OK, I finally got my butt back in the shop. I finish sanded all three prototypes and making them has been a great experience. It's help me clarify in my mind how I want to make basses on down the road. Technique and process are 80% of it!
Here are the three stained bodies and my headstock. Not the best incandescent lighting in my shop. I just might have to keep the semi-hollow for myself!
This one is semi-hollow as well but with carved out chambers. Stain is red mahogany that will really pop and redden with a finish over it. Will have a bolt-on neck. Probably just going with oil on all of these so I can get them on the bay soon.
This is the semi-hollow cherry top/back with the bendable sides. Stain is sedona red, one of my faves. going to glue the neck in.
Solid body, all maple. Ipswitch stain which is a light honey color. Also going to do a set neck on this one.
So far, so good!!
** Hey Carlo, how have your set necks been working out? Any issues with maple necks glued into mahogany bodies?