Recent content by Tare

As a random bit of, hopefully helpful, information, I have recently bit the bullet and put one of the carbide tipped 1" Lenox woodmaster CT's on my bandsaw. I honestly have no idea how I got by for so long without it. Cutting sapele: The cut itself: A light touch with 150 grit...

A bit of progress. All woods cut oversize and ready to be thickness-ed. Brought out the grain with a bit of xylene. Off-cut of the lacewood that will become the top and back plates (Looks a bit more red in person.): The sapele and maple that will be the neck: Will...

Starting a new build to use up some nice hardware that I have been camping on for far too long. Preliminary design complete: Three octave fretless fingerboard, 32 inch scale, twin EMG J's under a decorative string ramp run separately into 18v EMG BQC. Black ABM hardware. Body wings...

I actually used a walnut fingerboard on my last build as, for personal reasons, the customer refused to consider anything else. Every fret will have to be glued into place. It really is a ridiculous amount of work. An alternative would be to cover a fully shaped ebony fingerboard with a...

Tru-Oil is my favorite finish. Remember, with thin coats the gloss you get depends on the smoothness of the wood. My first bass I sanded to a used 350 with a RO and it took 6 coats before the oil started keeping a gloss after it dried. The last bass I finished, I used an RO to 1500 grit. The...

Perhaps foolishly, I did not expect quite so many responses to that little bass I just built. Not wanting to completely hijack this thread, I think it would be best if anyone with questions or the like send me a PM.

Thank you all for the compliments. I am planning a fancier version soon that will get a build along in the Luthiers' Corner. "It seems as if the high positions on the treble side extention would be a bit problematic." Frankly, I expected the last 6+ frets to be pretty much decorative...

Funny story... One of my roommates oldest friends came over for Thanksgiving and, over the course of the evening, talked a lot about the bass neck that he had glued up and how he had never finished it due to being afraid of screwing it up. Well, I have never been one to let the thought of...

Just thought that I should point this out. Titanium is indeed stronger than steel... BY WEIGHT. So, by the way, is aluminum. Comparing a pure titanium bar with an identically sized one of steel, you will find that, assuming their tempers are reasonably similar, the steel bar is stronger...