CONKLIN 9 ALMOST FINISHED!!!! PIC!!!!

[oversoul]

I'm a happy, happy man
You can check the fat pick at the gallery!


Spalt maple top over dragonwood body
Bubinga board with 32"-35" scale on a maple/purpleheart neck
3 band NMTB Bartolini with active/passive switch
Conklin quad coil pickups
18 mm @ bridge, 7 mm @ nut
Black hardware, individual string saddles for bridge

oh my...2 more months to go

 

[mark beem]

HOLY S**T!!

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!!!

 

[NJL]

hahahaha two more months of pure hell!!!



nice looking bass, BTW - can't wait to see it when it's done....go ahead and ship it to me first so I can make sure it's OK....

 

[oversoul]

Thx Mark! I'm still drooling over the bubinga fingerboard

NJL- well if you promise to bring it safe to me, I can't bare the ideia of having to ship this baby by airmail!!

 

[mark beem]

Thx Mark! I'm still drooling over the bubinga fingerboard

It's awesome!! So what is the total wait time going to be for you?

 

[Ed Goode]

Wow, that looks sooooooo good

 

[oversoul]

12 months like I came to predict, but they really made a move on it this past month, probably because jeans ERB herd is out of the way
But the boys at missouri are still way busy, no winter and summer NAMM fairs this year!

 

[Don W]

Amazing looking bass. I really like that topwood. Congrats man!

 

[MJ5150]

Amazing!!!

I never really appreciated Bill's work until I was finally able to hold one in my hand. Not the Groove Tools either. Definitely on the short list of builders I would like to build me a bass.

-Mike

 

[Funky Tune]

nice and congrats,

 

[Phil Mastro]

Very nice, but what the heck is dragonwood?

 

[mark beem]

Very nice, but what the heck is dragonwood?

Also called Royal Poulina (sp.)... Very resonant, lightweight wood.

 

[Bernie Connors]

Oh my!!!!

 

[Deleted member 5551]

Reminds me of Mark's?? 7/8 conklin .

Very nice bass-if i had the coin, i'd definately want to order at least 1 bass from them.

That's all

 

[mark beem]

Reminds me of Mark's?? 7/8 conklin .

Very nice bass-if i had the coin, i'd definately want to order at least 1 bass from them.

That's all

You must mean my spalted 8..

 

[Jean Baudin]

12 months like I came to predict, but they really made a move on it this past month, probably because jeans ERB herd is out of the way

hmmm... well, 1/2 the herd is out of the way.

My 11 is still waiting for it's "melted" fretboard.

Nice looking 9! One of these days I'll need to get me a spalted maple bass.

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

Awesome! We'd better not see this in the Classifieds a month after you get it with "I'm going back to four strings" in the title j/k The top looks great-more "natural" than a lot of spalted tops that look more like coffee spilled on cardboard rather than wood.

 

[Geoff St. Germaine]

Awesome. I love the fanned frets.

-Geoff

 

[oversoul]

Impossible to "go back" to 4 strings since I regularly play them and am required to, I'd imagine my band leader to impale me with this bass if I'd show up playing "you are the sunshine of my life" with this , he always gave the GT-7 that "heresy, heresy" look

 

[elros]

oh mi goodness. Fabulous, just fabulous.

So you did get the carved top after all?

Do you have any more photos?