Doing a shuker course! - now finished

[JMT3781]

just a quick question..

when doing a shuker course, is it essential that you already have some woodworking skills? or can a complete novice get by?

[umph]

i had very limited wood working skills prior to the course, the most i'd done was stuff at school and gluing some cabs together.

spent today doing buffing and finishing off the frets





After i did that i put some oil on the fretboard, it's pretty good how well the board matches the colour of the body!





Still more buffing to go though to get all the scratches out!

[EssentialTension]

Looks very nice.

[rmshaw37]

stunning!

can you have GAS for a course?

or would that be CAS! lol

[Spoombung]

The fret work would be the ultra-scary bit for me. How did you get on with it?

[umph]

[quote name='Spoombung' post='1033008' date='Nov 22 2010, 06:20 PM']The fret work would be the ultra-scary bit for me. How did you get on with it?[/quote]

found fret work alot easier than i thought it'd be. Essentially involves flatting them to the same height then reapplying a curve and smoothing them out etc.

if you take up this course be prepared to do epic amounts of sanding ;o

[henry norton]

The board matches the lacquer well - maybe you should have asked Fred to make your Darkstars with cherry bobbins instead of black

[7string]

Bass looks fantastic. Great job

[lettsguitars]

[quote name='umph' post='1033411' date='Nov 22 2010, 11:49 PM']found fret work alot easier than i thought it'd be. Essentially involves flatting them to the same height then reapplying a curve and smoothing them out etc.

if you take up this course be prepared to do epic amounts of sanding ;o[/quote]
you can eliminate most of the sanding with cabinet scrapers. those things will save your life if you spend a lot of time with dodgy carcinogenic hardwoods. bass looks cool, should be alright routing pups later. i had to widen a danelectro neck pocket for a mate after making a new neck for him. router cut through that thick cheap sparkly sh*te with no trouble.

[lettsguitars]

is it a lefty?

[lettsguitars]

[quote name='umph' post='1031729' date='Nov 21 2010, 07:30 PM']right so i maybe took a little longer getting photos up than i thought i would ;p

Pre final coat of laquer




after final coat of laquer and before final flatting etc.



doing some fret work

[/quote]
don't look down!

[henry norton]

[quote name='lettsguitars' post='1035845' date='Nov 25 2010, 03:33 AM']you can eliminate most of the sanding with cabinet scrapers. those things will save your life if you spend a lot of time with dodgy carcinogenic hardwoods.[/quote]
Careful! you're giving away trade secrets

I use a palm sander for epic sanding jobs. Life's too short for that much elbow grease although I must admit scrapers are very handy for burls and arched tops.

[umph]

heres some more, mostly done now apart from the pick ups, pshh

[Noisyjon]

Umph, I'm seeing a Darkstar or 2 in there!
What are you planning on putting in?

[umph]

[quote name='jonthebass' post='1038090' date='Nov 26 2010, 06:28 PM']Umph, I'm seeing a Darkstar or 2 in there!
What are you planning on putting in?[/quote]

pair of darkstars ;>

only problem with them is the wait

[Mr. Foxen]

Stick some of those piezo elements under the bridge and knock up a buffer, so it gets noisin.

[MacDaddy]

any chance of an update and pics?

[umph]

it's at the same point dark stars are still evading me! i really want to plug this in

[rmshaw37]

it looks incredible dude - love the black (glue??) on the sanded body edges - looks massively classy!

[SignsOfDelirium_bassist]

Damn this bass looks fine! I've been thinking about this course for a while, may have to dip into 'oh-sh*t-what-just-happened!?' funds! If I were you I'd be tempted to just have a piezo bridge and leave the pups out of it, it looks so damn nice without them I'm truly envious though, I'd love a bass with darkstars!

[umph]

definatly a good course to do! I wish these darkstars would arrive

[umph]

gave up on the darkstars but finished the course now. I used some wizard 64's and some other pick up covers on top of them ;p





heres a picture of a guitar i'm building to go with it ;p

[MoonBassAlpha]

Neck through SG!!! Nice. You shouldn't have any broken headstock issues with the maple neck either.
Are you doing this at John's or going "solo"?

[umph]

doing it at jons, can't afford to go solo