Hi Graeme.  There's not much to look at yet, but here's where you'll get to see the whole thing take form. Here's the very first part of your bass:  

 

Woo-Hoo, You've no idea how happy this has made me this morning. i'll probably spend most of the day just looking.  
Only one thing Mica, shouldn't the title be Rogue for Graeme

I KNOW THE FEELING JACKO- just got home and i am staring - all i could see last night was on my laptop
:-)

I'm hopeing to join the Woo Hoo! club myself soon.
 
So is this a 5 or a 6 Europa?
 
- Jim

Jim.
As you can see from the title change, I'm getting a rogue - 5 string fretless with coco bolo top laminate and purpleheart neck laminates.
 
graeme

Cool, it's definitly sounding like a CocoBolo christmas over at Alembic.  I think I must be the only person getting a bass done that isn't going to be CB.
 
- Jim

Nice to chat with you today. Here's that weird piece of Coco Bolo I was telling you about:
 

 
Let me know if you like it.

looks fantastic Mica. Just the effect I was looking for - very 'different'. lets go ahead with this.
 
graeme
 
p.s. hope the move goes well

Thanks! I'm glad you liked the top, it's really unusual, and dynamic. Bob was happy you shared his taste.

WOW!!!!  What an absolutely gorgeous piece of cocobolo!  
 
Mica and/or Val:  
 
Is there anymore like this?  I'd be very interested in a piece like this for the back of my custom Further.
 
Bill, tgo

One with the clamps in action:

  And that top is under the gluing caul:

  Bill, we've always got weird wood around. Of course, no two pieces are ever the same, but I bet we've got something that has a similar "spirit" as this one. When are you going to be in Santa Rosa next?

Mica or Val, What a great piece of Coco! Is that picture oddly exposed or am I seeing lots of yellow in the grain? From past experience, what will the color of this board end up like after you shoot the finish? Will it be more toward the reddish-orange end of the spectrum? It seems like cocobolo changes color so much every time  a picture is posted on the same project that it becomes difficult to make a decision based on what I see. One that comes to mind is Rory's cocobolo bass in that the first posting of the raw piece the wood appears dark  brown yet when finished a beautiful deep reddish tone surfaces. I find that facinating but difficult to predict. I leave it in your expert hands. Mike

wow- graeme   you dog you=lol
what a nice piece of coco....

ohhh yes! Can't wait to see it under some finish.

hey Mica.  
happy new year and I hope your move went well. Valentino mentioned that the fingerboard was almost finished. Any chance of some pictures to keep me motivated?  
 
graeme