A little more prep - 16 April

I bent and glued the last strips for the bass bar. I also started to hollow out the pegbox bit got called away before I could document. Will carry on tomorrow.




 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The bass is born -31 July to 1 Aug.

Image
 Putting on the strings. Photo credit: Jojo Kunz Clipping the umbilical cord, by which I mean the extra bits of clingwrap that I put under the bridge feet to stop the bridge being pressed into the varnish by the string pressure. Photo credit; Magnus Bergström.   The first tones Photoshoot with Magnus Bergström  In the evening we had a lovely meal together to celebrate the completion of the bass. Skål! Photo credit: Jojo Kunz
Read more

Varnish curing - 21 July

Image
 I finished sanding and details on the varnish and separated the two parts to dry and cure. It will be strange not to be able to work on the bass but at least I have the tailpiece to do. And plenty of other tidying and reorganising and repair work.
Read more