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It has been several months now and you can see how quickly the Osage Orange has darkened. I think the chocolate/orange is very handsome. I’m changing out the original steel screws with brass, a few at a time. As they get some tarnish, I think they will look great! The next item to craft was an...

After reattachment of the lid, it was time to shape the remaining fittings. The original saddle was quite worn, thin , and splitting at the screw holes. So a new OO saddle was crafted. Since the overstand had been increased when the neck was fashioned, and the bridge is 6 3/4” tall, I was able...

Hi again friends, I’ve been sidetracked with other projects, but need to carry on with this story. When the top comes off an Al Pfretzschner, the simple ingenuity becomes apparent. As the edges overlap the sides, the resulting Al to Al contact was dampened with a thin, green felt. The bass bar...

Quartersawn Osage, even when judiciously selected, has a tendency to twisting grain and is difficult to plane. I gave it a go, but was unable to use that method. So, it was on to the big abrasive belt: About an hour at the machine rendered a reasonable facsimile of a fingerboard and nice pile...

A recently cut piece of OO next to a hatchet haft fashioned 8 years previous, finished with boiled linseed oil.

I’ve become pretty much comfortable with the previous steps, but the next, creating a fingerboard from raw lumber, would be a fresh challenge! Typical fingerboard wood is kinda pricey, and not something one can afford to do wrong. The decision was made to try something non traditional and less...

Cherry wood begins to darken fairly rapidly with exposure to UV light, and will for years. I was anxious to hasten the process, here it is with a coat of Watco oil. Meanwhile, a new neckblock was shaped. At first I thought I would cut it as was done previously, planning to do a glued mortise...

The JGG has right/ left handed, 34” platens, and the 4” idler at the end serves as a spindle sander. Now, I had a stationary power tool for neck block shaping, neck graft fitting, and the ability to try, from scratch, a fingerboard! This neck is crafted of cherry, nearly stiff as maple, but...

My list of needed repairs now included: A neck graft A new neck block A new fingerboard An alternative to the standard mortise for securing the neck The first two were familiar exercises, the others were new challenges. Now, please bear with me for an essential side story. Events transpired to...

Examination thus far indicated that the neck block would need to be replaced. The cheeks on the original block had been broken completely away. On a new block, they still would be so thin they would be unsupportive long-term. Also, the top most row of screw holes on the original block are...

Thank you James, I knew you would chime in! Your enthusiasm is a real hoot! Don, It’s just brown paint, applied with a brush. As for the tag/number, I won’t speculate. It was put there before the silver spray, but the tag doesn’t look like it could be 90-ish years old.

Each of my project basses have been judged as beyond the “repair costs will exceed the final value” stage of their careers. This one was no different. The pegbox had been previously detached and repaired. The ebony fingerboard had been rent completely in two, and poorly, re-affixed. The endpin...

Howdy friends, A goodly measure of my free time this past year has been spent on this rebuild. I thought I would retro- share the process with the TB nerdster crowd.

Lol! I reckon I should read a little closer!

This one is made from a $.25 yard sale find. A decommissioned, butane candle torch. Removed the flame throwing mechanism and bought a vacuum tube delete rubber cap from the auto supply store for $.69.