Brian's Custom Quilted Maple Essence

[mica]

Nice piece of Quilted Maple:

  It's a neck!

  and a body:

  and the sandwich:

  Sorry about the funky color balance - I am not a professional photographer.

[David Houck]

Beautiful quilt!

[briant]

...and sadly not going to happen.  
 
Miscommunication on my part.  We're starting over next week.  It should have been a bookmatched to center top.
 
Full stats will be:
 
Essence body
4 string
35 scale
ebony fretboard (blank)
side LEDs in blue
5A quilt maple top bookmatched to center
flame maple neck w/ walnut pinstripes
flame maple body
orion style inline peghead
continuous wood covers on everything
all chrome hardware
inlaid logo w/shell
sheer black finish
Essence electronics + master bass control
 
Simple and light weight.  This will be my gig workhorse.

[rjmsteel]

Brian,
That going to be awesome. I see your keeping with the LED color, (on your Rogue)... just love them blue ones too  
Great choice also on the scale length too.
 
What do you mean by master bass control?... does this literally mean bass filter/tone, (master), control.
-Rich

[David Houck]

Brian; I love the stats.  Quilt top and flame Maple body under the black finish will look very cool.

[briant]

Rich - the controls will be standard Essence (volume, pan, filter) and then a bass control knob that affects everything.  So instead of a bass control for each pickup there is one bass control for the entire instrument.  My Rogue has the same thing but in addition it also has a master treble control.
 
I thought about a Q switch and decided against it.  I thought about adding a Rogue/Europa style bass boost switch as well and decided against it.  I also considered going with Signature electronics and decided against it.  I love the elegant simplicity of the Essence electronics.  They're outstanding for playing live as they offer just enough control to get what I want out of the instrument quickly on the fly.

[artswork99]

Brian,  Those specs sound great.  Nice use of the electronics package and a beautiful quilt I'm sure it will be.  I look forward to seeing it. Best, Art

[briant]

Here's to hoping a nice new body is being glued up right now.

[mica]

It's not getting glued up yet, since there's much more prep work to doing the bookmatch to center. However, here's some of the goings on:  

 

  Note the "BTC" marks on everything.

[sonicus]

I agree that an Essence  is a natural as a gig work horse. I love my other 2 Alembics as much but that Essence has what I can use to get through several long sets .  Of course like my other Alembics it is a total joy to play giving me back  as much as  I am able to offer .
The 35  scale seems interesting for string tension . I like the specs.
as well. I will be watching the progress.
 
Sonic Regards.

[briant]

I realize I'm being greedy at this point but can I get a little update before I escape into the Canadian Rockies for the next two weeks?

[mica]

The best I had for you on Friday was this:

 In the big torsion box clamps with the BTC front.    But today I ran across some more goodies:

 

 

  So at least these will be here when you return, and possibly some more!

[rjmsteel]

Looking Good Brian,
The blank fretboard\s going to look great with that awesome BTC top you now have. The flame in the neck, (backside picture), ........whoa....that neck\s got flame.
    -Rich

[Bradley Young]

Duuuude!
 
I thought you were a ways away from ordering this one.  Very nice!
 
Bradley

[tmoney61092]

i love the orion headstock with the essence body, this will be an awesome bass!
 
~Taylor