Author Topic: Ken's new custom Excel (Read 1065 times)

mica · « **on:** October 08, 2004, 02:16:23 PM »

Just a neck so far, but it's a start!

kenbass4 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 08, 2004, 03:52:54 PM »

Mica,

Thank's for getting a picture up. Another fine example of the elven smiths of Alembic hard at work!

Ai Elena!!

Ken (TEO)

palembic · « **Reply #2 on:** October 08, 2004, 04:07:50 PM »

yeah right ...what he said!!!!

Paul the bad one

mica · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2004, 05:37:25 PM »

Collected a picture of the Ash body before assembly:

kenbass4 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 16, 2004, 09:29:19 AM »

Mica, that figuring is PERFECT!!!

Now I REALLY can't wait to see the top on it.

Ken (TEO)

mica · « **Reply #5 on:** October 27, 2004, 07:02:46 PM »

Here's some pictures of the components:

Those stripes look cool

There's still some glue smears on there, so don't worry about the slight color differences, it is beautiful.

Here's the body assembled. Caught before routing

That Walnut looks sooo goooood. Will post more as interesting things happen. (Message edited by mica on October 27, 2004)

palembic · « **Reply #6 on:** October 27, 2004, 11:53:50 PM »

The wood visualises the sound coming out of the PU ...cool ...really cool!

Paul the bad one

kenbass4 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2004, 07:55:21 AM »

Mica,

Thank you for making my day!!

That last one is my work computer's new desktop.

Hey Paul, looks like I've joined the walnut crowd, huh?

Ken (TEO)

palembic · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2004, 08:48:13 AM »

Ahi tem refarna t? thi laa?ksi.
Ent thol brrrooooom.
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Paul the badly ridiculous one

BTW ...did THE liked your choice too?

bassman10096 · « **Reply #9 on:** October 28, 2004, 10:30:15 AM »

Makes me wanna be in the walnut crowd, too. Nice contour lines in the figure of that top. They look a little like rippling water. Pretty.

Bill

kenbass4 · « **Reply #10 on:** October 28, 2004, 11:41:23 AM »

Well, I'm offically on my lunch now, so work can't get mad at me now! :-)

Paul - If you mean Susan, well when I picked the top out, she was in a closed door meeting the entire time, so I never had a chance to talk with her. If the instrument is under construction, she must think it's pretty awesome, right? If you're talking about my senior mangement, she was suitably impressed when i picked it out, and she's even more impressed with the latest pictures.

Bill- Yeah, the figuring is what sold me on this piece too. In fact, I had originally discounted walnut as a wood choice, because I'm really not a dark wood fan. If you look at my Rogue, the color is dominated by the creamy color of the buckeye rather than the blueish color found on most. This piece of walnut just had so much contrast, I loved it immediately.

Thanks for the compliments, both of you! (actually they should be directed to the Noldor* working on this piece of musical art)

Ken (TEO)
*Elves that were noted for their talent with creating artistic objects

mica · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2004, 11:59:34 PM »

When I found your bass last, it was fully carved and ready for it's first coat of spray:

I suspect you'll see several coats of spray on your bass when you visit in a week. I'll ask Bob to hold off prepping it on Friday morning so you'll get a chance to see it before sanding for the next coat.

the_mule · « **Reply #12 on:** November 05, 2004, 01:16:04 AM »

Ken, the Excel model with two instead of one pickup makes all the difference (visually) in the world to me! And the choice of woods: brilliant! There's nothing like the look (smell) of walnut in the morning... You must be sooooo proud!

Wilfred

kenbass4 · « **Reply #13 on:** November 05, 2004, 07:41:10 AM »

SEE??!! They DO work quickly!

Mica,

Looks FANTASTIC!! That'll be my NEW desktop today. Can't wait to see it next week.

Ken (TEO)

kenbass4 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2004, 08:01:54 AM »

Wilfred,

Yeah, actually I have to credit Jeff for giving me the idea of going with 2 Fatboys. I have a Rogue with 2 MXYs and I was looking to get a completely different sound out of the Excel. You know, justification for Senior Management for a second Alembic.

Ken (TEO)