
Last seen: Jan 14, 2026
@russ I'm all about the superstrat myself but it's nice to build variety.
@liebe depends on whether it's glued or bolted, I like bolted pretty snug if possible but glue in needs room for the glue and to tight can cause real ...
@liebe Radian tools sell a planer bit to use with a router sled, it's excellent. Just take small bites. A thickness planer or planer table is a...
@liebe make yourself a cheap router sled, I recently did that with a piece of contiboard and a couple of rails. Great for getting things straight. The...
For gluing it's better rough so 80 is good. I think the join disappears more and also glue gets a better hold, gets right into the fibres instead of f...
Flat, no light showing through. And yeh it can be a pain in the muffler prepping wood but it has to be done. Handplane, sanding, router and straight e...
Well this turned out nice, sounds great, plays great but I'll probably get a green arm at some point lol Final video will be up in a day or two ...
And a bit more, tops glued on, edges filed and sanded over and my tele neck pickup ring finally arrived. Also copper on headstock and logo on trussrod...
As usual it's all on my youtube including the cheek clenching latest episode lol
@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.