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Highschool woodshop build

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ppk

May 16, 2007
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after months of planning over the summer i decided to build a bass. i dont have much for power tools like a planer or joiner or table saw at home so i decided to make it a school project. started to make sketches during the summer and here are som pics of the scetch


http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee131/paulphilk/hayloft008.jpg

and here are some small peices i have made

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee131/paulphilk/hayloft010.jpg


and yes that funky lookn piece at the end is the bridge. the piece that looks like a boot is the input and volume jack plate kinda thing and the big rectangle peice is the pickup cover. but the picture doesnt do justice to the bridge piece it has about 20 peices in it and about 5 different wood species, its really cool lookin.

i have the body it is or was a big chunk of black walnut and i made some padouk stripes in it. the nick origionally was gonna be purple heart but after everything was glued up and planed and joined the thing twisted so i had to start over with maple nice and straight grained i hope it works.

the progress will be slow its tough to get anything done the way my schedual is laid out but i hope to finish it in a couple months. please feel free to critisize and comment all welcome

Thanks, Paul
 
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fryBASS said:
Woah, crazy design! The only thing I'd do is thicken the lower horn a bit. Looks a bit too thin, but that's just me.
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yea ive been thinkin about that but im not sure what im going to do about it yet but i did use gurilla glue to glue the 2 stripes in so maybey that will help.

I forgot to give the specs
38 inch scale
open headstock maybe a scroll
maple neck
black walnut/padouk body
padouk finger board
fretless
emg pickup from stewmac

thats all i got so far
ill have more pics some time this week of the body wood and what not.
 
#7
Yvarg said:
Whoa! Metal meets boutique? I'm seriously liking that design! is the body going to be rounded over at the edges or bound (or perhaps even carved with some flowing ridges)? Good luck on this one. :) *subscribed*
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Thanks. i think im gonna go with a 1/2" round over and i plan to do alot of body contouring
 
#10
pilotjones said:
Cool design in many ways. Do you have a source for strings for a 38" scale?

Do you expect that bridge slant to work for intonation?
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im not exactly sure what im gonna do about strings i was thinking about getting a cheap upright pair or i found a website that sells strings for their own 39.5 inch scale basses so ill make it work. and as for intonation the bridge will not be glued down it will be flaoting so ill just mess with it untill it works
 
#15
saxofunk said:
Gotta love shop teachers who allow students to do their own thang.

Great start ppk. That's a wild design. Keep us posted!
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when i first told my teacher he thought i woke up that morning and decided to make a bass but once i showed him the sketch and some of the peices i had made and found out that i was actually serious he let me do it.
 
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