Cerb

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Well, the guy that had planned on taking this off my hands already has more blanks than he knows what to do with, so it seems I will be selling this elsewhere. I had planned on using this blank for a bass I was building, warp and all, but came across another that had the wood combinations I was looking for.

It's 46" x 4" x a bit over 2 3/4". The warping is actually side to side, not front to back. Planing it out would be possible, but you wouldn't have a centerline that would run parallel to the laminations.

With a straightedge held on the side of the blank touching either end, there is a maximum of about 2 mm space between the blank and the straightedge.

There is a small (1 1/2" * 1/8" * 1/8") tearout near the center and very slight tearout and wave (from a crappy hand planer) over one of the faces. Once these small imperfections are planed out, it should bring the thickness right to around 2 3/4".

You could easilly get 2 bass necks out of it and probably 3 guitar necks. There is nearly $100 total in the blank. I'm asking $70 plus shipping for it.

Reply here or email me at cerberi@gmail.com if you are interested.

P.S. In the first couple of pictures, the wings were not glued to the neck, so there won't be any signs of a joint in that area.

I've completely scrapped my original design and have decided on the following:

I'm going to make a copy of this bass.

Specs:

Mahogany or Black Limba body

Maple neck

Cocobolo fretboard

5-string

Monorail/Indie bridge

I have not yet decided on electronics, although I'm leaning towards some Bartolini soapbars. I'll most likely buy a Bart or Aguilar preamp.

My biggest problem will be that it is a bolt on. For whatever reason, I am wary of routing the neck pocket.

Also, does anyone know where I can get a brass nut?

Comments and suggestions welcome!

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Man great wook   I love All but one of your designs!!

EDIT: HA It look's Like I forgot To Add the link

http://tbbassprogress.blogspot.com/2005_05...ss_archive.html

But this one hear is The best one, not just because of the design But because of the WOODS   man that's A good combo

!!METAL MATT!!

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jnewman - The wings actually have not been shaped at all yet, other than with the band saw. A jointer will be used to true up the edges to be glued on the neck.

erikbojerik - It wasn't really warped beyong repair, but it was warped side to side, rather than front to back. So, that would cause the laminates to arch across the face of the neck. I just didn't want anything less than perfect for my first instrument. I had a guy on Talkbass lined up to buy it, but he already had more necks than he could use at the moment. So, if anyone's interested...

Thanks, everyone else for your interest.

That's a really cool body shape! I think it's my favorite new design I've come across in a while. It looks like you've been doing good work, the only thing I'd check is that in some of your pictures it looks like the faces of the wings that will glue to the neck blank aren't really flat - which'll give you big, big problems when you try to glue it all together, so you may need to get out a hand plane or a power jointer. Keep us posted - if you just put pictures up in your blog, at least let us know when you update it!

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Well, I've been lurking these forums for a while now, and I suppose it's about time I unveil my project here. A few of you have already seen it over at the Luthier's Corner on Talkbass.com.

I hope that posting a blog link is cool with you guys. I just didn't feel like making all of those pictures into separate posts on here.

Here it is.

The archive links are at the bottom, so you can see the previous posts that were moved onto the second page.

P.S. This is also my first instrument, and my first attempt at woodworking in general. So, be easy on me .

Tapered to the body is by far the easiest, but I agree with jnewman in that there are some designs that just look killer with it tapered all the way through. I saw a bass on the MIMF forum where the builder not only tapered through the body, but tapered the laminated in the neck as well.

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I, personally, taper all the way through the body. If you don't know what I mean, here are some examples:

Tapered through the body

Tapered to the body

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5591136405

Drak this is perfect for you...

I am also getting rid of some stuff good wood at great prices...

Here are 2 rockhard eastern flame maple tops.  pieces measure 9.5*18*.25 Shipped 35 bucks.  Yes you get both sets.

http://www.bigdguitars.com/ebaypics/maple.jpg

http://www.bigdguitars.com/ebaypics/maple2.jpg

Here is a piece of big leaf quilted maple 30*7*.25  25 bucks shipped

http://www.bigdguitars.com/ebaypics/wbl.jpg

Another piece of maple burl 35 bucks shipped

19*9*.25

http://www.bigdguitars.com/ebaypics/burl.jpg

Spalted maple burl  40 bucks shipped 18*8*.25 45 bucks shipped.  This piece has flames and spalt very cool

http://www.bigdguitars.com/ebaypics/spalt.jpg

This one is from my post title one for me.  This piece is very nice.

post here to reserve piece.  send paypal payment to orders@bigdguitars.com  First come first Serve.

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I'm really loving that spalted burl. Sadly, it's just too small for the project I'm working on.

Jorge,

    Got a Flamed Maple block (killer piece) that will be perfect for you guitar. I am going to be re-sawing some material tomorrow. I will get a pic to you.

Peace, Rich

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You seem to have quite a decent selection. I may wind up buying an ebony fingerboard for an unlined fretless 4 from you soon. I'm also eyeing a couple of the curly maple tops .

Don't pay much mind to this post, as I'm posting here more for myself than anything, so that I will be able to find the thread later.

First post, by the way.

It looks really nice! What method did you use for cutting out your neck blank? Table saw, I suppose? I'm working on my first bass at the moment (4 string neckthrough) and haven't yet come to the neck shaping stage, so I have been wondering what the best method for that would be.

2 (3, sorta) Small Updates: 5 new images

The top body wing was unclamped and trimmed up. It's now ready to be routed with a flush cut bit around its edges. The bottom wing is now clamped and drying. I also made a simple Fenderesque logo for the headstock (back, most likely).

Neck blank looks nice 

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Not with a straightedge held to it. It has about 2 millimeters of bow in it. Soon I will glue up a second one with the wood I have left. The one in the pictures will go towards a more experimental bolt-on project. That way, if it ever decides to bow more, or even break in half, I could just scrap it instead of ruining a bass.

Here Are The Pictures (http://tbbassprogress.blogspot.com)

This was directed more towards the people at Talkbass.com, but since I've found this site I will post it here as well. Anyways, for those of you who enjoy looking at progress pics, they are all posted at the link above. Leave a few comments if you would, as I'm always extremely bored and in need something to read.

- Cerb

P.S. I was just wondering how old you were when you started your first bass project. I'm glad that I've gotten a nice head start at the age of 15 .

P.P.S. I will also be posting the updates here in this thread for those of you that would like to follow the progress but don't want to look at the blog more than needed.