MrFingers

You're laughing, but in fact, I got an SMS from the owner, and he said: "yeah, nitro, I'll probably just sand it down, I want the feel of your bass"...


And I was like:

BTW: this is the very first time I ever work with this kind of lacquer, let alone polish something... Turned out rather nice!

Glossy

Because I'm stuck now (waiting on lacquer to dry is as tense as [url=http://www.watching-grass-grow.com/]this[/url]), and because I wasn't 100% satisfied with the made-up warranty card based on a 1962 model, I was browsing "teh interwebz". I found an auction from 5 years ago from a guy who sold is 1964/65 P-bass, with an original hangtag/booklet. The pictures were 200x450px, so not good enough to read what was on them, but good enough to get the basic outline. Since those booklets are generic (it says the same in every version, just the layout differs) I got to work with 2 manuals I got laying here at home. An afternoon in paint.net, word and typing later, this was the result...





(is there a therapy for people like me? )

No indeed... and what do guitarplayers know ... But still, it's "just" allparts, and I assume the guy didn't narrow the tremcavity...

Hmm... Nash...

http://www.offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47291

...

Today was a busy day at the office, so I didn't do much when I got home. I sprayed the final coat of untinted clear lacquer, and that's now degassing in the shed (don't worry, it's locked ), and I prepared my paintstick contraption. 2 concentric tubes, one which stays in the workmate, the other the actual paintstick. In the paintstick I'll drill 3 holes: 2 at the flattened end, for the body to hang on to, and one just before the thicker tube. There I'll ram a long nail through it, so I can use that as a handle to turn around the body. That will (hopefully) allow me to work faster (better?).

[IMG]http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd324/williamsanders127/d404d374.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd324/williamsanders127/9926d461.jpg[/IMG]

Guess we all have to learn it the hard way


anyway: Jerked some nitro today... Nitro is fun, it dries very quick (in half an hour you could handle it, as it is "dry" (but not cured), but it smells funky, and is just plain unheathy...


Countersunk holes for the tuners, dowelled hole from the "template" (at the heel there's one as well, like it should)


Just like the real thing!

This is sketchy territory. For the sake of detail I did it, but just in pencil (for now), above the lacquer. It looks convincing from a feet away, but up close, you see it's a repro.




This is in ink though

The bushings were just a tad too big/the holes just a tad too small:


Collection of drills:


Correct size + a plug which fits nicely in the already drilled hole: NICE


Drilling on the benchdrill:


Nice 'n snug:


Trimmed, for an even better fit:


Calculate the centre and wedged into place:


Drilling:


Done:

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1338668193' post='1677922']
Apart from the Fender V are there any other instruments they haven't re-released? The Fender Elite series...?
[/quote]
Coronado Series
[url="http://cdn1.gbase.com/usercontent/gear/3016978/p3_uu1f05nmu_so.jpg"]Starcaster Bass[/url] (okay, with 3 known examples that wasn't really a series, but yet...)
Fender Telecaster II Bass (not the squier one, but a real classic series/American Vintage from Fender)

Nitro is EXTREMELY hard to find here in Europe (it is banned for health and safety issues), and it's impossible to ship canisters from the USA (where it is more "easily" available)...

Anyway, I found a company in Holland who sells nitro. Kinda expensive, at 20€ (~30$) a can, but there isn't an alternative...

[IMG]http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd324/williamsanders127/fde91bb0.jpg[/IMG]

For the total package, I made up an "early 1960's" warranty card...



Just because I can (still need to tweak the F-things a bit)

[quote name='stelios82k' timestamp='1337360385' post='1658874']
Home made Precision Bass!
[/quote]
Get rid of the jazz-cover, and place a real, wide, P-pickup cover...


anyway, here's mine:

[IMG]http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd324/williamsanders127/1f5dcd69.jpg[/IMG]

It sounds indeed like a Fender Bass VI, but you can get in the same vibe with a P-bass, strung with flatwounds, use a thick pick, and mute the strings with a piece of foam. I do it all the time.

Qua amps: amps weren't really used in the studio, the bass just went "straight in the wall", maybe via a tube compressor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP4h39IxLDE
Here you see a lipsynch from that song, and here a jazz-bass is used. Herbie Flowers, the British recording artist is known for it's tick-tack sound, and he uses a 1959 (yes, it's a prototype) jazz bass, strung with thick flatwounds, and a pick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Le8bH3Y8U

The cavity was a bit strangly formed (a bit too pronounced)... Routed it the vintage way:

Routed the cavities...



Loeks naaiss:

The American Std. will come very close, having the same width at the nut, but I think the seventies neck is just a tad thicker (from fretboard to back), not much, just a little bit. The closest resemblance I can remember is the neck [url="http://www.allparts.com/Unfinished-Maple-Precision-Bass-Neck-p/pmo.htm"]allparts[/url] makes.

You have to keep in mind that the neck of the AmStd is finished in a satin finish, silky soft, while the vintage neck is finished in rockhard thick glossy polyester.

[IMG]http://i528.photobucket.com/albums/dd324/williamsanders127/ec216c2e.jpg[/IMG]
I've got the same scribling... Probably the guy who painted/assembled the bass.

Nono, this one stays Shoreline, the paint is already ordered, so... But there is a secret rule: "you can never have your GASbuildlist empty". Maybe something for after this, for myself

In my case it's curable... -ish

Anyway, I've been looking on "teh interwebz", and I shouldn't have done that!




Pfoe

Telecaster Discussion Pages Re-Issue

For the hotlinkers among us
1956P: [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bass-place/129433-56-precision-bass-build-help-needed.html"]click[/url]
1957P: [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bass-place/139356-57-precision-bass-build.html"]click[/url]
1960J: [url="http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-home-depot/169606-1960-jazzbass-build.html"]click[/url]

I know Gil (and his work) and the efforts he makes in making authentic replica's... I wish I could mill a trussrod to exact vintage specifications, but I have neither the knowledge nor the tools for it, so I have to make some concessions...

When I saw the pictures first, I was thinking the same thing, but in the flesh, the frets are top-notch. The rosewood was very dry, I gave it a lick of lemonoi, and now it's a lot darker and smoother, and the dark edge at the frets disappeared.