BluesHawk Bass

[Barklessdog]

Steam it out first w/ an iron and wet cloth to decompress grain.

My wife & myself used to work at a picture frame place and they had little hand irons to do that. Surprising how well that works. The problem is mine is gouged by a tool so will be needed to be filled with wood putty or sand & sealer. Its pretty small but, cut into the top. My grinder skipped across he top when touching up the F holes!

[shadowcastaz]

heck this before you stain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWCptCxNx4I&feature=related

[Barklessdog]

Video no longer available!!
 

[shadowcastaz]

I just watched it . WTF!
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before you sand,dye the wood . sand it back  120 grit. stain again ,sand back  150 grit, stain  again and sand back....


the reason being is  the curl has diff densities and the diff grits remove  dye from the softer woods. you can control the darkness by carefully sanding . this will give more depth to you top even though you chose light figure.

[shadowcastaz]

try this link and the a search and scroll through vids.M

[Barklessdog]

Great video very interesting!

Love his rug!

[shadowcastaz]

check em out.http://www.bluemoonexoticwood.com/cuban_mahogany.html

[drbassman]

check em out.http://www.bluemoonexoticwood.com/cuban_mahogany.html

Wow, that is beautiful!  Custom cut for $35 pbf isn't bad either.

[Barklessdog]

If you guys remember I had contacted the guy and he said he can get single pieces big enough for a Tbird body at , I think it was $125 a board?

I have the Email at work some where.

[Barklessdog]

I have discovered that there is a angle on the back that goes from 1 1/4" at the neck joint to 1 3/4" just past the horn as seen in this picture. The blueprints did not show this! I found this picture that shows it.



So now I have to figure out how to put the angle on. I was thinking either I will build an angle plate for the milling machine, or machine it in steps, then file it flat, or just take it off on the disc sander (dirty job)

The is a pretty complicated body design, but am enjoying building it. I put the body in the sun today and the green of the poplar did indeed turn brown.

I have the neck fitting, back tummy contour started and the swimming pool for the Kahler routed

[Barklessdog]

Here is the BB King Lucille II version. It has different wound pickups and has the varitone faceplate

[drbassman]

Interesting!  Post some more pics as it comes along.

[shadowcastaz]

Do you do commissions on the P90 covers?

[Barklessdog]

No, put I could send you some scraps of the cream ABS.

It pays to be friends with your neighbors. My next door neighbor has a hand held belt sander. It is a very scary tool to take to a bass at this stage, not for the faint of heart. I tested it on some scraps first. Luckily it had kind of dull sand paper on it, so I had to work at it a bit to get the angle just right. The angle turned pretty good.

[shadowcastaz]

Check this technique out
http://www.taunton.com/finewoodworking/SkillsAndTechniques/SkillsAndTechniquesArticle.aspx?id=30136