Thanks, I think. My guitar player at the time gave the Cuban Mahogany to me, his day job was cabinet making. This was wood from a penthouse library he was building in NYC.
The one I’m building now is going to be Tulipwood with 100 year old Black Walnut top and back, probably chambered. I’ve had this piece of Honduran Mahogany for about 20 years, it’s 4” by 10” by 10’. I’ll use this for the neck, my neighbor gave be two boards of Brazilian Rosewood I’ll use for the fingerboard. Probably use a 32” scale. Haven’t nailed down the body shape yet. I’m still leveling the abalone cut from two shells for the inlay
https://flic.kr/p/2hfuFVm.
I’ve gotten real partial to my Guild Starfire and I’m thinking of using two Bisonic pickups, I may even use it’s body shape too, haven’t decided yet.
In my youth (1967), I had a buddy who wanted me to try out his EB0. I had only ever played my 1964 Framus Atlantic, seen here when I did a total cleaning and set up
https://flic.kr/p/21bWuiM, another story. I wasn’t impressed, I was a kid and really didn’t feel comfortable with any other bass, at the time.
The Framus was my only bass up until 1981 when I was ambushed by the Fender Precision Special. I was playing two to three times a week not including rehearsals and the old Framus really wasn’t cutting it. The P Special is heavy, a boat anchor, but it’s the one that goes into the studio with me and be the last one I get rid of. The Guild Starfire gets most of the work now a days, for the more acoustic type venues I used either the mid 80s factory fretless Guild B-50 or the little and cheap Ibanez PNB14E guitar scale ABG either of these I’ll run through the Phil Jones two by four.
This one I made to take up to Victor Wootens bass camp, I attended a little over a year ago. It’s a 30 inch scale with a scatter wound 51 P-bass pickup. I had Victor, Roy, Reggie, Chuck Rainey all the other instructors, staff and attendees sign it,
https://flic.kr/p/WWj3fm Signed
https://flic.kr/p/KtxQWh
