As always the build starts with same blanks.
I had my limber supplier make me a nice neck blank. He made it to the exact specs that I asked for (nine ply khaya mahogany with walnut strips in between.
Plus two khaya body wings.
Ordered parts and hardware.
Initially the customer and I agreed upon a single pickup bass, so I ordered just one Thunderbird humbucker.
Routed the slot for the spokewheel trussrod
And chiseled out the spoke wheel part.
Next I prepared the fretboard for the inlays
Glued the inlays in
After I had sanded the inlays flush to the radius of the fretboard, I prepared the fret slots for the frets.
Cut the fretwire a little oversized to the width of the slots. And taped off the fretboard for protection.
Hammered the frets in
Cut off the excess ends. And filed them.