In this particular case, the fretboard in question is faux rosewood. Therefor I shall take advantage of the opportunity to use the phrase "cites... schmites"
Better call it something else, faux pau ferro ?
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Better call it something else, faux pau ferro ?
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Just want to say how really cool it is that you would take your daughter to a show (of any kind), my father didn't like any of my music and was not supportive of it - anyway, just sayin' that's very nice of you.
We don't have an unlike button so I've reported that to the TB mods(oldy but a goody)
"I once dated a chick with a wooden leg. It didn't end well. We had to break it off"...
Not really as you might have guessed
In this particular case, the fretboard in question is faux rosewood. Therefor I shall take advantage of the opportunity to use the phrase "cites... schmites"
The material in question is called Rocklite Sundari. The makers have informed all the customs people whoever they are and provided them with information about it and how to tell the difference. All is as they say kushtie.
Take a look at this thread about it, somewhere near the end I provide a link to the info customs have to tell Rocklite apart from the real thing. Rocklite: The Latest Synthetic Ebony For Fingerboards
I'll call it Rocklite Sundari, pays to be honest.Better call it something else, faux pau ferro ?
A picture of the stuff to show how good the stuff is
Alright.... So just got home from tonight’s gig. Three things......
1. I love a good crowd, and I love them more when they bring us drinks. It was a good crowd. I’m drunk, there.. I said it.
2. Day Glo Bird is a jacked up color. Red as a Baboon’s booty in the daylight, Orange as Carrot Top’s head under the stage lights. Plays well, and sounds great. Christine, you were right. The color does not do it for me. This one will be for sale. Sadly, it plays and sounds better than my other two birds. Aesthetics are important to me.
3. This one is big. YUUUGE. (Speaking of Orange). Where has this amp been all my life??? (I couldn’t afford it) The SVT Classic is absolutely amazing. I’m still in a dying shake. My ears and posterior are in a state not unlike fresh JELLO that has just been put in the fridge. I’ve had several amps over the years, but never an all tube SVT. The harmonics and overtones were hard to get used to. It threw me off a few times. The Classic produces sooo much sound. So thick and so rich, lik a freshly cut cake. The punch, the midrange grind, the top end attack. All there.
I would have died to have had this tone 20 years ago.
Forgive the pic. Just got home from the gig, and I haven’t collected the pics from followers
1. I love a good crowd, and I love them more when they bring us drinks. It was a good crowd. I’m drunk, there.. I said it.
2. Day Glo Bird is a jacked up color. Red as a Baboon’s booty in the daylight, Orange as Carrot Top’s head under the stage lights. Plays well, and sounds great. Christine, you were right. The color does not do it for me. This one will be for sale. Sadly, it plays and sounds better than my other two birds. Aesthetics are important to me.
3. This one is big. YUUUGE. (Speaking of Orange). Where has this amp been all my life??? (I couldn’t afford it) The SVT Classic is absolutely amazing. I’m still in a dying shake. My ears and posterior are in a state not unlike fresh JELLO that has just been put in the fridge. I’ve had several amps over the years, but never an all tube SVT. The harmonics and overtones were hard to get used to. It threw me off a few times. The Classic produces sooo much sound. So thick and so rich, lik a freshly cut cake. The punch, the midrange grind, the top end attack. All there.
I would have died to have had this tone 20 years ago.
Forgive the pic. Just got home from the gig, and I haven’t collected the pics from followers
I've been thinking about your post off and on, yes I can see that but I was thinking if you removed Cherie Currie you could cut that into a cool marquetry picture inlaid into a Tbird, say on the back of the body. OK nobody would ever see it but that would be the pointVery cool pic! That could be made into a music-box sculpture that slowly spins around to "Cherry Bomb"
Along these lines
You can't sell that, what will people think? Send it to me, I'll save you any further embarrassment
Seriously, if you like it why not spray it with rattle cans in nitro but leave the red underneath untouched so if need be you or someone else can cut back to it in the future? Just give it a wipe with alcohol and cut it with 1200 grit before spraying. Say a transparent colour like black or blue over the red?
You can't sell that, what will people think? Send it to me, I'll save you any further embarrassment
I’m already embarrassed. Actually my lack of pride has made me impervious to embarrassment. I really like the bass, but aesthetically, it’s just not me. Big thumbs up for the Babicz, but Day Glo just isn’t one that I can’t live without.
Because I can’t justify having 3 Tbirds. I know that goes against logic, but I’m not that deep into music as a career. It’s a hobby. A fun hobby, but something tells me to let this one walk.
I agree, three Tbirds is wrong, get another and have at least four, you'll feel better about it then.
In all seriousness though, if it plays well why not paint it? You could get a cool effect over spraying with a transparent colour almost like a candy apple, or wear something red yourself like a blood splattered tee shirt type thing. It already looks OK, you're just being self conscious because of me teasing you. Look at the pics when you're sober (if ever)
Talking of sober, where is @ProgressiveDoom?
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Pfffft. Hobby only, don't play out and i have 6 basses kicking round and I still think that I probably need* another bird or two. I mean really, I need one tuned BEAD and another back up one tuned BEAD just in case.
*need - a profound feeling of emptiness that can only filled with gear.
Just mucking about but this sort of thingI've been thinking about your post off and on, yes I can see that but I was thinking if you removed Cherie Currie you could cut that into a cool marquetry picture inlaid into a Tbird, say on the back of the body. OK nobody would ever see it but that would be the point
Along these lines
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I've been thinking about your post off and on, yes I can see that but I was thinking if you removed Cherie Currie you could cut that into a cool marquetry picture inlaid into a Tbird, say on the back of the body. OK nobody would ever see it but that would be the point
Along these lines
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I'm diggin the look of that!
You’re digging the thought of Ms Fox getting.... I’ll stop there and give myself a strong ahem for thinking that of you
You’re digging the thought of Ms Fox getting.... I’ll stop there and give myself a strong ahem for thinking that of you
Don’t stop, please continue.
My GnR band is breaking up after two mote gigs. Breaking out the bird for those shows and retirement for the Duff bass.
No you'll get me banned!!
