how do you...

[airrick]

when making to body, after you design the shape, how does one find the middle of the body (to draw a line through for bridge/pickup placement/neck pocket) when it is not symectrical?

 

[NamelessOne]

One decides upon the center of the body during the design stage, or designs the body around a centerline, which is preferable

when i designed my project (which i will eventually put up on here), i marked a centerline, as well as neck width, taper, fret 12 & 24, bridge position, and nut/0 fret locations before even starting on the body outline.

 

[Rodent]

the first two steps (in order) of designing a bass:

* draw a centerline - this will represent the centerline of the neck in the Plan/Top view, and may or may not be the actual centerline of the body

* draw two perpendicular lines on that centerline, one for the nut and one for the theoretical scale of the instrument - for a Fender style bass this woould be two lines perpendicular to the centerline 34" apart from each other

everything you design from here is based upon and directly relative to these to sets of critical lines. if you get nothing else right on your first design, there is no excuse to give room to slopiness on these

all the best,

R

 

[airrick]

thank you