made some serious progress today. i sanded the whole thing with 80 grit on a palm sander. i threw on a coat of oil to better see what the finished product will end up like. i must say, it looks pretty sweet so far.
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Bass Build #1
- Thread starter rick0link
- Start date
Nice build!
What did you do to keep the neck from bowing with all the tension from those strings!
What did you do to keep the neck from bowing with all the tension from those strings!
ThomasTronics said:
Easy, the neck is close to 1 inch thick, a truss rod, and its a 3 piece laminate. Stable and solid as can be.
Hopkins
Commercial User
thank you!!!
i agree, it was pretty cool as it was before. but after doing what i did with my last build i knew i could do this one better. i plan on doing a re-do like this to my 10 string build too.
did you just route a groove under the fingerboard for your truss rod? this thing looks amazing man! very awesome
thank you!
are you referring to the spot by the nut? if so, no. that was already there. if you took off that fingerboard.... you'd probably laugh. its a disaster. thats why i'm going with a truss rod cover this time around.
it's done! here are some pics i took this morning. i'll post more and better ones later.
changes made: reshaped the edges of the body to be much rounder, reworked the headstock (it was uneven in thickness), removed the veneer on the headstock face (mainly because it looked horrid... live and learn), rounded the edges of the headstock, cut a truss rod cover out of scrap cocobola, reshaped the neck/heel joint, made a new control cavity cover and recessed it into the body, i think that is all..........
you can learn much in a year........
changes made: reshaped the edges of the body to be much rounder, reworked the headstock (it was uneven in thickness), removed the veneer on the headstock face (mainly because it looked horrid... live and learn), rounded the edges of the headstock, cut a truss rod cover out of scrap cocobola, reshaped the neck/heel joint, made a new control cavity cover and recessed it into the body, i think that is all..........
you can learn much in a year........
It's always super interesting to watch these builds here.
Great job.
Interesting location for that single pickup.
Great job.
Interesting location for that single pickup.
gadela said:
Thanks! I highly recommend getting into this!
I have some on youtube, but the band is so loud that you cant hear the bass. If you search Invader Pittsburgh on youtube, you'll see those clips.
Yes - you Do need to smack the band upside the head and tell them for live and recorded stuff, you Need to be more prominent in the mix. They obviously don't know the secret the rest of us do - that the bass Makes the tune.
