After the tire on my bandsaw went bad, I kinda ended up in a bit of a funk. I used the time to assemble a couple of other basses I had in the works, only to discover a number of issues with those.
So I wasn't really feeling it... until today!
I managed to fix the saw first thing this morning. That felt nice.
My initial idea of doing the neck plies as thin strips, glued widely: stupid!
The better idea: glue the veneer in wider sheets, then cut those into strips, gluing those together as boards.
I'm not sure if this will work, but I gotta try. The veneer was piled up, and I switched the orientation of each piece, not that it would really matter.
Then I put glue all over! I mean, this neck is technically going to be composite now. A composite of Titebond 1 and maple veneer.
If it fails, I'm going to wider slats and a more traditional multi-piece neck. But it never hurts to experiment.
As for the body, I wanted to keep this cheaper, so I'm using pieces that I have here. There's a lot of random maple that I'll be turning into a full body. I started with these pieces and will either do this like a hippie sandwich, with top and back pieces... or like a clam shell and just make 2 halves like this.
It's gonna be a solid color, so I don't care.
The drop mech still makes me very nervous, and I also realized that the headstock shape would keep me from even fretting that area... but it is just a drop mech, so it's unlikely that I'd need to fret a Bb anyway. More on that debacle as it happens.
The string clamping method is also still a mystery. I know it will be metal and screws, but that's as far as I got.
And one big factor in this build is that I'm purposely making it overly complicated. So even if something is as silly as threaded inserts everywhere or a drop A or making my own plywood from scratch... that's what I'm going for here. It's part of the Kubicki side of things.
I can always simplify later.
Oh, and all you other builders... GREAT WORK! I've been watching those and really loving what I see.
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