Yes they are awesome and take material off very quickly! Plus I got mine for $26 I think.Originally Posted by FrankenWashie
Yes they are awesome and take material off very quickly! Plus I got mine for $26 I think.
Cut out the body wings. Couldn't resist a mockup.
I'll show the process of how I managed to get clean edges without having to create an additional set of templates soon. I can't get perfectly straight edges because my jigsaw struggles on thick pieces and the blade bends outwards and the bottom always ends up thicker.
wow thats looking wicked Simon, will you be able to reach the high frets with the massive tele style upper horn ?
what are the wings again is that wenge or walnut top ?
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
Thanks woks. The upper frets should be okay to reach. I can always reshape it later on.
The top is wenge.
nice one Simon, you are very lucky you live far enough away from DB the bass napper, I reckon he would want this in his collection although any more than 4 strings for him is too many haha
Current Builds and status
scratch end grain pine tele - first clear coat on !
JBA-4 - assembled - final tweaks
Telemonster double scale tele - finish tobacco burst on body and sand neck
Completed builds
scratch oak.rose gum Jazzmaster - assembled needs setup
MK-2 Mosrite - assembled - play in
Ash tele with Baritone neck - neck pup wiring tweaks and play in
I think I just had a little joygasm, that looks wicked!
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Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
My fingers are barely long enough for a conventional 4 string Bass, 5 at a pinch, but no chance reaching across a 6 stringers fretboard.
Looks great and curious to know how you plan to string it as I am finding the low B on my 5 stringer is about as thick and low frequency as I can work with.
@Woks haha fortunately I live at the other side of where he is!
@Franken thanks!
@wazkelly My hand isn't very big also so I chose to go for a narrower string spacing with this bass. The bridge has a 16mm string spacing which is narrower than the commercial 6 string basses available which can be 17.5-18mm I believe. I plan to tune it to B E A D G C which is the standard 6 string bass tuning. But then again I'm primarily a guitar player so I may tune the high C to a high B instead.
Sorry haven't been updating but I managed to get quite a bit done over the week. It was hard juggling two projects, the flamed strat, and this!
Anyway from where I left off last time, I wanted to show you how I made the body wings without the need to create a custom template. This is just a one time project so I felt no need to make templates.
So I started off by choosing the best figure on the wenge top, which is 10mm. Then I used my original design plans and traced them out on the wenge.
Cut it out...
And sanded it.
The ideal way would be to glue all pieces, true the edges and cut the shape out with a bandsaw, and fine tune the edges with a random orbital spindle sander. However, since I don't have these equipment, I thought the best way would be to use the wenge top as a template. If I were to make another bass with the same shape I would've made a custom template.
This means I'll have to get the 10mm top perfectly flat on the edges. I placed the top on a shooting board and sanded the edges. Ideally a spindle sander would be of great help.
And I regularly checked to see the edges are squared. This is important if I'm using the top as a template to route the entire body.
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