Recent content by Wasted4440

Hi everyone, I'm finally nearing the end of my build and I had one final question about making the nut and final setup. I've cut the TUSQ nut to width, and marked out the radius/height of the frets on it with a flattened pencil, and made a second identical line 1/16" above it. What order...

Thanks for the replies everyone! I did end up making a 1# pint, and I should be sealing soon as I have to have it done within three weeks (the university shop closes for the summer). It was interesting to see that cleaning with alcohol seemed to pick up much most dust than the hexanes (as a...

Hi everyone, The time for me to finish my build is coming shortly, and I had a few more simple questions that I would be very grateful to have answered. My plan is to fill the grain/seal using platina dewaxed shellac and pumice, then use Tru-Oil to build the final finish. I was wondering: is...

That is an absolutely beautiful bass! I've always thought about building a Les Paul guitar, but now after building my current bass and wanting to play more, you may have put me on the course to a future project! Now, you may call it beginner's ignorance, but what exactly does a decade knob do...

I think bass builder if talking about tapering the neck all along its length, so that it makes a very long trapezoid essentially. Here's a good video to demonstrate it: . I'm loving the laminate necks, I've always been a sucker for building with those too! Probably because I don't have access...

The glue is flush to the plane of the cutaway. The face-to-face joint of the pau ferro to maple is flat, so is the plane of the cutaway (maybe a hundredth higher at each end, which will get scraped out) and it would surprise me quite a lot if there was a pocket that formed where glue could pool...

Hmmm, that could be, it's just a bit disconcerting that appeared right when I got to that layer with an angle grinder, and hasn't disappeared since I've been scraping the cutaway smooth.

Hi everyone, While carving away my belly and arm cutaways, I noticed that in both areas there is a seam of pesky glue that is visually unpleasant. I glued my original blank up by placing two sets of pau ferro and maple together, gluing them both in a vacuum bag, and then attaching them to a...

Thanks for the replies everyone. I talked to a gentleman I know who's been building acoustic guitars for decades and he suggested exactly what you said with the tru-oil. To seal the grain however, he suggested the method that was brought back to my memory, where you use a light, 1lb cut of...

Hi everyone, In about a month or so, my current bass build will be ready for finishing, and I was thinking of doing the entire thing with Tru-Oil, roughly following this video: . I have a five piece body and neck as seen below, with the neck being maple-mahogany-walnut-mahogany-maple and the...

Thanks George, that clears a lot of my confusion up. When I was writing that late last night, I forgot that my base plate is indeed included in the 13/32" saddle height measurement, but I'll double and triple check everything before I rout. On an off question: when measuring the 34" from the nut...

Hi everyone, My build is getting close to the point where I'm ready to rout the neck pocket, and I just wanted to double check that I have the notion of how to calculate it all figured out. I'm using a Gotoh standard bass bridge and pre-radiused fretboard from Stewmac, as well as some of...

That's a great observation that I hadn't considered. I think doing a design similar to your would also eliminate the need to tune the forces between the center/outer magnets so that I could pull the top off. I hope you don't mind me stealing it, and well done on the inlay too!

Fantastic work! On my current build, I'm looking to do the same sort of magnetic cover, but with a large magnet in the middle that will hopefully remove the cover by sticking a screwdriver or piece of metal to. I haven't done any tests yet, but do you believe that six magnets in the body and...

Thanks for the video Means! That does sound like a better way of doing it for sure, although it may require quite a bit of Superglue to fill these cracks, depending on how they appear in the morning.