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dnicarry

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  1. precisely.. the caps would be covering the joints (if I remember anything my high school geometry teacher tought... of course, high school was a long time ago and I seem to recall stumbling in to class on more than one occasion after an "herbal" lunch break.. ) yeah, I was wondering about the cocobolo..thanks for the tip, gotta remember to go out and get some naptha, I have some Acetone, but I've had better results cleaning other woods with naptha in the past.. also, I've been reading up on cocobolo and seems like it can be pretty hairy stuff to work with.. some sites claiming that it can be as irritating as poison ivy to some people.. ever had any problems working with that stuff.. (just thought I'd pop that question in there as a "general interst" type of question.. horror stories are always welcome..LOL!)
  2. Thanks for the help everyone Here is the long version of what I was planning on doing.. The bass is somewhat inspeired by the C.Thompson "Rainbow bass" and the "$10 million bass", with elements froma couple of others.. Bass-ically , the top is a five piece top blk walnut, cocobolo strip (3/4"),blk walnut center (where sing EMG pu/ will go), cocobolo strip (3/4"), blk walnut bottom.. what I had planned on doing was making the walnut center piece ultra thin and then planing the neck down if need be to fit it up underneath the center piece. The back will look the same except that there will be 3 pieces, blk walnut, cocobolo strip (to hid backside of neck), then blk walnut bottom.. now the front and backsides are sandwhiched to a red oak core which is the full body (minus where the neck goes)... so here is the order in which it would be assembled: 1) red oak "wings" glued to neck, cure 48 hours or so.. 2) plane neck down to be even with the "wings" 3) glue back pieces on cure 48 hours or so 4) glue front pieces on, cure again 5) rout out electronics cavity, etc 6) drill six holes for string to go through end (doing the obligitory CT styled bridge like in the picture below) and the rest is history... this is going to take a reallllllly long time, but I will start posting pictures as soon as I get my laptop up and running again (unfortunately, I only have my computer at work right now) Thanks again for all the help and advice.. you guys rock! BTW... nobody ever said anything about my comments on "Gorilla Glue"... I have worked with wood epoxies and stuff in the past and I hate it.. I really have had a lot of good luck with this stuff.. it's all in prepping the wood.. you have to rough it up pretty good.. I usually draw a hacksaw blade across the wood and make a "cross hatch" pattern on both sides to be mounted.. then you wet down the wood with a very wet spong until that first little layer of wood is thouroughly wet..glue it and clamp the hell out of it.. The only bit of drawback is that the Gorrilla Glue tends to foam out the ends being boding, but it planes off rather nicely and leaves a reallllllllly tough bond..
  3. wow!... big debate on here...LOL... at any rate, I did call Carvin and they can get me a 6-string fretless (with a truss rod ) with side dots and 34" for around $269.99 in four weeks... I'm thinking this may be the way I'll go, however... here's the bigger question... am I insane to build a body, cut it in half (not literally, there's just less typing involved if I say it this way) and then bonding the neck between the two "wings" created?.. sort of a : top portion of body neck bottom portion of body sandwhich... LOL BTW... thoughts on "Gorilla Glue"?... I built a "whamola" about two years ago and that stuff was "the balls".. it was strong to the point that I purposefully tried to seperate two pieces I had glued as tests strips and could not do it.. I tried under all sorts of circumstances... heat, humidity, submerged in water for over 24 hours.. never did get it apart... the Whamola, from what I hear, still plays awesome.. (gave it to an old buddy of mine, he'd get more use out of it than I ever would have..LOL)
  4. thanks.... do you think they have neck-through though?..
  5. Hello, I'm building a 6-string bass out of black walnut, cocobolo, and red maple. I am having a helluva time finding someone willing or able to produce a 34" scale, fretless, 6-string neck-through body neck. I just don't have the "technical savvy" to figure out how to do the truss rods and fingerboards etc and what I like to do is take the two halfs of the body I've built and mate them to the neck.. Is this insane? or should I just go with a bolt-on neck?.. (I'd rather not..) Any help would be greatly appreciated... Thanks, Derek (I am in the New England area, New Hampshire specifically)
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