i need some help gang - Colby Bass

[drbassman]

Nothing can resist your clamping force, Doc!

NOTHING!!!!!!!!!   

[sniper]

That's the beauty of building from scratch, you can avoid curves if you do this before cutting the body out.

i have to apologize for sending that POS body Doc but i see you have repaired it nicely. thank you.

I'm thinking any color you like would be good.  Something trans to show off the splatting is a good idea.  The back and sides idea sounds good also.

I love this look.............

this layout just blows me away. we need to talk about a finishing. i know it was not negotiated in the build price so i will try to call later this or next week. respecting your upcoming anniversary of course. congrats.

the pup placement i just ran through Tillman's app with a 32" scale and 8" seems to work fine for pole placement. do we have enough room for 8"? that would be about slammed all the way to the neck. i had slammed a Star Fire pup against the neck in another build. i never played it but got great reports on the sound from the builder. it was a gift to a young man who got his sh_t together for his mom. oddly enough it had the same neck i sent you.







wish i had two more of those necks. they are like a lighter Jazz "A" neck.



http://www.till.com/articles/PickupResponseDemo/

just a thinking.

[Daniel_J]

That's the beauty of building from scratch, you can avoid curves if you do this before cutting the body out.

True, but I have been doing a lot of builds that only have binding on the body wings, not on the neck portion of the body (the butt end). So I have to shape both wings first, install the binding and then glue them to the neck.

And on a neck-through-body construction is easier to shape the body wings before gluing to the neck.
On my first neck-through I glued the wings before shaping and it was quite a workout to shape the body afterwards with the completed neck atached to it!

From the second neck-through I started to do partial shaping before and use properly shaped cauls to glue the wings to the neck, and that is how I do it nowadays.

[drbassman]

Wow, that SG turned out great.

Yeah, give me a call next week CW.

Cool set up Daniel.  I see your point about basses with wings.

[drbassman]

Here's the "racing stripe."

Next on the list is installation of the walnut back and routing of the cavities.  Oh yeah, and planing off the fret board.  Next week will be fun!

[sniper]

Next on the list is installation of the walnut back and routing of the cavities.  Oh yeah, and planing off the fret board.  Next week will be fun!

i had better get off my duff and send those last parts then.

2 1/2 to three degrees on the neck/body angle please!

golly i hope that vintage EBO loom is okay.

just for grins and giggles better make a tracing of that head. the gears are winding on a build with this single hunk of Mahogany i have laying around:



with a set of these Charlie Christian pups. i know, they look like "F" pups but that is where the similarity ends:

notice NO pole magnets and big honking alnico magnets behind the poles with 38 ga winding wire wound on really extra deep bobbins. this should go so low that it will make whales horny.



compare them to regular depth P bass pup bobbins:

[drbassman]

looking good Doc.

i had an epiphany this morning on my way to the clinic. it went something like this: "you can't have the builder put a tone switch in that requires a 1 5/8" thick area when the guitar body is only 1 1/2" thick...dum_ss!" ............... soooooooooooo.................. leave the HAS Sound switch out ................ i'll mount it on Mr. Ed's saddle horn after you send it back with the bass or i'll sell it to some cowboy and tell him as long as he uses this on his saddle, he is good for at least 8 seconds. that pup is a full range pup and with slamming it closer to the neck and body chambering it should have enough Mud to send a Fender back to it's momma asking to be changed into a banjo.

been a thimpkin again................maybe i'll tint it Apple Green to show off that spalting (which i would think would stay deep brown or black) and have a clear nailed/sprayed/dipped on top of that with the back just masked off and grain filled/stained dark then a clear on top of that, leaving the neck clear as it is now with a little buffing with some 4 ought steel wool. should look righteous with all that Black Ebony/Black Walnut/black or dark brown spalting lines and black trim goodness.

gimme some opinions here players!!!

I forgot to tell you I got the message on the switch.  You're correct, so I'll save it and send it back to you.  We'll see how the harness works when we get to that stage.

[exiledarchangel]

I am curious about those Curtis Novak pups, I have heard they don't have the "all-middy" character of normal pbass pups, but never heard any soundclips.

[jumbodbassman]

never heard of them but they have caught my attention.

[sniper]

CurtisNovak.com - Pickups and Guitars | 760.820.4434

[drbassman]

Forgot to mention that I like that hunk of mahogany in your post above.  Is that going to be a Jag bass?

[sniper]

Forgot to mention that I like that hunk of mahogany in your post above.  Is that going to be a Jag bass?

errr yeah, eventually

[drbassman]

Here's the walnut back, all glued up!  Beauty!

[sniper]

i have been waiting for this picture all day!!! love it. definately a step above the Ash.

CurtisNovak.com - Pickups and Guitars | 760.820.4434

this phone number on Curt's site is no longer working. i know he has a website on facebook and one can communicate with him there.

[Highlander]

Very nice...

Have I missed anything re the final fin yet...?