rickenbrother wrote:Very nice Jeff. Glad to see you finally got it. Congrats and enjoy it. Lets hear some sound clips!
Eventually, once i get around to recording something with it. I took it to The KARMA Kings gig last night and used it for a few songs. Shari loved the growl it has.
We met up with Martin today, he was in the area (Oberlin College) this past week for a
Violin Society Of America workshop on ultra advanced concepts and techniques of lutherie, it is the June 6-12 Acoustics workshop at the top of the list. I told him how we are pretty much anoraks on the RRF regarding the details of things like neck girth and thickness, body shape variations, you know, the stuff we fight over on the RRF. He said we are rank amateurs!
These guys he spent the week with obsess over the difference in a fraction of a millimeter of the shape of a fingerboard!
There is some detail work that Martin needs to do on the bass due to NAMM show attendees and the BP staff getting their paws all over the bass, things like scrapes from those nasty roundwound strings (D'Addario XLs) and such, so he is taking the bass back with him to Woodstock to take care of it and send it back to me in a week or so; he would have done so before I got the Elfin but BP took a bit longer than expected so Jonathan Herrera shipped the bass straight to me. Last Sunday Shari and I met Martin for brunch on his way here from Woodstock; I wish he were a member of the RRF, he knows a ton of stuff that could be useful, especially in the theory side of instrument building. He has owned Rick basses in the past and has worked on some for clients. I brought the 4005WB for him to see today, he was salivating over it, luckily, not literally.
