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Hi and welcome. Nice looking work there Mr Parsons. I hope you keep the lutherie going, even just as a side line, or for your own pleasure. (It's a hard way to make a living, I know.) I especially like the look of those semi hollows. (assuming they are semi hollow?)

As an x Tasmanian guitar and bass builder myself, it's nice to see some Tas. Oak and Blackwood. I started back in '78, working in just Tasmanian timbers and still use a lot of blackwood, Myrtle, Sassafras, Celery Top and King Billy Pines, but now I'm in Victoria I've added Red Gum, Queensland Maple and a few others to the mix.
 
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Thanks Durham52 and JIO!

Yes, I'll continue to build, just for myself at this stage but maybe venturing into some stock builds later on when I feel I'm back on top of things. And yep, a lot of my instruments are semi-hollow! Blackwood is pretty dense, and I like to keep things light. Plus it looks cool :thumbsup:
 
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Retiered from Northrop Grumman last year.
Worked on the James Webb Telescope and others. Now I have a SMALL shop in the garage to make anything I want. Great to do mods on guitar hardware. Played bass for past 30 + years. Enjoy the talkbass site very much. Tony ~

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Retiered from Northrop Grumman last year.
Worked on the James Webb Telescope and others. Now I have a SMALL shop in the garage to make anything I want. Great to do mods on guitar hardware. Played bass for past 30 + years. Enjoy the talkbass site very much. Tony ~

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Welcome Tony - feel free to post future projects at the Luthiers Corner. There are many talented and friendly/supportive people there! :thumbsup:
 
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Thanks Durham52 and JIO!

Yes, I'll continue to build, just for myself at this stage but maybe venturing into some stock builds later on when I feel I'm back on top of things. And yep, a lot of my instruments are semi-hollow! Blackwood is pretty dense, and I like to keep things light. Plus it looks cool :thumbsup:

Yes, Blackwood does look cool - first time I've seen it!
 
It's actually a very close cousin of Hawaiian Koa! Often they look identical, depending on where the Blackwood grows - sometimes it's honey caramel colour, sometimes it's dark chocolate brown :thumbsup:

My Factorbird fretless is made of Koa - very dense, heavy wood.

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Great thread Mario!! just what the doctor ordered.

My name is Scott most call me Scotty. I'm 31 years old. My family consists of my son who's 8 and my wife of 9 years who I've been with for well over 13.

We've got 4 dogs, the only one I really care for is a Chihuahua wiener dog mix that I playfully named Sancho. That said, Sancho is my homie! If I'm at home he's right by my side, and when I arrive home he's waiting at the door.

I'm a water treatment operator by day and I build guitars part time on nights and weekends. I've done repairs for a looooong time and I've been building since 03,

The number of builds I’ve done is in the mid 20's 18 of which are Redeemers. I named my basses Redeemer because I feel that any talent I have is not rightfully mine because it was given to me by my Savior Jesus Christ, so I do not find it appropriate to have my own name on them. (Please note that this is not up for debate, these are my personal feelings and if you don’t like them that is fine but please keep it to yourself and I will respectfully do the same for you and your feelings):)

As far as woodworking goes I've also built a little bit of furniture, my last project was a fireplace mantel for our home.

I started playing guitar at around 13 years old, I switched to bass not too long afterwards, I never really got very good at either one..... :meh:

I also like to build stuff from steel (welding cutting ect), I've built several custom cars and hotrods, my latest project is a bobber style motorcycle.

Short term goal; build a new shop.:hyper: Long term goal; stay healthy, happy and keep on building basses.;)


Sancho and me!
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Praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow ~~~
 
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I am Ric5 aka Jeff Rath. I have my degree in Architecture. I have spent 30 years as a cad / BIM manager. I have been playing bass since 1968. I have been building / customizing basses since 2001. I lost track how many .... over 50 easily. I used to make and sell basses, these days I make and keep basses.

4 to 5 bass conversion (3dentourage.com)


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I am Ric5 aka Jeff Rath. I have my degree in Architecture. I have spent 30 years as a cad / BIM manager. I have been playing bass since 1968. I have been building / customizing basses since 2001. I lost track how many .... over 50 easily. I used to make and sell basses, these days I make and keep basses.

4 to 5 bass conversion (3dentourage.com)


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Welcome! And welcome to another fellow Architecture industry member! There's a few of us here in the LC. Me personally, I'm now a foodservice design consultant, spent 10 years as BIM Manager at an Architecture firm. If you need any help with a commercial foodservice design, give me a shout. ;)
 
Welcome! And welcome to another fellow Architecture industry member! There's a few of us here in the LC. Me personally, I'm now a foodservice design consultant, spent 10 years as BIM Manager at an Architecture firm. If you need any help with a commercial foodservice design, give me a shout. ;)

Cool ... I currently work for an AE firm doing VA hospitals. We do sometimes have food service consultants.
 
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Hi,
My name is Charlie, i sometimes go by Chuck. So my real name actually is Chuck Norris.
I have been playing drums since i was about nine and joined a grade school band. I wanted to play trombone or baritone, but they needed drummers, and since i had not started to learn an instrument yet they made me a drummer. By sophmore year in high school I have been playing in rock bands. at first just doing school dances and such. While attending college i was asked to join an established gigging band. this was 1975 or so. I played for several years then gave it up after getting married and our daughter being born. Many years went by then i suddenly decided to get back into it. I bought a drum set and went with it.
Recently i decided to try my hand at bass.... I love it.
I am a chemical engineer. I specialize in building custom equipment for specific processes, including all the electronics and programing for control systems. I have always designed and built everything for myself. It is my very nature. I even designed and built a loft waterbed for my son about 35 years ago. he used it for about 16 years before he left for college.
So naturally i had to try to build my own bass.
It was a disaster.
I was not about to fail so i made about 30 bodies, and several necks which became "guitar shaped fire wood".
Each one was an improvement, until finally my work was on par to the 3 luthiers who sell their work at a local Custom guitar shop. It works great, because none of them really likes to build basses, and i see basses as so much more creative than guitars.
I am not a great bass player. So i joined a group on here called the mediocre bassists club.
About a year ago one of those members also started a group called the mediocre builders club which i also joined.
I learn sooooo much from kicking ideas around with bass players.
I reached an agreement for the local shop to sell my work on consignment as long as i am willing to take custom requests as well. I love it. I am also on the verge of trying to start an Ebay store. Since i am now selling my work I figured it was about time to join the luthiers corner and introduce myself.
My main strength as a builder is i have several very unique and creative designs. Right now i have 6 bass guitar designs which i build in an huge array of options.
As time goes on I will probably post some of my ideas and show my work, for now i am busy working on a new design.
My goal is to work with optical pickups as soon as they become commercially available. i am getting impatient and have started to experiment with various optical transducers for commercial automation with the idea that i can design my own optical pickups. Time will tell. I am very close to retiring, and the fact that will afford me more time to build basses is helping me to get ready to pull the trigger on it.
 
Julie here. Age: it's too high to count. Location: SW Florida but will always be a Chicagoan (first 64 years of my life spent there) Occupation: retired but before that 35 years in electrical construction including over 20 years with the tools and the rest as a project manager/estimator/electrical designer.

First build was a Strat, maybe 10-12 years ago. Have since made a second Strat, two Teles, a Ric-kinda-4003, and a Martin OM acoustic. I'm just starting a PJ bass, after a 7 year layoff.
 
I'm a 24 year old Turkish German student of physics. All basses I own are rescues, meaning they were in a state of disrepair and needed some TLC. I started building my very first bass from scratch now with local lumber, which I plan to document the process of building to enter into the next build off to get input, criticism and feedback.

I am an absolute amateur when it comes to building an instrument, but I know how to repair, modify and refurbish instruments. The very first bass I bought, which was a kit bass someone else built, but didn't care for enough, such that the trussrod was inadjustable. I turned it into a frettless, which helped straighten up the neck considerably.
 
I am not good at woodworking, or refinishing. Why would I even consider repainting a bass myself, let alone build one? 'Cause I'm just that stubborn idiot that is wired to think he can make it "better."
At age 70 I am now retired from a career where making it "better" was an everyday thing for me. Why change now?

The Universe has recently ramped up it's effort to pick away at me. So my main job is to fight back at that effort.
I know it will eventually reclaim my atoms for other uses. Being part of a new star would be the coolest. Though that will take a really long time, and a number of other iterations before that happens.
Maybe though, in that process, I can contribute a few molecules to an apple, in a pie, that a Luthier had for dessert. :cool:
 
Hello, I am new in the forum, I am a Luthier in Argentina, I work at the Beaudoux Guitars factory, by Fanta Luthier who made instruments for great artists and has a career of more than 50 years, today I am investigating to do a Bass VI, should open a new talk in the forum? There are some things that we still do not have good in Clara, especially measures of microphones and bridges, there is little information honestly, I apologize for my basic English, greetings and thank you very much.