What's On Your Workbench?

[/\/\3phist0]

Replacing the neck for a Fender Meteora player plus body. Freestone neck (above is Freestone pic) Curly maple, Bubinga fretboard. Nitro applied. Will be using SUPER light carbon fiber tuners.
Now the wait for the curing.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Another little project:
Gretsch G220 body reshaped, (originally a slab) I added forearm contours, and belly cut. Ocean Turquoise metallic nitro.

 

[TerribleTim68]

That blue is beautiful!

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Oxford Ocean Turquoise.
Or do you mean the Meteora?
That’s Opal Spark.!

 

[TerribleTim68]

Oxford Ocean Turquoise.
Or do you mean the Meteora?
That’s Opal Spark.!

The Gretsch.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Replacing the neck for a Fender Meteora player plus body. Freestone neck (above is Freestone pic) Curly maple, Bubinga fretboard. Nitro applied. Will be using SUPER light carbon fiber tuners.
Now the wait for the curing.

Assembly day for the Meteora:
Freestone curly maple neck with Bubinga fretboard.
43mm nut.
Repop waterslide.
Fender F plate with cushion.
Hand cut brass nut.
Kmise carbon fiber tuners

 

[Gervais Cote]

Assembly day for the Meteora:
Freestone curly maple neck with Bubinga fretboard.
43mm nut.
Repop waterslide.
Fender F plate with cushion.
Hand cut brass nut.
Kmise carbon fiber tuners

Looks like a zero compromise bass to me ! And the back of this neck is stunning !

 

[Lo-E]

That’s cool!

 

[TerribleTim68]

That looks great!

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Looks like a zero compromise bass to me ! And the back of this neck is stunning !

Thanks, Freestone selects amazing wood. The Bubinga fretboard looks awesome. The 43 mm nut width straddles the p - j feel. The slim C profile is super comfy. I setup the action and am pleased with the outcome. It balances perfect. The tuners work well. The overall weight is right at 9 lbs. the Fireball pickups are wired in series. I’m going to add 2 tapping switches for each pickup : single inner coil, parallel, series.

 

[Gervais Cote]

Thanks, Freestone selects amazing wood. The Bubinga fretboard looks awesome. The 43 mm nut width straddles the p - j feel. The slim C profile is super comfy. I setup the action and am pleased with the outcome. It balances perfect. The tuners work well. The overall weight is right at 9 lbs. the Fireball pickups are wired in series. I’m going to add 2 tapping switches for each pickup : single inner coil, parallel, series.

I was very tempted by these carbon fiber Kaish tuners …………

I know they are a kind of a copy of the Gotoh Resolite for about half the price but do you feel they are good quality and accurate nonetheless ?

 

[/\/\3phist0]

I was very tempted by these carbon fiber Kaish tuners …………

I know they are a kind of a copy of the Gotoh Resolite for about half the price but do you feel they are good quality and accurate nonetheless ?

They work pretty well, but the final finish is pretty poor, the CF pieces edges are sharp ( I sanded them)
The paddles are a bit loose on this set. (Will epoxy them at a later date.
The moving parts are all aluminum and the machining tolerances seem good enough.

The action is smooth, and accurate: but feeling the paddle flex is a bit weird, and the tactile feel of the plastic paddles will take getting used to.


For the money? A good deal. They weigh NOTHING. The screws and the ferrules for the set weighs about the same as a single tuner.

Pleased overall.

Honestly I’d get the Gotoh next time.
Their stuff is top shelf

 

[Gervais Cote]

They work pretty well, but the final finish is pretty poor, the CF pieces edges are sharp ( I sanded them)
The paddles are a bit loose on this set. (Will epoxy them at a later date.
The moving parts are all aluminum and the machining tolerances seem good enough.

The action is smooth, and accurate: but feeling the paddle flex is a bit weird, and the tactile feel of the plastic paddles will take getting used to.


For the money? A good deal. They weigh NOTHING. The screws and the ferrules for the set weighs about the same as a single tuner.

Pleased overall.

Honestly I’d get the Gotoh next time.
Their stuff is top shelf

Thanks a lot for the feedback, much appreciated.
I will go with the Gotoh as well cause I want peace of mind when playing with my band mates.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Thanks a lot for the feedback, much appreciated.
I will go with the Gotoh as well cause I want peace of mind when playing with my band mates.

These are what they are a copy of:

CBT-01 - G-GOTOH

Gear Ratio 1:28 Carbon Plate & Carbon Knob

g-gotoh.com

Thread on the Gotoh Carbon-o lite parts tuners: CBT-01
https://www.talkbass.com/threads/carbon-fiber-tuning-keys-and-bridges-from-gotoh.1334482/

Lowest price I found was 180.

My set only cost 60. So I risked it

 

[Lo-E]

Not on my workbench quite yet but headed there, this was being thrown out at work:

A Bogen C100 amplifier from a paging system, long decommissioned.

I have no use whatsoever for a 70V paging amplifier, nor do I even know if it’s working but I do know this: it’s delightfully ugly* and it would make a perfect donor chassis for a tube preamp project. It’s well vented and roomy and there’s plenty of real estate to add controls if needed.

On the used market these amps, when working, really aren’t worth much so I’m not losing anything by gutting it and using the chassis. I’ll probably need to cut away the back panel and make a new one but possibly not. There’s some potential here.

*I’m not the one who changed the “Bogen” logo to “Bogus” but I applaud their effort, whoever it was!

 

[Max Bogosity]

Still digging out from under buying a pile of stuff from a retired luthier. I'll be sorting odds and ends for months, but some of the highlights are this Ulmia workbench (worth more by itself than I paid for the lot), a lifetime supply of used and new nuts, saddles, pots, knobs, etc., assorted hand tools including an ECE smoothing plane that I've had on my wish list for years, reamers, Thor's own hammer, a puzzlingly large assortment of tweezers, a large box of variously salvageable necks, bodies and entire acoustic guitars, a wet grinding wheel and low-speed buffing wheel, a bathtub full of clamps (and what might be a violin bow re-hairing jig), a brick of some unidentified substance, and a cool photo of the original owner doing his thing forty or fifty years ago.

Also lots of piano- and violin-related stuff that I probably don't want and will have to find a taker for. Boxes and boxes full of piano hammers, etc. I will hold onto some ebony sharp keys and some ivory key tops.

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Not on my workbench quite yet but headed there, this was being thrown out at work:

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A Bogen C100 amplifier from a paging system, long decommissioned.

I have no use whatsoever for a 70V paging amplifier, nor do I even know if it’s working but I do know this: it’s delightfully ugly* and it would make a perfect donor chassis for a tube preamp project. It’s well vented and roomy and there’s plenty of real estate to add controls if needed.

On the used market these amps, when working, really aren’t worth much so I’m not losing anything by gutting it and using the chassis. I’ll probably need to cut away the back panel and make a new one but possibly not. There’s some potential here.

*I’m not the one who changed the “Bogen” logo to “Bogus” but I applaud their effort, whoever it was!

I’ve got an old Bogen all tube PA head that I’ve used for a guitar head. It works pretty well.

 

[Lo-E]

I’ve got an old Bogen all tube PA head that I’ve used for a guitar head. It works pretty well.

Those tube Bogens are great platforms for guitarification.

This is solid state and nothing special. Just a good donor chassis, really. I might be able to use the power transformer for something, too.

 

[tubedude]

Still digging out from under buying a pile of stuff from a retired luthier. I'll be sorting odds and ends for months, but some of the highlights are this Ulmia workbench (worth more by itself than I paid for the lot), a lifetime supply of used and new nuts, saddles, pots, knobs, etc., assorted hand tools including an ECE smoothing plane that I've had on my wish list for years, reamers, Thor's own hammer, a puzzlingly large assortment of tweezers, a large box of variously salvageable necks, bodies and entire acoustic guitars, a wet grinding wheel and low-speed buffing wheel, a bathtub full of clamps (and what might be a violin bow re-hairing jig), a brick of some unidentified substance, and a cool photo of the original owner doing his thing forty or fifty years ago.

Also lots of piano- and violin-related stuff that I probably don't want and will have to find a taker for. Boxes and boxes full of piano hammers, etc. I will hold onto some ebony sharp keys and some ivory key tops.

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Nice marking gauge and block plane, and who doesn't need more clamps.
The white block may be polishing compound or file cleaner maybe.

 

[TerribleTim68]

Still digging out from under buying a pile of stuff from a retired luthier. I'll be sorting odds and ends for months, but some of the highlights are this Ulmia workbench (worth more by itself than I paid for the lot), a lifetime supply of used and new nuts, saddles, pots, knobs, etc., assorted hand tools including an ECE smoothing plane that I've had on my wish list for years, reamers, Thor's own hammer, a puzzlingly large assortment of tweezers, a large box of variously salvageable necks, bodies and entire acoustic guitars, a wet grinding wheel and low-speed buffing wheel, a bathtub full of clamps (and what might be a violin bow re-hairing jig), a brick of some unidentified substance, and a cool photo of the original owner doing his thing forty or fifty years ago.

Also lots of piano- and violin-related stuff that I probably don't want and will have to find a taker for. Boxes and boxes full of piano hammers, etc. I will hold onto some ebony sharp keys and some ivory key tops.

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Not gonna lie, that bench is beautiful!