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It will probably be next week before I actually get to cutting wood on this.  Once you start cutting wood then decisions have been made and opportunities for changing - or correcting - those decisions are limited.  The real challenge is that the neck fillet carve has to be the final one.  No opportunity for adjustment of neck angle - because of the fill-in carve - so it has to be right first time.

Also - there are other things to check with custom builds.  Such as 'will it fit in a standard case?'

So I do a lot of musings and ponderings and checkings...there are a lot of  -ings  in an average custom build!

This is one of the reasons I keep an old P body.  It's a good double check and, for this one, it gives me a decent guide how much wider we can go with the Sapele back if we want to:

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So I have at least 15mm each side of the widest part of the rear bout.

What I will do next is draw the back template in Inkscape and have a go at simulating what the revised concept could look like.  But that will have to wait - I'm just off to meet @scrumpymike who is going to pass across to me something VERY exciting (and this time for ME! :party: )

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Well yeeehar.  Wider , always is my philosophy :)   So go wide young skywalker.

Besides, i have a rather volumous bag...and it's not mrs bag, in case you were asking ,  thats biggger,  and taller,  than any of my bass cases. 

It's a Roksan padded affair and adequate for anything longer and wider than normal 34" scale bass.

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On ‎22‎/‎01‎/‎2019 at 12:51, fleabag said:

PS we need to know what's coming your way, otherwise i'm bubbling you to the feds

OK - I won't hijack my own thread, but it's this game-changing Gillett Contour 6 string Electric in Rocklite Sundari  :)

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It's been doing the shows over the past couple of months - it's the first full 'top back and sides' use of Rocklite Sundari worldwide - and now it's in my sticky mitts :D

The cutaways are natural walnut.  The top back and sides are artificial - the Rocklite Sundari (which aims to be an alternative to Rosewood, now highly regulated and restricted in use and sale).  Just look at that grain!

I'll do a proper run through when I get a moment on the 'Other Instruments' bit and on Guitarchat ;) but suffice to say I am VERY excited.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Andyjr1515 said:

The top back and sides are artificial - the Rocklite Sundari (which aims to be an alternative to Rosewood, now highly regulated and restricted in use and sale).

This is a very interesting development indeed. How does the cost of the rocklite compare to "the real thing"?

S.P.

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32 minutes ago, Stylon Pilson said:

This is a very interesting development indeed. How does the cost of the rocklite compare to "the real thing"?

S.P.

Well this is the exciting thing.  @scrumpymike works with Gillett Guitars and, through him, I've been able to see some of the innards of these remarkable basses and guitars. 

I won't go through the finer features of the guitar design itself as it is truly unique and I'm sure Gillett want to keep ahead of the plagiarists as long as they can - it and the basses have a number of patented features which helps. 

But, I've had the chance to talk at length with their technical manager and - bearing in mind these are both CNC'd and hand-tooled and finished components...high precision stuff - he showed me the components.  They were treated exactly the same as the mahogany components for the main production models.  It was finish-fitted, sanded, sealed and final finished in exactly the same way.  I saw some pieces close to and, if I hadn't been told, I wouldn't have known it wasn't solid wood...

By the way...there may well be a full feature in one of the major mags on this material and this specific guitar in the coming months...

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Thanks guys!  The really exciting bit is that so far most players prefer the sound of the Rocklite instrument.  Re cost, it's currently slightly more expensive than natural tone-wood.

All credit to Andy for having the courage to specify his guitar in this hi-tech material!  Fyi, we're just finishing a second Rocklite 6-string guitar for another member of this forum.  Could this be the future for our (currently Indian Rosewood) Contour S bass?

I'll give Andy his topic back now 😉 - any more questions to me via pm/phone please or follow our sponsored Gillett Guitars topic.

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Andy, thank you for being a pioneer ...I tried it @ Gillett, ordered immediately! Have visited the CNC partner...wow...will be finished in a couple of weeks...cant wait ...I also have the 4 string Slimline Contour Bass, which I and my band love...check them out

We bass players should take Rocklite seriously as a recyclable alternative...expect more innovation

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21 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said:

OK - I won't hijack my own thread, but it's this game-changing Gillett Contour 6 string Electric in Rocklite Sundari  :)

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It's been doing the shows over the past couple of months - it's the first full 'top back and sides' use of Rocklite Sundari worldwide - and now it's in my sticky mitts :D

The cutaways are natural walnut.  The top back and sides are artificial - the Rocklite Sundari (which aims to be an alternative to Rosewood, now highly regulated and restricted in use and sale).  Just look at that grain!

I'll do a proper run through when I get a moment on the 'Other Instruments' bit and on Guitarchat ;) but suffice to say I am VERY excited.

 

 

Funnily enough I was thinking of this guitar the other day when I got de ja vu reading about Fender's new Acoustasonic.

Although this is clearly on a different level.

 

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OK - back to the subject ;)

Well, I'm pretty much ready to start cutting wood.  I've found a decent piece of sapele for the back and the purpleheart is on order.  That should be with me Monday/Tuesday and then I reckon I'm ready to go :)

The pickup cover and control cover are just representative, but this is broadly how it'll look (without the chalk marks ;)  )      ((...and the peak won't be as sharp as that!))

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2 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said:

OK - back to the subject ;)

Well, I'm pretty much ready to start cutting wood.  I've found a decent piece of sapele for the back and the purpleheart is on order.  That should be with me Monday/Tuesday and then I reckon I'm ready to go :)

The pickup cover and control cover are just representative, but this is broadly how it'll look (without the chalk marks ;)  )      ((...and the peak won't be as sharp as that!))

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An interesting feature in this design is the bold move towards outboard stringing of the E and G strings.  Here we see it achieved by using an oversized bridge from the set of Land of the Giants.

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2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

An interesting feature in this design is the bold move towards outboard stringing of the E and G strings.  Here we see it achieved by using an oversized bridge from the set of Land of the Giants.

That'll teach me to rush.  Mind you, it has a subtle elegance don't you think?  And a surefire cure for neckdive ;)

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39 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

That'll teach me to rush.  Mind you, it has a subtle elegance don't you think?  And a surefire cure for neckdive ;)

You'll be doing one of those twisty necks liked @Saved next!

"Subtle elegance".  Okay, if you say so.  In the same way that Fender headstocks and road traffic accidents are subtle I suppose.

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