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Ewwwww, you had worms on your bass.
Pete says whatever it is, it will be gone when he is done shaping/sanding.
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Custom Bass Wait Support Group Needed!!! [Part 2]
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Pete says whatever it is, it will be gone when he is done shaping/sanding.
Remember, two words, Trust Pete.Pete says whatever it is, it will be gone when he is done shaping/sanding.
(not you, Tom... you already know this... this is for others reading this... )I changed the strings on my Pro a couple nights ago and hit the fingerboard lightly with 0000 steel wool to clean/buff it. I do this sometimes.
The cymbal damage repair he did blended right in (the material was just a touch shinier than the fingerboard initially, but even before, it was fine). Well, it's essentially completely invisible now unless you both, 1.) were looking for it and knew where it was, and 2.) you got right down on it up super close. It just looks like figuring now, and he also had to "recreate" the edge of the fingerboard within the repair material since it was chopped off by the cymbal.
I am SO FRIGGIN' HAPPY with his work on this.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it boys....yar..har..har!!!!
WOW! I love Bee Basses!
I've only played one Bee bass, and it sounded great and played very well (though not an instrument for me), but god, that headstock just looks like a casted, broken foot. So heavy!!!
Ya,fred said he still has to trim down the excess from the headstock,and the fretboard.
How do you fine gentlemen think i should have the pickup placed?
straight up and down,like so?
Or should i have it flow with the fanned frets?
What say you?!
straight up and down,like so?
Or should i have it flow with the fanned frets?
What say you?!
I was thinking having it flow with the fanned frets would look cool(like gbc's),but i just wanted to hear other opinions.
If you really want to mess people up have it angle against the frets!
Seriously, having it angle with the bridge seems like the best look.
Glenn
Seriously, having it angle with the bridge seems like the best look.
Glenn
Won't be long now!
That burl top must be so thick! The bottoms of the cavities are burled too.
That's what you pay for with these custom jobs. The coolest pieces of wood you can find on the face of this earth.
Cliff Bordwell told me that once and you may notice that some fanned fret basses feature angled pickups like Dingwall, Jean Baudin's Ken Lawerence, etc. If you adjust to scale, it's almost like playing a single scale neck (non-fanned) with an angled pickup.
A friend of mine had a Curbow with an angled pickup and tonal response didn't seem very even between the strings.
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