Holy transformations Batman!
I ended a relationshop (not a typo).
I moved to Montreal.
I have bought power tools.
I begin anew the guitar building.
Right-handed tele special for DvR. one-piece ash body, humbucker in the neck position. custom wound pickups, custom control plate. I'll get the details from DvR soon and post them. Warmoth neck, 50's fat neck profile. Looks like it'll get a treatment of hard-core red before a nice polyurethane high-gloss finish. It's almost done.
Lefty SG-style bass for me. Coming together now. Should be completed sooner rather than later. May change bridge type.
Right-handed custom tele-bass for SvR. Hollowed out hardbody, 2-piece laminate black korina with shedua book-matched top and custom ebony skunk stripe down the front. Custom f-hole and all custom hardware. Boy is it purrrrrdy.
Next build: For me, lefty bass of some sort. Bolt-on. Black korina body. Can't decide on body shape. Either T-Bird or Mockingbird.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Bass build update 9
Did more work this weekend. I will post updated pics this evening.
I had a really fancy bridge plate carved out of ebony ready to go and a nice little routed out section for it to fit in nicely. After putting the neck on and the standing the bridge on top, I realised that it would be too high. Much too high... oh gawd. So I started routing a deeper hole... and... I got lazy and messed it up! So I took an even bigger chunk out and tried to even things out. What I got was a huuuuuge gap taken out, much like the one I took out for the faulty neck pocket. ah well.
So I installed another nice piece of padouk in there and didn't like it. So looking around the shop, I realised I had a nice little hunk of cocobolo ready to go! Voila! Now to fill in the gaps... in comes the padouk again! Put some padouk inlays on each side of the cocobolo and then I put a purplish slab of rosewood right at the tail. So the grains cross. I have no idea what, if anything, that will do to the tone, but I am learning, so I forgive myself.
In the meantime, I have been working on a more accurate method for building basses and guitars: a big jig! I will attempt to precision-build the jig this weekend. Hooray! Pics of that to come too.
Over and out.
I had a really fancy bridge plate carved out of ebony ready to go and a nice little routed out section for it to fit in nicely. After putting the neck on and the standing the bridge on top, I realised that it would be too high. Much too high... oh gawd. So I started routing a deeper hole... and... I got lazy and messed it up! So I took an even bigger chunk out and tried to even things out. What I got was a huuuuuge gap taken out, much like the one I took out for the faulty neck pocket. ah well.
So I installed another nice piece of padouk in there and didn't like it. So looking around the shop, I realised I had a nice little hunk of cocobolo ready to go! Voila! Now to fill in the gaps... in comes the padouk again! Put some padouk inlays on each side of the cocobolo and then I put a purplish slab of rosewood right at the tail. So the grains cross. I have no idea what, if anything, that will do to the tone, but I am learning, so I forgive myself.
In the meantime, I have been working on a more accurate method for building basses and guitars: a big jig! I will attempt to precision-build the jig this weekend. Hooray! Pics of that to come too.
Over and out.
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