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8 String Bass In Progress

#41
After a bit of hassle to find a good system the knobs are done. I think they turned out pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

Remember that these are completely unfinished aside from 600 grit sanding. When you moisten them a bit the figuring in the grain really pops.

8 strings, 8 knobs. Makes sense to me.

-Nate
 

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nateo said:
After a bit of hassle to find a good system the knobs are done. I think they turned out pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

Remember that these are completely unfinished aside from 600 grit sanding. When you moisten them a bit the figuring in the grain really pops.

8 strings, 8 knobs. Makes sense to me.

-Nate
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Ooooh! I haven't even seen these yet. Good work Nate!

Also, the bridge is going to be some kinda of custom machined job. Thank goodness for machinist friends.... and also Nate.
 
#50
The trick is to buy gas at the CanTire. I get around $3 every time I fill up my truck, and that can add up fast. The vast majority of our shop has been outfitted using Canadian Tire money.

Gotta love free tools.

-Nate

PS: When you buy something with CanTire money it counts as cash, so you get more CanTire money in return. It's like a built in discount on something that was free to begin with.
 
#52
There are two options. One, you get yourself a Canadian Tire credit card. That lets you automatically acrue the CanTire money on the card. Two, you just do all your shopping at CanTire (especially any gas purchases). I don't know how much sense it makes if you don't live close to one (it's my nearest hardware store and gas station) but it's certianly worth the effort if you've got the motivation.

-Nate
 
#53
Damn, Canadian Tire doesn't sell gas over here in quebec... Either way, their guarantee on tools is amazing, I brought back these longnose pliers cuz they didn't cut anymore, they guy at the service grabbed them from my hand, disappeared in the backstore for like 45 seconds, and came back with a new pair, no questions asked, no receipt, no nothing. Canada rocks. :D
 
#57
Since I think Geoff is still camping, I'll field that one. It's in the neighborhood of 4 1/2" at the body and something like 2 3/4" at the headstock. I'd go out and measure it, since it's sitting in my shop right now, but that's a good 40 feet of travel and I'm feeling lazy this holiday Monday.

-Nate
 
#58
wilser said:
It's comming along great! one question? how thick is that neck?
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Thanks for covering Nate. Just got back. The neck is 2 3/4" at the nut, 4.375" at the 24h fret. The neck is going to be close to .75" thick once all is carved. I have to remember to take in the vernier so I don't mess that one up.
 
#59
Well, it's been a while since there's been an update.

The fatstack pickups showed up from Carey Nordstrand last week and they look great. The pickup covers are now being built. I'll snap a picture of these tomorrow.

We had a bit of a setback due to an incident involving an oven, but now we are back on track with an improvement.

We're just working out some new knobs for this bass. I had cylinders that were going to go on, but then we worked out some new tophat knobs, so those are going to go on set into a recess so that the "brim" of the knob is below the surface of the bubinga. The other cool thing about that is that several of the pots are push/pull pots, so when pulled up it will reveal the tophat in all its glory.

Here are the first 2 knobs.
 

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