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Pretty sure it was maple, at least, that's what I recall my high school woodshop having 13-15 years ago when I attempted to make that bass. Took me a min....now it is an ash body!

Just trying to shock some people! Actually, cooked an awesome steak over it.

Thought I'd share some of the fun I had camping.

Anybody know where one could get a Dimension/Starcaster bass bridge? I looked on Fender's website and ebay, No Luck. Also, looks like it'd fit on my MIM Jazz, anybody have Dims?

The unmasking Sprayed the cavity and pickup routs with a conductive coating and wired it up My basement at night is not conductive to pictures so view the rest at your own peril I'll take some better pics after I fashion a control cavity cover, probably out of maple from a failed guitar project.

I used a sheet of plastic cut to fit in the neck pocket, measured and lined up the holes accordingly. Drilled through the plastic, checked to see that they lined up. Finally transferred the hole pattern back to the guitar to drill. Otherwise, I was going to do a variant on curtisa's advice above.

Thanks for the advice, it's actually pretty sparkly after my 6 coats. It feels very rough still, it's not like sandpaper but very textured. I'm going to try to do 6 more coats (or till the can runs out) and depending on how it feels sand it. Or, I don't necessarily need a mirror finish with it and might just sand any drips or high spots with some 1000 grit.

Weather FINALLY cooperating, clear coatin' time Let it dry

What is that fingerboard? It looks really cool. There's too many different builds in this thread!!

Anybody else experiment with "metal flake"? So it is kind of textured and the glitter stands up in places, I haven't burned though during the wetsanding, but I've hit some of the glitter and instead of green, I'm getting some silver shining through. I'm not really seeing any green in my sand paper or water or wash cloth. Should I have put on more than 3ish layers of clear coat?

Body first coat Wet Sand started on headstock More body painting Think I'm ready for clear coating

I like the back jacks, haven't seen that before. Does that get in the way while playing?

Sanding the primer Clear coats level 2, how many coats should I do? 3-6 I'm at a standstill right now, due to rain an fog and generally crappy weather.

I love that inlay, but then again, I may be biased having the same initials.

More on the cavity Second coat on the headstock, looking sexy if I don't say so my self Had kids birthday party, got a paint booth out of the deal. Priming:

If I'm painting, do I need to worry about the checks?

Sneak Peak on the body color. Yes, that is a Target brand diaper box...

Control Cavity carved out Little more carving on top

Pickup Template Neck pickup test fit - the routing turned out better than the template!! I'm going to assume that no one notices that the neck pickup is 1/2" closer to the neck than a normal jazz bass - measured the distance from the bridge on my Jazz at 4.75" to the bottom of the neck pickup went up stairs thinking .25 less than 5" than laid it out thinking .25 more than 5". Oh well, I mostly jam on the bridge pups anyway. Bridge pickup test fit

Bonus shot...actually, my awful attempt No. 2, circa 1999-2000: About the only thing I was happy with was the neck joint, it fell apart after that.

Prostheta, what stability? Lots of manual handholding... Continuing onward! Final body shape Rounded the body and started on the armrest Pretty proud of this tummy cut, first time I ever did anything like this Lined up the bridge, and who am I kidding, gave it a test fit ...and why stop there So far, couple screw up here, couple screw ups there, overall still happy with my progress. Next steps: make some pickup templates and a body cavity template, although, I may wing it freehand. The latter, definitely NOT the former.

Final Cut and some filing Starting the sanding process

All, I am new to the forum. I tried building a fretless bass back in high school 15 or so years ago. Started watching https://www.youtube.com/user/TomVictorChiiron and was inspired to try again. Without further ado... With my first build I bought a fretless bass neck from Carvin - they no longer make bodies to mate with said neck, so I need to make my own body. Also bought replacement pickups for my MIM Jazz bass, but found out that they were both bridge pickups and MIMs only have neck pickups. The rest of the hardware is pretty much from Carvin as well. Inspiration: I love the Rickenbacker body style, my Schecter 006 has somewhat similar bouts so I used that as a template extended it and added my own panache to it. Here's the original I'm replacing: Template I made from hardboard, along with my Carvin supplied chunk o' alder Practice neck joint and template: Oooh, that's tight Then the rough cut: To be continued...