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Building a bass for my...


Bastav
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... father in law. He mostly plays guitar but he wanted me to build him one anyway. And I'll take any excuse to start a new project ;)

So I started this a while back and here's what I've got so far. It'll be a four string, fretted long scale affair. I sent him two sketches, one of them played it pretty safe while the other was slightly more adventureus. He went for the latter. Here's the sketch (held down by various objects to keep it from rolling up).

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And here's the wings today

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The neck is three pieces of maple with mahogany veneers in between.

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Here I was working on a scarf joint

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