NBD - Vintage Carl Thompson content

Recently bought off Ebay. I'll be sending it down to Carl for him to have his way with it next week, and I should get it back sometime this decade.

Enjoy the pics.

 

Hahaha perhaps...

Maybe one day I'll even be called a musician!

 

Not rude at all for asking my friend! If you do a search on the US ebay sites, I'm sure you can find it, but I won't post prices in the thread.



I've decided to send it down to Carl, and he can do what he thinks is proper with it. After speaking with him on the phone about it, I decided not only would the instrument retain it's value better, but Carl was adamant about getting his hands on it and doing it himself as well. He seems truly passionate about making sure any of his instruments will still be around in 20, 50, even 100 years to be played- and he wants to make sure each one is as good as the day it left his shop.

I mean... it is HIS name on the headstock, right?

 

Update time!

I've sent the bass down to Carl's shop. He said he's got the headstock back reattached. He glued it back where it goes, had to build some bits where there were splinters missing, pinned it in place, and put new facings on the front and back. He's also going to pull the frets, level the fingerboard, refret, refinish the whole bass, and install new electronics.

Should be done in about a week or so he says. It was eeeeexpensive, but it's a lot of work, and I'll essentially have a new bass when I get it back. I figure I should see it in 3 weeks... shipping takes it's sweet time up here to Canada.

 

Talked with Carl this week, he had a customer come in from Australia and expected to walk away with a bass, so he's been going hard on that.

Says it should be done next week, but as always I told him to take as much time as he needs. I'm patient.

 

Update time!

Talked with Carl last week and he ran in to some issues with the truss rod. We decided to put a new neck on the instrument, 34" scale still, but we're going to leave the neck fretless and I might add a pickup in the bridge position. I'll keep you all in the loop as to what comes up next.

All in all I'm actually really happy to get a fretless CT out of the whole situation... I was originally going to order a fretless when I heard Carl was done taking custom orders, but this should satisfy my hunger. I'd still love a 38" fretlrss, but financially it's not in the cards right now.

Cheers,

Kevin