That's what I meant by shifting it. It was below zero this morning, so there won't be any routing today. I could drill it out with forstners and clean it up with chisels again too.
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That's what I meant by shifting it. It was below zero this morning, so there won't be any routing today. I could drill it out with forstners and clean it up with chisels again too.
Yank off pattern. Chuck up the larger forstner in the drill press and hog out the waste. Then chisel it out and scrape the bottom .
crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
That is one WICKED bit lol
Those are just some cheap MIC large forstners from woodcraft that I bought decades ago. They came in a set, but the box is gone at this point. I had one at school that forstnered out a hole for clock motors. It was 3.5" or 4" D IIRC.
I had the rabbeting bit in the router in the shed. I just needed to clamp the body down and rout. 2 minutes tops so it wasn't bad to do.
Then back in. I taped down a sheet of paper to do a pencil rubbing of the edge of the rabbet. Kind of like a tombstone rubbing.
I cut the paper down to some straight surfaces and glue sticked it to a piece of pickguard scrap.
Then using a razor saw, nippers,rasp, and belt sander sanding block it got close.
Then it took a bit more tweaking with the sanding block to get it to drop in. I'll try for a better reveal later when I drill and countersink
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The weather has kept me from doing a few things on the base so today I decided to model a knob and print a prototype of it. It came out OK but I need to make it more Dano like. Drawn and modeled in Rhino from the dimensions on the PDF. I opted to skip the "knurl" until I get the shape worked out.
One knob takes 45 minutes with the regular settings in Cura. It looks more like a Dragster tire right now.
I stuck on some F type Kluson copies until something better comes along.
I found some white NOS Daka Ware radio knobs in the plastics drawer. Stuck in the pots and jack too.
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crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
I have some SOMEWHERE with white pearloid knobs. To have time to look 
LuckyJinx
Tele-Meister
This is a really cool build, thanks for sharing.
You enter the scale length and fret count (same as the SM tool) but you also enter the string spacing type, string widths at nut and bridge, overhang, and a few other details and it not only spits out the measurements (in more detail than SM) but also generates a file with the diagram in PDF, SVG, DXF or a bunch of other formats.
I don't know if that would save you some work copying the values into a CAD file.
Beware the "single page PDF" option, it seems to simply ignore conversions and use a "one unit is one unit is one unit" approach, so the generated document will be bigger or smaller depending on the units you pick (WTF). The one I generated from milimetre measurements was humongous.
Have you tried FretFind 2d?
ekips.org - FretFind2D
FretFind2d models fretboards as a system of line segments on a two dimensional plane to design freboards with multiple scale lenghts and microtonal scales.
www.ekips.org
You enter the scale length and fret count (same as the SM tool) but you also enter the string spacing type, string widths at nut and bridge, overhang, and a few other details and it not only spits out the measurements (in more detail than SM) but also generates a file with the diagram in PDF, SVG, DXF or a bunch of other formats.
I don't know if that would save you some work copying the values into a CAD file.
Beware the "single page PDF" option, it seems to simply ignore conversions and use a "one unit is one unit is one unit" approach, so the generated document will be bigger or smaller depending on the units you pick (WTF). The one I generated from milimetre measurements was humongous.
Thanks. Those tuners were open slot like vintage F style so I ordered some without the open slot. They came yesterday and I glued on a nut this morning. I will put in some slots and see how the strings go on the neck.
crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
D'ADDARIO short scale lights. Just saying 
I had a couple bone nuts that I made here and there that I lost and I found again. One of them didn't require much to do to use it, so I stuck one in there with a dab of yellow glue last night. I filed it flush to one edge of the neck and filed 4 slots in there. I stuck on 4 strings from the Slinky 6 string short scale bass set. It seems to tune up fine. This seems like it could be a fun bass to actually complete when the weather gets up to something better than 25 degrees.
