Nice inlays fuzzy!!:cool:
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Nice inlays fuzzy!!:cool:
How slack have I been when I find my own build diary! I pulled this kit out today I will have to get stuck in and get this done.
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Bit more staining done and alot of cleaning up binding.
Are they proper coloutone dyes Fuzzy?
They were the colortone dyes from diy guitars
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Ahhh right a bit watered down then eh?
From what I hear from around here they are watered down but I have never used there real deal
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Yep, have to agree on the watered down closing down sale DIY stock as the Cherry Red I bought was weaker in colour than cheap red food dye and the Mahogany that I passed on to Andy also looked very weak in colour depth too.
Mind you, what you have done looks great as it has come out looking like a very aged tobacco sunburst. Plenty of shiny tops coats will breathe some life into it.
I have some of that DIY cherry red colortone lying around that I hope to use on my next build. Hopefully it goes alright.
Hi Fuzzy, on my Red J Bass had to mix the DIY Colortone Cherry with some deep red fountain pen ink to achieve the desired colour as it looked like faded food dye straight out of the bottle. So much so that I very nearly ran with the $1.50 food dye bottle I bought from woollies but was unsure if it would be colourfast hence why fountain pen ink was brought into the mix.
I've got 3 coats of true oil on and things are starting to look shiny and the amberness (that's a word isn't it) of the true oil took the edge off the yellow stain which has made me slightly happier.
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classic and classy - very nice
man that is nice, its a real vintagy ( that's a word too) smoke stained look
Yep, that is starting to look really good and things will only get better with more coats of TO.
Looks great and the beers look great too.
Top notch vintage look. Great job
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Love it man - that's one classy stain job. The browny, caramally, tobaccoish tones really look great on the 335.
cheers,
Gav.
Looks great man
Thanks for the kind words guys.
I'll dig this one out again, it has been a while due to being busy, the heat over summer and a touch of laziness. Today I solder the electronics and gave them a test, I'll be using the old humbuckers out of my epiphone les paul custom.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6330ad3625.jpg
All in one piece now and looking good but... open chords especially the low E and A strings sound a bit crappy. I have tinkered with the action and intonation and stuff. I do have to make some adjustments to the nut, do I need to get the strings deeper in it, the strings are just the ones that come rolled up with the kit not the slinkys.
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Hi Fuzzy, had to put sunnies on as Kermit the Bass on the right was blinding me. Does it glow in the dark? Looks like it almost could.
With the nut action there will probably be something on the web somewhere about ideal string heights and a lot of it comes down to personal preference and comfort. Most folks tend to go as low as possible as that is generally more comfortable plus also helps with better intonation. General rule of thumb tends to be no more than a business card thickness at 1st fret and you could measure that to then check against where the strings currently sit as that should give you an idea of how much needs to come off. If it looks uniform across the nut maybe removal and filing the base down a bit might be easier then trying to file down individual string slots.
Cheers, Waz
Absolutely beautiful guitar Fuzzy - and you really need lead shielding to protect it from the radiation of the bass
Haha yeah I was looking for a cheap bass to muck about on since I'm not much of a bass player and that "caught my eye". according to the website it is atomic green so I have to put on my radiation suit to pick it up. Not sure what the fret board is, something plasticy.
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Oh yeah Waz. The strings are way high at the first fret so I am going to sand the nut and hope that is the source of my problems.
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Hey Fuzz build looks great. As Waz said get a flat piece of scrap wood, glue some 80 grit paper and get a right angle and rub the nut on that (that didn't sound flash did it). The right angle will keep the nut square to the sandpaper. Put a pencil mark on the nut to roughly how much depth you want it to drop and test string height regularly
That green bass is stuck on volume 10 !
Thanks for the tips guys
where did you get the bone nut from Fuzz, was it pre-slotted or did you do that ?
It came from the pitbull store so yeah it was preslotted
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cool no worries that's been cut by the resident luthier Dingobass. If your keen you can probably sand off a bit of the edges so its flush with the fingerboard, or it may be the angle of the photo, but usually they are bit proud.
By the looks the low E (thicker) string slot could be a bit deeper. You can use an old E string like dental floss and lower it a bit.
Wokka it is probably just pic, I do have it flush the fretboard plus the high side of the fret board near the nut is rounded probably makes it look worse
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no worries Fuzz all good. Sometimes the DB blank nuts are a bit wider than the nut slot
Been doing that on the bone nut for my J Bass to deepen the slots rather than sand the base and wow, doesn't that take a lot of effort to make any progress. Worth it in the long run as it now sounds so much better and also holds the strings in the nut rather than have them partially sitting on top.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
I have sanded the nut to lower the action and did a bit of dental floss action to get those strings deeper in the nut which made a major improvement to the way things sounded. Then I hit the fret board with some dingo wax. Talk about hard work had to stop for a stubbie, but it was worth it, plus it smells really nice.
Good to hear things have worked out fine Fuzzy.
That Dingo wax IS hard work. but defs worth it. each time a change my strings I just rebuff and its all schinie again!