Si600

Something rings a bell there about a beam body, like Twiggy, but made out of thick wall plastic box section with a headless neck some how grafted onto the front. I don't *think* it was on BC, put given the mad ideas that sometimes pop up it may have been. Probably elsewhere on the interwebz. 

I could be mean and ask whether you were any good at colouring in between the lines as a child, but I've got to extend the pickup holes on my t-bird-alike and they're going to be visible!

1 hour ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Trouble is...what if you want to play fretted and fretless in the middle of a gig?

I would have thought retractable frets activated by a little lever or motor wasn't beyond your skill set... 

I seem to remember you using it before? Isn't it a total **** to finish because the pores are gigantic or something equally difficult?

43 minutes ago, Smanth said:

I feel that Twiggy is short enough for me not to have to try out the pulley system I was thinking of, tho it would allow me to hide the tuners on the rear leading to a really minimalistic look from the front.  My plan for Flo is that the electronics will live in body cavities, the knobs for such will present on the top edge and be hidden (From the front view at least) by a recess.

 

S'manth x

If you haven't already, check out Mr. Jr1515s thread on how to hide almost everything behind the body. Psilos is the name of the bass.

It lives!

It's an interesting looking beastie certainly

Given that you don't have a trussrod do you forsee a time when you end up with a banana or are you going to leave Twiggy thick enough not to need one? How playable is a neck that thick?

And? Has anything important gone "Sproink" yet? Is Trampa playing it for you? Is it now an LCD multiscale fretless? Have you given up and called it firewood?

3 minutes ago, stewblack said:

Erm. Thank you?

(Who is MDP please?)

He's a guy who modifies guitars and sells them on eBay. There are a few threads about him, look for seven string guitar conversions for sausage fingers.

Threads about him get locked because the mocking turns personal so he just appears occasionally these days. 

17 minutes ago, paul_5 said:

You are MDP and I claim my £5! 😄

He can't be, the tuners are still straight. 

3 hours ago, Bassfinger said:

Oh, before anyone asks that's part of my latest lawnmower resto in the background. This one's a 1968 Suffolk Colt that I'm going to give to my FiL as a present.

What? Where's the build diary for that?

11 hours ago, Random Guitarist said:

Yes, that appears to be the case. 

Hmmmm. That kind of puts the kibosh on nicking the design of a Floyd Rose I think. Downward movement of up to 6 or 7 mm to tension the strings means the tailpiece height is going to be ridiculous.

1 hour ago, LukeFRC said:

I measured and think the Lefay has 20-25mm travel 

Yeahbbut, how much does it actually need? Could a slight downward movement a la the fine tuners be enough? I've no idea BTW, I'm designing/pontificating on the fly 😉

40 minutes ago, Random Guitarist said:

 

Being bored I attached a pointer made out of a post-it note to the top of my tuner and measured the rotation of the post required to go from pitch to slack. The  E (.105) needed 1/8th of a full rotation, the G (.045) needed 3/16ths.

 

The tuner post is 11.1mm diameter which stirred together I think gives:

 

 

Note 1: This was with TI flats

Note 2: I need to get out more

The E string needs 5.4 mm of travel from slack to pitch? 

Elegant tuner on an inelegant back of envelope. 

Or...... how much movement does a tuner actually need, could you adapt the fine tuner mechanism on a Floyd Rose style trem to work?

5 minutes ago, Smanth said:

I love it!  Not something I'd considered (I'd need to write a tuner app).  If I did this I could also drive the position of the saddles to autocorrect intonation using a different set of motors.

 

Mad as it seems I was pondering with making the fretboard out of perspex and mounting a number of flexible e-Ink panels underneath, these would be used to display the fret lines & markers.

Want single scale?  Set config A, want a multiscale ... config B ... it could even allow for Righty/Lefty swapping of multiscale.

 

And with the AutoTune, press one button and the whole thing reconfigures.  I could even envisage an approach that would work for fretted basses.

 

Sadly, cost is prohibitive lol

 

S'manth x

That's the trouble with the yoof of today. No vision or drive.

*shakes head whilst looking sadly at a gone out pipe and frayed slippers*

How about 5 little motors driving five little windlass' to tension the strings. Then you could program Trampa to tune it for you to to play a whole range of differently tuned songs.

Is this a POC or are you actually making it out of framing timber? 

I hope you are, though I suspect not. 😜

1 hour ago, Jimothey said:

Here’s my take on a Les Paul/Tele hybrid…….👍🏻
 

 

I can’t decide on whether to reshape the head stock to a Tele style one???

Don't do it!

You're stealing Jez's home made lathe? Horrible man!

Not really. That's what I've got, IMHO it's bit short on detail, and accuracy.

I've got some new pickups and tuners... this thing may actually get something happening soon...

Question regarding said pickups, they're Delano quad core soapbars and have four wires hanging out of the. I'm not clear on what they are though and the documentation from Delano isn't great. One is marked ground, do I assume that's a common ground and the other three are the other ends of the coils, though shouldn't there be four wires plus a ground in that instance?

D fits better with the "fret" markers and the rest of the instrument  so perfect knob IMHO, but C would be 'kin hilarious with the line right across the top like a John Thomas.....

I would try starting from bare wood then make a kind of handle with a piece of string through a neck bolt hole and carry it around for an hour or so banging it carelessly into things. Probably do that bit outside so you don't trash the sideboard

Then a coat of light brown stain and rub it off with a pad so you don't wipe it out of any dings. Repeat until you have the depth of colour you want then finish with a matt lacquer or wax.

I've never done this so I'm hypothesising (making it up), but that's how I would try to do it.

Inserts and neck screws, is there an optimum size, M5 seems about right from the old eyeball, M6 feels too big and M4 too weedy, but what are you using?  I know @Jabba_the_gut uses them on his builds.

How can you not see a bass on the couch?