Marcel
Marcel
@marcel
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

I wasn't happy with the router pattern for the neck pocket, it was a bit to wide. So I glued in a veneer and made a new one. I have rounded the...

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RE: 🎶🎸 Your Favourite Song In This Moment 🎸🎶

My favourite song today is one from my absolute number one musical hero.

2 years ago
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RE: 🎶🎸 Your Favourite Song In This Moment 🎸🎶

My favourite song today, especially love the bass part (which I will never be able to play):

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

Today I worked on the body. Cut out the shape with a jig saw (my bandsaw hasn't enough power to cut through a body blank, especially when it's treat...

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

@clinton I fear it's not me you're referring to but the bass...

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

...so today, using a bobbin sander, I rounded off the piece behind the nut to the headstock. With a 12 inch radius block I sanded the radius on th...

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RE: 🎶🎸 Your Favourite Song In This Moment 🎸🎶

My favourite song today, Simon Phillips (best drummer ever) and Protocol V:

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

Next job was to shape the fretboard on the bandsaw and router. And then glued it on to the neck. Today I took the thickness of the headstoc...

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RE: 4 string short scale bass

This afternoon I cut the fret slots.

2 years ago
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RE: 🎶🎸 Your Favourite Song In This Moment 🎸🎶

My favourite song today is one I play with one of my bands, the John Spijker Trio.

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

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 t...

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RE: 4 string short scale bass

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. An...

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RE: 4 string short scale bass

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. A...

2 years ago
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RE: 4 string short scale bass

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...

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RE: 4 string short scale bass

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 o...

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