Roscoe Club

[staccatogrowl]

Sounds like two great inspirations for country songs. The first verse could be something like this:

“Don’t Let those spiked thingamajigs drop on your cowboy hat wearing head.
Cause if you do, your blonde girl friend will think the sky’s falling.”

I'm feeling you, but needs work! Lots and lots of work!!!

Verse 1, revision 1:
Gatorwood burr bounced off my head
Plumb knocked out, thought I was dead
Cross-eyed wakin' two blurry blondes callin'
Was just one shreakin' "Sky's a fallin"

 

[JOME77]

Verse 1, revision 1:
Gatorwood burr bounced off my head
Plumb knocked out, thought I was dead
Cross-eyed wakin' two blurry blondes callin'
Was just one shreakin' "Sky's a fallin"

Lol
Much better Fritz!

 

[Nightman]

Verse 1, revision 1:
Gatorwood burr bounced off my head
Plumb knocked out, thought I was dead
Cross-eyed wakin' two blurry blondes callin'
Was just one shreakin' "Sky's a fallin"

Whew! Much, much better!

 

[Nightman]

@staccatogrowl
Verse 2, revision 1:
I came to my senses just in time
All that shreakin', knocked over a Pine
But I could still hear that one blond a callin'
"Look Out Below, Sky's A Fallin"

--- @TolerancEJ -- Now a nice bass line lead into the Chorus from that Carl Thompson 6'er

 

[JOME77]

@staccatogrowl
Verse 2, revision 1:
I came to my senses just in time
All that shreakin', knocked over a Pine
But I could still hear that one blond a callin'
"Look Out Below, Sky's A Fallin"

--- @TolerancEJ -- Now a nice bass line lead into the Chorus from that Carl Thompson 6'er

Man!
You guys are good!

 

[Bassworship1]

I think you guys have been quarantined to long and are delirious lol...

 

[Dave Siff]

Well, it's not a Roscoe, so my acquisition doesn't belong in this group. And I haven't posted a NBD in the main page as TB seems to be strongly divided on this builder. I observed a number of people get roasted when they post questions, concerns or NBDs of his work.

It's a Carl Thompson Fretless 6. (Owner of this Thread: This post can be deleted if you wish.)

Umm, wow!!! Spectacular.
I have a Carl Thompson story from 20 years ago. A local guy was selling a '77, and it was a shell: no pickup or electronics, someone had cut a hole for another pickup and done a horrible job, needed a fret job, etc. $600 so I grabbed it. Called the shop, got Carl on the phone and he told me to send it up there. $1,400 later (including FedEx overnight shipping which he insisted on) he had fixed the hole with a new piece of wood, took the frets off, planed the board, re-fretted it, installed two Kent Armstrong pickups + passive electronics, and sent it back. I played it for a while, including on some gigs, but never really bonded with it. Sold it to some guy in New Jersey and made a very nice profit.

 

[TolerancEJ]

Umm, wow!!! Spectacular.
I have a Carl Thompson story from 20 years ago. A local guy was selling a '77, and it was a shell: no pickup or electronics, someone had cut a hole for another pickup and done a horrible job, needed a fret job, etc. $600 so I grabbed it. Called the shop, got Carl on the phone and he told me to send it up there. $1,400 later (including FedEx overnight shipping which he insisted on) he had fixed the hole with a new piece of wood, took the frets off, planed the board, re-fretted it, installed two Kent Armstrong pickups + passive electronics, and sent it back. I played it for a while, including on some gigs, but never really bonded with it. Sold it to some guy in New Jersey and made a very nice profit.

That's a really cool story and I'm happy it worked out for you! After 20 years of inflation, I don't think $1400 will get much from Carl's shop today.

 

[Dave Siff]

That's a really cool story and I'm happy it worked out for you! After 20 years of inflation, I don't think $1400 will get much from Carl's shop today.

Found a pic!

 

[JOME77]

Found a pic!

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Very nice Dave!
That was a big bodied bass!

 

[Dave Siff]

Very nice Dave!
That was a big bodied bass!

It was! And even with all the warts, a work of art. I kinda wish I'd kept it but people were throwing money at me so I had to do the smart thing.

 

[Bassworship1]

Update on my Spalted Myrtle SKB build...this bass is going to look really good when finished.

 

[Nightman]

The Alien bass!!!! Run for the hills!!!

 

[JOME77]

Beautiful bass! I think that the bridge will cover most of the alien.

That body would look awesome with a nice BEM finger board! IMO it would transition nicely between the busy body and headstock grain.

 

[Bassworship1]

Beautiful bass! I think that the bridge will cover most of the alien.

That body would look awesome with a nice BEM finger board! IMO it would transition nicely between the busy body and headstock grain.

BEM would have been a nice look also but I wanted Wenge on this one.

 

[JOME77]

Update on my Spalted Myrtle SKB build...this bass is going to look really good when finished.

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That grain in the ash body is really nice too!

 

[KaseOfBass]

Update on my Spalted Myrtle SKB build...this bass is going to look really good when finished.

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So, what pickup/pre combo did you decide on?

 

[Nightman]

That body would look awesome with a nice BEM finger board! IMO it would transition nicely between the busy body and headstock grain.

Right! That would have been my choice too with that body, but regardless it’s going to look out of this world.

 

[Thumper]

I, for one, love the busy board with the busy body! Course, that's what I would have done, but what the hay...or is it what the hey?

 

[Bassworship1]

So, what pickup/pre combo did you decide on?

still haven’t decided. I’m thinking either Bart’s or Aguilar Super Doubles.