Si600

It lives! It's an interesting looking beastie certainly Given that you don't have a trussrod do you forsee a time when you end up with a banana or are you going to leave Twiggy thick enough not to need one? How playable is a neck that thick?

And? Has anything important gone "Sproink" yet? Is Trampa playing it for you? Is it now an LCD multiscale fretless? Have you given up and called it firewood?

He's a guy who modifies guitars and sells them on eBay. There are a few threads about him, look for seven string guitar conversions for sausage fingers. Threads about him get locked because the mocking turns personal so he just appears occasionally these days.

He can't be, the tuners are still straight.

What? Where's the build diary for that?

Hmmmm. That kind of puts the kibosh on nicking the design of a Floyd Rose I think. Downward movement of up to 6 or 7 mm to tension the strings means the tailpiece height is going to be ridiculous.

Yeahbbut, how much does it actually need? Could a slight downward movement a la the fine tuners be enough? I've no idea BTW, I'm designing/pontificating on the fly 😉

The E string needs 5.4 mm of travel from slack to pitch?

Elegant tuner on an inelegant back of envelope. Or...... how much movement does a tuner actually need, could you adapt the fine tuner mechanism on a Floyd Rose style trem to work?

That's the trouble with the yoof of today. No vision or drive. *shakes head whilst looking sadly at a gone out pipe and frayed slippers*

How about 5 little motors driving five little windlass' to tension the strings. Then you could program Trampa to tune it for you to to play a whole range of differently tuned songs.

Is this a POC or are you actually making it out of framing timber? I hope you are, though I suspect not. 😜

Don't do it!

You're stealing Jez's home made lathe? Horrible man!

Not really. That's what I've got, IMHO it's bit short on detail, and accuracy.

I've got some new pickups and tuners... this thing may actually get something happening soon... Question regarding said pickups, they're Delano quad core soapbars and have four wires hanging out of the. I'm not clear on what they are though and the documentation from Delano isn't great. One is marked ground, do I assume that's a common ground and the other three are the other ends of the coils, though shouldn't there be four wires plus a ground in that instance?

D fits better with the "fret" markers and the rest of the instrument so perfect knob IMHO, but C would be 'kin hilarious with the line right across the top like a John Thomas.....

I would try starting from bare wood then make a kind of handle with a piece of string through a neck bolt hole and carry it around for an hour or so banging it carelessly into things. Probably do that bit outside so you don't trash the sideboard Then a coat of light brown stain and rub it off with a pad so you don't wipe it out of any dings. Repeat until you have the depth of colour you want then finish with a matt lacquer or wax. I've never done this so I'm hypothesising (making it up), but that's how I would try to do it.

Inserts and neck screws, is there an optimum size, M5 seems about right from the old eyeball, M6 feels too big and M4 too weedy, but what are you using? I know @Jabba_the_gut uses them on his builds.

How can you not see a bass on the couch?

Why is the reinforcement zig zag on one end and straight at the other?

As any fule kno.

The hole is to hang it on the wall no?

May mute the sustain a smidge though.

Our heating is due to be replaced urgently, so hopefully the big oil tank will go and my available space for "workshop" will double and a bit. It'll still be in the cellar though. See Bench Build Diary for pictures, if they're still there!