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What's the dumbest mistake you have made?

#47
wilser said:
I also was on the receiving end of this idiotic if naive behavior. I had already put in about three clamps when I suddenly went "wait, what?!?!" and quickly removed them, placed the rod, spread a bit more glue (since it had already started to try ...dang titebond) and everything was ok. The bass is still out there and the owner loves it.
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I've done that twice now too. You feel all accomplished for about 5 seconds and then see the truss rod sitting there, choke on your heart, and frantically un-clamp everything...thankfully haven't done that in a long time now though.
 
#48
I drilled the tuner holes for the D and G strings inside the string lines instead of out, so I would have to either string the tuners backwards or have the strings angle from the nut to the tuners. There are maple plugs showing through my bloodwood capped headstock to remind me not to go out after supper Sunday night and "do one more thing" no matter how fresh I feel. Probably not the very stupidest thing I've done, but one of the more recent.
 
#49
vbasscustom said:
some how, when rounding over, the collet slipped, so i ended up with a continuosly deeper ledge and round over
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I don't know, maybe you could have invented a new style?

I have had routers do stuff like that over the years. And it seems to me, the "easier" they make a router to adjust, the more likely you are to be an "innovator"
:rollno:

So far, I have not had an issue with a bass, but I have not built anything from scratch yet...
 
#50
Kalyptic said:
Subscribing to DustyG's 14 string bass thread
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Boy, thats for sure!

OK, for REALLY stupid mistakes, how bout an easy one? How bout drilling the jack hole before you do the round over? I even have pics!!

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So after I chastised myself (repeatedly) I fixed it-sort of.....

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#53
Her name was Rita. She was fast, loose and had devil red lips. Oh, its too painful to continue with the story. I should mention that in the mid-'60s he dad was the Mid-west Fender sales rep and her mom was working the late shift at the Playboy in Chicago.
 
#56
Dumbest mistake? Joining TalkBass! :D

No, no, no. I love TB!!!

Okay, for the REAL dumbest mistake...

I bought a 1959 Fender Jazzmaster guitar in 1979. For those not familiar with these instruments, they have some of the crappiest hardware ever made. The guitar was constantly going out of tune, action changing and would not stay intonated. The bridge design is the culprit. After a few years of putting up with the nonsense, someone suggested replacing the tail / bridge with a BadAss replacement. So, I stripped down the body, plugged the bridge holes and it sat in the unfinshed state in the case for over 20 years! I finally sold the parts a few years ago and that was that.
 
#57
I had a 80's Korean Spector, white with black hardware, first "real" bass I ever had, played it through years of being on the road, it was very beat up. My dad is a mechanic and I listened to the guy from the auto body shop next door when he told me he could do a great job painting it. Now I have a 80's Korean Spector with Car paint on it (black). He broke the plastic part on the front of the headstock that had the Logo on it and now the tuners don's tighten all the way.

If I had only known how cool it was, I had a "Relic" that I created!
 

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