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[quote name='eude' post='994379' date='Oct 20 2010, 06:17 AM']That looks loverly mate [/quote] Cheers bud. You should see the neck... Amazing. Hopefully more pics by the weekend, but knowing Bernie, I'd give it a week

I miss the tone of my Overwater. I have serious GAS for a 6 string Perception or Evolution now. REAL GAS!!! (Just needs to be lighter than my 5 string was!). Damn you for showing us this! Shep

Grain really starting to pop out now. Down to the last few coats of oil then onto waxing... Loving the lighter areas on the horn and hip of the body...

Update from Bernie. More apologies for the delays. The body and neck I've ben married up an it's all been strung and plate prior to spraying to ensure it's all lovely. No pics with The colour stain I'm afraid. It was test coloured and then cleaned off until all the work had been done but I'm assured it looks awesome. Bernie is adding a Spalted facing to the front and rear of the headstock to match the body facing which will be done this week before it is sent back to be sprayed an finished. Pics under neon strip light, and then under regular bulb... The bridge will be black, the silver is just for a test...

For audio transfer I'd recommend WBT Silver based solder. Companies like SwitchCraft & Neutrik recommend it for best sound transfer. It ain't cheap, but makes a big difference. Sound on Sound and most geek based audio magazine rave about WBT, and if you think the solder is expensive don't look how much a pack of 4 phono plugs cost...! We sell WBT basic stuff on small reels and the expensive stuff per metre as buying a reel is a tad expensive. WBT recommend using a 30w soldering iron as a minimum. I've used a cheapy cheap one from Wilko for about 3 years with no problems. WBT Solder - [url="http://www.audiospares.com/home.php?cat=653"]http://www.audiospares.com/home.php?cat=653[/url]

Drop Robbie @ RIM basses an email or a PM on here. I Spec'd Delano's for my Marseer, he said no Probs and then had the exact ones I spec'd within 2 weeks so they can't be that hard to find. He obviously has a reliable contact!

After discovering BassChat it sounds something like this... Overwater Evolution Custom 5. This was my first custom build. The bass was gorgeous and the sound was amazing. The bass was however soooooo heavy I just couldn\'t play it standing up. I traded this for the Roscoe. GB Spitfire 5. Bought after Bassday last year. GB\'s have a sound like no other and if it wasn\'t for the fact I wanted a 6 version I\'d still own this. Great retro look as well. Schecter Stilletto 6. Bought as a back up 6. Great for the money, but didn\'t take me long to realise I just don\'t like neck-thru basses. Not sure why, I just don\'t. Sold it on here for an absolute bargain. Roscoe Century Standard 6 Fretless. From Bass Direct in exchange for my Overwater. The most comfy bass I have ever played to date. This, for me, is the daddy! Warwick Thumb BO 5. Bought from a friend who was a 4 string player. Got it for a great price, sold it on here for a great price as I was sticking to 6ers. This is the nicest looking Thumb I\'ve seen and sounded killer. Godlyke Disciple 5. Got in trade for my Markbass cab. Cool, but the move to 6 strings meant I sold it, again to a friend. Now resides with the bassist of Cruel Humanity. Yamaha TRB 1006. Bought as a clean up project. Looks great and sound how I\'d expect a Yamaha to sound. If it was 35\" scale I would also still own this! KSD Proto-J 704. Got in trade for the TRB in an attempt to rediscover 4 strings. Not for me! Quickly sold on to the bassist for Mel B amongst other artists. Each bass was basically sold to fund another, with the exception of the Roscoe which is a keeper. The GB was returned to fund my GB Spitfire 6 which is in the build process as we speak, and the rest went to fund my RIM Marseer 6 which is also nearing completion. I 'think' thats it... Pics to follow Shep

Yeah dude, that flamed maple strip is sooooo sexy.

This is more of a blog post than a gear update, but with all the \'My life in bass\' threads about it got me thinking about the basses I have owned and sold. I\'ll try and lost them all, in order of ownership and over the next day or so I\'ll try find a pic of each... Started when I was 17 with a Squire P-Bass, red with White scratch plate. I sold this to a local \'Cash Generator\' to buy a Vintage Stingray Copy they had in the window. It was a lovely tobacco sunburst. At the time I thought it was an uber bargain as I thought it was an actual Stingray. I soon learnt my Lesson. The Vintage Was sold to a small 2nd hand guitar shop which is now closed. The owner was a bit crazy and clearly made the same mistake I made over the vintage as I was able to trade it for two basses from his shop! The frost was a gorgeous Ibanez TR series bass, an older one with the pointy headstock. It was red sparlke with black headstock and looked awesome. I seemed to recall it had a signature on the headstock, but I may be incorrect. Identical model to this except it was red sparkle body - The 2nd was a Honer Fretless Jazz. Black with White scrachplate. It was an unlined fretless and the strings were a mile off the fretboard. As I had no idea about bass setups and couldn\'t play fretless to save my life I quickly sold it to my tutor at college... The Ibanez stayed with my though my time at college and was by far TR best bass I\'d ever tried at the time. This was until I picked up a Yamaha BBG5 in what used to be Fox\'s music in Nottingham. It was my 1st 5 string and inwas instantly in love. I sold the Ibanez to a friend and bought the Yamaha. It was a lovely cherry-burst-esque finish with gold hardware. It had a stunning active preamp like nothing I\'d tried at the time and looked cool. Around this time I was gigging lots and doing some short tour stuff and wanted a spare bass. I had also discovered eBay and without thinking bought a Status Shark II 5 string. Red with White scratch plate (as it reminded me of my 1st bass) and I loved the body shape and the single chrome pickup. This remained a back-up instrument for a long time and while I prefered the feel to the Yammy it never sounded as good. When times got hard... I sold it! Doh. The Yamaha stayed for a number of years. It did an album and 2 tours. Great bass for the money. After a while I started to get jaded with the less than efficient battery life of the preamp. I think it was quite and early active system for Yamaha and had nowhere near the battery life that preamps have now. I set to find a great sounding Passive bass. A band called Big Sister (later became Sanzen) used to rehearse at our studio and there bassist Andy had money issues and needed shot of his Warwick Streamer STD. It was a fairy new model at the time and while they are now known as an older version of the Rock Bass, at the time it was awesome. I sold the Yamaha to a friend (Who still has it, and is looking to sell it on!!), bought the Warwick and pocketed some change from the deal. I also bought a Red Ashbory at this time, but sold it some months later due to not finding a practical use for it. This is something I now really regret!! The Warwick - The Warwick was my touring bass with my band at the time (Salt:Burn) and was kept for ages.... Years in fact. After some years of doing little musically I gave up bass playing and sold my Warwick on eBay for sod all and didn\'t touch a bass for 2 years. My friend that bought the Yamaha asked if I\'d give it a set up and I did. 20 minutes after picking it up I realsised I had made a great mistake and had to strt playing again... My friend let me keep the Yammy until I bought my own again... And then I discovered Basschat... It goes out of hand from there. You could basically go to post one on the this thread here and you'd know what happened from there, but here\'s a brief run down...

More oil on that gorgeous neck. Slight Amber tint to the sealing coat which really sets of the grain...

Finish looks cool from the pics. I think White was the right choice. Looks pretty cool to me.

Excellent. It looks a million times nicer than the eBay pics. 16mm would of been too tight for me, but looking at the quality now it'd of been a good investment purchase still! I've always wanted a Ken Smith. It's on my list... Great find bud, and well done with the clean up!

Excellent. Is this the one that was on eBay. I was also very tempted, but out off by the awful photo's (if it isn't the one, then there was one in the same finish up recently). With your photographs it looks fantastic!

Great pic of Mark @ Bassdirct. He needs that on his website

Didn't I see this on eBay recently? Impressive work btw!

Awesome dude. Ticks all the boxes for me! Shep

[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' post='989500' date='Oct 15 2010, 06:05 PM']Fish (tail) on Friday! Yum![/quote] Oh dear

1st coat of Seal-A-Cell applied to the neck...

Another coat of oil… Plus the mid frequency selector switch position drilled.

Yes I'm playing a gig! Blimey! J Saverio is a Nottingham based Singer/Songwriter and guitarist. Kinda a soft melodic rocky funk (Think Days of the New). We have been good friends for 12 years and had a few musical ventures over the years. This is the 1st gig of his solo material with more than just him as a performer, in an attempt to make everything sound 'bigger & funkier' he's rolled Bass, Percussion and female backing vocals into the mix. We are supporting Garrison and have been told we are playing at 9pm. A rare opportunity to see me actually play a gig, and be totally unrehearsed :-) Hopefully some Nottingham BassChatters can get down. Venue - The Jam Cafe 12 Heathcote Street (Off Hockley - Around the corner from 'Ice Nine') Nottingham NG1 3AA Cheers Shep

Had one. Loved it. Sold it when times were hard... Regret it! Would love to pick one up again, but whilst they aren't 'high priced' I don't think I'd buy one unless it was a bargain as I doubt I'd get as much use from it as I'd want to. I agree that the frets are so tiny it does get hard to intonate, but the tone is fantastic. Run it with overdrive... My god it sounds awesome!

The first coat of oil was applied today... 6/8 coats to go (2 a day) and then onto the wax. Poly finish on the neck coming soon...