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4001 Mashup

#361
Martin Beer said:
This is looking good! I'm curious to know whether you've decided what to do about pickup covers yet. Will you be going for Ric-style chrome ware or just plain soapbar covers?
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I'm still undecided about the pickup covers. At one point I was thinking I'd either buy plastic covers, or make wood ones. I also toyed with the idea of making aluminum ones.

BassHappy said:
Hey Mapleglo

Wow, I was confused and then I realized that this thread was kind of abandoned last December and then resurrected by you last tuesday. So, I am not sure that I have missed as much as I originally thought!

Anxious, as always - to see this build unfold! I am always a big fan of all of your builds! Love the Axe build and I really enjoyed hearing about all your Comicon adventures!
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Thanks! Yeah, I was going to wait until I bought a band saw, but based on the success of the axe bass neck, I think I'm just going to cut the neck with the jig saw and hope for the best. I've got the wall A/C unit turned on right now to see how well it cools the garage. I have to trim down the fret board I cut and then slot it. It's well into the 100's these days here in Phoenix - I think it's 108 today.
 
#362
mapleglo said:
Thanks! Yeah, I was going to wait until I bought a band saw, but based on the success of the axe bass neck, I think I'm just going to cut the neck with the jig saw and hope for the best. I've got the wall A/C unit turned on right now to see how well it cools the garage. I have to trim down the fret board I cut and then slot it. It's well into the 100's these days here in Phoenix - I think it's 108 today.
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Hey Mapleglo....

But that 108 is DRY heat...... LOL

108 in New York would probably just about kill you.

i never knew what that dry heat thing meant until I spent some time on vacation with my wife in the southwest - and it's true - it got up to 102 and it was kinda tolerable. I mean, I have been much more uncomfortable in New York at 90 degrees with the humidity.

But in the southwest, I remember turning on the cold water in the hotel bathroom and it was like almost bath water temp.

Uh-oh!
 
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#363
mapleglo said:
I'm still undecided about the pickup covers. At one point I was thinking I'd either buy plastic covers, or make wood ones. I also toyed with the idea of making aluminum ones.
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Chrome Thunderbird covers might look cool, if not very 4001-ish. I've been thinking about doing a Ric-inspired five string of my own, and while I've wound pickups before, there aren't many ready-made covers that suit that aesthetic.
 
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#364
BassHappy said:
Hey Mapleglo....

But that 108 is DRY heat...... LOL

108 in New York would probably just about kill you.

i never knew what that dry heat thing meant until I spent some time on vacation with my wife in the southwest - and it's true - it got up to 102 and it was kinda tolerable. I mean, I have been much more uncomfortable in New York at 90 degrees with the humidity.

But in the southwest, I remember turning on the cold water in the hotel bathroom and it was like almost bath water temp.

Uh-oh!
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Lived through a decade of NYC summers (and winters!) , and yes 99 degrees with 100 % humidity is just downright damned unpleasant. Granted. However...

102 here is like... Late spring. :) Talk to me at 115 degrees/ 25% humidity.
Don't even ask me about the day I rode 50 miles on a bicycle at 122 degrees...
 
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#365
wraub said:
Lived through a decade of NYC summers (and winters!) , and yes 99 degrees with 100 % humidity is just downright damned unpleasant. Granted. However...

102 here is like... Late spring. :) Talk to me at 115 degrees/ 25% humidity.
Don't even ask me about the day I rode 50 miles on a bicycle at 122 degrees...
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Hey Wraub

I bet you lost a few pounds on that bike ride! I hear ya - not big on a steady diet of that kind of heat myself. Indiana boy - don't mind the cold and snow so much....
 
#366
I grew up and lived in northern New Jersey for the first 40 years of my life, with a year "break" in Chicago. I've also spend many a business trip in Florida. After 10 years out here, I'd welcome 105 degrees of dry heat over 90 degrees with 90% humid any day. In the shade, even approaching 110 isn't too bad.

I wasn't here yet when that 122 degree day came, but my husband was here. Working outside in Landscaping no less.
 
#368
OK, slimmed down the fretboard a little and started slotting.

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And done.

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I think I'm done for the day with this. I still have unpacking to do from the Comicon.
Next up is cutting it down to shape and then the radius. Perhaps I'll ask @michaelwayneharwood to help with that - I hear he has arms of steel now.
:P
 
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#371
BassHappy said:
Hey Wraub

I bet you lost a few pounds on that bike ride! I hear ya - not big on a steady diet of that kind of heat myself. Indiana boy - don't mind the cold and snow so much....
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Between NYC and Northern AZ, I have dealt with my share of snow. 6 am shoveling the sidewalk in front of the building to avoid a ticket? Done that. Multi-mile hikes/bikes in snow covered mountain canyons? Check.

Hot is hot, but you don't need a shovel to deal with it.

And, that 122 degree day?
It was... Hot.
 
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#372
michaelwayneharwood said:
You are a cruel, cruel, vampire. ;)
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That was just a little nibble. Didn't even break the skin :P

wraub said:
Between NYC and Northern AZ, I have dealt with my share of snow. 6 am shoveling the sidewalk in front of the building to avoid a ticket? Done that. Multi-mile hikes/bikes in snow covered mountain canyons? Check.

Hot is hot, but you don't need a shovel to deal with it.

And, that 122 degree day?
It was... Hot.
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I always say it's a lot easier to shovel sunshine than it is to shovel snow.
 
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#374
mapleglo said:
That was just a little nibble. Didn't even break the skin :p
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The smell of the blood from the raised veins in my aching arms must have been too much to resist. At least you haven't tried to coerce me to go Pixie strangling....
 
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#375
Started laying the pieces out to get an idea of how it will go together. I drilled two small holes that fixed the fret board in position, and drew some lines.

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Seems about right. I remember when I was putting together the axe, I regretted gluing on the finger board before I glued up the headstock wings and cut them to shape - the fingerboard was getting in the way. So I think I'll trim the fret board, then rough cut the back of the neck, then glue up the headstock wings and cut them, then glue on the finger board, then trim the neck to the fret board, then radius the fret board, then shape the back of the neck.
 
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Started cutting down the back of the neck.

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The jig saw blade started taking an inward turn about half way through so I continued from the other side.

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Then I trimmed down the fret board.

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And then glued up the headstock wings.

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It's pretty cool how much faster things go when you have a semi-organized, enclosed work area. Even with the wall A/C unit going though, it was pretty warm in there. I guess I'll have to insulate the walls after all. It's only 102 today. It'll get much worse before it gets better.
 
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