We've machined one prototype body to test out the tool paths, here are some photos of the second body. This will be the first one machined on the new CNC.
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[quote="Dingwall Sales Lamb":253ushfi]Can I hear an Amen![/quote:253ushfi]
Or a hallelujah!
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Add to that 3 Hail Mary Mother of Jesus.
Sheldon. Please officially accept my order for that no.1 Prototype, with a maple neck / non matching headstock / 5 strings / 3 tone sunburst / tort guard. Pearl dot inlays in the middle a-la Fender not to the side of the G string. Not blocks.
p.s.: I thought you were going to add tone chambers?
I love what I see.
Francesco, prototype will be heading to London to Dave Swift who will be playing it on the Jools Holland New Years Hootenany show which tapes next month. I will arrange for you to check it out. Neil Murray is also waiting to get his hands on it and as well would expect Jonny might relish a test drive.
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[quote="Dingwall Sales Lamb":s8jbq5qp]Francesco, prototype will be heading to London to Dave Swift who will be playing it on the Jools Holland New Years Hootenany show which tapes next month. I will arrange for you to check it out. Neil Murray is also waiting to get his hands on it and as well would expect Jonny might relish a test drive.[/quote:s8jbq5qp]
Thanks Dingwall Sales, I shall wait patiently for these to hit full production.
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[quote="Smallmouth_Bass":1gmlgbmv]So, I guess that means we'll be seeing some finished shots in a matter of weeks then? 
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That is correct.
[quote="Iv@N":1gmlgbmv]I usually hate P-bass bodies, but that looks HOT![/quote:1gmlgbmv] Thanks. It's real close to a P but every curve has been reworked for better flow.
[quote="Funkshwey"]Sheldon will there be a rear route and reversed P pu version too?[\quote]
Probably not a rear-rout and for sure not a reversed P due to the pickups looking very odd when flipped on a fanned-fret P.
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That is correct.
[quote="Iv@N":1gmlgbmv]I usually hate P-bass bodies, but that looks HOT![/quote:1gmlgbmv] Thanks. It's real close to a P but every curve has been reworked for better flow.
[quote="Funkshwey"]Sheldon will there be a rear route and reversed P pu version too?[\quote]
Probably not a rear-rout and for sure not a reversed P due to the pickups looking very odd when flipped on a fanned-fret P.
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Cool!
Is that a suction setup that holds the body down on the CNC table during the cutting?
I'd love to see a video clip of the new CNC working.
I can't understand this hype for a Dingwall P.
If there's a remarkable demand for it, Sheldon will develop it; ok. That's his business.
But, all you guys please tell me:
What's so spectacular about a Split Coil P?
It's the first bass ever produced in larger amounts; okay; and it's a legend.
But it has been improved in the last 60 years. Why do you wanna go back?
Most of the actual Dingwall basses are able to reproduce a quite good vintage P sound playing the neck PU and using the tone control.
So is it just the look (body shape)?
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For me, it's partially the look, the body shape and the simplicity of the design. A volume and a tone control; it doesn't get much simpler than that! The benefit of having a Dingwall version of that is the playability, the fanned frets (benefit of a 35" B and the punch of a 32" G) and the attention to detail and minor refinements that you don't often see in a mass produced factory bass.
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