NKBD - New Kit Bass Day

[baa]

I ordered a kit from guitarkitfabric.co.uk.

An Explorer style bass just because I like the looks of it.

I work with vinyl and know nothing of paint, so I will wrap it.

Sides and back in matte black and front in "black wood"

For the price i'm not expecting much, but for the fun of assembling it, as a toy and a decoration it's worrh it to me.

[Lfalex v1.1]

Excellent. 

If the grain is a good as the body in the photo,  just stain the front face instead and paint the back & sides. Or stain it all over.

[Guest]

56 minutes ago, baa said:

I work with vinyl and know nothing of paint, so I will wrap it.

 

35 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

stain the front face instead and paint the back & sides

 

[baa]

57 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

Excellent. 

If the grain is a good as the body in the photo,  just stain the front face instead and paint the back & sides. Or stain it all over.

I will stay with what I know 😀

And if i'm not satisfied with the color i just rip it of and try something else.

[Grahambythesea]

Something a little more exotic than black would be fun if you’re vinyl wrapping. Gold or a more psychedelic pattern would cool!

[Jonesy]

3 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

Something a little more exotic than black would be fun if you’re vinyl wrapping. Gold or a more psychedelic pattern would cool!

 

 

But if it's all black, then it's like - how much more black could it be? None, none more black.

 

😂🤘

[Jonesy]

On 09/12/2021 at 18:51, baa said:

I ordered a kit from guitarkitfabric.co.uk.

An Explorer style bass just because I like the looks of it.

I work with vinyl and know nothing of paint, so I will wrap it.

Sides and back in matte black and front in "black wood"

For the price i'm not expecting much, but for the fun of assembling it, as a toy and a decoration it's worrh it to me.

 

 

Lovely stuff, really keen to see how it turns out. I love the Explorer shape and really want to get one, just to take to blues jams. That or a flying V 😃

[baa]

16 hours ago, Grahambythesea said:

Something a little more exotic than black would be fun if you’re vinyl wrapping. Gold or a more psychedelic pattern would cool!

In my bass collection a black bass IS exotic 😀

A friend has a guitar with that look, and I think it will look cool on the Explorer.

[baa]

I think the black vinyl looks good now thats it's done.

I promised myself that this time I wouldn't do it on the kitchen table, but at work where light, work area and tools are better.

I ended up doing it on the dining room table, so it's not perfect, but good enough. 🙃

 

[MichaelDean]

3 hours ago, baa said:

I think the black vinyl looks good now thats it's done.

I promised myself that this time I wouldn't do it on the kitchen table, but at work where light, work area and tools are better.

I ended up doing it on the dining room table, so it's not perfect, but good enough. 🙃

 

It looks like you had good supervision at least! 😸

Seems to me like it came out nicely. How does the bass sound now it's done?

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Very 80s - I used to have an MFI bookcase with a similar black woodgrain finish

[baa]

21 minutes ago, Jean-Luc Pickguard said:

Very 80s - I used to have an MFI bookcase with a similar black woodgrain finish

You are not wrong.

In my opinion the 80s was the best era for basses. And music.

[baa]

58 minutes ago, MichaelDean said:

It looks like you had good supervision at least! 😸

Seems to me like it came out nicely. How does the bass sound now it's done?

I forgot to install the grounding to the bridge, so right now it is buzzing very much.

But other than that it sounds pretty good.

Not the best in the world, but I could gig with it.

[Bassfinger]

I noticed they do a R**********r style bass as well. Might be an interesting  diversion.

[Stub Mandrel]

Well done, looks good. Back in the 80s someone could have made a fortune selling black ash guitars 🙂

 

I wrapped my Hohner B2 in 'carbon fibre vinyl'. Shall we say it 'looks good from a distance'?

 

Mind you it wasn't an expensive experiment, and reversible.

 

I found so many tutorials online but noting that really explained how to do 'sharp corners' like those on your explorer. Any tips?

[baa]

17 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Well done, looks good. Back in the 80s someone could have made a fortune selling black ash guitars 🙂

 

I wrapped my Hohner B2 in 'carbon fibre vinyl'. Shall we say it 'looks good from a distance'?

 

Mind you it wasn't an expensive experiment, and reversible.

 

I found so many tutorials online but noting that really explained how to do 'sharp corners' like those on your explorer. Any tips?

 

Thank you 🙂

The trick is to have enough vinyl "outside" of the guitar. So when you heat and pull it over the edges, you get all the wrinkles and stuff away from the body.

i usually have 30-40 cm more on each side.

Carbon, i think, is more difficult. I find it less easy to work with.

 

I like that it's so easy to reverse, if you want to change color or just bring it back to original.

I have done it to some of my Vantages. I did one in orange for a gig at a club for dutch people and removed it the day after.

I wrapped one to hide holes from an experiment, and then wrapped my main to match.