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Bass build

DaveL

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Well Malc has nothing to worry about, this will not be anything like as skill full as his Martin build!

I many years ago played a bass, a Shaftesbury P bass copy, I have bought the plans for a P bass and I do intend to build one from scratch, but this is not a build from scratch. I have been watching the Great Guitar Build Off on You Tube and then my Granddaughter said she would like a bass, so I have bought lots of bits on eBay, just about enough to assemble a P bass copy.
So I have done a short video going over most of the bits I have bought, warning there's this old bloke talking to the camera!
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So.....you on bass, me on rhythm, has the forum got a lead guitarist and Hammond player for a virtual gig?!! :D
 
Malc2098":2xf39yll said:
So.....you on bass, me on rhythm, has the forum got a lead guitarist and Hammond player for a virtual gig?!! :D
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Can a bag a place in the virtual mosh pit? :)
 
Andyp":37vbndtn said:
Malc2098":37vbndtn said:
So.....you on bass, me on rhythm, has the forum got a lead guitarist and Hammond player for a virtual gig?!! :D
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Can a bag a place in the virtual mosh pit? :)
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:lol:
 
Oh, and a drummer , of course!! :D


BTW, what did the drummer name is twin daughters when they were born?



Anna 1, Anna 2.....
 
Well I have finally got round to doing a bit more, not a lot, just a bit....
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Nicely, Dave.

Perhaps you could do with a patternmakers vice to hold the awkward shapes of a bass or guitar.
 
I find it easier to not put it in a vice at all if I can help it. :)
You are doing a bang up job so far so keep it up, a bass is on my list, after the next guitar.

I have a 3/4" headless neck that was going in to a travel guitar, but the lack travel meant it didn't get finished, so now I'm thinking of a tiny V or mini electroacoustic or some such nonsense. won't happen anytime soon but who knows.
 
Thanks for the comments.
I will be back in the shop, first thing to-do is get the wood burner going.
Have to make a template for the pick guard and a notched straight edge to check the neck with.
 
you don't need a notched straight edge, that is a "nice to have" modern gadget, much like a concave fretting file.

I do it this way instead:

make 2 identical blocks (mine are aluminium but a nice hardwood should do). put one in the first fret, one in a fret toward the body (I around the 17th depending where the body joins/truss ends). lay your straight on the blocks and use a caliper depth measure (the bit that sticks out the end) to measure first at either end to confirm they match then once in the middle. adjust till the middle matches.
 
Phil":1xi08vk3 said:
Very nice Dave.

Is your granddad doing all the work while you film?
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Well while Dad never had a beard, every time I see my hands on video, I think it is Dad. He would have a go at making or doing anything with his hands.
We built a room onto the bungalow I grew up in, when I was 11. He, with a little help from me, my sister and mum, did everything apart from the hot tar and felt on the roof and the plastering.
I thought it most odd that some of my friends dads never made or fixed anything.
Now you know why I like to make stuff.
 
Use the holes for alignment pins, as you said, then use double sided carpet tape, the aggressive stuff, to stick it to the other side.

Going along nicely.
 
I wish I had your comfort talking to camera, Dave.

Coming along nicely. Problem solving is part of the enjoyment, I find.
 
Malc2098":3kpz1pa9 said:
I wish I had your comfort talking to camera, Dave.

Coming along nicely. Problem solving is part of the enjoyment, I find.
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Malc, in an old job, back in the 80's and part of the 90's I lectured in a college, so talking to people, there or the other end of a camera had to become a 'normal' thing to do. It was hard when I first started teaching evening classes but with the change to full time college it became second nature and I still get into trouble for pulling out the lecturer voice to put a point across.
I like problem solving, it got me through my working life and it's good to keep doing now I am retired.
 
You've done well, and I reckon the comfort comes with knowing your subject and what you're talking about.

I haven't got a clue what I'm doing with my stuff. I wing it, then write a report on it afterwards! :)
 
novocaine":1b5a47u5 said:
Getting there. Really nice finish on the body.
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I bought all the bits, including the body on eBay. In the picture of the body it looked bare but when turned up with that finish on, I was well pleased.

I have more video that needs editing but have to go back to the workshop to do a bit more to it.
 
the joys of a kit of parts, well done for sorting it and in the correct manner too.

I'll watch the bridge later, I'm supposed to be working. :D
 
Coming along. Liking the chamfer showing the layers.

My Strat, an '82 Japanese Squier, had a different number of screw holes than other Strats, so there are different types out there even though they have the same shape.
 
Wow! There was amount there i thought that dill might go out the back! Nicely done.
 
Nothing wrong with rustic! I quite like rustic. Some of my stuff has been known to inadvertently end up rustic. :)

In time gone by, I have been know to use kitchen foil and Grip Fix to glue it to the insides of cavities and backs of scratch plates..

Do you remember Grip Fix? Smelled like marzipan.
 
I'm cheap, I use aluminium tape because I have a massive roll of it. :)

nearly there now Dave, so close you can smell the rhythm players breath. :D
 
So here I screw the pickups and bridge to the body. No prizes for noticing when my little tub of screw wax falls into the rip in the space time continuum that lurks in every workshop. :oops:
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Oh and there is a disappointment in this one, but I now have a spare.
 
Well I put strings on and started the setup but things did not work out as planed.
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