All finished.
https://i.ibb.co/XCyTcDh/20220821-152826.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/vw72WFP/20220813-114725.jpg
The plugged hole ended up pretty good, and the tuner covers most of it anyway. Although...
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All finished.
https://i.ibb.co/XCyTcDh/20220821-152826.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/vw72WFP/20220813-114725.jpg
The plugged hole ended up pretty good, and the tuner covers most of it anyway. Although...
I was thinking something like that, and maybe drill wider and plug it with dowel if I have to.
I'll use the bees wax on everything just to be on the safe side I think.
Thanks.
It was the anti rotation screw on a tuner, I just turned it too far after it was tight. I didn't use bees wax for this one. It has broken off right at the wood, so pliers can't reach it.
I'm getting close. My local shop let me dig through their random nuts box, so the pots are good. But I must have broken a wire or shorted something because one tone pot does nothing. The electronics...
That sounds like the pots are linear. Log pots drop off much more quickly and therefore we hear the change sooner.
I guess it depends on the kit, I have had a mix out of the 4 kits I've done. But...
They're definitely the right spline size, they all sit the same and just appear to be too high. I guess a trip to Bunnings and pulling out that wiring that was so hard to get in is in order.
Pictures helped, I reversed the saddles easily. I can see how the pickups should sit too.
I got the wiring done and the knobs sit up very high. Should there be two nuts per pot to control the...
Thanks again for the help. I might need to reverse all of them because they appear to be backwards for a leftie. I guess I can just do it as needed though.
I started laying out the electronics and hardware to solder. I have a couple of questions.
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Have I got the pickups on the right way around? I see the...
Oh I see, so they cut it in half at an angle across the flame and flip one half over? I guess that leads to the differences. I'm still not sure what I could have done to prevent one side being darker...
Yeah it is a shame. I've learnt a few things if there is a next time.
Light sand on the veneer, make sure the glue comes off first.
Funny thing is it changes colour at different angles. So from one...
This is starting to get somewhere. I polished the body and glued the neck on.
I just have swirls and fine scratch marks which I'm hoping I can get out with more elbow grease.
...
Left handed 6 string bass with spalted maple top. Finished with feast Watson's golden teak and satin poly.
Diary is here https://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=12042
Stock...
All finished, I got my Ernie balls and sanded down the top of the nut to match the string heights.
It sounds way better, the saddle changes show how much more consistent the good strings are, and...
Ah that was a J, I thought it was a T. I had a suspicion it was 6.8nF, but it seemed low since 0.047uF and 0.022uF were the values I was seeing. So I thought there was some magic code I was missing....
Can someone please decode this capacitor value for me? I'm trying to work out if they gave me the right ones because the tone pots don't seem to do much.
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Ok problem solved. I think I was afraid to over tighten, and there is a bit of wiggle room with the various holes. So it was all just too loose. I loosened off the strings, lined it all up and...
I finally got to finishing this. If I ever do a bass nut again I think I will buy the right tools.
One thing I noticed is that the tuners are twisting a bit. Maple seems quite soft and one tiny...
Ah I have super glue, sounds straight forward, thanks.
What's CA? I tested that I can pull it together with a clamp. Would trying to get glue in there be a good idea at all?
I had a bit of a sand to see what happened, it's definitely different on the sandpaper, more like a fine powder now, and it doesn't get gummed up.
I had a bit of a disaster though, the neck was...
I think I will give that a go first, thanks.
Would you cut the slots to the right relative height and sand the base down, or just cut the slots to the right height? I've read that the slots being...
Oh yeah I see a hole, that's different to other guitars for sure.
Now I just have to fix the nut slots and get the action right, it's a bit hard to play right now.
I managed to get the welding tip...
Any tips for wrapping the strings around the posts? I had a string pop off because the post is open, which I've never had in any other guitar.
Oh perfect, too easy.
I guess the strings don't end up grounded like with other guitars because the whole bridge is painted. I'm not sure how much that matters.