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What's On Your Workbench?
- Thread starter HaMMerHeD
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I forgot to mention dual titanium truss rods. Here is an early mockup shot before I sent out the neck for the stone frets.
What's the proposed benefits of stone frets? Other then being good for psychedelic music.
They were a spec from the client. I believe the main intent was for near invisible fretwork but I will find out if there is any sonic benefit when I string it up.
I guess I’m gonna put this together today ....
- Apr 18, 2008
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I spur-of-the-moment built a neck today.
The backstory: I have this Squier Jaguar body that I had previously built into a five-string. It sounded great, but I discovered how much I dislike offset bodies (specifically the wonky way they sit in instrument stands), so I dismantled it.
Meanwhile, I have a guitarist friend who keeps asking me to build him an eight-string bass. And he likes Fenderish stuff. Hey, that might work!
I’ve had this basic idea for quite a while, I just couldn’t decide on exactly how to build it. Today I got tired of being indecisive.
First I decided to enlarge the pickup route for a Wilkinson MM pickup from my stash.
Then, in an atypical fit of decisiveness, I chose a pre-scarfed neck blank from my stash, a 32” scale fingerboard from my stash, and went to town.
Measurements taken.
Cut to length.
Routed for truss rod.
Rough tapered, then final tapered.
Heel shaped to fit the Squier pocket.
Fretboard cut to length, rough tapered, then final tapered.
Truss rod installed, and fretboard glued.
Have to let that be until tomorrow.
It sure is nice to have a good stash!
The backstory: I have this Squier Jaguar body that I had previously built into a five-string. It sounded great, but I discovered how much I dislike offset bodies (specifically the wonky way they sit in instrument stands), so I dismantled it.
Meanwhile, I have a guitarist friend who keeps asking me to build him an eight-string bass. And he likes Fenderish stuff. Hey, that might work!
I’ve had this basic idea for quite a while, I just couldn’t decide on exactly how to build it. Today I got tired of being indecisive.
First I decided to enlarge the pickup route for a Wilkinson MM pickup from my stash.
Then, in an atypical fit of decisiveness, I chose a pre-scarfed neck blank from my stash, a 32” scale fingerboard from my stash, and went to town.
Measurements taken.
Cut to length.
Routed for truss rod.
Rough tapered, then final tapered.
Heel shaped to fit the Squier pocket.
Fretboard cut to length, rough tapered, then final tapered.
Truss rod installed, and fretboard glued.
Have to let that be until tomorrow.
It sure is nice to have a good stash!
Chairs once again, then bedroom furniture.
I do have instruments on the roster, both scratch build and parts build, that I really hope to get to before too much longer.
But bills have to be paid. I also have a commission for a poolside tiki bar and one for a covered porch so I'll get to the basses when I'm able.
Did buy some maple, ash, walnut, zebrawood, padauk and purpleheart for the woodpile, so I have some nice selections once I do get to turn my attention to that.
I do have instruments on the roster, both scratch build and parts build, that I really hope to get to before too much longer.
But bills have to be paid. I also have a commission for a poolside tiki bar and one for a covered porch so I'll get to the basses when I'm able.
Did buy some maple, ash, walnut, zebrawood, padauk and purpleheart for the woodpile, so I have some nice selections once I do get to turn my attention to that.
I’m on the fence, but I would say the guard would look better either black to match the inlays or cream to match the pups. I’m not sold on the white.No guard....
I will happily go against the grain here and say that I like it much better with the guard. I feel like "vintage" styled instruments look wrong without one, almost like they're naked or something. It just looks like you forgot to put the guard on. To me, at least.
But I do agree with @5tring that black or cream to match the other colors might work better than white...
But I do agree with @5tring that black or cream to match the other colors might work better than white...
It’s cream, not white.
the pickups have yellowed since the 70s, so they’re darker. But both are cream. Hard to tell in pics ....
The different color of the cremes clashes, IMO.
Plus... Dat ASH! It looks so good.
Plus... Dat ASH! It looks so good.
- Apr 18, 2008
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I'd go with black or no pickguard. The cream is in 'close but no cigar' territory and ends up looking like a mistake. Black or (gasp) Tort would look deliberate.
