@liebe it'll either be extra quiet or extra noisy lol

Cut my first ever f hole today and glued the plate on the headstock

@brie Yeh basically a neck through. Anyway been back at it, F hole next

@russ cheers, wait and see my next build lol!

@bjarni hi and welcome. There's quite a lot on the youtube channel too under the live heading. Mark did a fair bit of streaming when covid was on the ...

Well that's my 2nd bass sorted

Smoothed off the sharp edges and started the finishing

@somethingnicer Most of that will be removed when carving the neck too so don't worry to much. I doubt anyone will ever notice once the build is finis...

Bit more progress, bridge fitted, pickup and control cavities done, headstock done and control cavity cover.

Got the neck pocket sorted, managede to rout a small angle in it too so I can keep the fretboard lower while still having enough height at the bridge....

Got the fret markers in, frets and side dots. Only then did I realise I'd put markers on the 25th fret instead of the 24th lol. I knew something was o...

I've finally got myself back out to my shed too, also building a bass. Since we've had the heating installed I'm more reluctant to go out to the shed ...

@somethingnicer I think that'll just be for the fatter end part, the main part of the rod will be a 1/4 inch. Personally I use a 1/4 inch for the full...

@brie if you're on a low enough income you can even get most of it done for free. Think it's somewhere about £19500 per year or that. Ours was all fre...

@rathius sorry buddy, been busy and not on the forum but yes, super easy. Just rout the truss rod like usual but out the other end. Skunk stripe f...

@rathius I do all the fretwork etc first before gluing a neck in or attching wings with a neck through, so much easier lol. As for recessing, just sor...

@rathius yes, you can do set neck, bolt on or neck through. Makes no odds at all. A lot are bolt on for convenience I expect. Just get your dimensions...

@brie ours is an ancient old stone cottage too, the biggest thing to cost is insulation. An air source pump can heat any building but the better the i...