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Trying it on the body, I reckon this is visually too long.  I'll take 10mm off each side by softening the radius:

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There's plenty of meat there to take off and still have large enough blocks for the height adjustment screws:

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Carve-wise - I think this is actually just about there for most of the body.  Just got to finalise how to treat the chamfer on the lower-horn cutaway.  Anyways, I'll consult @fleabag to what he reckons

 

 

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Good excuse to get out into the surprise sunshine :)

Carve is starting to get there.  You can see here that my chamfer isn't quite deep enough yet - you can see the very edge of the glue-line/step-line there!:

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In terms of the overall shape, still a bit to do but I think this is starting to look right:

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When I get to shaping the heel, it's useful to already have the screw recesses in place:

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The carve along the heel line will be radiused to cut into the recesses - if I get it right, they should follow the angle of the machine screw ferrules. 

I probably will get the neck to a stage of being temporarily fitted before I sort out the carve of the end blip - this one will be more about feel than aesthetics, and you can't really do that until you are in a position to be able to play 'air-bass' with it.

Next job is carving the chamber for the pickup cover to fit into (which, incidentally is at this very moment winging its way to Kent for Aaron Armstrong to do his stuff) and carving the controls chamber.  While that goes on, I'll carry on reviewing and tweaking the body carve until it's 'right' :)

 

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Folks who read my build threads will know that I really, really, really dislike routers.  They are OK for deepening and flattening a chamber when used with a guided bearing and completely captive within the chamber...but other than that they are of the devil!

So for pickup chambers nowadays, I start with a Forstner:

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Then straighten up the top 10mm with chisels.  Nowadays, by the way, these are pretty much the only chisels I tend to use, both sets bought from Axminster:

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And then - and only then - use a guided router bit within the chamber to take it to final depth.  Note by the way, the appearance of the cable channel I cut before I put the top on:

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Before cutting the chamber for the controls (they are going to be top mounted on a purpleheart plate), I need to double check how much real-estate they are going to take up.

This is @fleabag's requested layout (albeit the other way round):

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He's also supplied me with the pots and switches.  So they will be laid out a bit like this on a purpleheart plate a similar shape to the pickup cover:

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Should all fit.

I also reminded myself of how to do a series/split/parallel with an on/on/on switch:

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Just got to remind myself WHY it works.... 9_9

 

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