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Some exciting progress. The finger board is back from Haydn and as you can see, he's done a great job. [attachment=33091:Raysbass...board021.jpg] [attachment=33092:Raysbass...board022.jpg] The birdseye has come out beautifully and the subtle grain lines going through the inlays look fantastic. Robbie has also had the neck glued up for a while now and is ready to start shaping it. [attachment=33094:DSC00517.jpg] I also have a nice picture of the body with a scratch-plate on it just to give an idea of how the bass will look. [attachment=33093:DSC00580.jpg] Cheers

Just a small up date for you all. Robbie has sent the birdseye maple board off to Haydn Williams who is the Senior Luthier at Overwater. He will be putting in the Ebony block inlays for my bass. Im so pleased to have two amazing Luthiers working on various parts off my bass! Its going to be a truly beautiful instrument when its finished. Ill post a pick of the neck as and when i get the pictures! I have always loved the look of Garry's (lowdown) single cut. Seeing that pickup arrangement definitely influenced the ones im having in mine.

Nope, not getting the board bound. I dont think it will complement the bass too well, want to try and make it flow from neck to body a smooth as possible. Ill let you all in on the headstock design soon, the basic design is there but the finer details need to be ironed out. Robbie is a perfectionist so im sure the final shape will come out great.

Hey As some of you may have noticed from Robbie's own section of the forum, he is building me a custom jazz bass. The story goes, i wanted to get a custom jazz bass for a long time because i wasn't very happy with what's on the market at the moment. I contacted Robbie expecting him to knock me back being that he mostly does his own custom shapes and a few very special custom orders. However, he revealed to me that he had been considering making his own range of Jazz basses for long time and i had popped along at just the right moment! So here we are now, after a few meetings and discussions about the bass its actually happening! The spec is as follows... 35" scale length 5 string Jazz bass. Black Limba (Korina) single piece body. Three piece maple neck, flame on the back, birdseye maple fret-board. The neck will also have black block inlays! Robbie's new Jazz headstock design. Delano musicman humbucker at the bridge, single jazz pickup at the neck. Hipshot hardware and string through the body bridge. Not decided on a pre-amp yet! Its going to be good though! Some pictures [attachment=29759:DSC00151.jpg] [attachment=29760:DSC00516.jpg] More pictures when they arrive. Feel free to post here asking questions and making suggestions.

[quote name='Snakey Lane' post='501807' date='May 30 2009, 06:04 PM']And then there were strings [/quote] I got to see your beast yesterday when i popped up to RIM towers yesterday and it looks amazing. Everything about it screams perfection and class. Cant wait to announce mine when the time is right.