BluesHawk Bass

[Barklessdog]

First I masked the entire bass but the edge of the maple top and maple fret board sides. I used big pieces of some green masking tape called Frog tape from Home Depot (still seeped). I used a Exacto knife to trim the edge of the tape away. I spray two coats of clear nitro. Removed the tops tape then covered the natural edge, then stained the top black. Sanded that back, then removed all the tape again and just taped the edges off then stained blue. For the top a sanded a we bit away from the edge to give the binding depth. StewMac sez you should use a razor blade and scrap the top edge dye away.



I still have to clean up the edge some more

[drbassman]

That turned out great!  I'm definitely gonna try it sometime.  I was wondering how you got the top edge to show.  I didn't think of sanding or scraping it.

[ramone57]

very nice looking bass!

[chromium]

That looks incredible so far!  Great concept, and beautiful execution!

Are you accepting deposits yet?    Just give me the word, and the Ripper gets it! 

[Barklessdog]

Clear coat wet sanded, need to fix more slight imperfections before final 2000 wet sanding & buffing.

It's getting shiny now. you can see how it darkened up considerably.

At first I was not sure about me not refinishing the fingerboard, but I like the yellowed aged look from the Ripper



You can see some green from the poplar, I guess because I did not put it in the sun after the final sanding, but still looks good to me


The neck actually stained rather well (I sanded the old finish off)

[shadowcastaz]

Im glad your back on this . You sure have had your hands full with personal stuff. I would not worry about the green from the poplar, It makes it unique to your build . That is  a sweet lookin axe!!!

I love the aged maple board. Im an ebony fanatic but I may go maple  based on yours.M

[Dave W]

I like the way it's darkened up. For a while there it looked like it might turn out too bright.

[Barklessdog]

I like the way it's darkened up. For a while there it looked like it might turn out too bright.

Thanks guys,

I totally agree, I thought it was kind of shocking before the clear coat.

[Nocturnal]

The blue is very nice. I wouldn't worry too much about the green either. Looking forward to seeing the finished product!

[chromium]

That is looking really good!

[ramone57]

the fingerboard looks very nice against the body with the aged nitro.  the green spots won't matter in 20 years!

[uwe]

You keep going like that, John, and Gibson marketing will call you asking whether they can license it off you! Wunderschön.

[godofthunder]

Beautiful work John ! I am always amazed and impressed by the work done by members of this forum.

[Barklessdog]

I have two cracks off my F hole !!!!

I tried filling them with thinned Tightbond, but I guess superglue might be the answer.

i figure I will get everything together and go back and spot fill them.





A 3/4 view of the crazy body contours

[godofthunder]

 Oh man I didn't know you were going to put a Kahler on it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not surprised though  One of these days I gotta put one on a bass.