Summer Build Off 2024 - Get Ready!

[rojo412]

@Barticus I'm glad Smails and I are synonymous now
And also being not that far from you and briefly in the shop today, I feel your pain.
(or... sweat, I suppose. Which isn't really pain unless it drips in your eyes or something.)

 

[gormsby]

Question: If I'm starting 3 different builds (with the economics of "driving back and forth to my local makerspace" this makes sense), should I do a separate thread for each? Obviously each one I finish will get a separate entry post.

 

[Barticus]

@Barticus I'm glad Smails and I are synonymous now
And also being not that far from you and briefly in the shop today, I feel your pain.
(or... sweat, I suppose. Which isn't really pain unless it drips in your eyes or something.)

We should plan "shop tour" road-trips to visit each other during this BO… there's a mini fridge in mine that would yield cold, refreshing beverages for us on a day like this

 

[rojo412]

Like... a Fresca? Or a $0.50 Coke?

 

[Barticus]

Like... a Fresca? Or a $0.50 Coke?

Yeah, something like that

 

[GeezerEntwistle]

How many basses are you planning to build?

all of them, however many that is

 

[Gervais Cote]

Yes! parts are showing up just in time for the photo-op that will happen later today… thank you Max from Fat Bass Tone for turning this around the same day it was ordered… what could this possibly be?!
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2 pounds is the weight of a set of pickups……….

 

[ardgedee]

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Where's that? Asking for a, uh, friend who's local to you.

 

[Camaro69]

Ok I suck at keeping up, but good luck to everyone!

 

[Beej]

Question: If I'm starting 3 different builds (with the economics of "driving back and forth to my local makerspace" this makes sense), should I do a separate thread for each? Obviously each one I finish will get a separate entry post.

As per past precedent, you can put them all in one thread, but then you can only submit one of them for voting. If you make three threads, it makes our build list longer and you get three chances to win!

 

[Beej]

Oh, and we are ALL SYSTEMS GO!

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/su...r-slammin-super-showdown-spectacular.1654715/

 

[Barticus]

2 pounds is the weight of a set of pickups……….

Or a heavy box with 2 Darkglass Tone Capsules that are pre wired

 

[GeezerEntwistle]

Where's that? Asking for a, uh, friend who's local to you.

Hardwood store of NC in Gibsonville (Elon). Ash for body $25. Not sure if thats good or not.

Hardwood Store - The Hardwood Store of North Carolina

 

[ardgedee]

Hardwood store of NC in Gibsonville (Elon). Ash for body $25. Not sure if thats good or not.

Hardwood Store - The Hardwood Store of North Carolina

Added to my project notes, thanks! Is there still a reclaimed wood store in Greensboro? I miss the one that was in east Durham.

 

[Bruce Johnson]

Question: If I'm starting 3 different builds (with the economics of "driving back and forth to my local makerspace" this makes sense), should I do a separate thread for each? Obviously each one I finish will get a separate entry post.

My suggestion would be to start your own Shop Projects thread, where you show the gradual progress on all of your projects that you are working on. Include your work on the SBO entries, and other smaller bass-related jobs that show up. Keep the thread going long term as, hopefully, your projects are completed and new ones start.

 

[smart51]

I may be a bit late to this party. I'm still building my new workshop.

 

[Beej]

I may be a bit late to this party. I'm still building my new workshop.

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Sooo... you'll be set for the Winter Build Off?

 

[ctmullins]

I may be a bit late to this party. I'm still building my new workshop.

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Slap some strings on it!

 

[Gervais Cote]

Red Hot Cherry Popper link :

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/summer-build-off-2024-red-hot-cherry-popper.1654789/#post-28526212