Yea the bubinga is quite red with pretty straight dark grain. I'm just doing a pore fill and clear on it, it gets even more brilliant red with just a clear on it. Right now its a more dull red. With the clear it gets a bit of a 'quilt' kind of look, not the same as quilted maple but that same sort of effect, where it looks like it moves as you tilt it in light.
I have some scraps of it that I'm going to do a test finish on, I've done it with just a clear but I haven't tried pore filling yet. When I do that I'll try to take some good pictures in sunlight.
The bass is in CT right now, I'm in NC, so I'll post some more progress pictures once it gets shipped here. I have the body shape finalized, now it just needs the head to be shaped and fingerboard put on. Then I get to play with hardware and electronics.
