Preliminary pics of my FBB Custom

I ordered a custom 5-string Jive Bass from Matt Schmill, AKA FBB Custom Bass Works (http://eksl.cs.umass.edu/~schmill/fbb/pages/).

Matt sent me the first two pictures of my bass:

http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pam35/images/1046-nekclamp.jpg
This is the neck-through-body blank in clamps. It is maple with two bubinga stringers. It will have a bubinga fingerboard and 24 frets. It's going to be pretty thick (0.95" at the first fret), comparable to a Warwick or Roscoe neck, and narrow (1.75" nut width), but will be 34" scale for ease of play.

http://people.cornell.edu/pages/pam35/images/1046-bwoods.jpg
These are the planks that will become the body wings. The back will be walnut; the top is ribbon-stripe bubinga.

I really like the body we came up with--it's kinda like a hybrid of a Ken Smith and a Warwick, IMO, thanks to the bigger upper horn.

Comments? Cliches? Commentary? Controversy? Chatter? Chit-chat? Conversation? Criticism?

 

1. I really like his body shapes--for one, they're quite distinctive, and for another, they seem to be very functional, with the long upper horns and intricate carving.

2. It ought to be done by Christmas. He only works on one or two instruments at a time.

 

He said he'd make a bigger headstock for me, actually. The Acacia-style tiny headstock is kinda ugly, IMO.