My kind of Dano body
Seems way easier than piecing pieces together with staples and glue, but it loses the dano cheaper vibe.
One man's trash is another man's trashy Dolphin Nose bass
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Seems way easier than piecing pieces together with staples and glue, but it loses the dano cheaper vibe.
I printed out the pdfs of the back control and neck areas. I cut them out. I decided to use my kabob locater pins to hold it in place for gluing. The pdfs are probably prone to error as is the printer, so I'm just going minimally. The holes do come out in even inches so I'm hoping they are on center. If not, I'll fill and redrill. I made 3 dents and drilled 3 holes for 3 pins.
Rinse and Repeat
I realized I needed to make the peghead area thicker for the 6 degree tilt back dolphin. The extra piece that got cut off came in handy.
Happy Holidays. I found a little time after the festivities to cut the peghead out of the neck blank.
First according to my measurements on a vintage dano coke bottle peghead, the angle is 6 degrees. This means they probably started with a 1" thick hunk of poplar in the beginning. The upside down protractor moved during the photo shoot so it is 6 even though this is 7.
First according to my measurements on a vintage dano coke bottle peghead, the angle is 6 degrees. This means they probably started with a 1" thick hunk of poplar in the beginning. The upside down protractor moved during the photo shoot so it is 6 even though this is 7.
Next I clamped up a squared up piece of maple that held the neck square to the blade. I cut outside the line.
That left a little material to sand down on the edge sander.
Once that surface was sanded I laid out the thickness making a mark a bit more than the 1/2" thick that the vintage neck reads.
I clamped up my maple block again and cut outside that line too.
Then it was off to the drum on the edge sander to remove most of the wood up to the line. I didn't want to go too far, as the rest is hand and orbital sanding.
The result looks good. The aluminum sits in a little shallow dado in front of the fretboard. I'll deal with that once the fretboard is glued down.
crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
I did roughly 6.5 on my coke bottle for the Bass VI. It just LOOKS so right. My hold up on it has always been vintage Jaguar pickups because I wanted the Dano look but the Fender sound, which I figured two pickups were plenty for
I did roughly 6.5 on my coke bottle for the Bass VI. It just LOOKS so right. My hold up on it has always been vintage Jaguar pickups because I wanted the Dano look but the Fender sound, which I figured two pickups were plenty for
The plan calls for 5 degrees. I measured 6 on the vintage neck I have. I'm sure nobody will complain what we do Dave..LOL.
The fretboard got set into place and the brad holes drilled. The peghead printout got glued to a centerline I struck with my square. The printout was trimmed and glued down with glue stick.
The rod got set in. Glue was applied.
The caul was set over the brads on center and the clamps were applied from heel to peghead. After 30 minutes I'll unclamp and clean off the glue squeeze out.
crazydave911
Doctor of Teleocity
Clamps and caul off. Brads pulled out. Glue squeeze out scraped off.
Well I decided to proceed as the weather was pretty decent. Pretty much self explanatory.
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