CURRENT CATALDO

[Highlander]

Art, my Don... nuf said...

[dadagoboi]

Well, around here we call it Blart, but thanks, Ken!

I'm sending a PM concerning tech stuff regarding photography.

[dadagoboi]

Uli Salm, my patron. six Cataldos among his five hundred plus bass collection.



40th anniversary celebration of 'Rudolf Rock & die Shocker' in Hamburg with two Cataldos, one on the shoulder and one in the rack.

[Basvarken]

That's great Carlo!

[slinkp]

Five... HUNDRED???

[dadagoboi]

That's great Carlo!

Thanks, Rob

Five... HUNDRED???

He auctioned off about 150 two years ago on Heritage including a dozen or so '60s Reverses. I'm sure he kept the best ones. Before I built this we had a good back and forth as to what to do including pix of a bunch of his 55-56 P's.



Ended up doing a little more relicing than this pic but less than originally planned.

[dadagoboi]

I'm finally moving on from shimmed neck pockets. Made a quick jig that rises .030 from the 15th fret to the 20th which gives about a .125 rise at the bridge on a 34" scale neck.

I worked with the blank of a 32" scale G8r I'm building and then decided to upgrade my MAX41 to a 21 fret set neck with tilt headstock and ebony fretboard.  Also going to do a raised center on it.







Harbor Freight $10 Wheel of Death makes a quick job of contouring.





One piece 1-1/2" poplar blank weighs 3.8 lbs.  About the same as basswood but harder.

Saturday Shop Snap

[Highlander]

 

[Rob]

They just keep improving Carlo.

[dadagoboi]

I custom mixed this from GM9792 waterbase/solvent basecoat with Kolorefx  'Silver Stunner' flake topped with Hi Performance Clear Acrylic Lacquer.  It's a combo of modern basecoat/clearcoat without the Isocyanate high or pot life of Urethane. It's actually 3 stage: Flat black/ Base Coat/Clear Coats.  The color coat required about five ounces of material.



It looks a lot better in this video:

Gets color sanded and buffed in about a week. The automotive acrylic lacquer is a durable but thin finish(compared to urethanes) with great transparency.  I'm gonna add 2 drops Mohawk Pano Lacquer per gallon and call it 'Nitro' Pretty much what everybody else does...

[Rob]

  I'm gonna add 2 drops Mohawk Pano Lacquer per gallon and call it 'Nitro' Pretty much what everybody else does...

[Dave W]

That came out great.

[dadagoboi]

They just keep improving Carlo.

That came out great.

Thanks, guys! Difficult painting last week with temps over 100 and humidity high. Heat index of 112 Tuesday.

[Pilgrim]

That is one of the coolest finishes I've seen.  Fabulous!

[Highlander]

Lots of