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4001 Mashup

#743
wraub said:
C'mon, no updates? It was only 117 today!

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Only 117°? In that case, I finished rough sanding the neck, and put in the headstock angle. Next step is routing the truss rod channels.

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I have to take my car in for servicing. Again. So I'll need to take a little break here in a few minutes. But then back to it.
 
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#747
wraub said:
100 degrees at 9 this morning... Gotta hurry to finish this before it really gets hot. :D
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It is starting to heat up, isn't it. So a few more steps complete. Shaped the fretboard and drill two positioning holes.

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And then I started shaping the neck. I decided I'm going to bring the angle through the body. I didn't like the abrupt change from angled to straight on the first one.

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I'd do a little more, but my husband wants to spend some time. He's been working like 5 or 6 ten hour shifts the last few weeks, but has today off. Our first Saturday together in like a month. I don't want to spend the whole day in the workshop, even though the A/C seems to be able to keep up with the heat.
 
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#748
A little more work this morning. Routed the neck smooth, or close to it.

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I've decided I'm going to shave off some of the headstock wings and add walnut wings. As it is now, I only need about 1/2" of additional wood to make the headstock. If I use walnut, I think it'll look weird. So I'll shave off about 3/4" of existing maple off the headstock, and glue on a nice width of walnut.
 
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#749
mapleglo said:
A little more work this morning. Routed the neck smooth, or close to it.

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I've decided I'm going to shave off some of the headstock wings and add walnut wings. As it is now, I only need about 1/2" of additional wood to make the headstock. If I use walnut, I think it'll look weird. So I'll shave off about 3/4" of existing maple off the headstock, and glue on a nice width of walnut.
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Might be nice for the maple in the headstock to echo the wedge shape that you cut in the maple through the body. Just a thought.
 
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#755
Gilmourisgod said:
Maple
Do you always glue headstock wings on before you shape the neck back, or after? I glued mine on, now they seem in the way since I still have to bandsaw the basic shape out along the back. D'oh!
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I'm still playing with the sequence of steps for the best results. I've just started to glue up headstock wings and soon, body wings, once the neck blank is shaped. The axe bass, I waited until after the fingerboard was glued on, to glue up the head stock wings, and then I had trouble cutting out the headstock shape because the fingerboard got in the way. Based on what some of the pro's have been saying, shaping the back of the neck comes last, even after gluing up the fretboard and installing the frets.

I'll be using the router to get the basic back of the neck shape. I'll just lay the bass on it's front, clamp up a rail on either side, and slowing go down a little at a time to thickness the back of the neck. Then use the rasp to get the rest. I still have no band saw...
 
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#759
Maple and walnut is the hotness. I'm told by the younger crowd that that means it looks great!

And - it's not too late to reconsider doing a 2 + 3 tuner arrangement. ;)
 
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