Introduction As Posted @ The Welcome Wagon

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Hello . My name is Bob Ingman I live on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. Since my middle name is Spencer I have adopted the user name Robert Spencer. My background has been photography for the last twenty years or so. I have a photo website featuring local nature & wildlife:
http://northland.smugmug.com/
Since my return to bass palying i have added a bass gallery (Touching Basses) which feature mostly bass photos I have gathered here on the Bass Place & and a few other spots around the net:
http://northland.smugmug.com/Music/Bass/21923799_LqtTJM#!i=1748660417&k=dThDSmx
Not long ago I became interested in a bass build of my own. At the time I didn`t know this site existed & spent time at another popular bass site. When I began to fine tune my selection process to the thinline tele bass I began to ask questions there in regard to the project. I was directed here by one of the members of the other forum. I`m glad i was too. The bass place seems like home to me now. I have been lurking there reading back all 77 pages of old threads. Not only do the folks here know what I need to learn to complete the project but have some very useful & interesting threads that go through the process step by step.
My SX Thinline body & SX 30" scale jazz neck arrived yesterday. Lots of good things to report & a few problems to overcome as well. Overall I am really pleased with what I have to begin with. In addition to body & neck I have been busy aquiring various other components such as bridge, tuners, strings, PG, ect.

I am in the middle of a refinish of a friends Pbass clone. When that is completed I will begin in earnest on my own project. This is a photo of the body and neck as received:
http://northland.smugmug.com/Music/Bass/i-ZD8KX44/0/XL/021-1-XL.jpg

I will become a regular on The bass place as this undertaking gets rolling. Just wanted to check in & say hello to those here. Thanks for having me. Take care. Bob

Hello and welcome! Take lots of pics of your build please!

Thanks fenderslaper. there will be a lot of photos most likely because I will be showing what I have to work with as i go. I will have questions and ask advise step by step. This is pretty much backward of those with skills sharing their build and explaining why through the project. Mine is help i need help in deciding what or how to do things next etc etc. Anyway thanks again for the welcome fenderslaper. Take care. Bob

Wow, great photography!

Welcome to TDPRI!

Hi Glen I`ve seen you all over these forums. Thanks for the welcome.
Thanks Hiker where in the _ _ _ _ is pine cone alley? take care. Bob

Some lovely basses there, thanks for sharing and welcome.

Thanks ThreePly. I`m quite happy with that gallery of basses. First one I have ever assembled that is comprised of others photos. There are some beauties in there and then some very down to eart players (which is what i like).
The more I think about my build project the more enthusiastic i become about it. So many decisions to make.So many parts to find & purchase. It`ll all be wort it though if I do my part properly in planning and selecting components. Take care. Bob

Thanks ThreePly. I`m quite happy with that gallery of basses. First one I have ever assembled that is comprised of others photos. There are some beauties in there and then some very down to eart players (which is what i like).
The more I think about my build project the more enthusiastic i become about it. So many decisions to make.So many parts to find & purchase. It`ll all be wort it though if I do my part properly in planning and selecting components. Take care. Bob

Too cool! I count six of mine in there!
Rob
Here is another short scale one for ya!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/rhomco/Short%20Scale%20Bass/EB-OChucksTele005.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/rhomco/Short%20Scale%20Bass/EB-OChucksTele002.jpg

Rob that one as seen in the second photo is already in there too! a very cool bass.
Take care. Bob

Welcome to TDPRI!

Thanks Mike. Good to be here. Take care. Bob