Author Topic: New Featured Custom announced!  (Read 343 times)

bigredbass

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New Featured Custom announced!
« Reply #15 on: July 02, 2010, 10:50:40 PM »
This is the same method that Paul Reed Smith uses to get those fabulous colors on their axes.
 
(BTW, you've GOT to see their Al DiMeola sig model:  Different parts of the body are different are different colors/stains, can not imagine how hard it is for them not to run together at the margins!)
 
Alembic's usual practice is to shoot several clear coats, then apply color, then with more clear over it to finish.  This way if you ever want a refinish, the wood was never stained as the color was suspended between the clear coats.  Both of my colored axes are shot this way, and they're beautiful.
 
But this is a really nice piece !
 
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jazzyvee

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« Reply #16 on: July 02, 2010, 11:47:45 PM »
So that means, my Purple Elan can get stripped back to clear maple in the future if I don't get a spot in Prince's band... :-)
 
 
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lidon2001

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« Reply #17 on: July 04, 2010, 05:38:25 PM »
Nice to see another short scale Bal-K.  Welcome to the club; not many of us out there.  Great bass.
 
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(Message edited by lidon2001 on July 04, 2010)
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