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    Super ambitious First Build, no woodworking experience..!!

    Guys check out my bands videos featuring this Bassssss..!!
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    Thank you so much for the kind words :) it made my day.. So time for me to cross my fingers. I have sent them a quotation. Thanks to all for your time and inputs. It really helped put things in perspective..!!
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    It would be nice to know what price per hour sounds right to you guys. In any case, the price/hour in my country would be lesser, but at least i will have some sort of benchmark.
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    just to give you guys an idea of whats floating in my head..these are my concept designs. Sorry for the poor resolution, but its sensible to protect my work to an extent..
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    Thank you so much guys for all your responses. Certain things I'd like to clarify, The company does not intent to produce and sell these guitars. They are looking to use it just for promotions. Also my design is something I will copyright, so that if they do decide to sell these guitars, they...
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    Hi Lisa, thank you for your response and insight. It seems the way you mentioned is the right way to go forward. I will just have to figure a charge per hour for each of the different things i plan to do. Im glad you went through my previous thread, hope you enjoyed my journey :) It is correct...
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    Super Ambitious 3D Printed Bass Project. No 3D printing experience..:p

    Hi guys, I am so excited to be posting a whole new thread again, which will, hopefully, turn into a build thread of a 3D printed guitar or bass..!! For those who are not familiar with who I am and what I've built can see my one and only build here - The super ambitious first build no...
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    Super ambitious First Build, no woodworking experience..!!

    Hey guys, thought I should update you guys on this. An image from a recent gig :D Link Removed The bass just sounded fantastic..!! exceeded all my expectations..!!
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    Making Luthier's Tools - Fret wire Bender & Fret end file

    Haha, I meant that no one here might be interested in the details, but boy I was wrong. Function always comes first to me too, in fact I always start sketching the working elements of the design first. Every component's design is completely dictated by its function keeping things as minimal as...
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    Making Luthier's Tools - Fret wire Bender & Fret end file

    Hey Luthiers..!! So i've been away for a while but have greatly improved on my tool. All the new changes make for a very stable, precision tool, without any rattles or play in the mechanism. Well I guess no one cares about all that :p but i'd love to show you guys anyway -
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    One piece body vs two piece glued

    Well I like how your challenging the regular belief that wood glued in two pieces of opposite grain will cancel out the warping tendencies, because what you said about the difference being concentrated at the seam makes sense to me. I believe that it will cancel bends in length to a great...
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    Super ambitious First Build, no woodworking experience..!!

    Hahahahahah that made my day..!! Thank you for the kind words, and although you mentioned not to ask about ur possession of a Ninja Outfit, I'm finding it rather hard to not ask :p I'll make one for you when I can commit time to it :p Thank you guys :) That's the spirit..!! The way I see...
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    Carved top buckeye burl and mahogany bass

    That looks soooo good..!! Congratulations Lisa, looking forward to your next one :)
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    Super ambitious First Build, no woodworking experience..!!

    CLIPS CLIPS..!! I had planned to wind the pickups on the colder side considering that I will be adding a preamp and all initially, and to get a clean bright tone. Well after the pickup cover swap the tone completely changed and now its really really bright. Like it magically came into the...
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    Super ambitious First Build, no woodworking experience..!!

    Im glad, thanks for watching the thread :) Ok so I replaced my aluminium cover with a plastic one. The layers of plastic were welded together with chloroform and a paintbrush.. Here are the pics - Then I did a bit of surgery for the pickup cover swap ! easy 2min surgery...