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It's a joke between Dad1138 and I. I suggested that Build Diaries could have a sub page so people like me who are mucking around with non musical projects could be quarantined from the genuinely talented builders. We decided that Build Diaries encompasses everything, as long as it's reasonably related to BC, so no Model A hotrods. Hence the name. Like all good in jokes, no-one understands it and the intended recipient hasn't, AFAIK, noticed. I'd like to have the desire to do a hotrod, rather than just own one, but I don't!

No further visible progress, but I've ordered a lead screw and I'm pretty sure I've finalised the locations of everything. At least until tomorrow. As you may have gathered I'm faking the joinery by making the mortice holes as gaps in laminated legs. As well as gluing the stretchers in, would you screw or dowel them as well?

I'm putting flats on my P-Bass, in fact the first flats on any bass I've owned this weekend. Are there any things I need to do/change or is it the same as changing like for like? D'addario Chrome's if that helps.

Released from captivity and planed the two (four) fifths of the front leg. I'm very happy with these, they're square on the long sides, parallel and a smidge oversized, 100.5 or something. Admittedly I've got fed up with cutting the other board into 70mm strips, and I've still got the vice chop to make. I'm now at the staring at it stage, trying to decide where the screw should go and the mortice for the cross mechanism.

I'll stop hijacking now 😉

Then you sir, are a seer or clairvoyant. I have only a vague idea of what my projects are going to look like, knowing is beyond me. Who wins the 3.30 at Kempston please?

Does that end into the pickup cavity or is it just perspective? What does it look like if you push it out of the headstock?

OK... So. Release the four fifths of the back leg and set them up in the workmate for finishing. I thought I'd taken more pictures, but you get the idea. Because I've changed my mind and I'm now fitting a leg vice, I had to buy some more timber. I got the cutting service in the shop to cut the board into 100mm widths. Glue up four fifths of the front leg. Spend an hour sharpening two chisels and a plane iron. Hopefully once I get good at it I'll just need a couple of strokes on the coarse and then fine grit. I don't sharpen enough because I'm rubbish at it, so I always need to do more when I do. Realise that I've made a mistake. Two of the front leg boards are supposed to have the mortice for the St. Peter's Cross to go into. Spend a few moments cursing and considering forcing them apart. Decide not too, it just makes the mortice slightly harder, for me, not a professional like the rest of you. Plane the back leg components with the freshly sharpened plane. They're about a mm under 70mm, close to square and parallel but I've only got a single bulb in the middle of the workshop, which must be the next thing on the list.

I'm assuming that you're doing the PVA ironing method of veneering? How will you stop the demarcation veneer glue from softening and moving when you put the top on?

Purchased a pair of Bart soapbars and a 5 string bridge from M. Fair price, fair packaging and great updates throughout.

It's about where I stand to practice, I'd notice even if she didn't. I might. It may help someone out there if I do.

I was thinking of spraying some glue in the air and hoping that enough air molecules stick together that they would form an amorphous cloud like shape I could use. I've not sorted a body yet, I've got to finish adding a woodworking vice to my bench first and then I can do something about the body. This isn't going to be threatening Owen for the longest build, but it won't be far off. I can include the bench build as well if you want

Brake cleaner works as well. We use it at work to clean PC processors and the heatsink.

Gratuitous mock up photo.

Woo hoo, another @Andyjr1515 build thread 🙂 I love this pandemic, you're all building stuff so there's lots to follow 😉

I like the dot design. And the colour, is it a satin finish? What's the headstock shape? You have noticed that the D string has fallen off?

It's not a plank until it's been driven round a corner between two lorries whilst the car it was on the roof of goes the other way.

Prise a marker dot out and pin through that? Silly idea, it'll be over the truss rod channel. 12th fret? It's got blocks. Abort!

A jig I suspect for that one.

I would have no qualms adjusting a truss rod channel from the top on a mill. From the back? Not a whelk's chance in a supernova.

Silly question, and probably covered by the above "last resort" option, but could the fingerboard be reattached sans truss rod and then go through the back of the neck to install a new one and fit a skunk stripe?

Hurr-hurr, Volute...

Si senōr

Why don't you bring the thing back in with you to save all this scurrying around to the shed and back?

Excuse my inability to draw...