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That said, what's the http address of the attachment, and, or where do I find it? 
If I could cut and sand it... I would make it happen 
barnaclebeau, jmorbita... Thanks guys I think I got the pic thing finally 
now if only I could spell
Pics will be posted, dont worry. Till then here are some specs.
Im ready to get the fret board going but cant seem to make a decision; my choices are santos rosewood, wenge, some crazy laminate veneer thing, (what I was originally thinking) or purplehart. Any opinions out there? I dont want to do the purplehart, but I thought Id throw it in there as an option. Im leaning toward santos, but I love wenge. I guess ill drink on it
I mean sleep on it.
, and doing work for my other Luthiery gig. I got some overdue basics done. Truss rod slot, routed, fingerboard, decided and cut. I went with the wenge, i love the stuff and Im just wanting to do a nice, straight forward, 4-string bass (Its sooo tempting to do crazy laminates and veneers for me) who ever they are, they say less is more 
. I am fortunate to have a router table, it makes routing for truss rods quick. Find center of the neck, (and your router bit) mark a line on the outside (of the neck and table) to know your ending point, flip it upside down and (in small increments) bobs your uncle. A taper jig made short work of the finger board (finger board/fret board, I guess finger board makes more since seeing as they dont all have frets). Then as the dust settled I plotted bridge, pick-up, and wiring channel locations. To connect the 2 pick-up cavities (at the moment, Im thinking jazz style
maybe P. J. well see, or
well see) I like to rout a small channel on the treble side of the neck before gluing on the wing for the wires to pass through(Ill have pics when I get there). Thats it for today, not as much as Id like, but its progress 
Can't say this build is as exciting as your 9-string hybrid, (witch is sweet by the way
)but the more the merrier 
. please offer input if you feel so inclined
If I'm lucky! Maybe I should do a pumpkin inspired build. Some puduck, green poplar,walnut. You know, woods with pumpkin colors
. That would be fun, hmmm...
but I thought Id try to work around that. So my productive day in the shop doesnt seam to look like much on paper, but Im happy. I started with getting the neck lams. Going For the 5-string (same woods, different configuration which includes the sapele taken out of the 4-string). After the milling process (cutting, jointing, thickness planning, all the fun stuff) I decided I had to make a veneer press (like the one in pilotjones Storm King build thread, thanks pilotjones!) 2 pieces of ¾ MDF about 7 ½-8 wide 4 long with holes drilled around the edges about 4 apart (I may have gone overboard) allowing the 2 pieces to be bolted together and waxed them(the MDF) with furniture past wax to manage glue squeeze out (the glue wont stick to the wax, in theory,). 
