Winter Build Off 2022 - Star-Crossed-Caster

[2groggy]

As the saying goes, "you might as well get hung for a sheep as a lamb". So I'm entering a second build.

This one is a scratch build of the Fender Starcaster four string bass, using the a similar experimental body build method to my Toby-or-not-Toby build. The major differences are that this will be a laminated archtop, and I will also build the neck.

Pile o'Wood:

WBO Starcaster Wood Pile

• 2groggy
• Dec 21, 2021
• winter build off

** Special note about the purchased neck blank... This was mentioned in the "get ready" thread - This is a rectangular cross section, so I still have to do all of the steps in making the neck, especially since it is a 34" scale blank and Starcasters are 30" scale. If anyone objects, we can call this a partial build. I won't let it be a problem.

I do have another project plan which will likely get ignored. I will not likely start work on this build until next week.

 

[Bent77]

Subd!

 

[Videojunkie]

I'm interested in watching your archtop method.

 

[2groggy]

I'm interested in watching your archtop method.

Skateboard deck vacuum bagging, just using a larger bag and wider veneer. I actually got the vac bag and veneer from a skateboard deck company. roarockit.ca

 

[Jeff Siddall]

Sub'd!

 

[BishopJP]

Did we just show up at a party wearing the same dress?

I had an almost identical plan, including the vac-bag from roarockit!

Wasn't sure I could pull it off so I changed my plan...

In any case, I will be spying on your build and taking notes...

 

[2groggy]

Did we just show up at a party wearing the same dress?

I had an almost identical plan, including the vac-bag from roarockit!

Wasn't sure I could pull it off so I changed my plan...

In any case, I will be spying on your build and taking notes...

Shirley you can pull it off. Check out the archtop in my profile pic. I've made a few different vac bag molds. so far.

BTW, I promise to stop calling you "Shirley" if you promise to stop wearing a dress when you spy on me.

 

[BishopJP]

sure, I "promise"!

Did you use the same set-up from roarockit on the other builds? I haven't actually picked one up, yet.

 

[2groggy]

I have two - one sized for skate decks and the other is the second largest 36" x 52". That's plenty of space for the two archtop basses that I build. These are 18" across the lower bout.

HollowArchtopBassVI

• 2groggy
• Sep 24, 2021
• archtop bass vi hollow

30" Scale Bass VI, hollow archtop with laminate face and back

Harlequin Body

• 2groggy
• Oct 23, 2021
• archtop gretch

 

[BishopJP]

Love the harlequin!

I will get one of their kits soon, but I will probably wait on the hollow-body build for when I don't have time constraints.

 

[2groggy]

@BishopJP in case you are interested, here is the build thread for the archtop bass VI, over on tdpri.com.

I never posted a thread for the Harlequin.

 

[BishopJP]

Thanks!

Spying commenced..

 

[ashtray]

Awesome - can’t wait to see the progress!

 

[2groggy]

Thanks. It will be a few days before my frame parts actually look like anything

 

[2groggy]

Unforseen delay... The veneer and vac bag gear will be prioritized to replace the longboard deck that was under my son, yesterday when a d-bag BMW driver (is there any other kind) drove over it. Luckily, my son went over the hood, unhurt, rather than under the wheels in pieces, like the longboard. The d-bag BMW driver (did I mention that there really is no other kind) drove off without identifying himself.

I have a skateboard deck to build.

 

[Slidlow]

Unforseen delay... The veneer and vac bag gear will be prioritized to replace the longboard deck that was under my son, yesterday when a d-bag BMW driver (is there any other kind) drove over it. Luckily, my son went over the hood, unhurt, rather than under the wheels in pieces, like the longboard. The d-bag BMW driver (did I mention that there really is no other kind) drove off without identifying himself.

I have a skateboard deck to build.

Isn't that a hit and run and should be reported?

 

[Jeff Siddall]

Unforseen delay... The veneer and vac bag gear will be prioritized to replace the longboard deck that was under my son, yesterday when a d-bag BMW driver (is there any other kind) drove over it. Luckily, my son went over the hood, unhurt, rather than under the wheels in pieces, like the longboard. The d-bag BMW driver (did I mention that there really is no other kind) drove off without identifying himself.

I have a skateboard deck to build.

Yikes! Hope your boy is OK.

I was thinking he must be a real die-hard skater to be out there in -8 C temperatures with 8 cm of snow on the ground and another cm falling. Then I checked Toronto weather and realized it was about 10 C warmer and zero snow on the ground and it made more sense.

 

[Max Bogosity]

That's scary.

 

[dwizum]

Crazy. I hope people like that get what's due to them.

 

[2groggy]

Isn't that a hit and run and should be reported?

yup. But he didn't get the license plate. It will go nowhere.