Bass build - update

Ok, so I started this morning but I only had about an hour, so all I could do was take the Epi apart and cut out the rough shape of my SG template. While doing that, I actually discovered that I'll be able to use the tele template for a tele-shaped bass too. Good news that. pics located here.

Let the guitar-building commence

Have:

18" x 18" x 2" slab of dry, white korina. 2-piece.

Ebony fingerboard scrap for bridge-building

One big piece of masonite for template-making

Leftover bits from a Squier bridge

One fully-functioning right-handed red Epiphone EB-0 bass. It will die.

White glue and Gorilla glue

Plenty of screws and nails

Router

Jig-Saw

Drill

Clamps

Sandpaper

Motivation

Pencils

and a whole lot more...

Pics will be coming as soon as tomorrow morning. Follow me while I build myself a lefty SG bass. Final specs should be:

30.5" scale

White Korina body with matching headstock.

Bolt-on mahogany neck with rosewood board. Painted red. Custom glow-in-the-dark side-markers. Original Epiphone tuners.

2x Seymour Duncan Phase II soapbars

Vol-Vol-Tone pots with one series/parallel switch

Handcrafted ebony bridge with brass saddles (from Fender-style bass bridge)

String-through

Tuned DGCF (or lower) with bottom 4 strings of a five-string set.

Wish me luck y'all!

Australian Banks hate me.

I got a new job! Then I lost it! Yay! As far as I know, the Toronto managers of this supposedly great company wanted to hire me and offered me a job. It was a great job, too. Sadly, the Australian HO decided that I wasn’t a perfect fit (based on the psychometric testing I did) and suggested I get offered a one-year contract instead so that they could fire me without penalty should I prove to not fit the bill. 1 week of assurances that I got the job. 1 week of getting excited. Finally, on Monday, hours before being offered a contract instead, I got excited and acutally believed everyone around me that this was going to happen. What a freakin' kick in the teeth. I hate you Australian bank.