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And it plays! Mahogany body with a (what else but) Hickory top, presision and jazz single coil pickups, maple neck with a rosewood fingerboard. The first of many I've got two more necks and two more fingerboards with the fret slots cut in one. Two different body styles that i designed and a third body is ready but the neck is in progress. I'll post more on this one tomorrow and the others as they complete.

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what chord are you playing ?

Very nice work ! Sure it was fun to make .
 

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Dennis… it's a bass.
Dan it's not an actual chord that Im aware of… it just looked like one
And Giz… practice is coming up…
 

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Nice work Obi - did you buy the necks and finger boards? How difficult would you say the project was?
 

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Looks good. My latest project is at the other end of the spectrum-a Concert size ukulele.
 

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awesome… do we get a sound file to listen to?
 

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Very nice Obi. Dennis beat me to the "two strings missing" joke. I played bass guitar as a teen.
 

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that is one good looking Bass. How about a little "Night Train" or " Big Noise from Wanetka"
 

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Very nice. That bass goes to 11!
 

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Very nice Obi. Congratulation on finishing it.

Looks great.
 

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Hey Obi, It's good to see your face buddy! Someone said you looked like darkman, thats why you always covered up. I just thought you where on the FBI's most wanted list. Great looking guitar, master. Love that Hickory. Keep cranking those babies out buddy. mike
 

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Sweet!
 

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Nice job! What's the scale length? I love a longneck - MUCH better response with my heavy-handed "beat-the-stew-out-of-it" style. Are you going to go 5-string or active pickups in any of the future models?
 

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O.K. let's see if I can address all of these questions at once
Gravedigger: Double octave 24 fret and I'm not sure what scale length that makes it.
Cajunpen: I make the necks and slot the fingerboards myself (I just didnt on this guitar because I didnt have the blade at the time and I was kind of in a hurry.) I'm making two other necks (One for the Bass that is going to replace this one as my personal Bass, and one styled after a Les Paul with a Brazilian Cherry fingerboard and head cap.
Jockmike: AMERICA'S MOST WANTED
Deb: As soon as I figure out how and where to load an audio clip, I will. I might be able to load it to my website

OVERALL DIFFICULTY: High 6 Lots of specialty tools. Fret slot cutting blade cuts a slot 23/1000's of an inch.
 

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Great info Obi.
 

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Here's the link to the close-ups, and I need to take more pictures of it
 

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Great piece of work.
 

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nice ax obi did you know that some terrorists took 10 banjo players hostage last week in tampa ?
they swore to start turning one loose every hour till thier demands were met !
 
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