Jimothey

I've spent most of the morning sanding down the body so I'll start Danish oiling it at lunchtime today hopefully that has sorted out the uneven patchy/darker bits and sanding marks.......... 😀

Yeah it looked and felt OK when I sanded it to 240 but I think your right it needs a bit more maybe to 320 or even higher?? 🤔

Here's a quick shot of the back 😀

I've got a rosewood or a maple neck that I could use on this build so it's going to be out of them 2....... 😀

Thanks mate I've got to admit the reaction I got on here did make me think I'm making a wrong decision!! I'm thinking would a rosewood board would look better on this instead of a maple?? Also I'm thinking of recessing the knobs slightly only 5-10mm tho?? 🤔

I think I may have been a bit hasty in deciding to spray it so I've sanded it down and given it a couple of coats of tinted Danish oil, it will probably end up a bit darker by the time I've finished?? 😀

I love that colour!! Shame about the pickguard tho!! 😁

Yeah I know its a big change but it's was easier to paint it than to build a new body! But you never know I might change my mind and sand it down and stain it instead 😀 A slight change to the build I'm going to go active with the electrics (nothing special just a 2 band eq off ebay)

On Warmouths website they are a saying a swamp ash P body is about 4lb 15oz

Over the last couple of months I kept on looking at this body and really started to not like the way I'd done it so I decided it is going to be painted Black and I trimmed off a bit of the lower part of the offset waist which I think balances it better it doesn't look so bottom heavy now I'm going to turn my Orange Jazz into a 5 string so I'm going to use the old 4 string maple/maple block inlay neck off it for this build 😀

It really depends on the species of pine, White Pine I agree would move and crack but the likes of Pitch Pine has the same characteristics as Oak or Yew, also Southern Yellow Pine is higher on the janka scale than Mahogany and Caribbean Heart Pine is higher than Black Walnut and Teak so unfortunately you can't really generalise when it comes to Pine 😀

I think it was that other Luthiers started using hardwoods so pine ended up being seen as an inferior quality product

Fender used to make their bodies out of southern yellow pine but stopped using it I think in the early 60's

Now that the telebass is virtually done my attention is going to be back on this build, I'm going to order the 5 string neck next week hopefully they don't put it on a really slow boat from China!!

£30!! That's a steal!! Are you just going to restore it or have you got other plans for it?? 😀

Apart from a few little jobs e.g. strap buttons, MOP block vinyl inlays, Headstock decal and 1 black knob it's all done!!

Loving the yellow with the black headstock!! Looks awesome 😀

Thanks mate I really like the way it's turned out! Now I just need to see how bad the neck dive is and try and sort that out?? 😀

Pickguard all done now, Electrics tomorrow then set it up 😀

I thought you'd be more amazed by the invisible body!??! 😁

The pickup pole alignment isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be! I can live with that!! I've got to put a shim under the neck to bring it up a smidge as the action is way too high and the saddles are touching the bridge also I had to re-cut the pickguard so I've just got to spray it black then I'm ready to start doing the electrics 😀

I would invent a glove that syncs up with your brain that makes my hands to do what I'm actually telling them to do!! 😁

Damn my secret is out!! This is my stage outfit when I play 'Hello'!! 😁

Yeah the 2 inner poles are OK it's just the 2 outer ones if it's not really going to effect the sound then I'll probably just fit it where it was originally?? I was leaning more towards crushed velvet!! 😁

I thought I'd mock up where the pickups could go and this is where the strings lined up with the poles which is virtually where the bridge pickup is........ I probably could fit the other one right next to it but I think that wouldn't look very good?? Or would it look OK because they look good on a corvette $$