blablas

Glamor-shot of the full StingRay5 with the controls cavity cover.

Replaced the pickguard om my StingRay 5 with something a bit more modest that only covers the control cavity, it's a crime to hide such a nice piece of wood underneath a big white plastic sheet! Detail. Colored the unused screw-holes with a orange sharpie.

Afraid not. Somehow I can't bring up the energy to start building again at the moment. Working on several builds in my head but unfortunately not with my hands.

Fantastic transformation!

Brilliant, well done!

Main amp board. Secondary amp board. And everything together.

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1476558228' post='3155248'] There needs to be more white cover rays around. [/quote] As you wish. Bought this a few weeks ago.

Finally I did something again on these builds, amazing how low the urge is to do something on them. Knobs for the bass VI variant, put on two coats of Danish oil, they still need to be cut to the proper height.

It's way to quiet here on the left side, the last post dates back to the end May! Forces me to post the last few additions to the blablas bass family.

New kids on the block.

Those are colleagues of mine at a different university faculty. I work in a even better equipped workshop about 2 kilometers removed from this one.

Thanks. Been making things all my life - okay, in the beginning more breaking than making, but over the last 35 years I've been doing it for a living, I'm schooled as a metal machinist and engineer.

My electric family all caught in one picture, added a few more wall hangers recently, even got open spaces now.

The bridge is done, you'll see it again with my next build, now I first have finish this double build.

Great restoration, well done!

Space between the octave and root string is 3 millimeters, spacing between the saddles is 19 millimeters.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1472761301' post='3124081'] Can I ask why you're not using a separately adjustable saddle for the octave string in each pair?[/quote] Much too complicated to engineer and fabricate and in my experience with both fixed and adjustable double course saddles it's not that critical, it's a small concession I'm willing to accept over a complicated bridge design.

[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1472713754' post='3123460'] How do you manage to do all this AND find time to play them?[/quote] I don't. Building during daytime, playing in the evening.... sort of.

I made everything by hand, only using a conventional lathe and a milling machine, I can do it quicker this way than by using a CNC machine. CNC is only interesting for complicated shapes and bulk production not for something straightforward and simple as these parts. (in my old school trained machinist opinion). The finish on the saddles was done with a drum polishing machine. the baseplate is sand-blasted (for now).

Starting to look like a bridge, still need to drill the holes to mount it to the body and anodize the baseplate black.

[quote name='PlungerModerno' timestamp='1472582940' post='3122379'] Yay! Seems like a clever way to get consistant spacing of the string pairs. With a slight pinching effect it should work great! See diagram: [/quote] Works like a charm, I used this trick for the first time on my old 8 string build. Only minor disadvantage is that the intonation between the double course strings can't be fine tuned, but at the time I tried this saddle method out I also discovered that this is nowhere near as critical as some people might suggest.

Saddles are done. With all the screws and springs.

You guessed right.

And done some fabricating today during lunchtime at work.

Modified the 10 string bridge design a little bit and did a few modifications to make life easier once I start fabricating it, it's hybrid string through body/bridge now.