Si600

I've been arsing about in the cellar again. French cleat "wall" and plane till. Saws next, or possibly clamps.

Something by Rob Zombie?

Xanadu by Rush?

Have you got your neck angle correct? The bridge and bridge pickup look awfully tall.

Gunmetal deffo, but you'll need to show a mockup with the two 'guard colours before I can decide which looks better

Tobacco sunburst and tort. You know it makes sense. 

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56 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

So... it's like the old saying... we ALL have our vices.

2 hours ago, Reggaebass said:

I picked up this beast a while back, I don’t do metalwork but I’m sure I’ll use it for something 😁

I clamp my backsaws in mine for sharpening. How much do you use your block plane? I've got one but prefer a bench plane.

Mine is a 4 1/4" Fortis Engineering Co one.

I'm always clamping boards on edge, which is probably why the corner popped off.

Ply I have, 12mm from memory. Would you cut the break out and square it off, or just leave it as is?

Oh lackaday! Woe! Lamentations!

This has just happened. 

It's the insert which I had to fit after knocking the wrong corner of the chop off. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it's the top edge of long grain and taking all the force of clamping boards on the edges.

However, what to do about it. I've got some oak, mahogany or ash to go in there, but it will be long grain again but bigger, or I can go pine again. Or... say nuts to it and fit a whole new face to the vice with the grain running vertically. Then I lose the massive flat clamping surface.

Or a short length of vertical grain inset into the chop.

Given that they are not identical but very similar, how do you choose one?

I'd go for the one on the left. The knot in No. 2 looks like a belly button and the tiger stripes on No. 3 are a bit regular to my eye.

Some peepul... I'll just crack off a jag bass whilst I wait for the paint to dry on one of my other five bass builds 

You need a roofer before an electrician

12 minutes ago, Hellzero said:

That Makita box standing freely on the ceiling is simply amazing. Are you defying Newton's laws ? 🤣 

Too much glue squeeze out between the halves. It's there forever now.

Cracking job Gromit 👍

I think you've colour matched the pickup surround really well, I had to look twice to see the pickup was even there.

23 minutes ago, mhoss32 said:

Now it looks like it'll work out the way i planned, i can't wait to have another go with some properly fancy woods

 

Do what? You're going to make an even fancier one? 

I'm throwing all my tools away.

Double ball strings and hook the head end over a peg inserted into the headstock shape?

3 hours ago, HazBeen said:

I might have just bought a single saddle bridge off @Andre_Passini with the intention of making the above a (semi)headless.......

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How TF do you make it semi headless? Three tuners at one end and two at the other?

All these people who wouldn't have dreamt of coming to one of my bashes are all clamouring to join in now I've passed the baton on.

Which reminds me, @jebroad, I've got the box of lanyard cards i had printed for the mids bash if you want them. PM me the address of your cardboard box and I'll send them. 

3 hours ago, Hellzero said:

Just to put some oil on the fire...

A bolt-on neck only needs two fixture points (in fact one would be enough, but the neck would be able to move on it's own axis). The fixture points towards the bridge are useless as they are in compression mode. All the tension is on the fixture points towards the headstock. It's a reverse Archimedes lever principle.

You can see the action of this principle on old Fender's 4 points fixture where the heel very end of the fretboard (all the neck in fact) has been uprising (and the shim doesn't help in this case).

Now I'll throw some water on the oil, just for fun.

So..... providing you never needed the bit between 17th snd 18th fret, and it didn't protrude above the top of the fret to either side, you could hold the neck on with a jubilee clip... 

I may try that one day, but it would need to be a proper rat bass style over the rest of it.

I think you've said that before now you've explained it again 

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You're going to explain how you get BG from Jim though...