...That is gonna look righteous! great sizing on the plate. Black pup & hardware,nice. What is the top finish gonna be again? M
Bill and I have discussed a finish but we have come to no conclusion as of yet. I originally wanted a simple finish with a mixture of distillate/carnuba wax/tung-oil. Now that I am watching it come together I am still leaning towards a "natural" looking finish with maybe dark paint on the sides and a clear over the top and back when they are sealed, but like I said, we have not arrived at a conclusion about a finish.
The build is actually a verbal contract between Bill and I and it seems to be a viable work agreement in price, time and a combination of what I want and what he wants to design. Just good respect all around. However Bill is not setup to do finish work at this time and if he decides to do it, it will remain on a limited scale basis at this time until he decides when and if to expand on this aspect of building. The verbal contract is to be finish sanded and that is where the agreement ends as it stands. I have been wanting Bill to build my bass for almost three years and I am happy he decided to take this project on. He has extended himself to me and I am proud that he has.
So the finish will be:
1) a BSC (beer, sweat and ciggie's) naturally applied one
2) a simple one in concept and design that we both can live with,
or
3) be contracted out to someone else and that is all I can tell you at this time.
The original idea of mine was to have a bass built from pieces I have collected over some years as inexpensively as possible, have a master woodworker of my choice build it and play it with love. I started out with a 100$ Epi I parted out 5 years ago on Ebay and have been collecting parts from the profits ever since. I have sold many parts I would have rather have kept, but I have tried to stay focused and this is the first of three builds (not counting amps) I hope to eventually have done. My entire setup a much modified Epi EBO, a 50 watt Bassman 10 in a tall Bandmaster head cab, an AB165 shell with chassis to be rebuilt as a Sunn 200S, a 2-12 Blonde Bassman cab, a NOS JBL 15" speaker and plans for a tone-ring 1-15 cab, enough parts to build my other two basses are all here waiting to be assembled and it all started from that 100$ investment and trading/selling. Some things are ready and rocking and others are still in boxes. I live on a social security retirement that amounts to less than 1000$ a month. Do not feel sorry for me as I have been many things. 7 years ago I was a salaried/stock optioned personel assistant to a multi-millionaire and I told him to stick it and drove away in my Chevy van without a penny in my pocket. I have never regreted it.
Cheers CW
