At first look I thought walnut as well, but it's just the figuering. The color and grain look like mahogany.
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Roscoe Club
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I swapped out the Roscoe Barts for the CB's a few years ago out of curiosity. To me, in comparison, the CB's sounded weak and bland. Totally lost the magic. But I really like the Aguilars for the 'more open, bright clear' type of voicing. So I now have two Roscoe, one with Aguilar and the original with Roscoe Barts. Totally happy.
Mark
I've actually had the CB's in another bass and liked them but was overly impressed with them. Now the Aguilar DB's your talking about I loved in both Roscoes I had. Actually liked them about as good as any pickup I've played probably. Sound really good in a full band mix.
This was a bass I almost purchased before I had my Blue Quilt Roscoe built and what convinced me to go with the Bart Bart combo. Listen to how good this little demo sounds on this New LG. I had some very nice basses with Great B strings but the Roscoe B is on another level.
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I had this bass built with the DB's and Aggie pre amp, never messed with it, sounds great.
Mark
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I've talked to you on Facebook about that bass lol. That's one of the nicer tops I've seen on a Roscoe.
It's odd that Keith doesn't mention the woods in his letter. Do you see the yowling ghoul near the upper horn? Kinda cool, actually.
whoa. my chromebook farts out with that B string. never heard that before. It's interesting that the pups are vertical and not slanted. I would imagine the B would get a little tighter as the pickup gets closer to the bridge.
I find the SKB and LG feel like too far of a reach to first fret for me. The Century hangs better to me. I love the look of the LG and would like to have one but it has to feel good so...
Generally you would think so but the B string on my LG with the slanted pups is the best I've played. I let a Bass player try it Saturday at an outdoor event and he said " I've never played a B string like that one. It scared me the first time I hit it" lol.
Roscoe B is a Roscoe B. Standard to Signature, LG to Century. Can’t beat it.
Keith B. Roscoe that is!
To B or not to B ...... That is the question!
Was that Shakespeare asking the age old question, should I play a 4 or 5 string lyre?
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New build in the house. 1000+ thanks to Keith Roscoe and Rik Helderman for encouraging me through the build process and delivering my dream bass!
This is an SKB custom 5 fretless, with preshaped body blank chosen from Roscoe's exisiting inventory, ash body and maple top, natural gloss finish, maple and purpleheart neck, epoxy-lined diamondwood fingerboard, diamondwood nut, Roscoe Bart soapbars, and Bartolini 3-band preamp.
This bass produces beautiful bloom and mwah, nice growl, fat tone from the neck pickup, and a myriad of tone options from use of the blend control, the Bart 3-band, right-hand positioning, and their combinations.
Visually, depending on body angle to light source, differing wood grain attributes are apparent. The flame maple shown above definitely pops. However, a very nice wood grain, running perpendicular to the flame (also evident above, lower bout left edge), is also prominent. This multi-faceted grain pattern is my favorite type of maple figure.
This is the one-and-only bass that I have commissioned. If you are considering a custom bass I highly recommend working with the folks at Roscoe. My experience with the build process and final product are 5-star positive (5 of 5 possible).
Happy, safe J4 to all in the Roscoe club.
This is an SKB custom 5 fretless, with preshaped body blank chosen from Roscoe's exisiting inventory, ash body and maple top, natural gloss finish, maple and purpleheart neck, epoxy-lined diamondwood fingerboard, diamondwood nut, Roscoe Bart soapbars, and Bartolini 3-band preamp.
This bass produces beautiful bloom and mwah, nice growl, fat tone from the neck pickup, and a myriad of tone options from use of the blend control, the Bart 3-band, right-hand positioning, and their combinations.
Visually, depending on body angle to light source, differing wood grain attributes are apparent. The flame maple shown above definitely pops. However, a very nice wood grain, running perpendicular to the flame (also evident above, lower bout left edge), is also prominent. This multi-faceted grain pattern is my favorite type of maple figure.
This is the one-and-only bass that I have commissioned. If you are considering a custom bass I highly recommend working with the folks at Roscoe. My experience with the build process and final product are 5-star positive (5 of 5 possible).
Happy, safe J4 to all in the Roscoe club.
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Beautiful Fritz!
Very classy looking Roscoe. Looks like you got one of the last Diamondwood finger boards.
Congrats!
That's awesome news, Fritz! And what a beautiful bass! I love the flame maple and diamond wood combo. Your one and only commission has turned out to be a hugh success. Congrats!
