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Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:19 am**

*DAMN*

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:08 am**

Double DAMN

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:12 am**

Triple damn would do?

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:22 am**

We saw that bass a lot. It is a prototype 4004CII. Notice the maple fingerboard and tung oil finish. The body is the half and half type with maple on the front and walnut on the back.

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 4:27 am**

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:24 am**

Purty!

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:29 am**

omg i wanna fretless one! pouts

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:17 am**

sonavab_tch!

the daughter too!

damn!

hah!

sigh...(9)

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:20 am**

thanks for thinking of me...

that is a beauty!

Posted: **Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:02 pm**

It did play pretty nice, too. I picked it up and played it for a bit and then handed it to Paul Boyer to try, but I think he just wanted to take it home, so he put it back on the stand.

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:01 pm**

Wow! That is gorgeous!

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2006 2:59 pm**

Yeah, we saw that in the factory museum last year. It has some of the features of the early Cheyenne II: walnut on the rear of the body wings and the lovely quilted maple top. But the maple fretboard is a carryover from the Cheyenne I, and the semimatte (or is it semigloss?) finish may be unique to this instrument. I've seen a couple of other heavily quilted Cheyenne IIs, but these had the lowered pickups and bubinga fretboards. These were all previous to the Cheyenne IIb (if I may coin the designation) where body construction went to the maple/walnut/maple sandwich.

All fodder for the book.

Posted: **Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:42 pm**

This book is going to be a big coffee table book, right?

So many variations, so little time...

Posted: **Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:44 am**

I say again;

damn!

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