ST-1JR ...but it may not end up that way.

[apkane]

Waz you are entirely correct. Miss 8 has identified 'her' next build as the HB-4 'cause it looks kind of cool' ....and it may also help that a certain Grandpa is a Beatles nut.

We are going to give a set of short scale flatwounds a go...it may or may not work..this whole project is a suck it and see...and if something doesn't work the first time around, we'll just find another way until it does.

So we started our build back at the start of March when we received out box of doom containing the ST-1JR, a PBG N1M Maple neck and a set of Tonerider TRP1 PBass pickups.

[apkane]

We then went to work on the neck plugging the unwanted holes with dowel..


Cutting off the dangly bits...


and then bogging any gaps front and back..

[Muzza]

Is it possible to turn an ST1JR into a short scale bass?

Absolutely!

You'll need heavier bass strings than normal to compensate for the short scale though. (And obviously you'll need a bass bridge and a 4 slot nut)

Oh, and you'll need 4 pole pickups as well.

[edit: I see you've already got the Toneriders]

[apkane]

At the end of March we took the neck over to Grandpas to use Great Grandpas drill press to sink 4 new holes that we templated up.

Once the drilling was complete, we then ferreted around for some old stain so we could add some colour to the anemic neck.

Lastly we cut and shaped the headstock after finding a suitable shape on the interwebs (it may or may not look similar to a Bill Crook headstock) and making a template with some of the cardboard from the box that the guitar came in.

Here is the neck with the new bass nut.


Now, where did that body go?.....

[Muzza]

here is the neck with the new bass nut.


Now, where did that body go?.....

How do you intend finishing the body? If you're thinking of a solid colour, I'd recommend using the same colour on the front face of the headstock to hide the dowel ends.

[apkane]

The body will be a very fetching shade of O.M.F.G. its PINK! Now, to those of us who are not 8 y.o girls, we might think that having the headstock the same colour as the body makes sense to help hide any possible imperfections.....but we are wrong.

[DrNomis_44]

Should look really cool once it's finished, building something can definitely be very good therapy, I get a great sense of achievement whenever i build something, one build project that I'm going to be working on soon is a guitar amplifier, but not just any guitar amplifier, it is going to be one that uses old-fashioned valves, i started a thread about it in a different forum section, I'll see if I can post a link for you.


Here we go, here's the link to the thread :


http://www.buildyourownguitar.com.au...ead.php?t=4590

[Dedman]

I tip my hat to you for diving into a fairly complex build first up. You seem to have it all under control, so I'm sitting back and watching with interest.

[cork sniffer]

Just told my wife about this exciting PINK project.
She said regardless of the result make sure it's kept safe and produced at her 21st birthday party.
We'll be watching in 13 years for the posted vid. LOL

[Brendan]

They're more like rubber bands than strings...