Spectacular. And the intriguing hardware color provides the perfect contrast to the gorgeous top. Congratulations!!!

Here are the knobs.  Mica is taking better pictures of the bass on Wednesday when it ships, so I will post them here when that happens (unless she does first.)

 

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Yeah, Jerry, you really made it. This is an astoundingly beautifull bass, congrats!

All I can say is WOW! Incredible bass in every way.  From whom were the knobs outsourced or did Alembic make them up themselves? And are all those knobs for your bass so you can change them as as the mood strikes you?

thgknobs.com  I only got the birdseye/ebony ones.  The others were for someone else, but I'm certainly not opposed to buying some more so I can have options later.  He made them really quickly, but the turnaround time was about 6 weeks because of pending orders.  I was put in a long queue.

I think these look better than the other set I made.  Nice contrast.

Thanks, Roger!

Here's the latest.  
 

Ah, the sofa shot, beautiful!

That's a gorgeous instrument! Have years of fun!!
Michael

Here's what I came up with for the control layout:

  So you know what I'm thinking about geometry:

  And without any markup so you can see if you like it:

 Well, the ghost of the output jack interior still shows up there, but I think you can imagine it away.   Let me know what you think. Once we get the control layout done, all the wood pieces are ready to glue together and it will look like a real bass within a few days of approval.

Bass = neck pickup and treble = bridge pickup, correct?

Correct. I should probably say neck and bridge pickups like everyone else, but my dad trained me for bass and treble pickups

Layout looks just fine.  Permission to proceed granted!

OK, I'll print this out before I go home so the shop can start on it first thing Monday. Woo hoo!