More progress

So it's been a while since I posted, so here is the latest:

The fretboard radiused and lined:



The pickup cavity routes started:



All the progress of yesterday:

neck progress

Nothing really exciting more shape on the neck. But here is a picture of the shaping of the neck. The wood on top is a guide for me to route the fingerboard.

Greetings from Nebraska

Here is the latest:

The shape cut out:


The headstock shape rough cut and tuner machine holes drilled and tuners installed:



The Transition with my thumb in the picture:


The reverse angle:

Update, the good the bad and the ugly (yes there is a little ugly)

So with all of the snow that were getting I have today off. This gives me some time to update my bass blog.

Last week I was really stoked to be able to start on the body of my bass. I had all of the parts assembled and was ready to start laminating the top and back to the core. Here are the pieces for the back of the bass:



Here is what the top will resemble:



I got all of the pieces cut, joined, planed and ready to go and started the glueing process:



If you look at the picture you will notice that there aren't clamps on the bottom of the boards. Well when I took the clamps off the walnut had cupped away from the basswood (the core). Alas I'll Have to cut them apart sand down to the walnut, and start again. Oh well.


Here it is with everything laid out kind of like what it will be like when it's glued together (without the shape):




I also got a little work done on the neck shape:



One of the guys at the shop recommended that I should use long strips of sandpaper to help get rid of the rasp marks. I went to home depot and got a belt for a belt style sander and then cut it so that it was one long strip. It worked pretty well. I still have about 2/3 of the neck to go.


I also did a little drawing yesterday of the headstock. Here are a couple of the renderings of the entire shape:







Thanks for stopping by and checking out the progress!


For more detailed info check the following posts at talkbass:

Headstock shape: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517134

Fiber side markers: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=522065

Main Build thread: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503689

Machine room work

This is a few pictures of our studio rebuild:

We started with a clean slate and all of the cable up through the floor of our "patch rack" This rack allows us to patch any of the lines into either pro tools or our console in 24 channel blocks. Once we pulled all of the cable out of the floor we were ready to start loading the connectors and building the Pro Tools Rack. Thats where we are now. Tommorow Console power supplies and computer Gack...

More Neck work

Last night I felt like my project is taking some shape. I got the slot routed for the truss rod and some of the rough width cut out. I also took a shot at some shaping on some pine. I can't wait to get back over there with the walnut and bass wood that I got this week. The photo of the neck with the paper is a headstock shape that I'm thinking about.

First shot at a headstock shape

My first attempt. I'm not sure yet. Let me know what you think. More talk about it here: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=517134

Thanks for stopping by!