Balance K Tribute repair & major MOD

[Rôckhewer]

So what was the actual malfunction on the old rod, it just sheared off at the head?

Yup..... Just like Eddard Stark

For the full diagnostic, refer to the somewhat cryptic Steve Austin parody above...

Or...just go back to posts #29 & 30 of this thread.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

It sacrificed its own life, trying in vain to help the monster neck! And tragically, it misunderstood the threat and exceeded its own strength. Rest in pieces, brave truss rod! Your heroism will be remembered.

 

[Beej]

Note to self: Make sure strings lay flat on fretboard when saddles are in the lowest position for all builds.

 

[RichterScale]

Any updates?

 

[Rôckhewer]

Any updates?

Just one....
During the fb removal and the heat therefrom, the neck took an ever so slight twist, plus we are having some weather. (Humidity)
I did have it clamped in place awaiting the board, ... but it twisted just a little bit more.
...just enough to warrant a fix. So I did.
I made a jig with clamps and a board.
Over-rotated against the twist...slightly.

Gently and evenly applied (mild) heat.... with the iron.
3 cycles... heat -cool.
Now it's perfect.

 

[RichterScale]

thanks for posting that. I woulda broke down in tears and not known what to do.
Nice save,
although, now I'm a little nervous about removing mine. I was actually considering doing it tonight since I'm home, all my other tools are at work, have access to a clothes iron, the wife is out and I can only watch so much dog tv

 

[Rôckhewer]

I can only watch so much dog tv

Dog as in... Bounty Hunter?
He's got a great suggestion for that "attitude tool" to have close at hand

 

[RichterScale]

Nope. Actual TV channel for dogs.
It's like reliving the Barney days when the kids were toddlers.

 

[Rôckhewer]

We've talked about attitude enhancing tools in this thread.
Here's another tool needed for the next step.
Feel free to listen along whilst you read.

...maybe a little Vivaldi thrown in...

Since I'm going classical...
I also needed a couple of sharp hand tools.
Thank God for the venerable elderly, and their estate sales.
These were horrible... needed work.
They're still not real pretty, but serviceable.

My buddy has this cool sharpening rig. Spinning glass plates with sticky abrasive.
It works decent (not fabulous) ... but it's quick.

So, for this boards geometrical redux...
I need to create an "offset hyperbolic paraboloid"...
(Quoting The Book of @Bruce Johnson of course, ...thx)
...bookmarks are cool.
Level and true a compound radius fingerboard

But.. to correct the issue, it also needs a significant pitch from heel to nut.
This complex compound rad / pitch, seemed like a fairly daunting task at first, but then I remembered...
Um... dude.. you're a sculptor"...
... "oh yeah!... huh... I got this.

First I ran a regular 12" rad on my rad jig.... all the way up the board, which was as yet, un-wedged.
Just to take off some meat, and give myself a starting point.
Here's a shot of my rad sled jig... as I was cleaning up. (Sans router).... (I forgot a WIP pic sorry)

Then at the nut, I filed it down to the desired thickness, and radiused that down to...

When all said, done and coated.... (yes coated)...it will likely end up around 10" at the nut to about 13 at the heel.

Chalked it up... and planed it down.
Generally following the string paths.

Which was easier to do accurately with my leveling beam... once I got close with the hand plane.

Once glued up it will be sanded again... but she's real close here.

It's still going to be a very playable bass. Just with slightly a chunky neck situation at the upper register.... (slightly)... most of the correction happened at the nut end. The original board was already fairly thick.
But yeah.. here's the big end.

 

[RichterScale]

1st: I clicked on the classical music vid (on my phone) with the volume on about 2. I thought my hearing damage had final gone to the next stage because all I heard was a bell. I cranked up the volume a bit and realized that the triangle player was turned up in the mix.
Made me think of this:


2nd: I get redirected to one of Bruce's fingerboard leveling seminars and next thing I know, I'm reading 3 different threads and all of a sudden I have a third tab open on some guy named Romberg?
All while someone is smashing a triangle next to my head? I had one eye open and not even through half of coffee #1 yet.
Why do you hate me?

 

[Rôckhewer]

All while someone is smashing a triangle next to my head?

Triangle solo!

I found the interplay betwixt the triangle and violin... highly invigorating.
It played well with the maddening tinnitus in my right ear.
A nice... sort of, polyphonic buzz in the cranium.

But seriously....Paganini's compositions exude an attitude of precise execution combined with flamboyant flare... that really helped my head.

Tomorrow I'll likely be back on some Mudvayne, Rammstein & Twelve Foot Ninja

 

[Reedt2000]

polyphonic buzz

buzz in the cranium

Accidental band names for sure! (or at least album titles )

 

[Beej]

2nd: I get redirected to one of Bruce's fingerboard leveling seminars and next thing I know, I'm reading 3 different threads and all of a sudden I have a third tab open on some guy named Romberg?
All while someone is smashing a triangle next to my head? I had one eye open and not even through half of coffee #1 yet.
Why do you hate me?

Sounds like a typical morning in the Beej household, minus the Beejlets running around.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Accidental band names for sure! (or at least album titles )

Yes, those are definitely good band or album names.

And I think that the Polyphonic Buzz Bass is a secret R & D project going on somewhere. Rumor has it that the fingerboard is cut to multiple parallel offset hyperbolic paraboloid contours. It hasn't been released for production because of an outbreak of tinnitus among the engineering staff.

 

[TerribleTim68]

...Tomorrow I'll likely be back on some Mudvayne, Rammstein & Twelve Foot Ninja

Currently I'm stuck on these guys, because, you know, bass forward.....

 

[JKos]

@TerribleTim68 ,
Thank you posting that. Hadn't heard if them.

 

[Rôckhewer]

Currently I'm stuck on these guys, because, you know, bass forward.....

Right?!!!
I been a fan of those youngsters from down under for a couple years.
Toby is a FB friend whom I follow... he posts cool shiz like this

 

[Rôckhewer]

Got the side dots in.
Black tube Luminlay... inside of brass tube.

 

[BTL]

What a fun read!

 

[Rôckhewer]

Time for my trusted plexiglass nutslotting jigg.
Every time I cut a slot with this thing... it makes me smile. So easy. So accurate.
It even received a knighthood accolade this goaround. Tapped it on each shoulder... (with the karambit. )
Arise!! ...."Sir Nutssaslot"

Here's the back. Fully adjustable from like...banjo to... 8 string?.. mebby more.

Here's the slot.

Here's the nut.
Ok...The nut needs liberated... but it's in there