I hope so. I'll do all in my power to make it so.
I love the look of a wenge neck.
I love the look of a wenge neck.
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WBO 2022: Löwenbäss
- Thread starter RichterScale
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I was trying to get everything to a point where I could take it all to work tomorrow and use the band saw to cut the headstock angle and cut out the body shapes. But it got late and I started running out of gas so pulled all the plugs, turned off the lights and called it before anything disastrous happened.
I managed to get one side of the neck flattened. I hope 5 hrs was enough in the clamps. It's around 65F, 48% humidity in the space. I also got my tops planed down to a smidge over 1/4" and managed to get a shelf up. I found a piece of pine and threw it up on the back side of the bench. Kinda like an order up counter. I was thinkin @dwizum should do something like that. Take out bass orders. Ready in 10 minute.
I'll work on all this tomorrow and hopefully have it all ready for the band saw on Tues.
Oh yeah, and I would NOT wanna mess with any little worm or bug that spends it's days eating holes through wenge.
I managed to get one side of the neck flattened. I hope 5 hrs was enough in the clamps. It's around 65F, 48% humidity in the space. I also got my tops planed down to a smidge over 1/4" and managed to get a shelf up. I found a piece of pine and threw it up on the back side of the bench. Kinda like an order up counter. I was thinkin @dwizum should do something like that. Take out bass orders. Ready in 10 minute.
I'll work on all this tomorrow and hopefully have it all ready for the band saw on Tues.
Oh yeah, and I would NOT wanna mess with any little worm or bug that spends it's days eating holes through wenge.
I just realized that my neck blank won't be square for routing the truss rod channel.
Because of the taper
Damn you, taper.
Because of the taper
Damn you, taper.
I've done that a couple times (once by accident, then a couple times where the edge of the blank wasn't square and I was too laze to square it). I clamp it to the rails of my router planing jig with shims to hold it parallel to the edge of the jig rails, then I put the edge guide on the router and run it down with the edge guide on the outside of the rail, if that makes sense.
it does.
I'll have to rig something like that up on the planer sled.
I'm gonna start charging for all these suggestions, like tapering. They're causing me extra work.
Make it a pass through charge to the end customer.
- Apr 18, 2008
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This is how I do my truss rod channels. Taper or no taper, doesn't matter. The router stays between the guard rails.
That's simpler than my idea by the looks of it. Should still charge the same though.
holy crap!
I have one of those tables! I dug it out of the garage over the summer, from under a bunch of painting junk.
I have it in the basement, on the side, waiting for a reason to clean it up and use it, throw it away or give it to the neighbor.
It now has a reason to live!
I already had this bass valued in the $250k range. I'm gonna start adding about $15k a pop for these last minute change orders.
We'll have to keep them coming so you get your million dollar ba$$, then.
Innovate! 1+2+1 with 2 keys sticking right out the end!
Or: Semi-headless, every other string has the tuner at the opposite end!
More seriously - 5 hours - yikes! Would make me nevous.
And good on ya' for stopping before the big mistake/accident.
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Semi-headless is clearly the next NAMM trend.
I was a little nervous too, so the plan was to true up the top and bottom on the planing sled, then throw the clamps back on for the night and bring it to work in the morning. When I took the clamps off, all the squeeze out was hard (I used regular Tite bond-red) So I figured it was stuck good enough to get it planed down before it got too late.
All the strips bowed a tiny bit when I cut them from the larger board. They sat around for a few days to see if they curled up any more and then I planed them all true, so there really wasn't any stress or anything fighting the glue when I finally glued them. I ended up leaving the clamps off and left it sitting flat on the bench all night. It seemed to be in good shape this morning.
This is my basic idea for how to do the headstock.
If I make my own veneer from the maple I have, what's the thinnest I can go where it's flexible enough to conform to the volute, but not so thin that the PVA glue bleeds through?
If I make my own veneer from the maple I have, what's the thinnest I can go where it's flexible enough to conform to the volute, but not so thin that the PVA glue bleeds through?
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