Okay, TB! - show me all of the best flame maple stuff!

[Katoosie]

Hi!

A TB challenge - I wanna see your best examples of flame maple necks, fingerboards, head plates, anything including really a tiger-like, stripe flame maple wood excluding the tops/bodies

Either something you've owned or not, doesn't really matter. The crazier, the better!

I'm looking for inspiration!

Go!

 

[2saddleslab]

Deep V contour w/ some birdseye and a little flame.

 

[unresolved]

Not super crazy, but looks nice in person with the mother of pearl blocks:

 

[musicman556]

Sorry, this INCLUDES a flame maple body, but also fretboard and headstock.

This is a bass I commissioned in 2018, received in 2019, and sold 2 weeks ago. It's fantastic, but I just didn't know what I wanted when I specced it out. I should have gotten a 4 string, and I should have gotten different pickups. Great bass, and the builder absolutely met all my requests. No fault on the bass or builder, just myself.

Live and learn!

 

[nonohmic]

Deep V contour w/ some birdseye and a little flame.
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I'm mostly impressed by that neck contour, kinda extreme eh.

 

[2saddleslab]

I'm mostly impressed by that neck contour, kinda extreme eh.

Kinda, yes. Owned a 56 P bass many years ago that had a V contour and always liked how it felt. When overhauling my Warmoth builds some years ago [2013-14] I decided to add V contours to both.

 

[Ken R]

Practice

piece for a neck fingerboard.

 

[Bass Viking]

My Ken Smith is pretty flamey.

 

[Katoosie]

PracticeView attachment 5010363 piece for a neck fingerboard.

Awesome. How did you treat it?
Again, I am looking for some inspiration etc for a possible flamed maple neck and fingerboard. Pondering over a very deep and rich green stain to it, definitely nothing subtle. I like your blue.

 

[darwin-bass]

I have nothing to show but as for treating wood to get colors, I've used aniline dye in the past. Powder mixed with liquid (water in my case) then brushed on. Clear finish goes over that.

I turned a walnut body bass I was building into a dark transparent shade of purple. With maple neck. Very cool.

Aniline Dyes

I see StewMac sells color tone liquid stain in small bottles. Hmmm.

 

[Lammchop93]

My homemade Ric has some of my favorite flamed maple grain

 

[kobass]

My EBMM BFR Fuego...

 

[BOOG]

 

[Wannabass]

This is all I have other than the sides of my mandolin.
I really like a few of the roasted flame necks I have seen on here.

 

[kobass]

Sadowsky NYC Verdine White Sig (Deluxe Satin finish)

 

[N4860]

Here are the ones I have that have some flame going on:

 

[PRS-Man23]

Roasted Flame maple neck/fingerboard (Harley Benton Fusion HH)

Quilt & Birdseye Maple Fingerboard on Ziricote (Custom Build)

Flame Maple Neck & Fingerboard (PRS Gary Grainger 4)

Flame/Birdseye Neck (Cort G290 FAT)

Stack of Figured Roasted Maple fingerboard blanks

 

[GBassNorth]

There’s the neck I installed on the Thunderbird I built last year, it started life as a used Fender/Squier neck I purchased off of eBay for about $150. I reshaped the headstock and then had it refinished by Pat Wilkins…

I know you’re not looking for body shots, but here’s the finished bass in full sun highlighting the flame on the headstock…

 

[BigBear77]

 

[BigBear77]