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bigbass
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Username: bigbass

Post Number: 96
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, February 24, 2006 - 3:30 pm:   Edit Post

...a fingerboard?

(Message edited by bigbass on February 24, 2006)
811952
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Username: 811952

Post Number: 674
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 5:23 pm:   Edit Post

I would be anything but bored...

Butt board??
jlpicard
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Username: jlpicard

Post Number: 388
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Sunday, March 05, 2006 - 12:29 pm:   Edit Post

If this is the fingerboard, I can't wait to see what the rest of the bass will turn out like! After a fingerboard like this you know the rest of the instrument will have to be some kind of looker!
bigbass
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Username: bigbass

Post Number: 100
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 8:01 am:   Edit Post

Sometimes looking is a choice. Ask your girlfriend/wife about that one. In any event, thanks for thinking of looking. If you are single, disregard all of the above.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3126
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 12:54 pm:   Edit Post

Fingerboard is in place and the peghead is cut:

peghead in assembly

Chip also pointed out the stack of wood that will be the top, back, and plates the body:

lams
bigbass
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Username: bigbass

Post Number: 101
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, March 10, 2006 - 3:01 pm:   Edit Post

WOW...this is impressive! What happened to the redwood? This looks like walnut. This is just a color correction glitch, right?
Amazing and thanks for de update.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3137
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 6:08 pm:   Edit Post

Lams getting their bookmatch to center glue action:

front BTC

back BTC

Yes, sanding the wood can make it look less lovely. I especially notice it with the Maples. Also, the lighting is different in each shot. The one from the 10th is taken pretty late at night with only the overhead shop lights. It will look much sweeter with the clear coats.
bigbass
Intermediate Member
Username: bigbass

Post Number: 102
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 7:43 pm:   Edit Post

I don't think I've ever seen this step in any past postings; At least not like this. Great shots! Fass-in-ate-in... as Popeye would say.
bsee
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Username: bsee

Post Number: 1095
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 8:32 pm:   Edit Post

This getting awful pretty. David, I *BEG* you to be careful when you receive the bass. That 12 string headstock looks awfully long and I'd hate to see this bass go back to Alembic for headstock repair!

-bob
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3182
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:17 am:   Edit Post

Here's a nice picture:

plates as a flower

It's the stack of all your continuous wood plates clamped between polycarbonate sheets awaiting their next step. It looks like a flower. A big woody, gluey, clampy flower.
foth
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Username: foth

Post Number: 77
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 12:53 pm:   Edit Post

Spring seems to have finally arrived in California!
valvil
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Username: valvil

Post Number: 863
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 8:47 pm:   Edit Post

Here's the shot I promised you.
Grego's 12
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 3190
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 8:51 pm:   Edit Post

How could I have missed THAT in the shop today? It must be hiding!
tom_z
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Username: tom_z

Post Number: 329
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 8:55 pm:   Edit Post

Oh my god!!!! What an amazing fretboard!!
palembic
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Username: palembic

Post Number: 2346
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:07 pm:   Edit Post

FAN-TAS-TIC!
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 811
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 1:54 am:   Edit Post

Brilliant!
keavin
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Username: keavin

Post Number: 787
Registered: 12-2002
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 5:09 am:   Edit Post

HOLY SH#T STAINZ BATMAN!!!
811952
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Username: 811952

Post Number: 691
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 6:44 am:   Edit Post

Unbelieveable. Incredible. Wow. Don't forget to look away every now and then to give your eyes a break. That is spectacular...

John
jacko
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Username: jacko

Post Number: 579
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 6:56 am:   Edit Post

This is going to be pretty amazing when it's finished. To be honest, it's pretty amazing now.

Graeme
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1148
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 7:26 am:   Edit Post

David:

Without a doubt the most unique fretboard I've ever seen. In the above picture it looks like it's made of leaping flames! Stunning, amazing, arresting, what can I say? Congrats on an instrument that, I suspect, will be remembered around here for a LONG time.

Bill, tgo
bigbadbill
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Username: bigbadbill

Post Number: 230
Registered: 10-2003
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 9:13 am:   Edit Post

That is AMAZING!!!! So many beautiful basses, so little money :-)
jalevinemd
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Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 373
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 2:36 pm:   Edit Post

I echo Bill's sentiments. That is the most unique fretboard I've ever seen...inlays or no inlays. My fingers would need a roadmap to find their way on that thing.
olieoliver
Intermediate Member
Username: olieoliver

Post Number: 140
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 4:30 pm:   Edit Post

That fretboard is the coolest thing ever!
bigbass
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Username: bigbass

Post Number: 103
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 4:48 pm:   Edit Post

OMG! 'When it rains......' I don't think I've EVER seen anything like this before. Am I repeating my self? Apparently I had no visual idea what we were creating. What does its back look like (Dah!)?

Thanks guys for all your cheering on & positive re-enforcement. I hear ya!
May the Wand of Alembic continue to do its magic.
Thank you Mica and Valentino.
jlpicard
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Username: jlpicard

Post Number: 406
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 10:01 pm:   Edit Post

Such an amazing fretboard! Almost seems a shame to put frets in it! Surely, no fret markers?
bigbass
Intermediate Member
Username: bigbass

Post Number: 104
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post

Yea, I agree. At this time dare's Nutt'n on da front (markers)....Just on da sides. Gosh, It would make a nice fretless board.
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 3530
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 2:01 pm:   Edit Post

That is indeed a pretty amazing fretboard!!
7string_thing
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Username: 7string_thing

Post Number: 63
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:11 pm:   Edit Post

its like black and white fire!
the_8_string_king
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Username: the_8_string_king

Post Number: 112
Registered: 9-2005
Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 9:58 pm:   Edit Post

Wow!!!
bigbass
Intermediate Member
Username: bigbass

Post Number: 105
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 10:00 am:   Edit Post

....a burnt but well seasoned figerboard for all occasions....

Think I'll wait 'til the smoke rises.

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