Custom Bass Wait Support Group Needed!!! [Part 2]

[j-raj]

Back in the club....

Seems I'm a casualty of the GTG this past weekend....

Just got off the phone with Brian at The Low End and dropped a deposit on a Benavente Standard 5 string!

Alder body with a walnut top
Rosewood fretboard
Benavente preamp
Clear satin finish

exact same thing happened to me this time last year (resulting in my Bennie SCD 5 that I just received)... after that last GTG at The Lowend.... sucker!

 

[MadMark5]

I'm only 6 days into my 3 week wait for my 3t lakland 44-02.
I see all the faithfull tb'ers posting thier pics and wonderfull stories about 44's and 55's and 4-94's. it's getting to me, oh how do I cope without holding up the next bass player that gigs before me for his lakland out of desperation???
this sucks!!!

 

[Tryxx]

Gah, it's getting painful. I'm still waiting for my Single Cut Fretless to be done, and it's been 8 months since my '51 P/J bass started production, but there have been issues with the metalflake finish on that one. I want them both! Now!

 

[Angus]

Before carving...

 

[poptart]

Well my AC guitars ReCurve singlecut is really taking shape - not too much longer to wait

 

[j-raj]

wow that look very nice... can't wait to see it finished.

 

[joelb79]

HELP!

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310237

8-10 Weeks Lead time.. jeesh. this sucks.

 

[7string]

I know how you feel about the waiting...

My Sei 7 is back from the finishers after their problems over the Christmas/New Year period. I hope to be able to collect it around the middle of March... so close and yet so far !!

 

[RayO5421]

Yummy Benavente. And that Conklin is looking awesome too!

I'm officially out of the club. My Stambaugh 6-string is completed and in my hands finally. And it's incredible!

awesome bass, could you get enough wires in that thing?

 

[Marcus]

I forgot to add myself to this collective back in January... I'm waiting for a Sadowsky NYC 4. Should be done in about 4 months, specs are below.

NYC jazz 4
Swamp ash body (standard sized)
Coral pink finish with matching headstock
Parchment pickguard (and a red tortoise shell extra)
Maple fretboard with abalone dot inlays
Nordstrand big singles pickups

 

[RLK]

getting close now!

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Man-O-man, that may be the heaviest flaming I've seen an a piece of spalted! That's now#2 on my list of all-time nicest spalted tops! (Of course I'm partial to the one on post #165 )

 

[RLK]

Well my AC guitars ReCurve singlecut is really taking shape - not too much longer to wait

Reeeealy looking good!
Looking as nice from the back as from the front.


Nice to see some projects making progress.
The first piece a ebony for my Laggan's fingerboard didn't behave. Piece #2 is almost ready.
The wait is now over 13 months and counting, and counting, and counting---

 

[crkempton]

Before carving...

those are some teeny-weeny frets!

 

[Angus]

Yep! I like really narrow, really short frets.

 

[Angus]

Initial carving...

 

[ChiliPepper]

...since this is the new Custom Bass Wait Support Group thread...here a the specs once again

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-Multi-scale 33"-30"
-Swamp Ash body
-Maple Neck
-Bee Pre
-Maple Top
-1 Delano Pickup
-Rosewood Fingerboard
-Ash Headstock
-24 frets
-17mm spacing
-Hipshot Tuners

Yesterday , Fred sent me some pics of the body :

 

[Stewmc5222]

sweet Bee!!

 

[ChiliPepper]

Thanks Stew ! no update on your basses ?

 

[Stewmc5222]

Thanks Stew ! no update on your basses ?

I spoke with Darrin Huff a little more than a week ago and the bass is almost spec'd out but the build hasn't started yet. the pickup and cover are just waiting on measurements and we'll get that out to him.

Bill has some 10 string neck blanks ready to go but we still need to narrow down a few wood choices (top and headstock cap).

Fred is going to start something really cool and kind of wacky for me but he has to do a subtle redesign of one model and then the production will be pretty quick.

I've got everything spec'd out on my Sage but the delay on that is coming from my end of the equation...

I'm heading down to the shop to work on my fretless 4 and my fretted 5 right now.

life is good!

 

[manbass]

Now we are getting somewhere...