Author Topic: Michael's Custom Epic (Read 1881 times)

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #45 on:** October 30, 2003, 10:34:25 AM »

Hi Mica, thanks for the pic. It looks great. Seeing what stage it's in now, could you possibly give a rough estimate on the completion date. Not trying to rush, just curious.
Thanks again.

mica · « **Reply #46 on:** October 30, 2003, 10:41:04 AM »

Right now the bass is waiting in line for the fingerboard inlay. Looks like it will get its turn the week of November 10th. After that, a few more coats of finish and the final setup, so I'll guess I'll be dropping it off by the end of November.

smokin_dave · « **Reply #47 on:** October 30, 2003, 11:20:38 AM »

Wow,that looks so cool.What a beautiful top.What's being inlayed in the fingerboard?

mica · « **Reply #48 on:** October 30, 2003, 12:42:31 PM »

a small inifinity symbol at the 12th fret with the rest of the fingerboard blank.

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #49 on:** November 30, 2003, 10:10:26 AM »

Hello Mica, hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Just wondering about my Epic. It's gotta be close, right? Anymore pics?

mica · « **Reply #50 on:** December 05, 2003, 07:20:09 PM »

Not quite ready yet. I'll have to adjust the delivery expectation to just shy of Christmas. I'll be delivering it in person, so I'll coordinate with you so hopefully we can meet at Guitar Showcase unless you'd like to make arrangements to pick it up here. Let me know your preference. Sorry about no new pics today - spray room was still wet when I went around to do photos.

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #51 on:** December 06, 2003, 12:11:21 PM »

Thanks for getting back to me. I am going on vacation back home to Hawaii for the holidays. I won't be back until Jan. 1, so I guess it will have to be a 2004 Epic. If you could just take a few photos(maybe different angles, headstock, backside, etc.) for me to hold me off until the new year, I would so much appreciate it. I put all these photos in a folder on my desktop so whenever I want to dream about my baby, they're just a click away. Thanks again, and if I don't talk to you before the new year, have a great holidays.

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #52 on:** January 03, 2004, 10:33:23 PM »

Hello Mica, Happy New Year! Just wondering when I can pick my Epic up from Guitar Showcase. I just got back from Hawaii and all though I love it there, I was very excited to get back so I could pick up my baby. Please let me know when I can pick it up. Thanks.

mica · « **Reply #53 on:** January 06, 2004, 12:12:02 PM »

I'm next at Guitar Showcase on the 22nd. The earlist I can arrange to have you pick it up here is around the 15th. Let me know what works out best for you.

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #54 on:** January 10, 2004, 09:07:41 AM »

I waited this long, what can a couple more weeks hurt. I'll just wait till you get down here on the 22nd, because I can't make it up there on the 15th. Let me know what time of day it will be there. Until then can I get a sneek peek. Thanks.

mica · « **Reply #55 on:** January 21, 2004, 04:27:46 PM »

Sorry Michael,

I picked up a nasty cold in San Diego, I don't think I'll be making the drive down there tomorrow. I've made arrangements with Terry to be there on the 29th. If I have a sudden improvement and can make it tomorrow, I'll let you know.

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 23, 2004, 01:01:44 PM »

The 29th is fine for me. I get off work at 3:30 and can probably be at Showcase at 4:00.

palembic · « **Reply #57 on:** January 28, 2004, 08:38:00 PM »

So let me guess: the big meeting wil be in 24 hrs??? Or in 12 hrs?? Or in 36 hrs?? THese timezones always confuse me.

bob · « **Reply #58 on:** January 28, 2004, 10:35:02 PM »

Paul, I have trouble with this as well, but I'm pretty sure it would be about 20 hours from the time of your posting.

It's always seemed to me that posting times are displayed as my local time. Yours was at 8:38 pm, which seems about right because it wasn't there before dinner but is now. So from 8pm tonight til 4pm tomorrow comes in somewhere between your first two estimates.

The only reason I have a chance of figuring this out is because I live here :-)

Now, as I recall, our friend Michael got another new bass sometime within the last year, and in that case Mica actually stopped somewhere on her drive down, and posted a preview picture. I thought that was a bit excessive - I mean, come on now, the guy is going to have it in his hands in just a few more hours, right?

But anyway, congratulations Michael. And while you're waiting, how did you arrive at the precise pickup locations? Is this a matter of playing style and where your hands end up, or based on some complicated string harmonic analysis, or perhaps even just a visual thing? I'm curious.
-Bob

ichinumba9 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 29, 2004, 10:23:07 AM »

Bob, it was a combination of all that you stated except the visual thing. I wanted to get a little bit fatter sound when I soloed my bridge pickup. I thought it was a little too brittle in the regular positioning. I looked at a lot of different basses and their pickup positioning. It is very intriguing to me how the different positions can alter TONE. So, anyways it is a bit of an experiment.