Very nice piece of Walnut; beautiful bass!

Beautiful bass!  But then, Alembic...right?

Wow Barefaced and Alembic, that's a win win situation. Bass looks great! Beautiful top

Thanks for the update, Stephen.  I'm in the northeast and the change in seasons really has an effect on the necks throughout the year. In California, I would guess that once the neck settles you are good to go.  I'm sure the people in the audience are going to love it when you break that out for a show!  And yes, the ebony laminates really do add a nice character to the sound.  Have fun!   

Great news Stephen, I too have been using barefaced cabs for just over a year now and they are great. Good clean power and hifi sounding

Yeah, the weather here the past month is like our yearly weather cycle compressed into weeks: crazy monsoon rain/flooding and then lovely warm sunshine, alternate weekly.

Yep, lots of rain this year that seemingly will not end, interspersed with a few warmer sunny days. I fully expect that once the neck re-acclimates to the California weather it will stay stable and only require the normal minor seasonal tweaking. Part of the problem is that there appears to be a new normal I have friends that first got snowed in and stuck in Tahoe when they went up for what became an extended ski weekend, then they came back to Guerneville and ended up trapped in their house with three feet of water in their basement when the river flooded a few weeks ago. That leaves out the last two years of issues with fires and smoke. Nature does her thing and all we can do is offer respect and play along...

Thanks again for all the nice and encouraging comments! So far the new bass has given me the incentive to do a lot of practicing as I adjust to the scale length, neck profile, string spacing etc. With the exception of my medium scale Series bass all my other five-strings are 35" scale and that is the scale length I have played almost exclusively for the last 30 years. I am finding it much easier to adjust my playing to a 34" scale than I did adjusting to the medium scale Series bass when I started playing it again a few years back, that was rough for me and never 100% successful.

Jazzy, I became aware of the Barefaced cabinets when you posted about them here and had to check them out based on your fastidious taste in music gear. Very glad I did as they have been a game changer for me in a number of ways.