Hello everyone,
I have been around the board for a while and had a lot of help in the last few weeks from the good folks around here, but I never got around to formally say “Hi!”.
Last year in July I had the opportunity to fulfill a dream and bought a Series 2 short scale in Cocobolo (my avatar) and named her very creatively “Ms. Coco”. I began to explore the new world of online bass instructions (I hadn’t really played much bass for almost 35 years other than a few tracks here and there in the studio).
Ever since I first played Ms. Coco I began wondering what it would be like to have a fretless in the same or similar configuration. In early summer this year I got serious about finding a fretless short-scale Alembic or converting a fretted one to fretless myself (or rather my Luthier). I finally found an older Series 1 bass in Canada that fit the bill and was not priced too dearly and after a reasonably period of belly-aching over it I bought it with the intention to turn it into a fretless.
Well, a few days after the Koa topped Series 1 arrived from Canada I got a note from one of the members here making me an offer I could not refuse to buy his defretted, epoxied (by HG Thor) Brown Bass—and so I did…buy it.
So now here I am—quite speechless, despite the many words—as the lucky care-taker of three outstanding basses. My wife got creative with the camera a few days ago, so I thought I’ll introduce myself and my 3 Spice Girls properly. Meet Ms. Coco, Ms. Honey and Ms. Sugar. You can guess which is which
.
Oh, about myself … not much to tell other than music addict from Vienna/Austria, residing for the last 22 years in North Texas (Dallas area). Please to make your acquaintance. Tschamsterdiener, as the seasoned Viennese would say.
