Saturday, May 30, 2009
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.
Friday, May 29, 2009
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!
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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.
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australia,
australian bank,
bank,
job,
psychometric,
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