sounds like a plan Rob. Thanks for the tips on the Youtube searches.
Love how you are the only forumite who calls us by our real name !
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sounds like a plan Rob. Thanks for the tips on the Youtube searches.
Love how you are the only forumite who calls us by our real name !
Lol, I'm an old guy Warren. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Instagrams etc, and prefer to use real names where I can.
Yeah I know, I'm a fossil. ;P
ROB
all good Rob, I'm a massive fan of nicknames and rarely call my mates by their christian names
Look forward to seeing how the sanding of the epoxy goes - you are going to have forearms like Popeye all the sanding you have already done on the fingerboard !
By the way Rob, think I've asked you in the past, please tell us one of your nicknames ? haha surely you have a few !
Still got the girlie arms mate. lol.
But I am having a bit of trouble with my iPhone. I swear this is true. After all this hand sanding my thumb is starting to get a wee bit tender and more often than not my phone will refuse to recognize my thumb print as a pass key. I'm only about half way through sanding the FB and I still have several hours to spend on the rest of the neck and the bass body. By the time I'm finished I will need the FBI to break into my phone. :D
The one nick that I used to use from ages ago is Westie07.
Westie - because my little care is a Westfield
07 - because it is a replica of a Lotus Super 7
Darn, now my secret is out.
rob
cheers for letting the cat out of the bag Westie !
looks similar to Dave Kings car he races,
You will get there with the sanding mate, you have built what at least a dozen axes with no power tools and one a scratchy !
Do you actually know any of our real names, Woks? :pQuote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Hey DB, I do know most people's real names but much prefer nick names are more personal with your mates.
Some of my old friends didn't know my real name for a couple of years, just knew me as Wokka haha
Looks great Rob and thanks for the tutorial
Thanks Stan, and no probs. I hope that someone will learn from my mistakes.
As the old saying goes "learn from other peoples mistakes, you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself" ;)
After 4 hours of sanding I am now up to 400 grit sandpaper. I think I should have started with 120 grit as I am still dealing with some scratches from the 80.
I started with 80 and 120 dry and moved on to 240, 320 and 400 wet. As I am moving up through the grits I am finding that sanding is going a lot smoother with less stops to clean the paper. From 240 on I have been wet sanding with a little detergent added to the water. I think that has made a difference.
At 400 the epoxy is feeling really smooth and starting to get that glass-like look and feel to it. I am looking forward to getting into the higher numbers.
The fingerboard with epoxy is about 1.5mm thicker than the original fretboard with frets. By the time I’m finished it will probably be even closer. The fretless will be strung much lower than a tradition fretted bass so I’m quite happy with that as saddle and pickup heights will be close to the original heights.
Just a couple of progress pics.
Pic #1 – Finished the rough radius with 80 grit.
Pic #2 – How it looked after 120 grit.
Pic #3 – and after 400.