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Baby Rainbow Bass 24" scale

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Body (roughly) shaped:

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The headstock is done!
I was able to cut a very thin slice from the "top board", my little chinese band saw work surprisingly well, thanks to the blade made by an old joiner...

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As you can see in this pic i repeat the same sequence of the body: Mahogany/Blue veneer/Yellow veneer/Rainbow top.
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Here you can see a blue sky inside the body!!!
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The cavity in free-hand routed. I will use the same rainbow board to realize the cover, probably with the same blue/yellow layer.

The end is not so far, but also Xmas is not so far! I have to hurry! :eek:
 
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Matteo Marziali said:
No, i will use a .095-.040 set and tune A-D-G-C, if the .095 string will not break around the machine head!
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I recently made the mistake of building a couple of ultra-shorts (I say mistake because after hearing the way it pocketed, 3/4 of my band wants me to park my long-scales and use a 25" exclusively) and discovered that using a 5-string set, B-E-A-D, and tuning it E-A-D-G, you get very close to long-scale tension...which of course may not be a good thing with a 5-year-old, but something I wish I'd known 25 years ago. (Hey, what's a 34" capo'd at the 5th fret? Seems like a 25" to me.)

I also discovered the core-snapping problem...I thought the key was removing the outer windings on the "B" (E) string. Nope...but it's half the problem. I only got it to work - at some cost, I admit - by removing the outer windings, stretching the next layer of inners a bit, laying the end across the slot in the peg (NOT into the hole), and warming the bend on the string with a soldering iron. I got lucky the first two times doing it at room temp, but the third time was the harm...a little warming seems to be all the core needs to resist breakage.
 
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Braindancer said:
I recently made the mistake of building a couple of ultra-shorts (I say mistake because after hearing the way it pocketed, 3/4 of my band wants me to park my long-scales and use a 25" exclusively) and discovered that using a 5-string set, B-E-A-D, and tuning it E-A-D-G, you get very close to long-scale tension...which of course may not be a good thing with a 5-year-old, but something I wish I'd known 25 years ago. (Hey, what's a 34" capo'd at the 5th fret? Seems like a 25" to me.)

I also discovered the core-snapping problem...I thought the key was removing the outer windings on the "B" (E) string. Nope...but it's half the problem. I only got it to work - at some cost, I admit - by removing the outer windings, stretching the next layer of inners a bit, laying the end across the slot in the peg (NOT into the hole), and warming the bend on the string with a soldering iron. I got lucky the first two times doing it at room temp, but the third time was the harm...a little warming seems to be all the core needs to resist breakage.
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I know extra small bass sound good... probably i will play this bass instead of my son! ;)
About the string: i don't feel comfortable on cutting the string... i'm not able in this kind of things... and I found an italian string company (Link Removed) that is able to build me a custom set, so probably (if the price is reasonable) i'll be able to tune it in EADG
 

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