Vinnie's now-black Essence

[mica]

I'm sorry I couldn't get you some earlier images of your bass. When I'm sick, work still moves on!  

 

 

 

  The next time you see it, it should look much different with the changes you ordered: AXY pickups and a black finish like Brian got on his Essence.

[cousinvinnie]

Thanks again Mica ! This looks too cool already. BrianT, I hope it was cool to grab your trans black idea. Looked amazing on your essence !!  
 
Mica feel better soon...

[briant]

Nice.  
 
I stole the trans black idea from the Stormy COTM.  Obviously went with paint instead of dye but that's where I got the idea.  I believe you will be very pleased with the finished product.

[cousinvinnie]

Thanks very much Brian ! Your Essence looks amazing. One of the coolest Alembics I have ever seen. Hope it is serving you well.

[David Houck]

This looks very cool!  What is the scale length?

[cousinvinnie]

Thanks ! 32 medium.

[cousinvinnie]

Mica, just to let you know gold hardware has been changed to chrome. It will work so much better with the tran black I think. Hope everyone is feeling better !

[tbrannon]

Vinnie,
 
Great looking bass!!  Can't wait to see it when the color hits.  
 
In terms of the hardware change- make sure you drop a phone call into the fine folks at the factory (or have the dealer you placed your order with do so).  Mica is a busy lady and it's better to be safe than sorry with changes to the order- especially when the bass is already in process.

[cousinvinnie]

Thanks T. It had been ordered with Susan and my dealer both.

[doug_k]

Can't wait to see the trans black on this...
some nice flame on there...

[mica]

It's going to get the blackening soon. First we had to enlarge the pickup routs:

  With the sealer coats, that flame figure really perks up!  We're also going to drill the controls next week, and we came up with this a couple of weeks ago:

 (obviously before the pickups were enlarged!)

[doug_k]

Holy moly!
I bet Vin might be having second thoughts on the trans black after seeing these pics,
sick flame on this one, gorgeous!!

[cousinvinnie]

Nice ! Thanks for the amazing pics Mica !  
 
As for second thoughts on the black, we'll just have to discuss another one in clear gloss in the future, right Mica ?? :-)
 
I can only imagine the trans black over this will still show this outragious flame.

[tbrannon]

It's gonna look killer when the black hits it.  What kind of hardware are you putting on it?  Blackened chrome would be nice.

[cousinvinnie]

Went with chrome on this one T.