I went mad this week. Inspiration struck, with the evolution of an idea I’ve had in mind for some time, and I drew a design for a rather ornate bass guitar top using several types of wood and several techniques to put them all together.
Since returning from my second, and more successful, Crimson Guitars course, I’ve been mulling over what to do next. This idea has made the decision for me, and I’m going to at least start working on this build at home. I could return to Crimson to finish the build, but I’ll take that decision later and at the moment I’m thinking that I should be able to do it all at home.
I’m going to start documenting this build with a series of pages on this website very soon, but for the moment I’ll just leave you with a couple of pictures of the woods that I’ve ordered. These pictures were taken from the websites, and post my own pictures when the pieces arrive. They are in two batches, because I found different wood suppliers with strengths in different areas.
I bought the main body and neck woods from Espen, a German supplier that has a great selection of blanks.

Then I bought some other pieces from Edelholzverkauf, also in Germany.
Because I have never done much woodworking before my Crimson builds, I don’t have a lot of equipment at home and so I’ve also ordered a number of tools, such as a router, making this a rather expensive build, but hopefully the first of many!
More information to follow…