Finished Pics. Back to the dark side - Trini deluxe tribute with added ebony

[TheGreek]

@Andyjr1515 has done 3 basses for me - so I'm three times as happy as you...😜😝🤪

[Andyjr1515]

1 hour ago, Len_derby said:

Hold my beer…..😹

 

Jokes aside, it’s all about making the commissioning client happy. 
I’m still over the moon every time I take my Swift Lite out.

Not a great photo, from last night.

 

 

 

And that, of course, was also a special one 

[Andyjr1515]

54 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

@Andyjr1515 has done 3 basses for me - so I'm three times as happy as you...😜😝🤪

...and so were all of those 

[Andyjr1515]

There's still stuff to do, but visually this is pretty much there so I'll do the 'finished shots'

Photographing this, with or without total cloud cover, is...er...challenging.  Anyway, here's a few arty ones:

 

 

 

 

And two or three in the great outdoors:

 

 

[ezbass]

To think, that was just a pile of wooden planks not so long ago. As ever, amazing!

[Paul S]

OT question - your bamboo.  Is it flowering?  I have one of those (a 'Speccie' ) that has been partially flowering for about 10 years now.  Not dying - but not growing much, either.

[Andyjr1515]

25 minutes ago, Paul S said:

OT question - your bamboo.  Is it flowering?  I have one of those (a 'Speccie' ) that has been partially flowering for about 10 years now.  Not dying - but not growing much, either.

 

No - grows very well but no flowers 

[Paul S]

13 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

 

No - grows very well but no flowers 

Good to hear.  Flowers are bad news for bamboo.

[SpondonBassed]

Beautiful!

 

Those machine heads give the headstock a very clean look.  I hadn't noticed previously how that style of tuning peg is independent of the headstock edge.  Can we have some close-ups please?

[Andyjr1515]

23 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

Beautiful!

 

Those machine heads give the headstock a very clean look.  I hadn't noticed previously how that style of tuning peg is independent of the headstock edge.  Can we have some close-ups please?

Thanks

 

They are Steinbergers and were designed as a replacement for the banjo tuners that were fitted to the original Gibson Firebirds, etc..  They are - even though at one point they were fitted as standard to the low cost Epiphone versions of the Firebird - the best guitar tuners I've ever used.  Exceptionally easy to restring, fully locking and really nice and controllable tuning.  They went off the accessories market for a while but are now available again through Stewmac (although like hen's teeth in Covid times).

 

This was a set that I fitted to our band's bassist's genuine 1964 fake Firebird:

 

  

 

The top T shape is actually the string clamp and the tuning knobs actually raise and lower the cylinder it sits on into and out of the tuner body.  To string up, you:

- turn the tuner until the cylinder is fully extended. The exposes the string hole drilled through the cylinder.

- attach the ball end of the string to the tailstock and thread the string though the hole

- pull it tight

- clamp it

- turn the tuning knob to draw the cylinder/clamp unit into the tuner body

- this tautens the string up to pitch

 

A complete re-think of a tuner 

 

[SpondonBassed]

3 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

A complete re-think of a tuner

 

You have to wonder why it hasn't caught on.  It's brilliant.

[Andyjr1515]

4 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

 

You have to wonder why it hasn't caught on.  It's brilliant.

True.  It's also a doddle to achieve straight string runs whatever shape you want the headstock to be