eude Posted Monday at 13:51 Posted Monday at 13:51 This build diary is WAY overdue, as it approaches the last leg of the journey. As most of you know, I'm a HUGE fan of Alan's work, having played nothing but ACGs for over 15 years now! I have nipped and tucked a lot of what I need and want in a bass, as I've gone along, and as I've developed as a bassist. I've settled on 31.5" scale as my preferred scale length, having gone 34", to 36", to 34" to 33" on the way, and I'm officially a 6 string player, who dabbles on 4. Anyway, as with a lot of my more recent basses with ACG, this started as a sketch. I'm a huge fan of Alan's Finn SC Classic shape, having owned several, but I felt that it was a little large for a shorter scale, so the crayons came out >> The spec then started to creep >> And here's the spec we came up with >> Sona 6 String 31.5" Scale Hidden Set-neck Construction Spalted/Flame Sycamore Top Mineral Stained White Limba Body Wenge Accent Veneer Ash/Wenge 5 PIece Neck Plain Wenge Fingerboard Body and Neck all stained Black, with a kinda of reverse linear black burst on the top ACG RFB Pickups in 40mm casings, bridge pickup in a measured "sweet spot", neck pickup, not too far forward East Uni-pre 4K Preamp Hipshot Type A Bridge - Black Gotoh Resolite Tuners - Black 50mm Wide Nut 16.5mm String Spacing Flat/0 Radius Fingerboard Work commenced early 2025. More to come. 3 Quote
eude Posted Monday at 13:52 Author Posted Monday at 13:52 (edited) Top wood chosen, Splated/Flame Sycamore >> Edited Monday at 13:54 by eude 1 Quote
eude Posted Monday at 13:54 Author Posted Monday at 13:54 Body shape cut and rough edge contouring >> 3 Quote
eude Posted Monday at 14:00 Author Posted Monday at 14:00 (edited) Body and neck >> Getting everything lined up nicely >> Body meets neck >> Edited Monday at 14:00 by eude 3 Quote
eude Posted Monday at 21:16 Author Posted Monday at 21:16 43 minutes ago, Richard R said: I love ACG basses! They've incredible instruments, Alan is such a talented luthier! 2 Quote
WinterMute Posted 46 minutes ago Posted 46 minutes ago I was so impressed with Alan's willingness to chat endlessly about ideas and alternatives, completely happy to alter his existing designs to accommodate whatever mad ideas I might have had. My Krell fretless has a mahogany central block and ash wings, an idea that came from my MM 20th Anniversary SR5, Alan just said "sure" and got on with it. The quality of his work is second to none. 1 Quote
eude Posted 36 minutes ago Author Posted 36 minutes ago 7 minutes ago, WinterMute said: I was so impressed with Alan's willingness to chat endlessly about ideas and alternatives, completely happy to alter his existing designs to accommodate whatever mad ideas I might have had. My Krell fretless has a mahogany central block and ash wings, an idea that came from my MM 20th Anniversary SR5, Alan just said "sure" and got on with it. The quality of his work is second to none. Absolutely, Alan has always been more than happy to entertain ideas on further customisation, something that is only possible due to him doing EVERYTHING without CNC. Many luthiers out there use CNC for a lot of the work, then finish things off by hand, which means they can only build from templates and are way less flexible - nothing like that happening at ACG Towers! Quote
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