What do you think of my fretless idear?

[bassjigga]

Change to Aluminum side dots. They will also be a larger wire.
 
Also changed the accent laminate in the body to vermillion framed by maple pinstripes to correlate with the neck.

[bassjigga]

The deposit is in! Woo hoo!

[the_8_string_king]

Congrats, bassjigga, that's awesome!  I'll really look forward to seeing your bass in the FTC threads.  Ebony is one of my favorite woods for a top, visually.  Have you seen club member Rami's Ebony Alembics?  Awesome would be an understatement.  Rio in the custom archives is another fine one.  I'll look forward to seeing what yours looks like.  I'm also a big fan of BTC -my custom's gonna have the front&rear Coco Bolo BTC -which'll maximize the Coco Bolo sound.
 
I'm really looking forward to the Vermillion and Mahogany in the neck.  By all accounts, it'll add tremendous warmth, richness and depth to the sound -and really work well with and enhance the Coco Bolo laminates, and the Ebony and Maple laminates in the neck.  And (as you know) they say Vermillion works really well with fretless.
 
You'll love the Ebony in the neck... I can tell you that from experience!  I'm a little curious to hear the affect of just one laminate.  Mica told me that just one will provide 60-80% of... well, actually she didn't specify, but I assume the reference would be alternating Maple/Ebony laminates.
 
We're gonna have us a pair of pretty bitchin' basses!  Woo Hoo!!!
 
(Message edited by the 8 string king on December 21, 2006)

[bassjigga]

8sk,
 
Yeah I'm lookin forward to checkin yours out on the FTC too. It's going to be pretty interesting. My top is going to be killer.
 
Perhaps the only thing which will calm the wait is knowing I have to finish paying for it when it's done! haha
 
Dave

[the_8_string_king]

I hear ya!
 
Frankly, it's killing me.  But there's never a good time... but there are WORSE times.
 
I waited for the right special, and put in my quote when the pick a special special came along -initially thinking to use it for free Coco Bolo.  But Valentino was good enough to point out that'd I'd save even more with the 15% off standard price before custom features.  Then, with the maximum dealer discount of 25%, I ended up paying 60% of retail -50% of what the retail would be if I waited til next month to order!

[bassjigga]

Yeah mine would definitely cost a good bit more in 2007. Besides the baseline increase, certain other options like bookmatch to center (which affects us both) are going up too. I also though - who knows if the special I would want would have come up in like January or February and then I wouldn't really have saved any time and just paid more.  
 
Another advantage to using just 1 ebony lam (besides the cost) is it keeps the weight down.
 
Can't wait to hit the FTC.

[the_8_string_king]

Yeah, I can't wait for the FTC either.  When I placed the order on December 1st, I asked about it, telling Valentino I assumed it would be a month or two before they start; he said it COULD start as early as a month... but I'm figuring they probably won't start until Jan or Feb at the earliest.
 
I'm guessing that our necks will be the first thing we see, since they're unique/custom, and since that's where they begin anyway.
 
One of these days... of of these days we'll see our names on the FTC threads!  I can't wait.
 
Have you seen the beveled pegheads?  If you go to FTC and check out Rory's Balance K, you'll see an example.  Boy, does this look sharp -and it only costs an additional $250 retail.  I might add this to my specs -depending on how I'm doing paying it off as/when they begin construction.
 
I look forward to seeing your BTC Ebony Europa beauty!