend to prefer all flavors of fretless. As much as I like the Dymondwood with rounds, I love my Rob Allens with flatwounds and my CB with rounds and polyester coated fingerboard.
My CB 7 has a stabilized ebony fingerboard, which sounds like normal ebony to me. I haven't had it long enough to really comment on how it wears.
Now, if I could get Dymondwood to sound like Brazilian rosewood, I'd go nuts!
Tslicebass
Commercial User
I plan on doing YouTube video reviews with sound samples of all 3 of my cb's once the new one gets here and I get some time to sit down and dig into it
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