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Author:  cyrguitars [ Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Lefty Bass Progress
I level-sanded and polished the body for this bass yesterday. The finish is 12 coats of KTM-9 applied with a brush over three coats of epoxy grain filler. I wet-sanded with 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, and 2000 3M paper before polishing by hand with StewMac Swirl Remover. The body is Black Swamp Ash. The 5/16" figured maple top plate has a little spalt in it.

The 24-fret neck is curly hard maple - three pieces with Indian rosewood stripes, an Indian RW fingerboard with dice inlays at the 12th fret, and a curly maple overlay on the headstock.

The customer lives in Las Vegas and works for Hard Rock Casino. [:Y:]

--Steve

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Author:  Ziegenfuss [ Mon Feb 16, 2009 3:50 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefty Bass Progress
Looking great! Make sure to post pictures when you are done...

The dice inlay look really good!
Author:  cyrguitars [ Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefty Bass Progress
Ziegenfuss wrote:
Looking great! Make sure to post pictures when you are done...

The dice inlay look really good!


These are the knobs I made for it. Betcha can't guess where the customer lives!
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Author:  Ziegenfuss [ Wed Mar 04, 2009 12:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefty Bass Progress
My first guess as to where the customer lives would be:

LAS VEGAS!!!

But even if I am wrong, it still looks really good!
Stephen
Author:  cyrguitars [ Thu Mar 05, 2009 1:13 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Lefty Bass Progress
Ziegenfuss wrote:
My first guess as to where the customer lives would be:

LAS VEGAS!!!


Hit the nail on the head. The dice on the fingerboard are a reproduction of the logo on his business card. Ten gold stars for Ziegenfuss!

I shipped the bass yesterday. Hope he likes it!

--Steve
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