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jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee
Post Number: 2081 Registered: 6-2002
| Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 1:49 pm: | |
impressionnant |
mica
Moderator Username: mica
Post Number: 6892 Registered: 6-2000
| Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 6:04 pm: | |
So here's a familiar look neck in the press: and a little farther along... There's a little detail that I didn't talk to you about, but instead of the usual Walnut veneers in the peghead, we used Ebony. It's super hard to do, but for your bass, it just had to be this way. I hope you like it. |
mica
Moderator Username: mica
Post Number: 6894 Registered: 6-2000
| Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 6:12 pm: | |
Ooops! I almost forgot to share this one of the peghead veneers in the clamps: So just slightly out of order. |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 663 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 12:33 am: | |
Mica, you have all my confidence for this nice work. Thank's, It will be a great bass. |
mario_farufyno
Senior Member Username: mario_farufyno
Post Number: 479 Registered: 9-2008
| Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 1:41 pm: | |
Nice touch on Headstock, you're fortunate Pierre. |
gregduboc
Senior Member Username: gregduboc
Post Number: 469 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 1:47 pm: | |
Hey Pierre, are you planning a fancy inlay on this bass? Perhaps a Jararaca all over the neck? Greg |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 664 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 2:29 pm: | |
I don't know if I'm fortunate but I will certainly very happy at the end of this nice story !! No inlay, just something sober, abalone simple inlays. I don't have jararaca but european adders, one baby bite me 5 days ago ... no pain... nothing, just like a wasp... here they are: http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1092&start=15 I have more dangerous, a mexican copperhead: http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=1101 But I must be very carefully with me.... |
gregduboc
Senior Member Username: gregduboc
Post Number: 470 Registered: 11-2008
| Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:39 pm: | |
Your copperhead is amazing... We've captured last week, with the help of professionals, a rattlesnake crossing my street (Crotalus durissus collilineatus). But back to your bass, that headstock is going to be beautiful!! Congratulations!! Greg |
mario_farufyno
Senior Member Username: mario_farufyno
Post Number: 482 Registered: 9-2008
| Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:32 pm: | |
[off topic] Hey Pierre, do you know that one of brazilian's most respected zoologist is Paulo Emilio Vanzolini is also a poet and music composer? He lives in São Paulo (as me and Greg) and wrote in 1951 the lyrics of one remarkable samba-bolero called "Ronda" (translates as "Inspection" or maybe "Prol"). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDmR-r-eVv8 As far as I know, he owns the biggest collection of brazilian's frogs and reptiles. He is retired now, but teached in USP (São Paulo State University) and co-wrote musics with Chico Buarque de Holanda and Toquinho (big names in brazilian popular music from the 60's and 70's). (Message edited by mario farufyno on August 20, 2010) |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 668 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 7:04 am: | |
I knew Chico Buarque but not Paolo Vanzoli, great guy and thank's Mario to make my knowledge bigger. If Brazil was not so far (I hate plane...) I would come... (end of the "off topic") |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 672 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Friday, August 27, 2010 - 3:51 am: | |
Mica, a little update ? |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 674 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 3:06 pm: | |
Miiiica ?? |
mica
Moderator Username: mica
Post Number: 6927 Registered: 6-2000
| Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 4:40 pm: | |
Your custom truss rod should arrive in the next week or two. Once that's here, we can glue the fingerboard on the neck, then cut the peghead shape, then glue the body to the neck. Everything is ready to go, we just have to wait for that part. |
tbrannon
Senior Member Username: tbrannon
Post Number: 1226 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 8:21 pm: | |
custom truss rod? I'd love to hear the details... |
byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung
Post Number: 1266 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 10:16 pm: | |
I'm guessing dual-action trussrod. Prevents the use of the phone book! Pierre-Yves, I really had a lovely time with Yves-- you should come with him to NAMM some time. |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 675 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, September 08, 2010 - 12:33 am: | |
...hum...hum...effectivly, in the final invoice I have signed I wanted a single dual action trussrod, but after I have said I don't want one trussrod but 2 standard dual action trussrods. Anyway it's like that now, c'est la vie Mica !! Just a little mistake. All my basses in my life (exept Alembic) had one trussrod, Stanley has always 1 trussrod, and my african blackwood bass will have one DUAL action trussrod, and tailpiece centered !!! LOL Bradley, thank's to write my real name and Namm is a little far for me, I hate plane !! Maybe one time with the pleasure to meet you, but not in Namm, It could be too expensive for my eyes |
mica
Moderator Username: mica
Post Number: 6951 Registered: 6-2000
| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 4:29 pm: | |
Heading straight into carving: Looks pretty cool. |
crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins
Post Number: 679 Registered: 6-2004
| Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 4:39 pm: | |
Very nice, |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 681 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:53 am: | |
Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.... waaaaaaaawwwww !! Just two questions: the little mark on the maple body part will diseapear I hope ? and the beveled of the peghead stop at this part or will follow all the line ? Really nice work, thank's |
briant
Senior Member Username: briant
Post Number: 457 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:43 am: | |
Those burn marks on the body will eventually be gone. Those are from the router during the intitial rough shaping. Go over and take a peek at the FTC thread on my new bass and you can see before/after pictures of the same burn marks: See Mica's post #6891 See any picture laying out the controls I'm not sure about peghead bevels as none of my Alembics have one. |
briant
Senior Member Username: briant
Post Number: 458 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:45 am: | |
Nearly forgot: That bass is looking outstanding. Love all the darkness going on. |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 683 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:18 am: | |
Thank's Brian, I had no really doubt on the issue of marks |
mario_farufyno
Senior Member Username: mario_farufyno
Post Number: 533 Registered: 9-2008
| Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:21 pm: | |
Imagine all that Ebony with finishing done... Dark Shining! |
mica
Moderator Username: mica
Post Number: 6959 Registered: 6-2000
| Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 5:32 pm: | |
Brian is correct about the Maple burn marks, they will be a distant memory once the hand sanding is completed. There will be a bevel in the place you've circled, then it blends to the top flat part so there's a place to mount the nut. |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 684 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 6:01 pm: | |
Thank's to take time to give me explanations. Is the bass ready now ? |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 689 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 1:33 am: | |
Hi Mica, is my bass completed ? |
pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves
Post Number: 692 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 2:52 pm: | |
Mica, I was waiting for my bass in my mail box because it's MY BIRTHDAY today but no bass... So so sad ... Sniiif...But I have a little Hope because it's in 10 minutes |
davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck
Post Number: 9690 Registered: 5-2002
| Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 2:59 pm: | |
Happy Birthday Pierre-Yves! |
sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus
Post Number: 1326 Registered: 5-2009
| Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 3:26 pm: | |
Happy Birthday ! |
artswork99
Moderator Username: artswork99
Post Number: 1298 Registered: 7-2007
| Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 4:26 pm: | |
Happy Birthday! Incredibly cool bass wood selection. |