| Author | Message | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 2081 Registered: 6-2002 |
impressionnant | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 6892 Registered: 6-2000 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Nice touch on Headstock, you're fortunate Pierre. | ||
| gregduboc
Senior Member Username: gregduboc Post Number: 469 Registered: 11-2008 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
[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 |
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 |
Mica, a little update ? | ||
| pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves Post Number: 674 Registered: 11-2006 |
Miiiica ??   | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 6927 Registered: 6-2000 |
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 |
custom truss rod? I'd love to hear the details... | ||
| byoung
Senior Member Username: byoung Post Number: 1266 Registered: 12-2004 |
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 |
...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 |
Heading straight into carving:     Looks pretty cool. | ||
| crobbins
Senior Member Username: crobbins Post Number: 679 Registered: 6-2004 |
Very nice, | ||
| pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves Post Number: 681 Registered: 11-2006 |
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 |
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 |
Nearly forgot: That bass is looking outstanding. Love all the darkness going on. | ||
| pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves Post Number: 683 Registered: 11-2006 |
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 |
Imagine all that Ebony with finishing done... Dark Shining! | ||
| mica
Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 6959 Registered: 6-2000 |
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 |
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 |
Hi Mica, is my bass completed ?  | ||
| pierreyves
Senior Member Username: pierreyves Post Number: 692 Registered: 11-2006 |
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 |
Happy Birthday Pierre-Yves! | ||
| sonicus
Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 1326 Registered: 5-2009 |
Happy Birthday ! | ||
| artswork99
Moderator Username: artswork99 Post Number: 1298 Registered: 7-2007 |
Happy Birthday! Incredibly cool bass wood selection. |
