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- The headstock coming out of its corsett. A lot of cutting and filing waiting for me…
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- I glue a piece of plywood on th inclined part of the headstock to hold the pegheads in place.
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- pressing… and waiting…
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- Drilling 6mm holes 12mm deep. Scary job, as there are cables passing underneath and the whole piece is already quite thin…
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- After two hours with the rasp, the neck gets into shape.
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- Rasping, filing, sanding
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- The lines of thy plywood really help in getting a regular shape. It’s like painting with a rasp.
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- Getting ready to assemble the neck and the body
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- Loads of glue
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- and more glue
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- and more pressing and waiting
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- and waiing some more… have to be patient…
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- Protecting the wood from the silicone
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- after cutting the scotch
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- before
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- the plexi fis perfectly
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- Next time I’ll use some more expensive silicone.
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- anyway, it looks quite nice if you’re not too close.
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- The plexi for the headstock is glued on
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- There’s a dent because I went too far with the circular saw the other day when I dit the cutout for the headstock. Fortunately this is only a prototype…
And here’s a picture of the three sisters: The original Videobass from 2003, the revision of 2007 and a still unfinished prototype of the 2011 series:
[…] prototype body was too thin, about 35mm, and I cut out almost the whole depth of the neck, so the rest of the body was not really stable. Also, I used only one dowel at the […]