Show your Smith bass!

[danilo ninkovic]

Originally Posted by Bob Faulkner

How could this forum be complete without a place to show off our beautiful instruments?

Let us see those Smith basses!!

Mine is a 2001 BSR4EG fretless and can be found on Ken's BSR Elite G page. It's the quilted maple BSR4EG fretless right in the middle of that row.

Direct link:
http://www.kensmithbasses.com/models...ss_quilmap.htm

And a more recent picture:



I love looking at Smith basses so show em off!

Hello I am new in Forum and this is my Ken Smith Bass!!!!

[Frederick Schurger]

I have a CR5G (89897 S) that I purchased from Huber/Breese in '98. I remember buying this and having a MTD bass shipped on inspection at the same time. Though the body style for the MTD was more similar to what I was used to with my Charvel, the tones of the Smith won out hands down. I'm having trouble uploading the image, so I'll do that later.

I am curious as to what the woods are in it, and what style is most similar to today's models?

Frederick

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Frederick Schurger

....I'm having trouble uploading the image....

Hey Frederick, if you have pics and if you'd like, send them to my email address and I'll try and upload them for you.

[Tim Bishop]

The following pic is from Frederick T Schurger for view on this thread.

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Frederick Schurger

....and what style is most similar to today's models?
....

The bass you show in the pic would be similar to the "BT" body-style of today.

[Tim Bishop]

Originally Posted by Frederick Schurger

....I am curious as to what the woods are in it....

Based on above pic: Looks like the core body wood is black walnut with maple laminates. The center block is maple. The top wood I am guessing is Shedua or a species of walnut? With the serial number you provided, Ken would be your best resourse in identifying the woods with certainty.

[Ken Smith]

The 'S' in the end is for Shedua so that is the Top. I can't see what the side laminations look like in that pic but if 5pc, the thin light wood would be Maple laminate or veneer as we used then. The Core looks dark but so does the picture. I would guess that the core is Mahogany, African species.

The '97' in the end is the year made. There should be a completion date on the label inside the back plate.

We made several body wing sets back then used on Bolt-on's and Neck thrus in 4, 5 and 6 string model basses. The theme was basically 'The African model' using all african woods for the Top, back, core and most of the feature woods bordering the wings and center, mainly in contrasting colors using Bubinga, Shedua and Zebrawood. That's what comes to mind. I have bought a small load of African Mahogany to try out as an alternative to the traditional tropical mahogany. The load yielded about 40-50 core sets so I just made these up with African Top woods and dubbed it 'African model' body wings.