RonC

Thanks a lot for the pictures, that looks really great!! I will work with planed and squared boards, same with the necks. I shape and plane everything by hand. I have an extra room in my house which i will setup for the "cleaner" work and will do the noisy and dusty work in my garage. A have a bandsaw in my garage and will buy a small band sander which i'll use in my garage. I'll also set up a grinding machine in my garage to sharpen my plane and chisels. Milling will be done in the garage as well. So in my workspace I will do all the handwork and electronics and i will place a small pillar drill. I have clean desk to do all electronics and setup work and a workbench for all the woodwork. I thinking of placing a board to hang my tools above both. And the rest of my tools i a cupboard. Then a couple of chest with small drawers above or underneath this desk to store small items and electronic parts... I'll probably will do my own designs and just build a couple of basses a year besides my regular job, as a hobby.

Good idea, I want to keeping as low budget as possible too.

I did my repairs in the kitchen at first too! My wife wasn’t so happy with that, so in the end she offered me her workspace! (She moved het stuff to the attic)😀 Now I can leave my stuff which makes working on a guitar much more efficient! Your spray cabinet is a good idea!!

Haha!, I look forward to the link!! 🤘

Hi all, I’m busy setting up a small workplace at home where I can build and restore guitars and basses. I just purchased a woodworking workbench and I’m looking for ideas to store my tools (most of them I have to buy yet) and parts. I would like to see your workspaces to give me ideas for mine! Cheers Ron

It can be caused by just 1 fret though.. If one of your highest frets is to high all positions below will have a buzz... Set the neck straight and use a fret rocker to check all frets.

Conversion and adjustments might be the beginning! That’s how it all started with me at least..😉 It’s not that difficult..

Are you gonna build a bass or convert the side dots of an existing one?

I’m building a fretless 5 string at the moment and yesterday I placed the luminlay dots on the side. They light up directly in the dark! I bought the original ones from Japan. never a problem anymore playing fretless on a dark stage! Much easier and cheaper to install as LEDs!

Depends how handy you are yourself. I would loosen the strings and trussrod and see if the gap closes. If it does then turn the trussrod again so the gap opens again a bit. Fill the gap with titebond (maybe mixed with a bit of water to make it more fluid). Then loosen the trussrod again so the gap closes.

Haha, that's a good one!

I’ve made drawings and had these made by a toolmaker out of aluminum. Then I found someone who anodized these in black for me..

Rounds for me. I used to use DR Hi-Beams but lately I use DR Sunbeams(nickel plated) on my Fretless Wal. On my Safran semi acoustic fretless I use La Bella Black nylon to come as close as possible to an upright sound.

Wow what a stunning bass, love the clean and minimalistic design!

Thanks! They got nice stuff there!

wow! another great build! beautifull finish and i love the luminlay side dots, @Basvarken where did you get those? they would be great on the fretless 5 i'm building at the moment~.

Excellent choice! 🤘

The position of the pickups on a Stingray determine a large part of the sound..

As I read your story I can hardly believe that it’s a Neutrik as the quality of Neutrik is superb. Just as good as Switchcraft. They probably use some cheap Chinese copy now….?

You could add some water to the titebond if it's too thick to run into the crack, maybe a little "pumping" with the headstock to let the glue run into the crack.

It looks like a neat crack with no wood missing. Just pull the strings off so the crack won't crack any further. It's not a difficult repair so it sure is economical to repair it.

Exactly! The headstock should have 2 extra holes as well and should be black.

Love Morphine, no bassist was ever as original as Mark Sandman. What a sound! I’m glad that I’ve seen them live several times.

Axl is great! Fantastic bassplayer and a really nice guy!

Scott's bass lessons is very good, you'll learn a lot there but if i were you I just would take a couple of lessons to start up from a good teacher. When i started on bass there wasn't internet and I started with a bad teacher.. I took lessons for half a year before i realised this teacher wasn't very good.. So i found another teacher and it seemed i had learned a lot the wrong way. Do I had to unlearn that and learn good techniques. So to learn more efficient, find yourself a teacher (at least for the beginning) and just continue with Scotts bass lessons. Have fun, keep on practicing and good luck!! :)