Well, finally it's about done.
I got sick of my tuners being on back order for months, and hit the retailer up to change over to some.. much more expensive.. Schellers.
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Type: Posts; User: lunaticds
Well, finally it's about done.
I got sick of my tuners being on back order for months, and hit the retailer up to change over to some.. much more expensive.. Schellers.
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Pointless update time.
The neck is coming along. I wound up making up my own colour for it. I put down the Dingotone Black Stump which really just looked dirty on the maple and didn't really darken...
It will be. Apparently the neck is arriving today. Radius block I doubt I'll see within the next week or so.
Currently body shot:
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Hard to capture the colour quite right. It looks quite a...
I ordered a radius block last night so it'll be coming if I need it and ordered my first set of flats at the same time.
I'll see what happens. A little out of my already broken budget. I'd hope that a fretless neck might come in a little closer to right to go. We'll see I guess!
I'm thinking I'm about done with the...
I wound up ordering the PBG fretless neck earlier. I'll survive with the side dots.. I haven't been able to see frets when I'm standing up playing for the past 20 years, so the side dots will do me....
Ha! Seems like a fun thing to try! I've already got 3 basses, and I'm struggling to play them all at once :P
I was thinking earlier whether or not I shouldn't just order a fretless neck and go right out there? That'd really make it something different. If nothing else, it'd save me having to level the...
Black Japan.. that brings back memories of stripping floor boards!
Heh, I was hoping to to avoid spending any more money on this build. I'll have to think about it some more. I do have a maple off...
I revisited the wiring briefly last night and it all looks OK, so I suspect you've hit the nail on the head.
The guitar has a fair bit of work left before I'm happy with it, but I'm not going to do...
I put some TO on late yesterday after about the 6th coat of stain (I used the sum total of about 25ml of stain). It took a few stain coats to get it to even out, but eventually I got there. It...
I managed to get the top and sides stained last night.
Not sure what the colortone seller diluted with, but the only thing that gets it off my fingers was acetone lol. I've since found some gloves....
OK. I reckon this is the roughest I've received (theres even splinter-worthy bits in the routing). I'll go easy on the heavy grit just to be safe and see how we're looking when I hit 320.
The colortone mahogany seems to stick. I wiped a quick bit of TO over it and it seems to be ok (i just wiped it with white cotton cloth and no colour transfer so I guess that's positive).
How does...
Well, the kit arrived today.
A little disappointing:
- The "stripes" are blotched on the top so that really isn't ideal
- The pickguard came screwed on. Possibly good for a rookie. Not good for...
Honestly never paid that much attention to it - the electronics were all pre-wired. Sooner or later my Epi LP will get its humbuckers ripped out, so I'll take care of it when that happens. Not...
99% Done.
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The bad:
- The driver skipped when I was putting the bridge screws in, putting a hole into the finish below it. It's gonna take some time to fill and polish it up.
- The...
I wound up ordering both of these this week. The GB707s were in stock until I ordered them, then mysteriously they're backordered. Based on AusPost's efforts at taking over a month to deliver my last...
Presenting.. a bass guitar... 65 million years in the making...
Stained with the blood of its prey.. the JurassicAxe Thunderaptor
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This is my first kit build -...
Playing around with prototype minimalist pick guards:
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This was a 2 part P-Bass design that I've put together then carved up. It's not 100% but I'm curious to see how I can tidy it up. It...
I'm a pretty big fan of Gotohs in general. I find a $100 set of tuners on a guitar reasonable. Not so much when they cost more than the guitar is worth :)
Never heard of Sung Il before, but it seems...
Over the past few days I made an attempt to try to loose some of the discolouration on the body. It's been a little inconsistent, so I sanded it back a bit.
Observations:
- The effectiveness of...
I ordered a set of Gotoh GB707 tuners today.
Considering a 201-4B bridge as well.
I've got a set of Geezers in my Aerodyne. I like 'em, but I wouldn't mind a little more lower end. It looks like EPIC don't ship outside of the US I'm afraid. Still, always good to know about the...
I've never really paid any attention to DM's before. Might be time to add them to my list for consideration. I might wait on that until I see whether or not I can actually get a finish on this body :P