Okay - I got the dremel back from the hardware store where I took it to get fixed on warranty ... took it home, plugged it in and it didn't work, at all. When I took it in it at least turned, albeit in a smokey way.
So I took it back again and they said, "Just go get another one off the shelf." Which was cool because the warranty was "repair" not "replace" - now I know there's a big difference! Mental note: buy things that offer a
replace warranty. The bonus was that I initially bought the pack with a gazillion atachments n stuff, but only took the actual dremel in ... so now I've got two sets of attachments n stuff.
The short version is I got the "body" cut out.
I could claim that I meant this to happen, but the cool thing about doing the "body" mold as a
male mold (the composite is layed on the outside of a mold, not the inside ... female) means that the inside has the same sized body as a normal Tele - the outside line is bigger. This works with the longer neck to keep the whole thing in scale.
I also made the string anchor plate that's to be buried in the butt-end of the body. The holes are 3mm, which is the size of the big E's winding bumps at the ball-end. It's hard to explain, but the strings will load by the rear strap button and come out through the top of the body like a car coming out of an underpass tunnel - and then go over the bridge.
My aim was to have the strings anchored in the piece of wood that goes the entire length of the bass.
Here's the tuners. Gotohs in "cosmo" black, which is black chrome and looks dead sexy. They're black in dull light and chrome in strong.
Time to build the bridge. It's gonna be real simple because one of the beauties of fretless ... no intonation hassles. And that heel needs to be shaped to the shape of a hand's heel.