Barry's Dark Custom

[kmh364]

Dave is not done having fun with us....Barry's Dark Custom has morphed back into Gregg's Egg...what gives?

[David Houck]

Well I don't know any more than you guys; I guess we can all wait with great anticipation together .

[kmh364]

I got Barry all worked-up about his COM honors, and now the thing disappears! If Dave isn't the culprit, that leaves Mica and Val, LOL!

[valvil]

Hold on everyone, Barry's custom is going to be up again later today. Mica had to make some corrections.
 
Valentino

[kmh364]

Barry: Are we gonna get a report card for the new addition to the family? How is your new baby?
 
Cheers,
 
Kevin

[bkbass]

Excellent!She's bright and pingy like a Pedulla Buzz with much,much more sustain,certainly dead quiet,balanced perfectly,weight is very,very good and all the punch,clarity and variety of tones that the Alembics are famous for,overall 1000%triple A+ bar of Platinum rating(in my mind).Absolutely one of the best in my brood.I've never played an Alembic that I didn't like the sound of or looks of.Some however just seem to hang together a little better than others for whatever reason(s),this is certainly one of them.

[kmh364]

Another satisfied Customer! Five stars for Mica and Co. Now I just gotta talk Barry into letting me hear the thing in the flesh. I won't bother asking to play it as I can barely play FRETTED instruments, LOL!

[kmh364]

Barry,
 
Looking good, man. I dig the Europa/Orion headstock instead of the standard cone. I have to admit that I'm with Mica: I can't find the evil Pacman either, LOL! The flame purpleheart in the neck looks awesome as well.

[bkbass]

Alright,alright the PacMan is in the wet acetone shot of the back wood planks just look at the that dark circle about 60-70% down from the top at the seam.It actually has some sort of orange dot near it's right eye(the smaller almost concentric circle within the larger darker one)which facing us would be on the left.He's not gobbling anything,his mouth is closed but his other eye has sort of a scowl to it.Thus evil.I dunno maybe I'm crazy.Mica,I'm very,very pleased the way this is coming together,can't wait to hold her and play her(yep she be a lady).

[kmh364]

Using your best Dr. Evil voice (pinky held up to mouth is optional): Does that Pacman on the back lam make this an.....EVIL Rogue?

[bkbass]

I think Rami's Evil Twins are so far the only real evil Rogues out there right now.They got that Darth Vader thing happening.Anyone got any pix of other Rogues that might be considered evil?I guess they should be posted elsewhere under showcase or something.But you never answered the question do you see the PacMan?

[kmh364]

Now that you point it out I do. It's a book match so now you'll have two mirror image evil Pacmans (Pacmen?) on your bass. As an infamous nitpicking, anal, detail-oriented Engineer/Inspector, I should be ashamed of myself for missing that. I hope my Contractors aren't reading this, LOL!

[mica]

Caught the body halves in the glue-up clamps this week:
 

 
Hope you can tell how purple that wood is.

[kmh364]

That is some purple sandwich!

[mica]

Everytime I was taking pictures this week, I couldn't help but notice your bass. The purpleheart is almost shocking. Here's what I collected over the last week:  

 In the pipe clamps with the vestigal tail.  

 That tail's gotta go.  

 Side after rough shaping, lots of sanding left to do.  

 Side of peghead after rough shaping.  Don't be worried about the color of purpleheart, it's dusty from sanding. It will be restored to that crazy bright color once we clean it up and hit it with the spray.