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Old 12-08-2009, 06:44 PM
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new project - funky replacement neck

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I have a neck that is no longer fit to play on, so I am making a new one. Since this is for my beaten and battle scared bass, I am not trying to make a super classy looking neck. I am thinking maple neck with a black walnut center strip, maple fingerboard, fretless, no radius. 32 or 33" scale. Relax, I plan to seal the fb in krazy glue, to make in hard enough. Here's where it gets cool. I want to take a few different types of colorful stains/dyes, and stain the neck tye-dye. I mean all of it, the fb, the back, all of it.
I am not sure where to get cheap colorful stains, and not sure the best way to apply and blend the transitions of all the colors, so i was hoping i could get some tips on that.
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I am going to do a simple, quick making of this. Sense i do not want to route a truss channel, I am planing a strip of walnut to the thickness of a truss rod, and cutting a channel into that. In the next few days I should hopefully have the walnut planed to thickness, and the neck template made.
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Old 12-08-2009, 07:36 PM
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Jordan counting this new one, how many projects you are into?
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Old 12-08-2009, 08:28 PM
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we'll there are my 2 main ones, which are 3/4 of the way done, and a few mini projects, plans for a fretless that i will start once my 2 main builds are done, and this neck. I currently don't have a bass to practise on, so that is why i want to do a quick replacement neck. I just need to figure out how to make the multi color stain work out.
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Old 12-09-2009, 09:24 PM
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Jordan, you are going to want to do your tie dye like a burst, plan the color changes, and placement and strat from the center out or vice versa, and plan the dominant color to provide the heaviest bleed at each transition.
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