Work is slammed right now. We’re busy, shorthanded, and running on stubbornness, meanness, grit, and caffeine. Whine, whine, cry, cry, etc. All that being said, I’ve managed to steal an hour or so to keep the ball (kinda) moving down the field although I’ve not been doing well to keep the reports coming.
Anyway, I did a little pickup layout “bassed” off Old Faithfull, the MusicMan USA SUB5. I’m planning on putting the bridge pickup in the MM location with the neck pickup exactly 3 inches forward measured center to center.
I knocked together a 12degree cutting jig for the table saw and, after taking a raft of measurements, ran her on through.
Finishing the cut using the Armstrong method...
Dropped both pieces in another router jig, this one designed to clean up 12degree cuts…
…and crap. Just… crap.
Unfortunately for your math-challenged interlocutor, there is no way to stretch this board long enough to fit the planned 34” scale. And no, I will not be building a short scale (more on that in a second)
Additionally, I was a little (a lot) distracted when mounting the neckbeam to the cutting jig in the table saw and did this:
Yeah… I cut the neck upside-down.
Fortunately, I’ve got another stick of that same curly maple I can make another neck beam from and the too-short neck can be recut shorter for use on the Bass VI. So it’s not a complete loss anyway (at least that’s what I’m telling myself to keep from weeping uncontrollably, starting a bonfire with the pieces, roasting marshmallows while invoking the forbidden words, and swearing off ever trying this whole bass-building business ever, ever, ever again…)
Just kidding.
Mostly.
Anyway, I did a little pickup layout “bassed” off Old Faithfull, the MusicMan USA SUB5. I’m planning on putting the bridge pickup in the MM location with the neck pickup exactly 3 inches forward measured center to center.
I knocked together a 12degree cutting jig for the table saw and, after taking a raft of measurements, ran her on through.
Finishing the cut using the Armstrong method...
Dropped both pieces in another router jig, this one designed to clean up 12degree cuts…
…and crap. Just… crap.
Unfortunately for your math-challenged interlocutor, there is no way to stretch this board long enough to fit the planned 34” scale. And no, I will not be building a short scale (more on that in a second)
Additionally, I was a little (a lot) distracted when mounting the neckbeam to the cutting jig in the table saw and did this:
Yeah… I cut the neck upside-down.
Fortunately, I’ve got another stick of that same curly maple I can make another neck beam from and the too-short neck can be recut shorter for use on the Bass VI. So it’s not a complete loss anyway (at least that’s what I’m telling myself to keep from weeping uncontrollably, starting a bonfire with the pieces, roasting marshmallows while invoking the forbidden words, and swearing off ever trying this whole bass-building business ever, ever, ever again…)
Just kidding.
Mostly.
I spend a lot of time trying out different combinations when I don't have a bookmatch available. Much more time than putting together a bookmatch. I'd prefer it be a "composition match" or "design match" or something that has a more positive connotation that implies the time and consideration spent at getting something to look the way we want. 
