Yes Lisa, the small ones are 16mm diameter which is as near as dammit 5/8". The bigger ones are 18mm which translates to 0.709"
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5-String Fanned Hybrid Headless
- Thread starter Dave Higham
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Awesome. They look really good. I'll give mine a try, but I know they won't turn out nearly as good.
how have i missed this thread, until this point...
Dave...I have been a machinist for a long time, but I am envious of your skill with wood. I am more comfortable with metal as my medium.
I am really impressed with the way you did the knobs without a dual angle gauge or an indexing head spindle. Your solution was quite creative.
One of the old guys who taught me always said that the best machinists often used creative means to make something work...
EDIT..this is the first build thread I have ever sub'd
Dave...I have been a machinist for a long time, but I am envious of your skill with wood. I am more comfortable with metal as my medium.
I am really impressed with the way you did the knobs without a dual angle gauge or an indexing head spindle. Your solution was quite creative.
One of the old guys who taught me always said that the best machinists often used creative means to make something work...
EDIT..this is the first build thread I have ever sub'd
Where does the time go?
I just realised that it was back in May that I said "So, when Ive finished with the Tru-Oil Ill be putting all the bits and pieces together and hoping it all works. Ill come back and tell you if it does".
Well, that was then, this is now.
I kept putting coats of Tru-Oil on until Id used the bottle up. Finishing is my bête noire whatever sort of finish I try to use. I did my first bass with nitro (but not luthier nitro) and had problems with fish-eyes. By the time Id got them filled up Id got too much thickness on, but I only realised that when it had hardened enough to suffer a thermal shock one day and crazed all over.
My first attempt at French polishing, on an acoustic bass, went surprisingly well and I was very pleased with it. My second attempt was on two ukulele and it never properly hardened. A year later they are sitting on an old t-shirt and if I pick them up I have to peel them off the t-shirt. Theyre still not finished.
Im pretty sure I know what my problem is with the Tru-Oil. Im not putting the coats on thin enough. So after dozens of coats using kitchen paper it had the equivalent of brush marks in the surface. I decided to rub it down with 800 grit wet-and-dry and went straight through it! Aargh!! Id already rubbed the neck down with 0000 wire wool and wax polish which gave a nice sheen, so the rest of the bass got the same treatment. Its really quite nice. The only slight regret is that you dont get the same figure popping effect with a satin finish as you do with gloss but I can put up with that.
So I finally got all the bits together and it didn't work! It was just a minor wiring problem that Aaron quickly sorted out for me. The combination of Aaron Armstrong's custom pickups and the Glockenklang onboard tone controls give it a huge range of possible tones from velvety smooth to out and out clanging. But don't ask me for sound clips. I wouldn't know how and you wouldn't want to hear me playing it.
So here at the end of the marathon are the glamour shots. Hope you think it was worth it, and thanks for looking.
I just realised that it was back in May that I said "So, when Ive finished with the Tru-Oil Ill be putting all the bits and pieces together and hoping it all works. Ill come back and tell you if it does".
Well, that was then, this is now.
I kept putting coats of Tru-Oil on until Id used the bottle up. Finishing is my bête noire whatever sort of finish I try to use. I did my first bass with nitro (but not luthier nitro) and had problems with fish-eyes. By the time Id got them filled up Id got too much thickness on, but I only realised that when it had hardened enough to suffer a thermal shock one day and crazed all over.
My first attempt at French polishing, on an acoustic bass, went surprisingly well and I was very pleased with it. My second attempt was on two ukulele and it never properly hardened. A year later they are sitting on an old t-shirt and if I pick them up I have to peel them off the t-shirt. Theyre still not finished.
Im pretty sure I know what my problem is with the Tru-Oil. Im not putting the coats on thin enough. So after dozens of coats using kitchen paper it had the equivalent of brush marks in the surface. I decided to rub it down with 800 grit wet-and-dry and went straight through it! Aargh!! Id already rubbed the neck down with 0000 wire wool and wax polish which gave a nice sheen, so the rest of the bass got the same treatment. Its really quite nice. The only slight regret is that you dont get the same figure popping effect with a satin finish as you do with gloss but I can put up with that.
So I finally got all the bits together and it didn't work! It was just a minor wiring problem that Aaron quickly sorted out for me. The combination of Aaron Armstrong's custom pickups and the Glockenklang onboard tone controls give it a huge range of possible tones from velvety smooth to out and out clanging. But don't ask me for sound clips. I wouldn't know how and you wouldn't want to hear me playing it.
So here at the end of the marathon are the glamour shots. Hope you think it was worth it, and thanks for looking.
This was probably the single most informative, helpful, entertaining, and awesome thread in LC history...
Dave,
It was well worth the wait - this is simply stunning!
I've been following this build with fascination from your initial sketch in the first post. From that drawing to the final results, I have been riveted by each and every post. But I am having difficulty deciding which of the many aspects of your accomplishment deserves the largest heaping of praise. From concept to completion, you have truly impressed me with your vision, craft, ingenuity, determined can-and-will-do attitude, your integrity, your humble honesty and willingness to share areas where you struggled, and your ultimate (and inevitable
) towering triumph. But the simple fact that you took the time to share all of this with this community and the many examples you set in doing so are what I appreciate the most. Thank you for being so awesome!
- Jeff Hall
Classy classy classy. Beautiful!
You mention they are Aaron Armstrong pickups. What type of pickup are they?
You mention they are Aaron Armstrong pickups. What type of pickup are they?
