CHRISDABASS Posted March 18, 2013 Posted March 18, 2013 (edited) Hey! Just finished building this guitar and thought i'd share it with you Please let me know what you think Specs are One piece ash body with wenge veneer Spider burl maple top One piece indian rosewood neck Ebony board Abm brass bridge Locking grover tuners Custom wound wizard pickups Tru oil finish [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u227/chrisdabass/photo2_zpsbb090d20.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u227/chrisdabass/447F7FE7-576A-4F49-86BE-DC3F824FFEA1-2766-000052EF260304EC_zps0d43abe8.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u227/chrisdabass/F2D96D8A-A15C-4378-8E0A-7FE0F7783F35-2766-000052F0ADADAEE9_zps06b464e7.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u227/chrisdabass/A5A291C9-F043-4BBD-B6B2-CEA216B8F720-2766-000052F1B47D96D7_zps9619ee80.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u227/chrisdabass/5FB793DB-C6C0-4B22-9CE8-EAE039704E85-2766-000052F1ECE38479_zps6da9bf9d.jpg[/IMG] Edited March 19, 2013 by CHRISDABASS
BigRedX Posted March 18, 2013 Posted March 18, 2013 [quote name='CHRISDABASS' timestamp='1363624163' post='2014908'] Hey! Just finished building this guitar and thought i'd share it with you Please let me know what you think [/quote] Looking good. Any chance of a photo of the back too?
CHRISDABASS Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 Cheers guys!! Specs are One piece ash body with wenge veneer Spider burl maple top One piece indian rosewood neck Ebony board Abm brass bridge Locking grover tuners Custom wound wizard pickups More pics to follow once i get to a computer
CHRISDABASS Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 [quote name='OldG' timestamp='1363674897' post='2015517'] Very,very nice! Is that 'fender' scale length? [/quote] Yep! Well spotted!
Schnozzalee Posted March 19, 2013 Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) You built those!? What's your brand name?? Alesker? Edited March 19, 2013 by Schnozzalee
CHRISDABASS Posted March 19, 2013 Author Posted March 19, 2013 [quote name='Schnozzalee' timestamp='1363692892' post='2015851'] You built those!? What's your brand name?? Alesker? [/quote] I did We're called Alpher Instruments Sorry the old logo has a bad choice of font!
Schnozzalee Posted March 20, 2013 Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) Solid bit of quality, I'd have a hard time picking between the two!! There's something Patrick Eggle about them, but with much nicer body shapes. Youtube demos are the key to the future!! Edited March 20, 2013 by Schnozzalee
CHRISDABASS Posted March 22, 2013 Author Posted March 22, 2013 [quote name='LukeFRC' timestamp='1363953566' post='2020017'] is this the super lightweight one? [/quote] The super light weight one is the 5 string bass. This one is still quite light thought at 7.5 pounds
GarethFlatlands Posted April 10, 2013 Posted April 10, 2013 Very nice, but is the nut plastic or some other material?
CHRISDABASS Posted April 11, 2013 Author Posted April 11, 2013 [quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1365627408' post='2042151'] Very nice, but is the nut plastic or some other material? [/quote] Thanks! We use graphtech nuts on all our instruments
GarethFlatlands Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 Though so, it would seem a bit odd to go to all that effort and then use a plastic nut!
CHRISDABASS Posted April 14, 2013 Author Posted April 14, 2013 [quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1365787136' post='2044625'] Though so, it would seem a bit odd to go to all that effort and then use a plastic nut! [/quote] What other material would you suggest? Brass? bone? We find graphtech to provide a way better sound than bone and far better workability than brass. They produce a sound that we really like and don't grab the string and cause tuning issues like some materials can. Also don't forget that the nut only affects the sound of the open string. as soon as you fret a note the nut is completely out of the equation.
GarethFlatlands Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 My personal preference would be bone, and I do like my Gordon Smith but I'm not 100% sold on brass. I'm sure graphtec is fine, anything nice and dense that doesn't effect tuning would be good. Just not plastic as I use a lot of chords with open strings and personally don't like the sound plastic gives.
CHRISDABASS Posted April 22, 2013 Author Posted April 22, 2013 I agree! Plastic nuts sound terrible and can be way too soft making them wear too quickly and be annoying to repair / re cut. I've always wondered what an ebony nut would sound like?!
waldflote8 Posted May 15, 2013 Posted May 15, 2013 very nice, the top is striking and the ash grain has come out really well with the finish. Lovely looking rosewood too. To work with,.. how did you find tru oil with the different woods ? I used Organoil ( I gather they are both tung oil based) on a recent parana body/rosewood neck,.. gorgeous with the rosewood but didn't really like the parana. Very easy to mark the parana although I wonder if that is mainly due to the relative softness of the wood rather than the organoil,.. the neck is holding up pretty well. cheers.
CHRISDABASS Posted May 16, 2013 Author Posted May 16, 2013 [quote name='waldflote8' timestamp='1368636127' post='2079574'] very nice, the top is striking and the ash grain has come out really well with the finish. Lovely looking rosewood too. To work with,.. how did you find tru oil with the different woods ? I used Organoil ( I gather they are both tung oil based) on a recent parana body/rosewood neck,.. gorgeous with the rosewood but didn't really like the parana. Very easy to mark the parana although I wonder if that is mainly due to the relative softness of the wood rather than the organoil,.. the neck is holding up pretty well. cheers. [/quote] Hey Thanks mate! We've found that using tru oil on rosewood is a bad idea! The natural oils in the rosewood don't mix well with it and it goes all wierd after a while! We tend to just wax our necks now On everything else the tru oil is fantastic!! It really brings out the best in the wood and is very easy to apply! It's not very durable (better on harder woods) but the advantage is that it's very easy to repair any damage and also can be applied in very thin coats which i'm sure makes a difference to the sound! It's got to be better than tons of lacquer!! Cheers
waldflote8 Posted May 16, 2013 Posted May 16, 2013 Oh o, trouble ahead for me then maybe I ended up stripping the organoil finish from the body of my parana build, so is back to bare now. Thanks for the info. any suggestions for a good tung oil in the UK ? haha, it was a conversation with a mate about using loads of coats of lacquer and it being like putting the guitar in a contraceptive which led to the organoil experiment. I had made a nut from an old ebony piano sharp too but he persuaded me to use a brass nut. Be interested to hear how it sounds if anyone has tried an ebony one. cheers
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