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Dom in Dorset

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23 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

 

That bridge isn't for a bass guitar, it's for an electric uke or banjolin. Annoyingly there's tons of them if you're searching eBay or AliExpress for bass bridges.

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2 hours ago, Dom in Dorset said:

They are stud earrings, five pairs should do it. It's going to be tricky to inlay them but I'm feeling confident 😕

 

It will be great. A very clever idea which I'm sure will now be copied by lots of people on here. 

Who wants two boring dots on the fretboard at the 12th fret when you could have a silver feather, for example?


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(And if you're suitably pierced could wear a matching one in your ear and see if anyone ever noticed 😅)

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4 hours ago, Richard R said:

 

It will be great. A very clever idea which I'm sure will now be copied by lots of people on here. 

Who wants two boring dots on the fretboard at the 12th fret when you could have a silver feather, for example?


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(And if you're suitably pierced could wear a matching one in your ear and see if anyone ever noticed 😅)

Depends where your piercing is.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Fitting the dot markers turned out to be more tricky than I thought. The course grain of the oak and the tiny aces meant inlaying wasn't an option. In the end I drilled 10 mm holes and set the aces in black filler  .Not as crisp as I'd intended but still in character for the instrument.

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And of course it's now fretted.

Fretting in progress:

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Ready for fret leveling and polishing:

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The neck so far :

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Carving and sanding the back of the neck:

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Carved ,sanded and oiled:

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Progress so far:

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Edited by Dom in Dorset
You'll have to wait for the official report.
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