Happy New Years Marty!
Happy New Year Dave!
One man's trash is another man's trashy Dolphin Nose bass
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Happy New Year Dave!
50 degrees is great this time of year. I superglued the fret ends and I beveled them with the Don Teeter beveler. I compressed the barbs along the length of the neck with 3 clamps to the workbench. I took a safe edge file and radiused the fret ends to the eased edge to get those sharp points off and then hit it all with 220 grit. I guess it's time to go sand the neck some more and work on other things like a pickguard and body routs.
Yucky weather out...so it's an indoor work hour. Self explanatory pictures.
Sharp chisel time.
Lines extended from the sides of the neck in relation to the centerline....close enough for horseshoes.
Gratuitous neck in body shot
crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
I use the Jack Wells "two board" method but other than that, pretty similar
I use the Jack Wells "two board" method but other than that, pretty similar
I occasionally use the 3 board method myself!
I printed out a drawing of the saddle. I was able to procure a bass bridge but it lacked a saddle. I could buy a saddle but what's the fun in that.....
So I foraged for a hunk of rosewood. I found this aborted bridge I saved.
And started to process it. I cut out the printout and glued it to the skinny piece that didn't get tossed out
Then I sanded it to the line and shaped it. I used a truss rod cover screw for attachment. Once I have this together maybe I'll do something more clever than Dan did. For now it will work.
I hunted around for some furniture trim washers but only found one. I decided to use the MIC individual neck screw bushings I had on hand. The screws are a bit wider than Fender and shorter which is good for this application. I had marked and remembered this has a truss rod, so the placement had to be outside that. These are metric so I ended up using a 5/8 forstner which provides a centered dent for the neck operation to drill the neck holes.
To drill the neck holes, I clamped it down and used a smaller diameter screw for pilot holes. I drilled one and installed the screw and bushing. then moved onto another one.
All mounted.
Once the neck was mounted, I measured back and down to find the scale length location. I drew a mark there at the bottom of the little machinist's square.
Using a protractor, I drew a perpendicular line to the centerline at the scale length line.
Once the scale length line was determined, I pushed the saddle up to the top of the bridge. The mounting holes are about 1/4" back, so I measured and drew a second line there. I centered the bridge to the lines and centerline. I marked the holes.
I then drilled the holes.
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