Agreed the BEs are ridiculously well built. I have a BE4 Exotic and just (finally) got a matching BE5. Probably the best built basses I own, and nowhere near the most expensive. 600 quid is a steal.
Totally forgot to mention, but we did quite the sizeable festival gig in summer with our Faithless Tribute ….. The Faithless.
Bass is my own Infinite Custom MS5 build with Flatwounds and EMG DC pickups. Lots of OC and Future Impact of course….
So the headless is now done….. 3.45 kg. Very nice weight.
I am missing a knob…. But have one in the house so should be all done tomorrow. Appears I will not need to do too much to make it play nice, as the action is pretty decent already.
I did small surface area, thin coats when I saw how thick it was ….. from a distance it looks okay, but up close the finish is just fugly. Had better results using a 5£ can of car paint. Maybe I had a bad batch, I have enquired…
So I decided to try the Crimson Wipe on Water based lacquer……. Like trying to coat your instrument with honey!
Utterly useless stuff. Now will need to let it cure (2 weeks max), before I coat again with something that actually does work…… anyway……never again Mr Crimson.
Bubinga neck on oil coat 4, headless body coat 1 and classic body (well see above).