Laguna burger build

[Rôckhewer]

I keep hoping for updates on the Laguna Burger...
And here you are working on side-dishes.
...where's the Burger?

Not that a shite parts CBG project isn't fun and all...
... maybe start a different thread tho??

 

[RichterScale]

I agree. And I'm not a fan of my ADD either. The guy I work with brought in the guitar and I scavenged the parts so I could throw away the bulk of it and bring the parts home. I still need to finish a work space in the basement and when that's done, I'll finish the bass before I start on the guitar.
I promise.

 

[Beej]

How many kids with ADHD does it take to change a lightbulb?



Wanna ride bikes?

 

[RichterScale]

 

[RichterScale]

I glued up the wings and started sanding the neck. There's still a ton of the old black paint in the grain. And it showed up even better with a wipe of mineral spirits.
I'm gonna have to sand off quite a bit of material to get rid of it. I was hoping I could get away with not sanding too much and it would be hidden by a medium stain. But that would make it stand out and it just looks like the wood is dirty. I'm going to sand more, but if it looks like I'm losing too much material, I may just have to go with a really dark stain/dye. Which, honestly, might not look all that bad.

 

[ctmullins]

Doesn’t look bad to me. It probably jumps out at you, because you’ve been doing the sanding, but I doubt anybody else would even notice.

Those wings look good. This is going to turn out well.

 

[Flying B]

Doesn’t look bad to me. It probably jumps out at you, because you’ve been doing the sanding, but I doubt anybody else would even notice.

Those wings look good. This is going to turn out well.

I was thinking the same thing - once you get any sort of stain on there I don't think it will be noticeable at all.

 

[dwizum]

Try running a scraper over it. In my experience, sometimes sanding just tends to push colored dust deeper into the pores, while scraping will pull it out.

 

[RichterScale]

Today's work. I fired up the old shoulders and started workin the sand paper and got the pups holes routed (Walnut does not enjoy the router).
After a bit of sanding/shaping, I wiped it down with mineral spirits. I'm really hoping I can get the remainder of the black paint out of the maple, because I really like how it looks with a slight amber and really don't want to stain it.

 

[RichterScale]

Try running a scraper over it. In my experience, sometimes sanding just tends to push colored dust deeper into the pores, while scraping will pull it out.

I'm going to pick up some paint stripper tomorrow. I don't care about the tiny specs, but there's areas like the neck heel and sides of the head stock where it looks like a gray smudge and it really stands out when you wet it with the mineral spirits. From 2' away, it looks like an old maple neck that's filthy and grungy.
I'll see if the stripper will bubble it up out of the grain and then I'll try scraping it off.
If it works and no one loses an eye, then we can add it to the collective bag of tricks, moving forward.

 

[RichterScale]

So, yesterday someone threw out an old wall mount cabinet whiteboard at work. It was leaning against the dumpster. It was old, so it was made from oak 1x and 11/16 oak ply. Except for a little bow in one piece of the 1x, it's all still perfectly straight and true.
Perfect for a CB......small scale octave bass. Or, a coffee table,.....ya know, next year some time. Maybe.

Right now I'm workin on my bass build

 

[ctmullins]

Dang, I wish people would throw lumber at me ....

 

[RichterScale]

I do score a lot of useable junk, working here.
But everything is in balance.
It's also a stressful, huge PITA working here most of the time.
So, I make the most of any little perks when they present themselves.

 

[RichterScale]

So, the shrink tube I had was just too thick. The only other thing I had on hand was colored electrical tape that's much thinner and more elastic than standard electrical tape. But even that made it a little too tight and required running 500 grit paper along the sides of the channel. Even then it was pretty snug. I ran a piece lengthwise over the top, folded over the sides and another piece lengthwise, around the bottom rod. But it left the two pieces to move freely from each other.
This rod has the round rod on bottom and flat bar on top. It bends both ways, so I assume it's a double action. What I'd like to find out before I finish the board is, is it 100% necessary to have both pieces tightly bound together, or is the purpose of the wrap simply to eliminate rattle?

 

[ctmullins]

To eliminate rattle. You definitely want the two rods to be free to go their separate ways.

 

[RichterScale]

To eliminate rattle. You definitely want the two rods to be free to go their separate ways.

Thanks.
Yeah, looking at how it operates, I kinda figured they needed to move independently, but wasn't 100% sure. There was a full wrap on it before, but I'm guessing the movement is so subtle, that the wrap can stretch a bit to accommodate the movement.
As long as I don't find out that I screwed up, after I glue the board on.

 

[Beej]

I put a few small dabs of caulking along the sides of the rod to stop rattling. Although I'm sure it's not a big deal, I've always been wary of how much the shrink or tape wrap might hamper the functionality of the rod itself (I'm sure I'm overthinking things without doing the math). I've used the caulking for a long time and none of mine rattle, so I'm hoping it's a longer term functional solution. I've also forgotten a couple of times and have found that as long as it's been tightened up at least snug enough not to move, it's not made noise inside the neck.

 

[RichterScale]

I'm sure I'm overthinking things

At this stage, I'm trying really hard to find the balance between avoiding overthinking, while still being mindful and patient enough to not make a major mistake. I've gotten analysis paralysis at a few points and I really just want to get this thing done and try playing it.
I was stressing about the fret slots and how I was going to get them perfect. With a hand saw and homemade jig. I mean, worried about getting it perfect to the .XXX" degree.
But, there's no way to do that and I needed to just go for it. I even measured the fret positions on the original board and they were way off all over the place. And I never noticed.
So, I just slapped a miter box together and just did it. They came out fine (I didn't go full depth. I'm going to round them out at the edges after I cut the taper).
Next I wanted to stress about finish.
But I just decided to stop.
I decided on a vinyl ester uv-cure grain filler. I can either top coat with a carnauba wax and hand buff for a faux oil finish look or go full out and do a hard gloss top coat.
Or, maybe I'll just stop at 2 coats of the filler, buff it and call it done.
But for cryin out pete's sake,......no more research!!

 

[ctmullins]

I get it. I over-analyzed a bunch of things on my first few builds. Not so much these days!

This is gonna look cool. More importantly, it should play well too. You’re in the home stretch now!

 

[RichterScale]

Ordered some of this today. Should be here during the week. I'll do test pieces right away and report. Hoping to be applying it to the bass by next weekend.