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November
1st 2004:
Chapter 3: Long neck
Well,
time flew since my last visit
at
Ritter Basses.
But good things take their time, and such a noble instrument sometimes
needs a period of calmness and recreation. The body was already finally
shaped and sanded the last time. Here are some more nice pictures of it:
This
summer Jens was in the United States for some time where he was presenting
his basses p.ex. at the NAMM Summer Session in
Nashville and in several music shops all over the States. This picture
shows him a bit tired after all this traveling - or is that because I woke
him up before 10 a.m.? ;-)
But of
course there is some progress to my new bass! Especially the neck got some
attention. The truss rod channel was finally milled and the head plate was
sawed out:
Like I already announced, my new bass will
contain a couple of nice gimmicks, like an inlay with my name on the 12th
fret. You can see how the inlay was designed on the computer in the
first chapter. Now you can see
how it looks like in reality:
Meanwhile the bass is on the way to England
where the neck will receive some blue LEDs behind the inlay and the side
dots. The company specialized on that kind of work especially
trained wood worms for eating out the cable channels.. ;-)
Here's a picture of a bass that has blue
LEDs as fret board dots. Doesn't that look really cool? By the way:
if you really want to feel like a rookie again, just try out a left-handed
bass (left handed players certainly vice versa!)! THAT really feels sick...:
Now we are waiting to get the bass back from
the island to bring the bass to the painter. Meanwhile I took some
pictures of Jens' show room. I am very proud that I could convince Jens to
hang up a mirror in the show room so that all new Ritter bass owners can
see themselves with their instruments. Isn't a bass a piece of clothing too?
To give the reader an
impression of how my new bass will look like, here's a picture of a Ritter Roya in Futura Black
(middle) - this is pretty close to my new baby:
And there's already some new wood in the
stock waiting to become a new Ritter bass. Perhaps it's YOUR new
instrument - who knows...?
See you later!
Martin Motnik
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