New build - concept: Oz Oz Oz...

[Harry Cahyadi]

Talkbassers,

Just about to start another build. I'm posting it with a thought that somebody might be interested in it.

Being from Melbourne, Australia, I though my concept is Oz Oz Oz. I call it that way because all of the woods I'm using for the build is Australian native exotic woods (So, no macassar ebony, amboyna burl or anything like that) .

The specs will be:
- Double cut body from my design
- 5 Strings, 34" scale
- Gold MOP dot inlay (to be confirmed)
- Body: 2 piece, Australian Blackwood
- Top: Bookmatched Australian Camphor Laurel
- Back: Bookmatched Australian Camphor Laurel (to be confirmed)
- Neck: 3 piece, TAS Myrtle-BRA Purpleheart-TAS Myrtle
- Matching headstock cover
- FB: Figured, Dark Australian Blackwood
- Dark red accent veneers between the body and top, FB and core neck wood, Headstock cover and core neck wood
- 2 pickups, Nordstrand NJ5 70's wind set
- Australian Blackwood pickup cover with dark blackwood (the pieces will be taken from fretboard off cut)

Below are some pictures of the wood for your enjoyment...

Body - 2 piece, Australian Blackwood

Neck - Australian Myrtle

Fingerboard - Figured, Dark Australian Blackwood

Top and/or Back - Bookmatched, Australian Camphor Laurel

Thank you for reading. More progress should come shortly...


Harry

 

[HaMMerHeD]

Nice stuff, man.

 

[Wil_Couch]

The Laurel looks great! Can't wait to watch

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

Nice stuff, man.

Thank you.

The Laurel looks great! Can't wait to watch

I also curious about your pallet bass build...

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

This is probably the rendering of which part of the Camphor Laurel that I will use for the top.

 

[abemo]

Looks awesome, subbed.

I'm curious, why burl for the neck? From what I've heard (never worked with any burl myself) burl can have weaknesses in the wood, which is why it is usually only used for tops or backs. Do you anticipate any issues working with it? Have I been misinformed?

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

Looks awesome, subbed.

I'm curious, why burl for the neck? From what I've heard (never worked with any burl myself) burl can have weaknesses in the wood, which is why it is usually only used for tops or backs. Do you anticipate any issues working with it? Have I been misinformed?

Yeah. It is a valid info. However, this piece has got very2 tiny bit of burl, almost none. That is why I thought that could add extra figuring to the neck.

I did have that thought at the back of my mind. Thats why I considered to do laminations for the neck to add extra strength.
In fact I can't get rid of that thought now, and since you have mentioned it, I'm really2 considering laminations. 5 piece neck probably.

I appreciate that you point that out.

 

[abemo]

Thanks, I was curious about that, I also noticed that it wasn't as "burled" as a lot of burl.

Beautiful wood, btw, that camphor is stunning, can't wait to see how it turns out.

 

[Splods]

Please use a respirator when using the Tas blackwood. It is a carcinogenic, and my grandfather got cancer in the sinuses because of it.

Looking forward to it, maybe you should send it up to Darwin for a humidity test

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

Please use a respirator when using the Tas blackwood. It is a carcinogenic, and my grandfather got cancer in the sinuses because of it.

Looking forward to it, maybe you should send it up to Darwin for a humidity test

Wow... thanks for the info. I'm always using a respirator, but never know about the danger of tassy blackwood. I need to be ultra careful then.

 

[Kaa]

Please use a respirator when using the Tas blackwood. It is a carcinogenic, and my grandfather got cancer in the sinuses because of it.

Looking forward to it, maybe you should send it up to Darwin for a humidity test

There's not a word for the horror this makes me imagine.

 

[Splods]

There's not a word for the horror this makes me imagine.

This was years ago, and he is pretty much fine, just cannot smell anything.
The worst part of it is the company who hired him made him do a smelling test, and they used a spice which burned his nose, so he thought he could smell, and so he got cheated out of his workers compensation.

 

[suraj]

Top and/or Back - Bookmatched, Australian Camphor Laurel

Now we all know what that top reeeeaally looks like

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

There's not a word for the horror this makes me imagine.

I did a research for blacwood and it is true that it can cause cancer. Not that I doubted the splods' info, I just want to know a little bit more about the details of it.

I also found the basically any woods can cause cancer, lungs or skin diseases. It depends on the level of safety gear you are wearing and the exposure to the dust.

 

[Splods]

I did a research for blacwood and it is true that it can cause cancer. Not that I doubted the splods' info, I just want to know a little bit more about the details of it.

I also found the basically any woods can cause cancer, lungs or skin diseases. It depends on the level of safety gear you are wearing and the exposure to the dust.

I've hard about that too, but pop described the dust as having 'hooks' in it, as if it has a way of getting caught up in your sinuses.

Haven't seen him in a while, should probably grab some timber off him next time I see him.

 

[Beej]

I did a research for blacwood and it is true that it can cause cancer. Not that I doubted the splods' info, I just want to know a little bit more about the details of it.

I also found the basically any woods can cause cancer, lungs or skin diseases. It depends on the level of safety gear you are wearing and the exposure to the dust.

Hey can you pass that along? I didn't doubt splods either, but I'm interested in carcinogens and so I've been searching for the last day or so of reports linking exposure to acacia melanoxylon to cancer, but have not found any. Lots of reference to contact dermatitis and occupational vitiligo with those who are sensitive, but I could not find any definitive connections to cancer, outside of new age treatment of cancer itself with acacia...

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

Hey can you pass that along? I didn't doubt splods either, but I'm interested in carcinogens and so I've been searching for the last day or so of reports linking exposure to acacia melanoxylon to cancer, but have not found any. Lots of reference to contact dermatitis and occupational vitiligo with those who are sensitive, but I could not find any definitive connections to cancer, outside of new age treatment of cancer itself with acacia...

I'll try my best to trace back my browser history. I can't promise you anything, but I'll post the link if I found it.

It was a pdf file from UK's gov - health and safety department if I'm not mistaken.

It was not super detailed info, but it was enough to give you an idea of what wood dust can do to you.

Harry

 

[reverendrally]

Hi Harry, I see you're a Mexican. I'm in Sydney. Great to see someone else committed to using Aust timbers. Looking forward to your design and the build.
Pete

 

[Wwolof]

My house is in the suburb of Blackwood. There used to be quite a bit of it here (before all the houses), but it still grows endemically.

 

[Harry Cahyadi]

Hi Harry, I see you're a Mexican. I'm in Sydney. Great to see someone else committed to using Aust timbers. Looking forward to your design and the build.
Pete

Thanks Pete for the supportive comment.

I live in Melbourne. I'm not quite sure why you thought that I'm a mexican though...

I'm dying to start the build. I'm still trying find a local business who provides wood cutting service. The wood that I get from my supplier is not the right thickness, and I don't want to plane it down because I will waste quite a thick cut that could be used for later.

As soon as I got that done, the progress will be posted.

I wish I got a big band saw...