Paul-
 
Stunning piece of wood. It'll all be worth the wait. =)

This is incredible, absolutly beautiful piece of wood.  I love this site.
Ken

Wow, Paul!  
 
This is beautiful!  Can't wait to see it looking like a Series II.  That quilt is gonna leap right off there.
 
Well, didn't make it to the big island and am leaving tomorrow. Sorry I didn't make it by to meet you in person. Next time I'm back the Big Island will definitely be on our list.  
 
Take care!
Jim

Paul,
 
The word you were looking for was adamant.Typically it means inflexible (or unyielding to pleas or reason), but it can be taken to mean anything that is impenetrable.
 
Just your friendly dictionary checking in .

Wow Bradley, geeze

JJjjiiimmmm---
 
I'm yelling in case you are on the airplane. Thanks for the kind words, and it was a pleasure anyway, sorry we missed ya.
 
I hope you had a nice relaxing time on Kauai. We would sure like to get there our selves just for a day or two if anything.
 
Aloha, ahui ho'.

Thanks Toby and Ken for the nice words also.  
 
I can't wait to see those boards polished.
 
Awesome, Awesome, and Awesome!!!

Paul, Like I told you, this bass will be worth the wait! Just wait till you get it in your hands and listen to the way it responds not to mention the fact that when you're not playing it, you'll just sit and stare at it for long periods of time. OOOHH...QUILTED COCOBOLO!!!!!!!You are one lucky you know what!

somanuhgun?

It won't be going out of our way to cut another set of accent laminates - we'll use the ones that were already cut on another project sometime. Probably sometime next week we'll be ripping more accents on the large bandsaw, and we'll just do some extra-wide Koa ones for you.

So on the build record, there were noises of including the sapwood. If it's something you really want to do, please confirm with me here and I'll get a placement photo posted. Let me know if you want to catch the sapwood at the outside edge or growing out of the neck on the inside edge. I don't think we'll be able to get both.

Thank you very much!
 
Paul

Honestly Mica,
 
I'm not sure what you are refering to as the sapwood. Is it the white wood in the middle? Or is it the dark edges in this case?

Let me put it this way, I trust your decision to pick out the best way to position the wood and grains. I can't honestly tell over these pictures and the bottom line is you folks do the best and I mean best job of deciding. So I really like to leave it totally up to you.
 
Thanks, Paul

Actually Mica, I did finally figure out that the lighter color wood is the sapwood and if it came out on the tip of the horn or something of that nature that would be fine. But if anything I would leave it to showing on the inside as growing out of the neck so to speak. If a little showed on the outside edge it would not matter to me either.  
 
So I guess I am saying that it wouldn't matter to me if it were anywhere on the bass. It's up to how you can make the best position agreeing with the rest of the grains.  
 
Again I am totally open to however it comes out.
 
Surprise me!!
 
Thank you , Paul