PB-30R (30" scale bass)

[gauge105]

So my son's 9th birthday is coming up at the end of this month and he's looking to start music lessons at his new school, and what kind of father would I be if I didn't get the little bugger his very own battle axe!

Since he's not very big and I know a thing or 2 about bass, I figured a short scale bass is the way to go.

I find that it is quite heavy, it's a very thick body. So I've done some routing to take a bit of weight off in the space under the scratch plate.

Just to make it look super awesome I've also routed a couple of shallow recesses in the body and filled them with resin which I mixed with blue chalk and glitter.

I mixed up a bit too much resin so I got out the dremel, spent about 20 seconds making up a logo out of my son's initials (XQW) aaaand filled it up with resin too.

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[fender3x]

Very cool!

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[PJSprog]

That is awesome. Looks like he even has a little skin in the game.

[gauge105]

Ok I haven't had a chance to sand back the body yet, but I have done a mock up to show how the body will look with the scratch plate and bridge in place...

Was thinking of doing a gloss black for the rest of the body.

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[FrankenWashie]

I like it. But I think you misspoke? Didn’t you mean you haven’t had a chance to get your lad to sand it back? 😉🤪

[gauge105]

Yea right, getting my son to do manual labour is like pulling teeth!

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[gauge105]

So I've sanded back the body to 1200g, shaped the headstock and given both a coat of clear resin. I was going to do a gloss black for the body but I think the clear resin still come out better.

I'll sand back and do a few more coats of the resin till I get an almost glassy mirror finish.

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[gauge105]

I forgot to mention, I used a shinto medium/fine rasp for shaping the headstock.

Seriously, these things are freaking awesome! If you haven't got one yet, get one!

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[Marty C]

I'm diggin this...I like the slimline headstock too, very streamlined

[gauge105]

Thanks Marty, I just hope the machine heads don't look too bulky on the thinner head once it's all assembled

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