I'm trying to wrap up a few other projects.
"Tell me you are using Purpleheart on your project... without telling me you're using Purpleheart on your project"
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Winter Build Off 2022 - Get Ready
- Thread starter Beej
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"Tell me you are using Purpleheart on your project... without telling me you're using Purpleheart on your project"
Bobbins are the bits inside pickups that hold them all together. Fender-speak would label these parts "flatwork" meaning they are the (flat) flanges that make up the structure of a pickup bobbin together with rod magnets. The next step is to press rod magnets into the holes at which point they become bobbins. Then you wind the coil wire on them and you have pickup coils. I've been daydreaming about this pickup design for a couple months and it's going to fit well with my idea for the build off so I thought I'd make some now to be sure the design worked. Only problem is I don't have a PJ bass so I guess they'll have to sit around until the buildoff after all...
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Well, as I ready for my readying... I'm finding a barrier to being ready. That's my gravel-floored workshop. I can't seem to get what I need in time to ready the entire shop by the time the build-off starts. It should have the new walls built, wired and insulated by then, but not likely drywalled in time, and probably won't have the floor complete until sometime in January or February.
Being a bit of a realist, I'm thinking I may need to adapt some of what I'm doing for this year's build-off. Dare I say I might do a partial build entry rather than a scratch build? I have someone's incomplete scratch-built bass project that I impulse bought last weekend. It's a 34" scale narrow six string fretless bolt on with padauk and purpleheart body, and walnut neck with purpleheart fingerboard. It's sort of a carl thompson referenced bass with a big scroll, ten miles of body behind the bridge and odd, slightly cumbersome ergonomics. It needs quite a bit of work, but would not require access to many of my tools, so might fit the criteria and actually let me participate in the very build-off that I'm steering this year.
I'd probably repurpose it into a wide-spaced 5 string (18-19mm), veneer and reshape the headstock, trim the body, do some bigger roundovers and carving, maybe radius the top and definitely radius the fretless fingerboard. It might even end up being playable.
I've got a guy coming to give me a quote on the floor, if it works out and he can do it quickly, maybe this will all be moot, but for now, I need to look at options. When/if I decide on a partial build as my path, I'll share some pics.
Being a bit of a realist, I'm thinking I may need to adapt some of what I'm doing for this year's build-off. Dare I say I might do a partial build entry rather than a scratch build? I have someone's incomplete scratch-built bass project that I impulse bought last weekend. It's a 34" scale narrow six string fretless bolt on with padauk and purpleheart body, and walnut neck with purpleheart fingerboard. It's sort of a carl thompson referenced bass with a big scroll, ten miles of body behind the bridge and odd, slightly cumbersome ergonomics. It needs quite a bit of work, but would not require access to many of my tools, so might fit the criteria and actually let me participate in the very build-off that I'm steering this year.
I'd probably repurpose it into a wide-spaced 5 string (18-19mm), veneer and reshape the headstock, trim the body, do some bigger roundovers and carving, maybe radius the top and definitely radius the fretless fingerboard. It might even end up being playable.
I've got a guy coming to give me a quote on the floor, if it works out and he can do it quickly, maybe this will all be moot, but for now, I need to look at options. When/if I decide on a partial build as my path, I'll share some pics.
I remember watching a video where this guy built his entire shop floor out of lumber. Like, he took 8x8 posts and chopped them into 6" long sections and then basically "paved" his shop floor with 8x8 end grain. It looked like a giant cutting board.
I think if you get started now you could be done way before the build-off starts!
I think if you get started now you could be done way before the build-off starts!
Sounds to me like your dining room table needs to be reborn as your temporary work shop
Maybe? One concrete guy advised against even quoting for pouring the floor until it's been dug out and inspected. He thought there may be a bad reason why the gravel was added somewhat recently (within last couple of years for sure). I have another guy coming to check it out and give a quote. If he can't/won't do it, I'm going to just build a 2x6 (1' on centre joist) raised wood floor and remount the side door so it clears when opened. It has a garage door but it won't be used as a garage or have a car in it.
I don't want to sink a lot of money and time into this shed, because I'm also concurrently talking with the city (district) about building a 2 car garage on the side of the property (it's a corner lot). The inspector came to look at the site after I submitted plans, and we discovered the previous owner built the side-yard fence roughly 3 feet into city property.
So naturally, the city won't review or comment on my application until after I've moved the fence. Oh, and I have to get a permit to move and rebuild my illegally placed fence too. Thankfully, it appears the previous owner used 10 foot posts and sunk them 4 feet deep in concrete as I discovered when I tried to dig one out a couple of weeks ago. I got my side hole down to 36" and the concrete and post just keep on going. Thanks man, really appreciated. Looks like I'll have to rent a skid steer to pull all eight of them out. 
I'll get there, but my current "build season" is in the crapper temporarily. Not the greatest timing for the build off, but I'm a glass-half full kinda guy.
Beej, if you are hesitant about this, may I kindly remind you of some illuminating words uttered long ago by a wise man:
LOL damn it, words never taste good when you eat them, even with ketchup.Beej, if you are hesitant about this, may I kindly remind you of some illuminating words uttered long ago by a wise man:
I do stand by it though... if I have to do this partial build, I still may do some over the top stuff. I better start ordering new stuff though... the parts for my planned scratch build won't suit this potential partial build.
Shouldn't the city do this? I mean it was built illegally on city property by someone, so how is it even your fence?
Does a bare workshop floor count as an Exhibitionist Build?
I did mention this very argument to the inspector but it didn't go very far.Shouldn't the city do this? I mean it was built illegally on city property by someone, so how is it even your fence?
To his credit, he was very nice about everything and told me he didn't see any obvious reasons why my application would not go through once the fence was relocated. He empathized with my situation but he's stuck with the rules. Building a new garage will mean I will have two driveways on my property - this is the thing that needs a zoning variance approved as the current zoning only allows one driveway per property. He suggested some good language to use in my application which will argue that the previous garage is no longer there, so the old driveway is only for on-site parking. My variance application will be to have the old driveway declared a "parking pad" and that way my new driveway will get the driveway status. He said this will be much easier than getting permission to have two driveways. But all that said, in order to get the variance, I have to move the fence. One step forward, two steps back.
I think yes, assuming more than just the workshop floor is bare.
Sounds to me like your dining room table needs to be reborn as your temporary work shop
Screw that, I want to see Beej's dining table be reborn AS A BASS!!!
The key is to spin it correctly.
"Hey honey, you know how you've always said you wanted a new dining room set?"
"Hey honey, you know how you've always said you wanted a new dining room set?"
