Recent content by BenHanby

HaHa Thank you! I'm going to buy some flat wounds soon so I figured i may be able to reuse the other strings if I don't cut them :)

Finally finished, well mainly (I may make a few changes as I become more comfortable with it) but here are a few pics :) I'm pretty happy with the way this has come out, making it has taught me allot and my next one will b better! I would also like to thanks everyone for the suggestions and...

Turned out the way that I placed the rear cavity made drilling into it from the bridge recess relatively easy :)

I have a couple of Artec soap bars I believe, It is a temporary thing, as long as the bass plays well once I have it set up I will save for a nice set :) Cheers for the help guys!

Makes sense, cheers for the rationale! I will drill the hole into the cavity.

I used a nice couple of coats of yacht varnish on the fret-board and have been oiling the rest of the bass with danish oil, its looking quite nice. However just as I am preparing to begin setup/ installation I have come across the issue of grounding to the bridge. I have read around and seen...

Progress has been fairly slow, just finnished my final year. I have managed to put some fret markers in with ash vaneer and standard wood glue. I am coming to the point where i need to finnish the fretboard and am looking for any suggestions on peoples favouirite epoxy. I did consider leaving it...

I have managed to salvage the neck off of this project! I removed the body and improved the neck shape. I was mainly using this as a practice piece for fretting and inlays, I'm pretty happy with the results I know it's not perfect though. I may build a body for this neck but am not in a rush to...

It's been a while..... Some major progress with the bass has been made though! (Quite picture heavy) I have glued it all together routed cavities (and made a cover for the back cavity) and radiused the fretboard. I have started shaping the neck into the body and other body parts, This will take...

Sorry it took so long for my reply! I am hoping to put a more subtle curve on this section of the guitar something like in the image below, sorry this wasn't made obvious in the sketches. I am also going to put some cut ins in the back of the bass one to aid acess to the higher frets and one so...

I'm torn between the natural and navy i have another bass in the pipeline and i think im going to stain that a deep blue :) ill upload it here if i ever get any of these finnished! Cheers for the interest

Hi there just a quick update, its been a while! I haven't had massive amounts of time to work on the bass between uni and stuff. I have tapered and shaped the neck a bit, i have also sorted the headstock. I did some shaping on the body too.

Cheers for the recomendation, I am affraid i have already done it with gorilla i will see how it turns out! i will use tite bond next time!

Cheers guys! I am certainly going to remove quite a bit of material from the top, im basing it off the nut height, e.g. it needs to be atleast below that.

It's been a while, with uni and whatnot but we have managed to finnish the fretboard, put the fret lines in and shaped the end. We then glued it to the rest of the neck. Rough rosewood plank Marking fret-lines on PAX fret saw Epoxy aryldite...