It's been a while since I've updated this thread, sorry. All of the action to this point has been over on TalkBass (my build thread there), but here's what's done:
- The fingerboard is done. I inlaid blue veneer in all fretslots except for 12 and 24, which got green. I put the Zhenya logo over the 8th fret, in honor of Zhe being the 8th letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, and 8 being my wife's favorite number. I coated the fingerboard with clear coat, and then over 15 layers of CA glue, and then wet sanded it baby-butt-smooth up to 4000 grit.
- I've stained the headstock with the blue stain I'm going to use on the spalted maple. I stained the back of the neck with a maple stain, but it came out uneven and I may sand it back and try something different. Or, I might live with it.
- All that's been done on the body was clearing out some excess wood in the control cavity for the Flexcore pre-amp and drilling the string ferrule holes. I'm waiting to visit my wife's uncle to use his woodshop to route a cavity for the 18v battery box I bought.
Here are some pictures of the finished fingerboard.
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