Scoop

[quote name='eude' post='821196' date='Apr 27 2010, 09:14 PM']Glad you're digging my Finn mate, it's my main squeeze, pretty much only put it down when I'm sleeping, at work or driving.[/quote] Ewan, you must have a very understanding sexual partner; either that or your list of "down time" has been 'selectively edited'. [quote name='eude' post='821196' date='Apr 27 2010, 09:14 PM']You're going to love yer ACG [/quote] +100

I had the very good fortune to have a little play with this on Sunday up at Moffat. Now, I can't play sixers really, I get lost very quickly but HOLY sh*t that's a very nice bass. Congratulations.

I had a really good look at this when I was up at Alan's last weekend speccing up more ACGs for myself. At first I couldn't believe my eyes (see, I've owned Lazarus since Alan resurrected it) but then clearly it's a recurve SC shape and, most obviously, left handed. It looks great, it really does, and I'm sure you're going to be absolutely thrilled by it.

[quote name='EdwardHimself' post='801776' date='Apr 10 2010, 01:37 PM']looks like twill be great.[/quote] I'm pretty certain I saw this one when I was up in Alan's workshop speccing my fifth and sixth ACGs last weekend. Looked very nice indeed.

[quote name='skelf' post='819311' date='Apr 26 2010, 01:17 PM']Now there is a surprise. It was Perry.[/quote] And the Moffat Bass Bash finally has its motto...

On my visit up to the Moffat Bass Bash I just happened to go to Alan's workshop and specced up two more ACGs for myself. This is the build thread of the pale understated fretless one. I'll do a thread on the other one when I give Alan his deposit as I wasn't able to put a deposit down on both over the weekend. Soon... The reasoning behind this build was quite simple. The two basses that Alan has built for me so far have been really loud, in your face, visual pieces. There was the scribbly spalted beech top and spalted maple fretboard of the Recurve and the feast of flaming redwood that was the Finn build. Both were very busy and Alan admitted to me that he had reservations but figured that, in the end, I'd chosen well enough to stay just the right side of taste and decency. I wanted my next four string to be a fretless and I wanted it very understated by comparison to the others. I knew, pretty much before I arrived at Alan's, which top I wanted for this, which will be another Finn 4. And I was also pretty much convinced of the wood for the body core. I wanted a nice piece of lightweight spanish cedar. I have a spanish cedar core on my redwood finn and love it for it's lack of weight. So, the top... [url="http://img689.imageshack.us/i/scoopfless01.jpg/"][/url] In detail [url="http://img689.imageshack.us/i/scoopfless02.jpg/"][/url] No contest. Understated, still beautifully figured, but definately understated. That's a lovely piece of masur birch. But I wasn't really sure about the contrast between this and the medium brown coloured spanish cedar. Ten seconds later I had a brainwave and asked Alan to pull out a few blanks of white limba - which can vary hugely in weight. I chose a nice lightweight one and that together with a 4mm wenge accent sorts the body. The neck is to be made from exactly the woods, in the same pattern order as my redwood finn. From the centre laminate outwards wenge, bubinga, maple (or sycamore, I'm easily pleased ). Like this... [url="http://img709.imageshack.us/i/red7.jpg/"][/url] The fretboard is going to be jet black ebony with white quarter lines on the E string side (not the G). TI flats. Piezo bridge with single coil at bridge and MM sized chappy at neck. I love this stage of a build. It's exciting...

[quote name='munkonthehill' post='818330' date='Apr 25 2010, 07:06 PM']if its decent i will take it haha. awesome weekend Alan, thanks for everything matey[/quote] Hands off it's mine! No, actually, it really is mine... I'm a dimwit