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nope its just the cutting thats being done by a machine, just to make sure all the individual pieces fit together perfectly. it'll actually be inlaid into the fretboard by hand, then the gaps filled as you normally would with a dark sawdust/superglue mix, then the fretboard will have a couple of coast of thinned tru-oil to darken it down a bit if needed

Haha i know, every person ive spoken to so far has given me the cocobolo warnings between that and the wenge making every tool it touches as dull as a spoon this is going to be an interesting one. and i know what you mean about glueing it with titebond, the last time i tried it (even with acetone) it turned to powder. ive had some good results with epoxy before, as you say, and with the Gel CA glue that gorilla do also, so one of those will probably be the solution also, here are the designs for the neck inlays, i actually did these a while ago... quite ambitious i know, but i think they'll be effective. theyre off with Bruce wei in vietnam for laser cutting as we speak, so should be arriving soon!

So every year or so, I seem to get the itch to build another bass (much to the dismay of my girlfriend) and this time around i decided that i wanted to be a bit more ambitious than i had been preivously, and build myself a hollowbody. id been kind of looking around for some bits of wood for this for a while and couldnt quite decide what i fancied, but i knew i wanted to do some abalone/mop inalys in the neck, as id done a few on the last bass id built and really enjoyed it. with this in mind i decided a darker fretboard would help them stand out, so i decided on ziricote. david dyke (who has supplied the fretboards for the last 2 projects ive done) had some in stock, and as i dont live too far from him I went to pick it up in person. to cut a long story short i ended up coming home with 2 bookmatch sets of cocobolo, a huge slab of wenge, a bunch of padauk binding and some veneers as well (hes a good salesman). truth be told i was over the moon to find the cocobolo, and although its not cheap its getting harder and harder to find these days, so i decided to bite the bullet while i still had the chance. the other thing i really wanted to try on this build was a bigsby tailpiece. not exactly the most orthodox setup, i know, but having both seen and heard them on a couple of stanley clarke's alembics, im desperate to give it a go (and ive got a fairly good idea about how im gonna tackle the challenges the bigsby will throw up on a project like this) as if all of that wasnt over the top/ambitious enough... a friend of mine whos an electrical engineer has agreed to help me put together a preamp for this project, so hopefully that'll be another fun little challenge to take on as well. wish me luck.... pretty sure im gonna need it! specs are as follows: Body: cocobolo/wenge/padauk/cocobolo neck - i had an old schecter stilletto maple neck which i liked, and so im going to reuse this (waste not want not!) - 34 inch scale 24 frets fretboard - Ziricote with abalone/mop storm design/ maybe bound with padauk? bridge - schaller 462 bridge tuners - schaller m4s tailpiece - bigsby b50/500 - (re drilled for bass spacing) pickups - MEC humbuckers preamp - custom built preamp (hopefully) thats the first rough our of the body design, although i've since made it slightly wider at the narrowest point... im also not sure about the pickguard, so that may be subject to change and this is the wood haul, i'll take some proper pictures of the cocobolo and put them up shortly, along with the inlay designs

This is my DIY project, hope you guys like it Singlecut Buzzard with nordstrand Big splits and hipshot hardware, body and headstock are padouk and the top wood is bookmatched spalted/curly maple. was trawling through some old pictures of warwicks online and found an image of one of the 3 original buzzard prototypes, slightly different body style but with a singlecut design as opposed to the final buzzards' 2 "horns", but without the pistol grip. really liked the look of the buzzard body shape without both horns, but was a big fan of the pistol grip, especially in a natural finish. so i basically just chopped and changed to pick the bits i liked the best. also has the forward volume control from johns earlier warwick buzzards and then the modulus and status ones later on, as well as john's trademark "1 gold tuner". sounds and plays great too, Fender tapewound strings are holding up pretty well so far. like i said hope you guys like it. This is the one of the 3 original prototypes for the warwick buzzard: ( sorry about the big images )

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1425655291' post='2709467'] The 2015 version [/quote] thats a gorgesous bunch, basses 10/10 would play.... couch 7/10 would sit