blablas

Finished oiling the back. After five coats of Danish oil. Started oiling the front. There are two coats on here.

The neck: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/6Cteezq.jpg[/IMG] This is where the repaired fingerboard is at now. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/G04GCz7.jpg[/IMG] The repaired area is barely visible at certain angles. I'm calling it fixed for now, let's just wait and see how it looks in six months time. The body: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YuHW6xo.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/LDDwYbI.jpg[/IMG] The body is completely sanded up to grain 600. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/FeZ2Jre.jpg[/IMG] The magic of the first two coats of Danish oil.

Nice job, cool looking bass after all the work you've done on it.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VbC9rF8.jpg[/IMG] Drilled all the holes in the body, final sanding time now.

The repaired fingerboard is starting to look like something but still needs further attention before I'm completely satisfied. Other things I've done after yesterday's setback: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/sRnpYeg.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2xPyBUi.jpg[/IMG] Waxed the headstock and mounted all the hardware that's needed there.

Mission accomplished! (For now! I have to wait how the oil finally dries up, but I know now I can get it right.) These last two pictures are the actual result I wanted to reach today, in the end I got there, it only took me two hours longer as planned.

[b][size=5]And finally.......... The first major screw-up!!! [/size][/b] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GMrAuTv.jpg[/IMG] The screw I used was to long (I've only got one in this size, guess which one I picked), this is already a step further along in the repair, the crack is filled and glued up with cyanoacrylate. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/m5qSI5S.jpg[/IMG] And after some careful filing and sanding the surface is at the same roughness as it was before oiling. Now I need to reproduce the same shininess as the surrounding area again. The end result will follow later on.

The neck is done (except for a few holes that still need to be drilled). All the frets are crowned and polished, fret ends are finished and I put the last coat of Danish oil on the fingerboard.

Drilled some holes and countersunk them for the neck attachment sockets.

The final looks of the back of the neck after oiling. Overview. The heel. Volute.

Finished oiling the back of the neck (four coats). [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/uqBrsDY.jpg[/IMG] The top of the headstock after two coats of Danish oil.

I just like the simplicity of how it applies and finishes, Tru Oil takes more time and work to get the same result as Danish oil.

Sanded up to 600 grain and applied two layers of Danish oil.

And completely done. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/1d0Pzm6.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NOAl4OL.jpg[/IMG]

Neck shaping, halfway there.

Yes, I only build for my personal pleasure, just for the fun of building and playing them. What I can't buy, either price wise or by availability (remember, I'm a lefty!), I'll build myself.

For me it's the cherry on the cake of the entire build, I just love shaping these things.

Finally done my favorite thing... Volute shaping. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/5uz8v7x.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/aTeT90t.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/U3hQqnV.jpg[/IMG] I've been working for weeks to get to this point, now it's time to rush trough the rest of the build.

Pickups will be Delano dual coils, switchable between series, parallel and single coil mode (the 2 coils furthest apart). Preamp will be a two band Glockenklang.

Made a decision where I'm going with the neck, it will be bolt-on, the main reasoning behind this decision is that the two previous builds were also set-in necks and the next one that's roaring through my head is probably going to be a set-in neck as well.

Milled the neck pocket. The neck already stays in place by a tight fit in the pocket. Also started doubting to make it a set neck instead of a bolt-on, need some time to think this through, but meanwhile I can start shaping the volute and the neck profile.

I'm aiming for 19.5 millimeters at the first fret and 21 at the twelfth.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/7avCaAl.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/q9niVd9.jpg[/IMG] Sawed of the last big chunk of wood, after that I milled the heel to the desired thickness. The fun part can almost begin, the shaping of the neck and volute, but first I need to make the neck pocket in the body.

Finished the sides of the frets and fingerboard. [b]How blablas finishes his frets, in seven simple steps.[/b] From left to right: 1 - Leveled all frets (final step with grain 400). 2 - Taped-in the frets. 3 - Color the frets with a permanent marker. 4 - Crowning with a crownfile until there is left a pencil thin line from the marker. 5 - Lightly sand of this line with grain 400, now sand the complete fret with Scotch-brite (in the length direction of the fret). 6 - Polishing with Brasso. 7 - The final result. All the frets that were taped-in are done.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/rTLtGr2.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qAN49ZH.jpg[/IMG] Sanded of the unwanted glue. Tomorrow I'm going finish the sides of the frets and fretboard.