RIM Custom 5 string for Alex Claber (36 inch scale) Finished with soundclips!

[RIM Basses]

Matty bud,

Sorry to hear the moodster has laid you off, hope you find a good job mate. Things with me are cool, being made redundant in two months and I'll be getting my garage converted very soon for the bass workshop.

Speak soon,

Robbie.

[Bassmonster]

god i love wenge, looking real nice Robbie

[RIM Basses]

Hi Guys,

Well we decided to go with Ash for the body wings, Im gonna get the rest of the neck finished then we will be gluing up the wings







Cheers,

Robbie.

[RichBowman]

Nice. Like it. REALLY like it!

Good shapes there.

Keep it up chap!

Rich

[steve-soar]

Wenge. What a fabulous word and a fabulous wood.

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[quote name='steve-soar' post='55016' date='Sep 3 2007, 10:44 PM']Wenge. What a fabulous word and a fabulous wood.[/quote]

+1 ;0)

[alexclaber]

Looking good!

Alex

[RIM Basses]

Glad to see your liking the progress Alex, ok so today the Stainless 2mm x 1mm frets turned up and my new heavy duty Clamps. looking to fit the frets and have the wings glued on early next week.





Cheers,

Robbie.

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Your postie must hate you Robbie!!

[RIM Basses]

Hi Guys,

Well ive fitted the frets today and they look nice, gonna have them bevelled this week and hopefully the wings on by the weekend. The new Ash top should be turning up this week also and ive just ordered my Jet 16-32 Drum Sander.







Cheers,

Robbie.

Edited September 10, 2007 by RIM Basses

[alexclaber]

Looking great!

Alex

[7string]

The bass looks like it coming on a treat!!

Not too sure that I can excited by the Jet 16-32 Drum Sander though!!

[metalmaniac]

Ok come on post more pics I


I cant wait.. this is great

[alexclaber]

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Alex

[RIM Basses]

Cheers for putting the pic up Alex, Ive just got a new phone and I havent had time to upload the latest pics. So the frets are all in and bevelled, should be able to get the Ash top sorted this week coming and order the 2mm Dyed black tuilpwood for the contrast veneer.

Cheers guys for the interest!

Robbie.

[thumb4bob]

just got myself a RIM bass and ive got to say its one of the nicest basses ive ever seen or heard of let alone played or owned!!! Saw your bass personally yesterday alex and ive got to say you are one [b]lucky[/b] man ^_^

[metalmaniac]

*Giggles like a child*

[7string]

[quote name='thumb4bob' post='61429' date='Sep 16 2007, 10:45 PM']just got myself a RIM bass and ive got to say its one of the nicest basses ive ever seen or heard of let alone played or owned!!! Saw your bass personally yesterday alex and ive got to say you are one [b]lucky[/b] man ^_^[/quote]

I've got to say that the fish tail design is one of the coolest shapes I have seen for quite a while. Definately on the list for future order and it's not very often I say that !!!

[RIM Basses]

Hi All,

Well today I got the body ready for gluing the 2mm dyed black tuilpwood when it arrives tomorrow hopefully, going to machine the one piece Ash top tomorrow (lots of wood mess)









So the body is gonna look like this shape wise!





My new ride Volvo amazon 131, 1969

Cheers,

Robbie.

Edited September 19, 2007 by RIM Basses

[d-basser]

bass is looking awesome, cant imagine how you feel alex...i cant wait for this to be finished never mind you lol

liking the car to, that thing is more than twice as old as me!

[alexclaber]

Wow, it's looking great! Unfortunately the car looks even better, which somewhat detracts from the impact...

I presume the black tulipwood veneer needs glueing first and then the chambering routing out through that? Do we need to suss out where the knobs will go as the control cavity will be routed from the back or would one large chamber in each wing be the way to go, without a separate control cavity and just a small backplate cut out for access to the pots?

Have had a reply from Dingwall about the 4-way pot and circuitboard so I'm ordering that from them, will get it sent straight to you. Need your new address!

Alex

[RIM Basses]

Hi All,

Ash top machined to size today which made me lots of mess, got to get one piece tops cut to size in the future. So this is what its gonna look like!




With the ETS bridge unit.

Also the Black tuilpwood turned up today,



Cheers,

Robbie.

[RIM Basses]

Hi Guys,

Spoke to Alex last night and we had a good chat about the bass and stuff, today i machined out the upper cavity and glued the black tuilpwood and Ash top on the bass. Leaving over the weekend and we will get cracking on the bridge ancor and rear cavity next week.





Clamps!

Cheers,

Robbie.

[alexclaber]

Nice chambering!

Alex

[alexclaber]

Robbie, this is the control cavity of a Dingwall with volume, 4-way switch and passive tone with push/pull bluEQube filter, from left to right - just to give you an idea of clearance needed for the switch and the directly mounted circuit board:



Alex