Building 7 Fan Fret Basses

[thebassbuilder]

I am glad to see I am not the only one that has to drive a good distance to work on builds. I have to drive 25 minutes one way and now, I have to run extension cords to the shop because a utility company cut the underground power line to the shop. They said they fixed it but they did not and now, no way to make them fix it. Talk about fun, watching the lights go out at first when turning on a bandsaw and it struggling to keep going. It does stink not having my own shop at home but at least I get to build when I can. Great looking bass!

 

[PDX Rich]

Really fantastic work!!

 

[Ol'Bass'ead]

Looking great so far! Any progress?

 

[Jay Jillard]

finished pics of the 4 string will be up this week!

 

[MrArose13]

Awesome stuff for sure. I want to see the 24h build, where can i find it? I'm obviously not looking in the right places.

 

[Jay Jillard]

photos will be posted of that today as well, took them all last night =]

i'll post one of them here, the rest will go up on facebook for now.

The actual documentary still needs to be edited though

 

[Will_White]

photos will be posted of that today as well, took them all last night =]

i'll post one of them here, the rest will go up on facebook for now.

The actual documentary still needs to be edited though

Any chance to see the full 24hr version?

 

[Jay Jillard]

as in.. the unedited footage? we had 2-3 cameras running during the day..

possibly.. it's like.. 300 gigs of footage, so the only way i'd really be able to do it is by selling portable hard drives with it on it.. I'd consider that if people are interested though.

 

[Will_White]

as in.. the unedited footage? we had 2-3 cameras running during the day..

possibly.. it's like.. 300 gigs of footage, so the only way i'd really be able to do it is by selling portable hard drives with it on it.. I'd consider that if people are interested though.

Maybe not all the raw footage, but maybe an edited version that was the full 24hrs, unless that's what the documentary is, in which case disregard my messages.

 

[DerekW]

Like a 24 hour long video?
Ive been known to binge watch Netflix, but...

 

[Jay Jillard]

the documentary is the story of all 24 hours, but not 24 hours long.

You will see how I polish frets, but you won't watch me do it for 2 hours strait lol, for example.

 

[Will_White]

Like a 24 hour long video?
Ive been known to binge watch Netflix, but...

Yeah like a 24 hr video, that showed absolutely everything involved.

 

[thebassbuilder]

Dang that would take like 24 hours to watch!

I am for the normal version for now and then maybe a longer version or a version for each step beginning to end.

 

[Jay Jillard]

Here's a bunch of pics of the 4 string! now time to work on the 5's. =]

 

[Jay Jillard]

and here's the 24 Hour build (redwood) and a couple other guitars I finished recently:

 

[DerekW]

Wow.

You've got great designs and style. Really great.

And you're Canadian. Which makes it even better

 

[Jay Jillard]

Headstocks all thicknessed:

Stuff being clamped on

working on some binding

and here's a bound board with my bass. very striking.

basically just gluing on fretboards and binding other fretboards all this week. making progress =] Wenge boards are being bound in wenge, to keep the edges all classy. Didn't plan on doing this originally.. but I also never planned on doing ball-end frets..and now i'm doing both.

eh, lucky stuff for the guys on the run i guess.


in other news, finally figured out how to anodize at home. should hopefully be doing a video later about it:

and ordered in a crap-tonne of highly figured Tamo ash. stuff was hard to find, had to go through a guy in japan, who went through 20 or so sources before i found this piece.. he bought it, repackaged it, and shipped it to me. It was not cheap, but it was for a build for a client. cool stuff.

 

[Jay Jillard]

Got all the fretboards bound, glued on and radiused.. now the fun stuff starts.

before+after of one of the wenge boards. =]

 

[Nic.]

The blue tint in the grain looks amazing. Are you going to keep it?

 

[Jay Jillard]

yep! it was customer's request. The maple top will also be blue, so its going to be a pretty colorful bass.

one of the other guys is getting a purple wenge fretboard.