A new challenge

[Chris P.]

It's gorgeous Rob! You impress me!!! Great!

The bass has to be pink. Varken-pink.

[Basvarken]

Varkens are not pink!

[Basvarken]

[drbassman]

BEAUTIFUL!  I love it so far!

[Chris P.]

Porsche once ran Le Mans with a pink 'pig' Porsche with all the body parts for a butcher written on it:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Porsche_917-20_Pink_Pig_Sau_1971_front_2009-03-14_A.JPG

[Highlander]

[PeterB]

That looks beautiful, Rob! Very impressive 

[Denis]

A pearl flying pig like would actually be cool as all get out! Your project looks fantastic!

[Basvarken]

Wow I can't believe it's been so long since I posted.

Here's what I've been up to:


I had left about one millimeter of the fretboard past the last fret slot. This way the last fret would fit nicely over the last millimeter and at the same time it would sort of obscure the small gap between fret board and trussrod cover. That trussrod cover being the last two frets on a piece of fretboard.

But that milimeter chipped off. So I had to fix it with epoxy.







With trussrod cover in place! Looking good :-)






And I  trimmed the sides of the body for the binding.
That was much more work than I had thought it would be...

[Nocturnal]

Looking good!!

[birdie]

You're a natural at this stuff!

[birdie]

You're a natural at this stuff!

What bridge are you putting on it?

[Basvarken]

This one:



It's a BaCHbird bridge.
I needed a bridge with unnotched saddles, so I could set my own preferred spacing.
I tried to find nylon saddles like the Gibson  two point bridge has. But I couldn't find those.
So I ended up using the BaCHbird bridge from my own BaCHbird. The first series of the BaCHbird had unnotched saddles.

(I traded another bridge I had for a newer BaCHbird bridge and installed that newer bridge on the BaCHbird)

[PeterB]

Wow Rob, that's very impressive! That bass looks so good, and I love the solution of the trussrod cover. Very clever.

[Chris P.]

Very nice!!