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[Dave W]

That grain looks great.

[Highlander]

+1 on the grain...

Sorry to hear about the health issue... saw the pics of you with Enzo elsewhere... you out of the woods...?

[dadagoboi]

+1 on the grain...

Sorry to hear about the health issue... saw the pics of you with Enzo elsewhere... you out of the woods...?

Just finished the second sealer coat, it's starting to pop.

Thanks, Kenny, I've recovered.

[Highlander]

Good to hear... outa the woods and back in the swamp...

[dadagoboi]

...and into the shop.

A brace of 'birds. ExplorerBird to Italy, JAEbird USA bound.  Both Fiesta Red.





Poplar raised center on the Ebird, remainder of the bodies is basswood.  There's a good source for it in Ohio.

[Lightyear]

Nice builds Carlo!  The added plus to the cypress is that it is rot resistant!  All weather birds!

Is the cypress air dried?  I love working with it to begin with but air dried wood is a joy to work with.

[dadagoboi]

Nice builds Carlo!  The added plus to the cypress is that it is rot resistant!  All weather birds!

Is the cypress air dried?  I love working with it to begin with but air dried wood is a joy to work with.

Also waterproof, doesn't swell like a lot of fake mahoganies when you damp sand it.

The supplier does air dried rough lumber but the select stuff is kiln dried.  So far hasn't been too steep a learning curve to finish.  First clear coat:



Maple neck looks closer in color with same angle of light on it and body...maid's day off.

[Lightyear]

Nice!  I've never stained any of it but the grain is nicely figured a lot of the time.  I wonder how cypress would respond to dye black and sand technique to pop the grain? 

[dadagoboi]

Nice!  I've never stained any of it but the grain is nicely figured a lot of the time.  I wonder how cypress would respond to dye black and sand technique to pop the grain?

I'll have to give that a shot, maybe on the MAX Fiver.

Another great day for painting, mid 60s and 30% humidity.  Pretty rare down here.  I completed the refin of Nick's G8R Eighter after a long delay.  Pelham Blue Poly under nitro clear.

Here's the before, sanded and filled.  This is what happens with incompatible acrylic lacquer color and nitro clear coats.  Clear shrinks and gives a crappy crackle effect.  Would have been fine under acrylic clear.



Gray polyester primered G8R, JAEbird and EBird.



Sanded to 320, white primer coat, color coat and two double coats of clear.  Good afternoon's work.

[Highlander]

That is a blue...

[NOT]

I swear, Carlo, every bass you make drives me wild. I had talked to you awhile ago about making me another bass. Though, I recently lost my job. So that's gonna put a damper on my bass buyin'.. But I am curious - would this finish be an option?

[dadagoboi]

Thanks, Todd.  Sorry to hear about the job loss.

I've done a few relics.  This was an almost new Squier before receiving the treatment.

[Pilgrim]

Hmmm...looks like 12 gauge birdshot at about 50 yards was involved in that relic job.

[Highlander]

Left out back for the g8trs...

[Pekka]

I used a Warmoth fiver neck  for my 12er.  Again, single trussrod but no problem with string tension.  Both necks have 2 steel reinforcing rods but only the Eighter has the fancy strips.

Have you built any other 12-string basses?