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#170,021
GBassNorth said:
Some fantastic builds there! I've been looking for an Explorer bass exactly like the the walnut (or is it Rosewood?) one in your second picture. Tell me more about it, and be sure to PM me if it ever goes on the sale block.

I've done a few Warmoth builds as well. Found all their bodies and necks to be top quality but it's easy to run the bill up quick with special woods and features. Here's a Jazz body Precision/Stingray I built. I worked with John East to design a custom stereo preamp that utilized a preEB Stingray clone circuit for the bridge pup with discrete output and tone controls from the neck Split P pup...
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That is Awesome.Love everything about it!
 
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#170,023
Instagator said:
It’s one of the early Limited edition custom shop Epiphone Explorer Basses.
I tricked it out with Chinabuckers.CTS pots,Shaller roller bridge like the Gibson’s have.New GB7 tuners and a Hipshot Drop D on the E string.
I put the skull and crossbones sticker on the pickguard because the first owner never removed the Epiphone sticker and it faded that spot.The “inlays” on the neck are stick on’s from creative cuts.I took the selector switch out of the circuit.It’s VVT now..DR black beauty strings..some pirate knobs to finish it out.

This Bass will rock your socks for sure.The Epi platform is quite a value to build on.

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One of these days, gonna get me one of those... low-end good enough ?
 
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#170,025
Warmoth Wednesday you say?? I can play.

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#170,031
PillO said:
No. Like anyone famous that came to the office, quickly taken to a private meeting room. If you were in the area and he was by himself you could say hi, but that was about it. No fawning over celebrities in the office.
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Now that explains the utter lack of attention that I received when I was there.

Well, that's not entirely true. You did ask if I cleaned the men's room yet.
 
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#170,032
GBassNorth said:
Some fantastic builds there! I've been looking for an Explorer bass exactly like the the walnut (or is it Rosewood?) one in your second picture. Tell me more about it, and be sure to PM me if it ever goes on the sale block.

I've done a few Warmoth builds as well. Found all their bodies and necks to be top quality but it's easy to run the bill up quick with special woods and features. Here's a Jazz body Precision/Stingray I built. I worked with John East to design a custom stereo preamp that utilized a preEB Stingray clone circuit for the bridge pup with discrete output and tone controls from the neck Split P pup...
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That is very nice indeed, and a very interesting concept all the way around!
 
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#170,034
Instagator said:
??? Details? That is a cool look. Especially the dot free neck.
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Thanks! Warmoth mahogany body with raised center section and a nice trans red finish. Carvin Jazz sized neck with an ebony inlay-free fretboard. The neck was a paddle headstock I had cut to my design. Very comfortable neck to play.

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#170,035
dagrev said:
Can someone send some global warming this way? We're getting hammered with ice and things are nasty here--and I live on a curvy hill. Snow I don't really care for but in limited amounts, but this ice stuff is a pain in the Thunderbutt and makes everything really difficult if not impossible.
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Driving to work in the slick slippery stuff is one aspect I don't miss about Kentucky. I also wasn't too fond of shoveling snow, especially mixed with ice. That is, until I bought a nifty little Honda snow blower. That actually made the job so much fun I'd do my 50 yard long triple wide drive way, and 4 of the neighbors drive ways along with all the connecting sidewalks and front walkways. The neighbors all knew I liked Irish Coffee, so they'd keep me pretty well juiced up while I was blowing snow.
 
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dagrev said:
Can someone send some global warming this way? We're getting hammered with ice and things are nasty here--and I live on a curvy hill. Snow I don't really care for but in limited amounts, but this ice stuff is a pain in the Thunderbutt and makes everything really difficult if not impossible.
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It's kinda funny how we are always 12 years from disaster. There is a great bit - the whole episode in fact - of In Search Of... on climate change from the early '70's. Back then we were looking at global cooling, in 12 years. Then the late 80's and early '90's gave us global warming... in 12 years. Finally, 'climate change' was picked, and there's no argument there. Climate's been changing on this rock for more than 4.5 billion years, and it doesn't need us to do it! I don't know if it'll change in 12 years though... XD
 
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Shannon said:
It's kinda funny how we are always 12 years from disaster. There is a great bit - the whole episode in fact - of In Search Of... on climate change from the early '70's. Back then we were looking at global cooling, in 12 years. Then the late 80's and early '90's gave us global warming... in 12 years. Finally, 'climate change' was picked, and there's no argument there. Climate's been changing on this rock for more than 4.5 billion years, and it doesn't need us to do it! I don't know if it'll change in 12 years though... XD
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Mark down the date. See ya in 12 years.:nailbiting:
 
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