Recent content by j-stylez

I am still waiting to continue with my bass builds. 1.5 years and that dining table is still taking up all of my free time. If I learned one thing, it's that a small complex object can be built much quicker than some large, seemingly simple objects such as a table. I want to finish the table by...

How do you do the cut, any special jig or accessories?

In case it matters, my tablesaw is the Bosch GTS 635-216 and I have a 22 tooth blade for rip cuts. I dont have any jigs or accessories for special cuts yet, just a fence. Would it make sense to get a featherboard for this kind of cut? The piece I'm cutting off would be about 12mm wide. The...

Getting more tool building done... My very own spindlesander, which consists of an older drill and drillstand. And my Shop finally includes a tablesaw! I'm still in the process of getting down the safety precautions and reading all of the handbook Front to back as I try to have the proper...

Many things have needed doing, all keeping me from continuing this project. Now I'm back at it! However, I'm, switching around some ideas. I'm in the process of building an oak dining table and have some scrap stock left. It's just enough to make a 2x2 Sandwich bass body. So that's what I'm...

Thats hard to say, you need a neck that matches the neck pocket. Then depending on the neck, you might have to move the bridge and pickup Position to fit the new scale length and intonate correctly. It may be difficult to find a neck that just fits right out of the Box. For guitars, there are...

I did a conversion of a 4L to a 3L1R tuner configuration on a harley Benton bass, and like mentioned above somewhere as well, mkake sure the tuner housing fit on the back. That was what determined my placement to a large extent, because there just wasn't that much real estate left to play with.

The neck dive is really strong on these. This is how I fixed that on mine: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/squier-jaguar-bass-headless-conversion.1130283/#post-11904352

Finally, my first gig with this rig! It worked out great on the very small stage. Easily loud enough on stage, but I did go to the PA from my amps DI to give the sound guy some options. I much like that the sound is well defined, not prone to overwhelm. If the cabs are stacked horizontally like...

I mostly play my customized sting ray type bass these days. I'm looking forward to getting to continue on a scratch build soon, but just didn't find the time over spring and summer. Thinking about getting one of these in the meantime: Really dig the galaxy sparkle finish, and these go at...

Thanks, this is advice is very much appreciated! Checking that Region with a 20cm straight edge, I could immediately identify a very slight local "upwards bump" across that exact region. So then it's clear what is causing my buzz. I could find the same local bump on the E string, around the G...

I've got the action low enough for my taste now, which lets me identify a couple of spots where I have to adjust the fingerboard plane. I get slight buzzing ("mwaaaaah") on the G string when fingering the B and B# region. The fingerboard is almost dead flat under the g string, less than 1mm...

Okay, thanks for the hint. I'm switching back to sandpaper, but this time small movements, only one direction, and a fairly coarse grit (80). Let the paper do the Rest of the work while I focus on steady one directional movement. This looks much better already.

I tried it like that in the first Attempt, but it's quite difficult to get just right it seems. Maybe I could carefully do that for the final fit, I'm very close now with plane&scrape. What I dont like about the sandpaper is that it seems to round my edges quickly (i dont have or want to build a...

More progress... Man, getting that to fit 100% is more of a zen Thing than replaning an ebony fingerboard... Tools of choice: