In the rubout room:
 

 
The first fret inlay won't go in until next week. Will get you more photos before it ships. Wow, what a piece of Walnut!!

Wow Mica, great piece of Walnut !
What kind of Walnut is this ?

This is classified as Superb Walnut in our book. Most of the Walnut we buy is from a wonderful man that knows just about every tree in the state of California. Much of the Walnut he gets is from older orchards, and he arranges with the planters to help remove the old unwanted trees.  
 
The orchards are typically planted with native California Walnut for the root stock grafted to an old world Walnut for the stem and crown. There's everything from Persian to Italian or English Walnut in these grafted orchards. The native trees are skilled at living in the weird soils we have, and the imported grafts make better tasting walnuts.
 
This piece of wood is from a large batch we bought from Mike after some devestating floods a few years ago that wiped out many trees at the fringe of the orchards in central California. This tree grew near Sacramento, CA. It's got some good greens and nice rich red in it, as well as some great radial flame figure.  

That is one of the most beautiful pieces of wood I've seen on any instrument anywhere.  What a work of art!  Who would've thought that would come from a simple Walnut tree?

That is just stunning!  I love stripey wood.  I like all the contrasting.  Maybe santa can bring me a bass made of this walnut.  

That is without a doubt the best looking walnut top I have ever seen.  Incredible!!

Is it that Clarowood family again as on Bonnie??
 
Paul the bad one

Hi Mica!
 
This top has finally convinced me I've made the right decision with walnut, and I completely agree with the other guys that its possibly the most stunning walnut top I've seen (love the contrasting colours!).It certainly lives up to the name superb! I've always tended to think of Alembics as reminiscent of beautiful Art Nouveau pieces, and this bass pretty much nails that. I hesitate to ask, but any more wood available like this? (BTW, any news on superb walnut 240? and I'm still keen on 241....)I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure...
 
Thanks
 
Shaun the (hopefully) Walnut One.  
 

It reminds me of Yu-Gi-Oh's hair.  Yes I have a 6 year old.

Michael, I gotta ask, what's a Yu-Gi-Oh?

Uh Oh!!!
HA!!!
 
Michael, you started it now you've got to finish it!!!
I've got a 7 year old girl as well.
 
Dino(bptfo)

Uh Oh!!!
HA!!!
 
Michael, you started it now you've got to finish it!!!
I've got a 7 year old girl as well.
 
Dino(bptfo)

Ok everyone.  Here is a picture of Yu-Gi.
 
 
 

 
 
Check out the hair.  

How rude of me!!!!
 
What a beautiful work of art.  To me it looks like melted dark chocolate swirling around in a pot.  Congrats Brian!!!
 
Dino(bptfo)

Kinda reminds me of my son-in-law's lead singer.
http://www.escherrock.com/photo2.htm
 
Sam