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This is the NAMM 2010 bass I finally received this past week from Bass Player after their June '10 review of it. I bought it from Martin while at the NAMM Show.

Walnut body with Spruce top, Maple neck with Ziricote fingerboard, Walnut headstock. Check out the headstock detail! Citron humbucking pickups, passive electronics with VPT controls; the tone control has a pull switch to change the way the pan control works, when down, the pickups pan in the usual way, pulled up, the pickups pan from the inner coils to the outer coils. Hipshot tuners and bridge; I added the Schaller straplocks.

Nice! What are those roundwound things doing on there????

Very nice Jeff. Glad to see you finally got it. Congrats and enjoy it. Lets hear some sound clips!

windchimp wrote:Nice! What are those roundwound things doing on there????

They will be coming off and TI Jazz Flats will be going on.

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.

It looks as if it might sound really woody! (in the right sort of ways) Very nice!

I did a stitched on headstock like that converting a strat neck to a cittern..

emac.

weemac wrote:I did a stitched on headstock like that converting a strat neck to a cittern..

emac.

Pics?

Whoa, Nice bass, Jeff! The fingerboard grain reminds me of the traditional Chinese watercolor paintings of mountains.
Love the body binding too!

So, now I have a name for the bass, 山景!

Now that's a really cool name, my friend!

I hope I got it right!

A couple more pics.

Howsabout some sound clips? Do one with the rounds then with flats please!

windchimp wrote:Howsabout some sound clips? Do one with the rounds then with flats please!

See 5th post for details!

Paul, is that your home in the middle, there?

I would love that if it were mine.