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jazzyvee
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Username: jazzyvee

Post Number: 2081
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 - 1:49 pm:   Edit Post

impressionnant
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6892
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 6:04 pm:   Edit Post

So here's a familiar look neck in the press:
assembly

and a little farther along...
assembly
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
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6894
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 - 6:12 pm:   Edit Post

Ooops! I almost forgot to share this one of the peghead veneers in the clamps:
assembly

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:   Edit Post

Mica, you have all my confidence for this nice work. Thank's, It will be a great bass.
mario_farufyno
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 479
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 1:41 pm:   Edit Post

Nice touch on Headstock, you're fortunate Pierre.
gregduboc
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Username: gregduboc

Post Number: 469
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 1:47 pm:   Edit Post

Hey Pierre, are you planning a fancy inlay on this bass?
Perhaps a Jararaca all over the neck? :-)

Greg
pierreyves
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Username: pierreyves

Post Number: 664
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 2:29 pm:   Edit Post

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
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Username: gregduboc

Post Number: 470
Registered: 11-2008
Posted on Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 6:39 pm:   Edit Post

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
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 482
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 - 4:32 pm:   Edit Post

[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
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Username: pierreyves

Post Number: 668
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 7:04 am:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

Mica, a little update :-) :-) :-) ?
pierreyves
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Username: pierreyves

Post Number: 674
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 3:06 pm:   Edit Post

Miiiica ??
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6927
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 4:40 pm:   Edit Post

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
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Username: tbrannon

Post Number: 1226
Registered: 11-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 8:21 pm:   Edit Post

custom truss rod? I'd love to hear the details...
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 1266
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, September 07, 2010 - 10:16 pm:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

...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
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6951
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 4:29 pm:   Edit Post

Heading straight into carving:

carving

carving

carving

carving

Looks pretty cool.
crobbins
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Username: crobbins

Post Number: 679
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 - 4:39 pm:   Edit Post

Very nice,
pierreyves
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Username: pierreyves

Post Number: 681
Registered: 11-2006
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 1:53 am:   Edit Post

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
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Username: briant

Post Number: 457
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:43 am:   Edit Post

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
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Username: briant

Post Number: 458
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 8:45 am:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

Thank's Brian, I had no really doubt on the issue of marks :-)
mario_farufyno
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Username: mario_farufyno

Post Number: 533
Registered: 9-2008
Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 - 9:21 pm:   Edit Post

Imagine all that Ebony with finishing done... Dark Shining!
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6959
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 5:32 pm:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

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:   Edit Post

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
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 9690
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 2:59 pm:   Edit Post

Happy Birthday Pierre-Yves!
sonicus
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Username: sonicus

Post Number: 1326
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 3:26 pm:   Edit Post

Happy Birthday !
artswork99
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Username: artswork99

Post Number: 1298
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Monday, October 04, 2010 - 4:26 pm:   Edit Post

Happy Birthday!

Incredibly cool bass wood selection.

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