Sonics 4th Build - YB-4 - The Steampunker Bass

[blinddrew]

That is shaping up very nicely.

[wazkelly]

Looking good Sonic.

String through holes in base plate may need to be a sightly bigger diameter with possibly a forward bevelled profile to help avoid sharp edges for strings to catch on.

[Sonic Mountain]

Yep they are just pilot holes atm that I’ll use to drill the holes in the body before enlarging.

[FrankenWashie]

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An excerpt from the the sales brochure:

...and the bass carries the “Cthulhu Approval” mark of quality, certifying it for use by celestials, ethereal beings, demonic entities, inter dimensional Deities and Lemmy Kilmister.
Sonic Mountain Guitars and Basses, destroy your enemies with sound and curse their progeny into eternity!

[Sonic Mountain]

Hah hah. Feel like this one is a curse on me. I will not be offering carved brass as a feature on future guitars!

[Sonic Mountain]

Well this has been sitting idle for a while. I'm trying to work up the motivation to get back into it, but time has been a bit of a precious resource lately. I did have something interesting arrive today. We had the grandparents up a fortnight ago for the young fellas rugby rep trials and my Dad and I were talking about this project.

I mentioned I was on the lookout for old broken clocks to steal gears and brass doodads out of. Turns out he had the old mechanism from his fathers clock from the turn of last century. The clock has a modern movement in it now and this was just sitting around in his shed. So I think I'm right for gears etc now. Interestingly when I took it out of the box it started running for a minute or so, which was pretty cool.

[nitroburner1000]

Well this has been sitting idle for a while. I'm trying to work up the motivation to get back into it, but time has been a bit of a precious resource lately. I did have something interesting arrive today. We had the grandparents up a fortnight ago for the young fellas rugby rep trials and my Dad and I were talking about this project.

I mentioned I was on the lookout for old broken clocks to steal gears and brass doodads out of. Turns out he had the old mechanism from his fathers clock from the turn of last century. The clock has a modern movement in it now and this was just sitting around in his shed. So I think I'm right for gears etc now. Interestingly when I took it out of the box it started running for a minute or so, which was pretty cool.

Wow if you can fit some of that it will be the icing on the cake

[Sonic Mountain]

Plan is to use the gears to move the controls around a bit. So turning the knob, will turn a gear which will turn the pot.

That's the idea anyway.

[Sonic Mountain]

I am not a smart man. Decided to take it apart. Let's just say the springs have a serious amount of stored energy. Glad I wear glasses as it pretty much exploded in my hand and went all over the workshop, hitting me in the face and hand.

Think I've found most of the bits. And here is me ready to take careful notes on which gear went with which. Dear me, was pretty funny after I stopped bleeding.

[pablopepper]

Yowsa! Nothing like a little adrenaline to really let you know you've made a mistake.