Recent content by hoffmant

Wow. Lots to consider. And here I was thinking it'd be a quick & easy repair. I have several years woodworking experience, but I've just started getting into instrument making. I built an electric bass by taking the neck & parts from my old student model thing & making a new cherry body for...

I'll check the other forum. Didn't realize that was there... Thanks. I thought about pinning with a dowel, too, but I have no idea how I would line everything up straight, unless I clamped it together & drilled right through the back of the neck's tail (director said he really doesn't care...

There's a little bit of splintering. I haven't really had a chance to check the fit closely. I'm taking it home today. Once I get it in my shop, I'll clean out the splinters & test the fit (with some clamps, probably, to see how tight it is). My gut says epoxy as is should be strong enough...

I've been tasked with repairing an upright bass for my school's band director. The neck is snapped right off. How would you go about repairing this? It's broken along the grain, so I'm thinking that it should make a decent glue joint with minimal clean up (I have some T-88 structural epoxy on...

You can spend a ton of time making a template & use a router, or you can spend like 5 minutes with a forstner bit & a sharp chisel. I'm kinda hand-tool biased, though. And routers scare me. Learning to use hand tools well is a great skill. They can be a ton faster than power tools for...

I found this forum a few weeks ago when I decided I wanted to try my hand at building some basses & guitars. I just finished my first attempt the other day. Really, all I did for this was to build a new body--the neck & all the parts are cannibalized from a student-model Yamaha that I've been...