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One that has been there for a long time has disappeared - the lefty acoustic bass - should be in my hands tomorrow.

Leveled the heel of the neck and roughly sawed it to thickness. Routed the neck pocket. The first time the two parts meet.

Finished off the fret ends on the other side of the neck and leveled the frets.

I'm going to rebuild another P-Shorty in the near future, decided where I want to go with it.... 51-P-Shorty! Pickup will be a Haeussel P-Bass OldStyle humbucker, the pick guard will probably be tort, everything else as much stock as possible. The pickup will get a switch for series/single/parallel mode. The controls will just be passive volume and tone. But first I need to finish my full custom build 12 string.... Now there is a extra motivation to hurry and finish it. More details once the pickup and bass are ordered and the rebuild starts.

Could be that the eleventh fret is lower than the surrounding ones.

[quote name='kodiakblair' timestamp='1427574326' post='2731946'] Bit of a squeeze that one,19 Peaveys Having got rid of the 3 seater couch yesterday it was time for a photo,this time Harley Bentons.[/quote] You need an even bigger couch.

Her are a few more of mine. All three started out as being identical.

Finished off the edges of the frets on the low string side.

All the frets are in. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/dM0Jwxv.jpg[/IMG] Filled the voids between the fret and fret-slot with CA glue.

Hammering in the frets.

Thanks.

My Harley Benton PB-Shorty triplets.

[b]Progress![/b] I finally spent some time on this build again. Leveled the fingerboard and sanded it up to grain 1000, there are two coats of Danish oil on it now, I need to do one or two more to keep the fingerboard clean and protected when I'm putting in the frets and finish them off.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1426935581' post='2723599'] Note the high-tech cutting bench![/quote] Lovely, simple and effective! Why make things fancier and more complicated than necessary.

Like most other active electric bases, you don't really hear it's a hollow body, at the most it has a little bit more warmth in the tone.

Here is one I built a few years back. [url="http://home.online.nl/blablas/bass/mk3/mk3-6details.html"]More details and pictures[/url].

There is already bubbling a plan in the back of my head to make it a quartet. But first I've got to finish my full DIY 12 string bass project.

Finished rebuilding a third Harley Benton Shorty. The official portrait:

The official portrait:

Detail shots. Exchanged the black pickguard screws for chrome ones for a nicer visual contrast. The triplets together will follow at a later time.

Finished wiring and everything works properly. All that needs to be done now is doing a proper setup and after that have fun with it. More detailed pictures when lighting conditions are better.

More shielding.

Body shielding. Before: And after: Used materials - Copper tape and graphite paint.

At the moment it's only a teaser of things to come. Once the protective foil is removed from the pickguard and the thing is set-up properly it will really look good. But thanks for the compliments anyway!

Temporary attached all the components to check if everything fits inside the cavity and how the string align over the pickup pole-pieces. Looks good, next step is shielding and sorting out the wiring.