Nice work Jed. Great colour as well - I built an LP Jnr using same stain and liked the purple hue.
Nice work Jed. Great colour as well - I built an LP Jnr using same stain and liked the purple hue.
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Lovin the colour you got on that!
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Finally received the bone nut and some dingowax so that I could finish the fretboard and proceed with the setup.
Here are images of the finished guitar.
Setup was fairly uneventful - the intonations are all well within the range of the standard kit bridge (with the supplied strings).
I think that the action could be a little lower, especially on the E string, so I may make some further adjustments, but it is playable as is, and it sounds OK (albeit through a pretty small amp - a Blackstar Core BEAM). I may have to investigate alternative strings to get a lower action as I don't believe that the standard strings are sitting well down into the notches in the bone nut - I set the nut height based on information I found on the Stewmac web site and the resultant string height is definitely not per the set height at the first fret. If it can't be solved with string options some rework of the nut may be required.
Not too bad a result for the first effort. Time to consider the next project
nice ash JB Jed, looks great. What was the stain you used was it a FW mahogany ?
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Yes. FW mahogany with a wipe-on poly finish. Very happy with the result now, although I was a bit apprehensive about the purple hue before the finish coat went on. Neck is natural dingotone.Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Not a Bass dude myself but that is very nice Jed. Great deep colour to it and some nice grain action going on. Very well turned out. Congrats mate!
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Thanks! Not really a bass dude myself either - got 6 and 12 strings in the collection so I thought this would be a good way to fill a hole on the guitar stand. Next project will definitely be in the 6 and up category 😏
Great looking bass, Jed. You can normally sort the nut slots out on a bass with a round needle file and some fine grit sandpapers.
Thanks for that. Time to raid my daughter's jewellery making tools then. I love pay-back 😏.
Came up very nicely Jed. You'll soon be pumping out bass grooves then before you know it ... ta-da - you'll be a bass dude!
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