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5 string fretless showcase: Habanero V

#102
pilotjones said:
Aluminum 17" long going through a temperature change of 20 degrees F would only grow or shrink by .004", so that's not much of a factor in this. Stainless would be 2/3 of that.
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I will accept this as fact, given your profile signature. :) I have a Little Black Book Of Everything somewhere downstairs that probably has a graph of this.

pilotjones said:
Printers pretty much suck as a rule, when you want true scaled output. They don't even have the same error on each axis.
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You'd think it wouldn't be a problem with a laser printer, but I guess it is at Staples. My little HP1006 laser printer is spot-on in all directions, within what I am capable of measuring with a micrometer...more than good enough for me. Hmm, I wonder if I can trick it into taking an 8.5x36" sheet of paper...
 
#103
My best luck with printers was when I used a large plotter at a friend's architecture firm. Perhaps there's a printing outfit near you that specializes in reproducing scale drawings for engineers, architects, designers...

I've had good luck using a large format photocopier to scale plans up or down; the copier I was using was a business model that cost as much as a Porsche.
 
#104
pilotjones said:
Aluminum 17" long going through a temperature change of 20 degrees F would only grow or shrink by .004", so that's not much of a factor in this. Stainless would be 2/3 of that.

Printers pretty much suck as a rule, when you want true scaled output. They don't even have the same error on each axis.
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Ya maybe I beefed that one up.;) But I've seen 12' alum. Window sills
Grow a quarter inch.

Paper changes size every day. :D
 
#105
Jazzdogg said:
My best luck with printers was when I used a large plotter at a friend's architecture firm. Perhaps there's a printing outfit near you that specializes in reproducing scale drawings for engineers, architects, designers...

I've had good luck using a large format photocopier to scale plans up or down; the copier I was using was a business model that cost as much as a Porsche.
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Jazz, I found a place near my house that I'm pretty sure has a plotter. Before I call them, though, I think I have a plan. It involves an 8.5"x48" pdf I just made, the back of a 36"x48" printout that is worthless to me now, and a small laser printer that has never let me down. (My 2 year old fed it a colored pencil last week and the printer came out on top, I think it can do this...)
 
#106
Plotters generally are different from printers in that they are meant to be calibrated for output scaling. Current ones do it automatically by printing a test sheet and scanning it. For old ones, you would print a test graphic, measure it, an enter the measurements into the driver.

Also, AutoCAD 2000 and earlier had calibration ability to do the same thing for any printer you wanted - print a test page, measure, and enter the results into ACAD itself, which built a .pmp file for each printer.
 
#107
Well, thought I could get it to work, but the printer keeps treating it by 8.5x11, no matter what I do with the print settings.

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Got the second back headstock lam on,

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And now the cocobolo,

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Gonna do the front in one shot since it's flat.
 
#110
Musiclogic said:
This thing is looking sweet, and I don't even like single cuts, but you guys are making cases for them...LOL
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Haha, thanks. When I was a youngster, I always loved the look of Les Pauls, but I don't think I would've played a LP bass even if I had known they existed. I played a Fender Jazz because the string spacing felt right and all there really was at the local music stores were Fender, Ibanez, and Music Man. This is back in The Olden Times, you know, before the internet. The first time I ever saw a single cut was on Talk Bass, in the LC! I love the look, and fret access isn't a concern for me. My 17-year-old Jazz Bass' frets are flat and nasty up to the 7th fret, from there down they look new :)
 
#111
barnaclebeau said:
Haha, thanks. When I was a youngster, I always loved the look of Les Pauls, but I don't think I would've played a LP bass even if I had known they existed. I played a Fender Jazz because the string spacing felt right and all there really was at the local music stores were Fender, Ibanez, and Music Man. This is back in The Olden Times, you know, before the internet. The first time I ever saw a single cut was on Talk Bass, in the LC! I love the look, and fret access isn't a concern for me. My 17-year-old Jazz Bass' frets are flat and nasty up to the 7th fret, from there down they look new :)
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Please tell me what you consider the "olden times"...LMAO I was an engineer at a major Computer chip manufacturer before the public knew much more than the 80286 and the 386 was the new hot thing...LMAO I was playing music professionally before there was such thing as a TRS-80...LMAO are you older than me??? That would make you really old.:D
btw, the first concert I went to was Led Zeppelin in 1973 at the old Tampa Stadium Tampa, Florida thanks to my older brother dragging me along.:crying:
 
#112
Musiclogic said:
Please tell me what you consider the "olden times"...LMAO
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I say that tongue-in-cheek! I'm 36, graduated high school in 1992, the tail end of the last generation that grew up without the internet. I just started a teaching job at a maritime college, and I realized that the incoming freshman class was born when I was 18, so I'm feeling like I am getting up there. My Claim to Oldness with the kids is having seen Sublime live three times, and Pearl Jam when they were touring on their first album. Those same things make me a youngin' to some guys in here though...:p:bassist:
 
#115
barnaclebeau said:
I say that tongue-in-cheek! I'm 36, graduated high school in 1992, the tail end of the last generation that grew up without the internet. I just started a teaching job at a maritime college, and I realized that the incoming freshman class was born when I was 18, so I'm feeling like I am getting up there. My Claim to Oldness with the kids is having seen Sublime live three times, and Pearl Jam when they were touring on their first album. Those same things make me a youngin' to some guys in here though...:p:bassist:
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I got ya by about 9 years:( I still don't consider myself old yet, except in the music game.) but yeah, I get the age thing when I hear famous people talking about not even being born when Motley Crue was popular...LMAO then I really feel old.
 
#117
stepswork4me said:
Look for a place locally that does signage or architectual plan reproduction. The price to print scale drawings should be reasonably low and the measurements will be spot on. Also, you can usually just email or take the file on disc and you'll be good to go.
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The print shop I found couldn't do it, I thought that was weird... I did find a couple of architecture firms in the area, more phone calls tomorrow.

In the mean time, got the headstock face glued up, all in one shot. Big reveal tomorrow! :bassist:

EDIT: Another C-clamp birdsnest pic. Can't have enough of those.
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#119
Spent the day at the New England Aquarium in Boston, I now have a penguin-obsessed little boy.

Got home and found this under some clamps...

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Turned it into this in about 10 minutes...

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Obviously more work required, but I'm happy with it so far. Here's where we are headed...

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