Dave's Short Scale Buckeye Burl

[hollis]

Sweet!

[flaxattack]

looks like marble... neeeet

[bsee]

Fabulous top - I love the blue stuff!

[the_mule]

This will be a stunning looker, and I've no doubt that it will sound great too. I love the picture of the rough neck 'joint' (wrong term with a neck thru bass, I know). Makes you realise what it all began with: back to the roots! (well, at least to the tree)
 
Wilfred

[dmldds]

Mica,
 
Awwwwwwwwww...she's a beaut...and then some...great work folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Thanks to hollis, flaxattack, bsee, and Wilfred for the kudos...
 
David Lambert

[dmldds]

Now folks here's a stretch...
 
...there's buckeye burl...and then there's buckeye burl.  My Spector NS 5 is buckeye burl - and it looks nothing like this SC short scale.
 
I'm a doc and the thought occured to me...the wood looks like some pathology I've seen on slides...it looks almost exactly like polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma of the salivary glands.
 
I should post a pic...

[marcm]

david
 
as beautiful as that buckeye burl is as the top- and back wood for your new bass, i imagine that it might be rather terrifying to be shown an image of a tissue specimen from one's own body that bore a close, if incidental, resemblance to it (imagine the late gilda radner, as the character emily latella (?) from the original saturday night live, saying did THAT come out of me?)
 
perhaps not so incidental.  aren't burls essentially benign tumors?
 
in any event, that's off-topic.  you've chosen amazing wood for your top and back, and it is perfectly complimented by the purpleheart neck- and accent lams
 
it's a knockout.  congratulations!
 
 
marc

[dmldds]

(g)...
 
Thanks.  I'm in love with it too...

[hydrargyrum]

Hmm,
 
Histology of woods.  I can't wait to see those necrotic lesions all shined up.  
 
Something just sounds wrong about that . . . beautiful bass though.

[jeff]

When the finish hits this baby, she's gonna be a real looker. David, you must be one proud papa to be.

[dmldds]

Mica,
 
Too cool.  It looks awesome!  Tell me, is this the current stage of construction?  Any idea on ETA?
 
thanks,
 
DML

[mica]

As of last week, your bass was in the finish department. I keep missing Bob for a pre-prep picture, but here's one from yesterday with most of the top sanded:
 

 
Hope to get one before prepping so you can see the wood better, but there's a peek along the edge. It's looking great.  
 
Very hard to estimate the finish time on burl woods. Even though this looks mostly done, it's still sucking up the paint. I will guess that this bass will be with Bob in finish for 7-10 days more. After curing, rubout, buffing and setup, that should put it sqarely at 1 month.

[dmldds]

Wow, Mica..............outstanding!!
 
She's a looker, no doubt!  I know she'll sound awesome too.
 
I'm wondering if the light in the shop is playing tricks on me or what.  It seems to have a greenish hue to it.
 
I'm so impressed.  Already at this preliminary point, aesthetically it goes well beyond my expectation.  Thanks for uploading the photo.  And thanks for the update on the ETA.
 
Give my regards to everybody.
 
DML

[dmldds]

........damn......now I'm going to want another one....
 
DML

[1stbass]

David,
WOW, That is a beautiful SC. Ya that's the problem. These things are like potato chips, you can't have just one.
BOL.
 
Doug