Recent content by Spottt

I will post some more pics of my process and some videos after the weekend. Thank you all for the likes and advice. Enjoy your thanksgiving!!!!

Thanks. I’ll try it out

Hello again. I finally finished the bass. I have impressed myself a bit. I want to know how I can upload a video clip. Can anyone help me out.

Some more pics

So here it is with a CA finish on the fretboard and one coat of boiled linseed oil. Decided CA glue because I inlaid bloodwood fret lines and dots. Thank you all for the interest. I hope it sounds good. My son decided on bartolini pickups. I’ll be back here to ask for some help or guidance in...

Thanks.

Here is a picture of the unfinished fretboard

I appreciate that link but I was asking about CA glue as a finish. that guy was using 2 part epoxy. I have used CA glue on other projects and it’s quite hard and can be polished to look like glass. I don’t play bass so I’m not sure how the “hardness “ will effect sound. The fretboard I’m using...

Hello. I’m new to this blog. I don’t play bass but my son does. I’m not a luthier but I decided to try to build him his “dream bass”. I have some decent carpentry skills and a nicely appointed workshop. Had some scrap pieces of maple and walnut from trees that had fallen in my yard. I had the...

Thanks. I’ll beware

Hello. I’m new to this blog. I don’t play bass but my son does. I’m not a luthier but I decided to try to build him his “dream bass”. I have some decent carpentry skills and a nicely appointed workshop. Had some scrap pieces of maple and walnut from trees that had fallen in my yard. I had the...