Thread: Andrews Projects (bass + guitar/s)

hey dad just the man im looking for. I remember you built the COB V for your son. Dont happen to have the plans on your computer do you. I only just realised that my plans is screwed at the neck join. I have no access to the lower frets. Im desperate as I wanna start this week...
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE ANY REFERENCE YOU HAVE WOULD BE GREAT!!!

sorry for hijacking andy...your tools look awesome by the way. your just a regular handy man arent ya lol

ohhhhh another death threat aye!!!

lol

yep i use them.....
i do alot more work with handtools than i do with the routers and table saw and stuff....
i still have the first mallet i made years ago... and it was looking very sad,
so i gave it some sibblings
(that shows you how good pva is.... 5 years + smashing into things and it still hasnt come apart )

got any bass parts in that box? lol

got an email from the bridge/tuners bloke.....
apparently he sent them today....
apparently....

i reckon a 24" V sounds good (thats what prs is yea?)
hott pink finish with black pin stripes

Floody ... I just blew up a good front on picture from the net and made it up from there. I also used a bolt on neck but I shaped the heel and used neck ferrules to give it a bit of a neck-thru feel. The photocopy is still in the garage ... happy to send it to you if you want it?

It sounds like you've done what we did. The first body I cut out had no cutaway for access to the lower frets. Once I told son # 3 about that he insisted we scrap it and start again. So that's when I searched for the COB picture that I eventually used.

Andy B ... no bass parts ... just a lump of merbau that might become a bass one day.

Funnily enough, the first build I did for my daughter was going to be pink until she asked me what colour I was planning. She insisted on blue . But I still designed a pink heart graphic for it .

any suggestions on how to resize it to the actual size in photoshop

Originally Posted by floody_85

any suggestions on how to resize it to the actual size in photoshop

We've just hijacked Andy's thread!!

This is the image I used. Do a search in Google Images for Alexi ESP 600 and you'll get heaps of good images.

http://www.computersunlimited.com/im...1998_small.jpg

You can "resize the canvas" in most graphics packages but your best bet is to print it as large as you can and then enlarge it on a copier ... your brother's a printer I recall?

sorry for the hijacking andy. I was desparate. I sorted it out but.

You seem to have quite alot of tools and stuff man. How old are you?

when you come to printing out, just print the neck/body section,,,, then measure (the print out) neck and see if its the standard width. If yes, then the rest of the image would be very close to scale also. Thats the basic way of going about it.

my age... hmmm

to quote daddy

if i told you, id have to shoot you


just noticed that my thread is now 8pages lol.... catching up with yours floody
and you still havnt put saw to wood hahahaha

i do have a hell of alot of tools though.....

that reminds me, did you blokes know bunnings has a used/broken/parts/old tool trolley?
i was there the other day looking and all of a sudden there was this 5 shelf trolley in my way lol.... had a few crappy planes and a whole lot of old hand drills and other things.....
i would have gone crazy if there had been price stickers on the better stuff......
their loss
that was the one in.... i forget which bunnings it was.... over near reading cinemas

why cant thursday be over all ready lol....
i want it to be friday so i can go get my wireeee

dont think i will be doing much work today....
we will have to wait and see

Hey i sort of put saw to wood today!!! I made a template! and it only took me 20 mins. i done it during work time so I had to be quick or my boss would of whinged. We have a really good Festo Jigsaw at work. Its no good to use. thats why I took advantage and done it at work. Plus the endless supply of mdf!!

oh my parents are giving me a bunnings voucher as an engagement present so I think im gonna get some new chisels, clamps and plane.

any progress today andy?

lol mdf doesnt count as wood

keep in mind clamps are pretty expensive... half your voucher will be gone before you get the 4th one in your trolley... lol
around 20-30bux each for decent ones

no real progress today,
i spent the day cleaning up the shed... theres a HUGE pile of woodchips and sawdust near the door waiting for me to dump it in the bin
thats what happens when you dont clean up regularly...
which reminds me, i need to empty my dust extraction bucket.

i actually started cleaning so i could get to my bench and do some more work on the V.... but by the time i finished putting away all my tools., i was just too worn out.. lol

did a bit more thinking about set neck or bolt on....
still havnt decided...
still need to finish the truss rod....
need to get started on the neck blank and fingerboard....

hopefully the bridge and machine heads will turn up tomorrow...
otherwise that makes it two weeks since i sent that money order and have recieved nothing...

ummm...
i very much doubt i will be able to use the tuners on this build, so that will set me back,
and i cant afford new ones....
so this build may be put on the shelf while i start on the 7 string....
i dunno,,

not in a great mood,
girlfriend lost her licence.

i will see if i can get a picture of all the wood and stuff that i have for the bass.


heres a pic,
and i just realised i forgot to put the truss rod in the pic ..lol
but you get the idea

man the more i see it, the more i love it. that is such a cool bass. most basses are boring looking but thats different man.

that sux about your gf man. ive been on zero points since last easter so i drive like a grandma lol

well its a pitty this may be the only one of this shape

well except for the 7 string...

which i should really go glue up the body blank for.....
hmmmm
i might run out and see if its ready to glue up,
not sure where i left off on it...

yea apparently she got stuck in the buss lane on the harbour bridge and lost 4 points...........
she says she doesnt lose it till july though

can ya loose points for that???
thats $*%$#@
i got done 20kms over the limit easter weekend. 3 points but cos it was double demerits i lost 6!!

lol yea...

thats life....

7 string body blank is in clamps now...

will work out the string spacing and get started on the neck template tomorrow i guess.

what scale do you think i should do on that one?
lol

does anyone in aus sell 7 string t-o-m's ??

im really not keen on this trem....
and im not too keen on putting the hardtail i made, on wiithout a finish.... lol

and theres something important i forgot about the bass build.....