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Who has made a curved back body?

#22
Musiclogic said:
The Tone Nazi's will get ya Brandon, that's waaaaaayyyy too much of a glue to wood ratio, and will make it sound brittle:eyebrow::rollno:....LMFAO:D
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Tell 'em to bring it on. Dont forget I'm in Bama and the gun/population ratio doesnt bode well for the tone nazis. :D

I've heard that one before too. If glue is hard enough to hold when wood grain tears I think it might as well be considered part of the wood. On the other hand, if your glue joints are not tight then yes, mulitiple laminates could be a real sound issue.
 
#23
Big B. said:
I have put a lot of thought into an EUB with an arched body and have decided to laminate 1/8" pieces of wood across a curved form to build up the body in layers. (yeah, I know you guys have a hard time believing that:D) In effect it would be like press gluing several thin tops together to make a body.
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Isn't that kind of the way the original NS Designs (Ned Steinberger) EUB is made, except with graphite laminates added to the mix?

Mike
 
#24
mikezimmerman said:
Isn't that kind of the way the original NS Designs (Ned Steinberger) EUB is made, except with graphite laminates added to the mix?

Mike
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You got it. The NS is actually part of my inspiration for the design. The interesting thing about the original NS USA series is that the back of the neck is concave like the body. I never played one but folks claim they are quite comfortable. Not my cup of tea really but an interesting idea.
 
#25
I have never build, a bass and this tread has given me a tremendous idea! I have a squier precision deluxe five string. I happen to love the neck..so I was thinking of taking the body and ripping off the wings then taking some mahogany and ripping one edge of each wing at 5 degrees. Then glueing them on to the remains of the body.. Its basswood by the way.
i would then proceed to carving the ergonomics of this bass. What do you think? do you foresee any pitfalls?
 
#26
90k said:
i would then proceed to carving the ergonomics of this bass. What do you think? do you foresee any pitfalls?
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ya, you ruin a bass you once liked.

if your going to even attempt something 'advanced' like this dont even try to modify a finished body; go get your mahogany wings and make a new body, if your able to pull this off, making a few templates for neck poket and pickups will be a cake walk, throw the neck on and a bridge, try it out, if its good, then swap all the other hardware and electronics.
 
#28
Somebody on here used a copy router and a simple curved template (I've searched but I can't find it now) where the convex side was used for the front of the body and then just flipped over for the rear.

Of course, you need a copy router set up and not everyone has one of those, but if you did have one it was elegant in it's simplicity.
 
#32
That would work well. I have a friend here in town that makes chairs and he has a rig set up with one stylus for following the pattern and 5 router bits mounted in a folding metal framework. The stylus is moved across the template and the 5 router bits follow the path of the stylus and copy the same movements allowing multiple copies to be made at once. He uses the machine for carving seats out for windsor chairs but it would be great for contouring bodies and such.
 
#33
something like this unit from Terrco will do the trick

TerrcoMarlinDuplicarver.jpg


it's large enough to do a neck, but simple enough that most people can get the hang of it in a reasonably short time frame

they occasionally pop up on the used market ;)

all the best,

R
 
#34
Grant I can kinda see point if as you stated, I once liked the bass. However I never said I liked the bass. What I said was I love the neck.. I know the body would probably have value but I think that the way this neck sits in this pocket may have something to do with the action of the neck.. That's what I want to preserve..Seeing as I don't have a shop and I don't want to invest in a router or any tools other then carving tools,I thought I could just bring it to a cabinet shop and have them do the slicing and glue up and I would be left with the carving and shaping.
 
#35
ah; i see your thinking!
and it wouldnt be the worst thing ive ever seen done; but i would still highly recomend against it; if for no other reason, to do the little that you want to do; you would still require a few nessecary tools;
if your hell-bent on modifying the body for comfort, disassemble it and see what you can do w/o making cuts, look at deepening tummy cuts and wrist releif etc. and keep in mind where you cavities are aswell
 

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