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Fly your Metal Flake Freak Flag!
- Thread starter radioripster
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
thanks! It rides Roto black tapes now which play/sound better. In less light it looks very black-cherry, and the sparkle activates under brighter (stage) light.
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
- Jan 28, 2009
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- Owner: Moonshine Custom Guitars
My most recent 'flake bass...
This is my personal bass, I built it in 2013. It's been apart for a couple of months but I finally got time to restore it. It had several different pickups in it. Here is what it looked like before:
Moonshine
This is my personal bass, I built it in 2013. It's been apart for a couple of months but I finally got time to restore it. It had several different pickups in it. Here is what it looked like before:
Moonshine
mark beem
Wait, how does this song start again??
EBMM Sterling. Decked out for the holiday party gig we did in December.
Here's my ongoing J body refinish.
I used Ed Roth gang green base in a rattle bomb, and didn't realize how small the 4 mm flakes are. It was the only size available in a rattle bomb (can), so I'm spraying more green base (another can) and going to use self leveling epoxy and shake some 10 mm flake while it still wet. Might get crazy and do different sizes of the same color, or smaller pieces of different color green, and possibly do multiple coats of thin epoxy to get some depth.
I used Ed Roth gang green base in a rattle bomb, and didn't realize how small the 4 mm flakes are. It was the only size available in a rattle bomb (can), so I'm spraying more green base (another can) and going to use self leveling epoxy and shake some 10 mm flake while it still wet. Might get crazy and do different sizes of the same color, or smaller pieces of different color green, and possibly do multiple coats of thin epoxy to get some depth.
G & L USA JB Silver Metal Flake/Ebony (Not my bass).
JIO - those have to be three of the most unique and beautiful basses on TB. Just a quick question - what model is your black, fretless Westone? I've looked at a Westone history website and could not find it. Thanks.
- Jun 30, 2010
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Thanks so much for your kind words! Actually the neck is a Westone Spectrum LX from the mid 80's but the body is my own design. I'm having a specific neck w/my hs design (pic) made for this 4 string prototype once in production but in the meantime I used the Westone 22 fret neck to mock it up. That neck came as a fretted/fretless set along (one attached to a bass) with a case that was molded for the spare neck. (cool concept right?) It has a great feel so I'm modeling my neck from it, except it will have a set-back hs design.
Here's mine. Musicman stingray 5H in silver flake
My most recent 'flake bass...
Moonshine
Nice... Really Nice...
Do you sell to the public, or just build for yourself? I'd love to have one of these...
- Jan 28, 2009
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- Owner: Moonshine Custom Guitars
Thank you.
I am a commercial builder, I have a website (www.moonshineguitars.com), but it is very (very.very...) out of date. I use my facebook page (Moonshine Custom Guitars) to showcase what I am currently building.
Please PM me for more information.
Moonshine
I really like the above photos.
When you're talking flake, you're talking crazy.
When you' re talking crazy flake you need to see the AC bass in the avatar of SVT-15B.
Game, set, match?
When you're talking flake, you're talking crazy.
When you' re talking crazy flake you need to see the AC bass in the avatar of SVT-15B.
Game, set, match?
