Hopkins
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His answer to you was NO, you can't use his design. If I were in Rob's shoes I would be pretty upset that you even posted that PDF file.
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Build II - Paradox MJ5 - New design!
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His answer to you was NO, you can't use his design. If I were in Rob's shoes I would be pretty upset that you even posted that PDF file.
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Looks good David. I actually never saw such a high pitched six string bass.. but it looks nice.
Like many bassist, I started on guitar.
I still play both, but mostly gig as a bassist.
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Press a string down on the third fret. The string should just be high enough to clear the top of the first fret. That's how you know how deep to cut your nut.
If you nut is too high, the notes on the first few frets will sound sharp, and it will be harder to play.
Oh and that bass looks very professional. Much cooler than the one next to it.
For getting the nut slot position, I'd go with Wilser's trick. Not that I've done it - I used a zero fret - But if I were doing a nut, I'd use it.
1. Sand down one side of a pencil until you hit the graphite. That is, make a half-pencil with one flat side.
2. Set your neck to dead flat.
3. Be sure your nut is fully seated.
4. Lay the pencil on the lower frets, and draw a line on the nut. It should be at the perfect height.
1. Sand down one side of a pencil until you hit the graphite. That is, make a half-pencil with one flat side.
2. Set your neck to dead flat.
3. Be sure your nut is fully seated.
4. Lay the pencil on the lower frets, and draw a line on the nut. It should be at the perfect height.
Serafan,
Rob DOES NOT want you to copy his bass design for any reason. Please have some honor and stop now.
In case that doesn't translate well into your language, I'll say it more simply.
YOU NO COPY.
Thank you Pete, great to hear you like it!
Not really. It is not cool of you to continue, I said no. I have to ask you to remove your post with the attachment. This is a source for other people an frankly, not a very good copy too, you made some mistakes there.
Instead of respecting my answer, you are reacting in an opposite way by kind of sharing my design with the rest of the world, do you understand that?
If you have any further questions, PM me instead.
You are both right, the copy has some misses in it an now he is sharing a bad copy of my design with the world, in my own thread, and I cannot even remove it. He politely asked to use it, I said no and now he decided to make it available for download?? I reported it already though and now I've asked him friendly to remove it.
Press a string down on the third fret. The string should just be high enough to clear the top of the first fret. That's how you know how deep to cut your nut.
If you nut is too high, the notes on the first few frets will sound sharp, and it will be harder to play.
Oh and that bass looks very professional. Much cooler than the one next to it.
Thanks, that's a good tip I didn't know yet.
Thanks! I did something like it, I measured the height and used my sanding block as a profile to draw a line with pencil on the nut. Not as precise, but I got a mark now.
Indeed, please do not copy Serafan! If you tell me in what language you want to have this message I will translate it for you to prevent any translating mistakes, because obviously Google Translate didn't do a very good job
:scowl:
Thank you guys!!
Great to see you still have a positive attitude, but are you willing to remove that PDF and attached JPEG?
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Hopkins
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I agree,
Sadly it seems as though he is just going to ignore your request to not use your design using a language barrier as an excuse.
So yeah its time you had a chat with a mod or admin.
My opinion is that the guy is going to use the design anyway, so I would be taking precautionary measurements so he can't sell it.
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Hope you'll be posting a full straight-on center shot of it so we can appreciate the whole enchilada! Love the yin-yang stylistic balance of the elongated upper horn and the lower pg. Great vibe on this one - nouveau-retro, super-fun and no-nonsense functional! This is what good design is all about.
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I love this bass! What an original design all the way around. I know I am late to the party here and you may have addressed this but the bubbles by the neck. You could try and take a knidle and knock a hole into the bubbles and then drop some thin CA in there and then just sand and buff. I do not think it is an issue but if you wanted to fix it with out taking the fiish all the way down then that could work. Regardless I love the bass and you have something very speacial there, that I think will appeal to a lot of people.
Thank you guys!!!
I indeed reported the post right away.
True, it looks like he's ignoring my questions. Don't understand such an attitude. Don't think he realizes the hard work that goes into such a design. Luckily I'm able to tell it isn't an original... I laid it over my design and it differs in quite some areas, that I already spotted right away.
I think you're right, but how?
I will, I will.. just need a weekend with some time and nice weather / daylight! Thanks for the compliment.
Thank you!!
About the 'bubbles': it's a left over from a single larger one that I did repair exactly the way you suggest, but thanks for the tip. I decided to not risk any further repair work and leave it like this, because the rest of the finish is just perfect.. wouldn't want to risk re-doing that..
Wow after realising that we are amongst the potential design copying lurkers, i feel no one should put a straight dead on shot of their plans, renders or the actual bass. Only angled shots until you get copyrights to your design, especially a good design like yours. Which makes me think I should remove my plans too, not that anyones gonna copy that
Sound clips rob, sound clips..
Sound clips rob, sound clips..
Yeah indeed, sad but true. I just removed all plan images and renderings of my blog and from this thread. I did not have a full frontal shot though, but even the skewed shot put into perspective was enough..
I think it is best to make a photograph of your design at a certain angle. Then again, all large brands show their work in pretty high res and perfectly traceable photographs. You cannot prevent it and you do want to show your work, don't you?
I think it is best to make a photograph of your design at a certain angle. Then again, all large brands show their work in pretty high res and perfectly traceable photographs. You cannot prevent it and you do want to show your work, don't you?
