Once the sides and blocks were glued together I radiused the edges of the sides on the radius dishes. 28' for the edge to be glued to the soundboard.... Attachment : PXL_20221118_101450916.jpg ...

Then I glued them in place inside the mould Attachment : PXL_20221117_140936288.jpg Attachment : PXL_20221117_140927620.jpg 🙏🎶🎸🙂

Then I cut the end block and the heel block to size and squared them up. Attachment : PXL_20220916_144517215.jpg Attachment : PXL_20220916_143044686.jpg 🙂🎸🎶...

getting closer now Attachment : through neck proto-1.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-2.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-3.jpg Attachment : through neck proto-4.jpg ...

I patched in some wood to repair a bad rout on the other side of the neck, this should make more sense when I start shaping it later. Attachment : neck repair-2.jpg Attachment : neck repair...

Nice work @clinton. What's the music playing on this video? 🙂🎶🙏🎸

@russ an old open jam from way way back in my jam days with my mates. We would switch and rotate instruments. Purely instrumental no vocals. Voice was only used for ambient sound. That was our Mantra....

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Today I have put some coats of wood hardener on the top wood as spalted maple (or any spalted wood) can be quite brittle. So no spectacular progress today, but it does give an impression of how it wil...

No I did not laminate it myself, bought it at Masave in Zwolle where I buy all my wood. Rick usually has many neck blanks in stock, also laminated. And what I like is he will always make it to the thi...

@marcel That neck is beautiful, did you laminate it yourself ? or where did you get it from?I am considering making the laminated necks myself I am already looking for some wood at Masave, but I have ...

This morning, after making sure they fit seemlessly (a tiny bit of routing and some sanding) I glued the pieces of wood for the top together. Attachment : image.png Attachment : image.png ...

@clinton Looking Sharp Surely after routing and sanding it should be Flat. LOL.

Looking Sharp! Very nice.

Coming along nicely there @marcel 🎸🙏🎶🙂

thanks, wait til you see the real one! this one's just the prototype, because I'm crazy I'll have to do it all again.

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Made some progress today. First I've cut the fingerboard a bit shorter and narrower and with my router made it to 6 mm thickness. And sanded it flat. Attachment : image.png Attachment : ima...

I'm not a great fan of flat wounds. I have flat wounds on one of my fretless basses (the one I made many moons ago on the BYO course), but on all my other basses I use round wounds.

Great start @tyreman. Keep those pictures coming. 🎶🙂🎸🙏