Show Your BURLS

[fretless Bob]

i keep tellign myself not to get a buckeye top on my custom singlecut im ordering....but it looks so damn good! do you find the buckeye comromises the tone at all? a few builders iev spoken with have mentioned this due ot its spongy nature...any thoughts or comments bob? or anyone else for that matter....im sur ethe pope pre helps a bit

i have heard that the guys at Fodera will go through tons of possible top woods before they pick one that is just right, but then the same can be said about Spalted maple as well, it is all about getting the right top for the right bass.

another thing to think about is that once they are clear coated and all of that laquer soaks up into the wood and all the pours get filled up the wood is much more stable and loses quite a lot of that spongy-ness that you are talking about.

i have heard about some buckeye just crumbling away in your hands, but certain companies are gonna have better wood at hand which makes building these basses possible.

the pope pre does do a lot and i love it but alot of the Fodera tones that we love are not the pope pre at all.

Richard Bona had the Pope pre removed from his bass and Victor Wooten uses an older 2 band pre in his, i guess at the end of the day certain things end up as more than the some of their parts.


Dave

 

[Thonk]

Very nice. That shape looks spookily familiar. What Sei you!

Matthew

I would be #7 i just forgot to update my sig

 

[Margus Alviste]

Here's mine... Quess what is it?!

 

[Margus Alviste]

And here's one more...

 

[Vic]

Here's mine... Quess what is it?!

It's a BEAUTIFUL 5-string fretted Om Custom Bass with Nordstrand Dual Coils and a custom made John East preamp.

Am I close?

 

[Nils]

Man, I'd hate to string that...

 

[tombowlus]

Here's Dave's Emperor's brother (also a Deluxe):

 

[tombowlus]

Sheldon calls this a "burlburst":

 

[tombowlus]

Some MTD myrtle burl:

 

[tombowlus]

Here is some quarter-sawn Skjold burl (still in the works):

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[J.Wolf]

Here's mine... Quess what is it?!

I don't know but I like it!!!!

 

[Bryan R. Tyler]

I was just waxing my Elricks, so I took a pic or two when done.
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This bass looks drastically different depending on what the light is like.

 

[J.Wolf]

Here's mine... Quess what is it?!

Is that an ETS bridge?? looks sharp!

 

[Margus Alviste]

Yeah, you're right. It's ETS Piezo Bridge from Germany. It's rock solid. I just played against MTD USA and my bass sounded just a bit better. Suggest everyone to try one!

 

[XavidmanX]

My MTD 535 Myrtle Burl and my new Roscoe Buckeye Burl.

 

[lamborghini98]

The bass that never came to be : /

The image got messed up in the resizing process, but suffice it to say this thing was totally killer.

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[hiderebirth]

that blue burst skjold is beautiful

can't wait to see the finished product

 

[fretless Bob]

Here is some quarter-sawn Skjold burl (still in the works):

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that bass is gonna be great when its done, is it gonna have the new pre like Vic's?


Dave

 

[tombowlus]

that bass is gonna be great when its done, is it gonna have the new pre like Vic's?


Dave

Thanks! It should be done fairly soon. It will have the standard Skjold preamp.

Tom.

 

[Skelf]

Hi
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