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What's On Your Workbench?

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I wasn’t expecting to have any free time today but then I did so I took advantage of it and spent some time in the shop.

Coats #10 & 11 went onto the P bass. I think I’ll be able to stop at 12 and start wet sanding so I feel like I’m actually nearing the finish line (so to speak) on that part of the project.
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Meanwhile, I started fitting a custom piece to fill the gap above the truss rod anchor:
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There wasn’t anything in that gap originally but @Bruce Johnson mentioned filling it and then I couldn’t stop thinking about it.

I also had some time while I was waiting for finish to dry and decided to take a chisel out of the pile of flea market and yard sale finds and clean it up:
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It’s a nice, old Witherby socket chisel that I ground to a fairly shallow angle to use as a paring chisel. I had some donor handles in a drawer and this one was a perfect fit so I sanded the dirt and crud off of it and gave it a few coats of wipe-on poly. This chisel will now join the workforce.
 
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Up to 13 coats now:
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I’m going to stop at 15. Coats 12-14 are just getting scuffed back with steel wool instead of being fully level-sanded and that should allow a nice buildup by the time I reach 15 so I can level-sand and start the process of wet-sanding.

I’ll get coat 14 on later today before the thanksgiving festivities and 15 on Saturday morning. Then I’ll allow several days of cure time before I begin the sanding odyssey.
 
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Lo-E said:
Meanwhile, I’m re-thinking the way I made this little filler piece for the neck:
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I think I’m going to start it over with a different, better plan.
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Liking it not because I think you should start over but I am interested in a new plan on a repair.

Edit: edited. Wow apparently I didn’t proofread before posting.
 
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Matt Liebenau said:
It liking because I think you should start over but I am interested in a new plan on a repair.
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My repair plan hasn’t changed, actually. What’s changed is how I plan to fabricate the little filler piece.
But…. after looking at it more closely, I may be able to use the piece I already made with only minor brutality (in the form of a razor saw and chisel). If I cut the filler piece I made into two pieces (razor saw) and trim those pieces to fit (chisel), one over the TR anchor and the other over the walnut plug*, it may be easier than trying to make one piece work in both places. If I can dry-fit the parts and they seem snug I’ll go with it. If not I’ll start over.

*The anchor and the plug line up together where they meet but they’re not perfectly coaxial. The plug is parallel to the fingerboard but the anchor is on a slight angle. I’m using a 3/8” bore in a piece of endgrain and then cutting a radial slice of that to make the filler piece. By cutting it into two pieces, the angle discrepancy should be less problematic.
 
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In process but nearing completion -

JIO

Thread 'From Russia with Love - Tonika project'

First some history:

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So yes, I bought a Soviet era Tonika... but wait, there's more! This one is more than a quirky bass. It's a quirky bass that someone used as a platform for creative socio-historical modification. A shout out to Georgii at musicismysoul from Kiev on eBay for bypassing the tariff in order to make buying it reasonable. I've seen these clubfooted basses for years but this one caught my eye because of the added "flair". (think Office Space) :)...
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