DanielM

that is going to be great looking Lester!

I can only ditto what's been said so far. that neck is most fancy!

Now that is one very nice Junior! top notch finish job too!

hadn't checked here for a while, but dang hoogle this is one heck of a build! it looks really really good. the carves are looking great too, and the burst matches it really well. your builds have really improved as well.

well Travis as maurits allready said we used rasps, spokeshaves, planes and a lot of elbow grease, the electric drum sander . today we started carving at around 11 AM and we called it a day at 5:30 PM (17:30) so there's a good 6 hours in there... tomorrow will be a day of sanding and rounding over the fretboards at the edges as they are a bit sharp at the moment.

that is one good lookin' bass! slowly I find myself liking more and more ERB's...

haven't been around for a bit, but damn this guitar is looking good now! can;t wait to see the whole thing together and oiled up! have you considered Tru-Oil for a finish? should be a bit more hard wearing than Danish and looks nice too. (I just made a Zebra door stopper out of a cut-off and sealed it with shellac and plan on whacking some Tru-Oil on it, looks great so far.) keep up the good work!

to make cutting easier you could drill holes at set intervals and then join them up. I did it on my Zebra wood build and it worked out fine. but it did take some careful routing as it did Tear out like nobody's business if you didn't watch out... looks great though! btw always wear a mask with zebra wood that stuff is nasty!

it looks like an ACG Skelf, I like it! keep up the good work.

where in Europe are you?

looks fab. not too keen on Metal guitar shapes, always a bit too pointy for me, but I'm loving the Zebrawood. I see what Travis is saying, especially comparing the Zebrawood you've got, which is nice and straight, to mine which I'm using on my current (and seemingly everlasting nearly a full year from when I started designing!) http://s112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...nt=DSCF1507.jpg as you can see it's much much wilder, and consequently a real pain to route!

I think you can wet sand Tru-Oil but you use the oil as a lubricant rather than water. otherwise I'm sure you could Micro-Mesh it.

I was under the impression that a good way to use Tru-oil was by using a Shellac Sealer first. then applying the oil. I plan on doing a Zebra-wood bass like this. well a test piece first ofcourse. using Rustins Shellac Sanding Sealer as the shellac sealer.

Allright, it's been a while but here's an update on the basses! after being on Hiatus for a while due to finals etc. we finally got cracking again. Bass 2 has the Perimeter routed and the roundover is on there too which makes a world of difference. bass 1 is currently being routed and and after a slight run in with some tearout I'm going to finish it up today and see what I can do to rescue it. Bass II: http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...II/P1012606.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...II/P1012605.jpg as some of you will notice there is some router burn going on there but nothing some sanding won't cure I think, and we had some perculiarity surrounding the roundover bit which maybe somebody can explain. going along the grain it all went fine but going across the grain (end grain etc) it was leaving a ledge which would make you think it was set too deep. so we set it more shallow and did it thus and then we'll sand it down to a nice smooth edge. The tearout on Bass 1 is not as dramatic a I first suspected after some cleaning I think it will be salvagable with only minor design changes. The Tearout on Bass 1 and it on the bench with the template (which is also slightly different from bass 2's as a slight mishap in the cutting called for it.) http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...0I/P1012608.jpg http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...0I/P1012609.jpg

looks great TravisMoore! maybe a Tru-Oil finish? supposed to be a bit more durable than Danish oil. I'm goign to give it a shot on my Zebrano four build.