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That's the state of the 2nd project. Today i have ordered the top. The bridge is still missing. Project name is Sharkfin - after the old guitar picks... It'll get its own build thread as soon as all of the wood has arrived.

I am also ordering another two of those necks (Framus (Warwick) vintage, maple unfretted, for their former Nashville bass).

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And i ordered a 2nd top for the 3rd project. Maple. Which will probably become relatively conventional - i think of something like a Les Paul Junior DC bass with - maybe - a single mudbucker, maybe something less fat if the wood is pretty. Or something like Gibsons money bass or their Primavera bass. Or maybe even a bass modeled after the very rare Les Paule DC guitar. Or something with elements of all of those... Depends a bit how pretty the top turns out when it is on my table. Will be heavily chambered - which might speak for the Primavera. Scale length will be 77.5 cm. No drawings have been done, i am just collecting the components.
 
Progress. Carving the top requires a beater and therefore might be a bit loud on sundays. So i continued with the bottom plate. 2nd stage: smoothing the irregularities with a violin maker's plane. That one is a pretty large one; too large to work in the cutaways. Well it seems time to buy a set of smaller planes.:

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Continuing with the scaper - i am using the large curved scraper You see in the dustpan and a tiny one not shown. The back part has already been scraped, the front part is after the plane.

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That's still a bit uneven. In an acoustically active instrument i would probably need to lower the tap tone a bit - but hey, there is a decent tap tone at all!
(it is actually the 2nd time i do carved plates...)

And here the floor after work: removing this small amount of wood leads to a lot of dirt...

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Wow, Bea. This last page is my first read on this thread and I can already say, nice job. I am sure you are enjoying the process and looking forward to the end result as you proceed through this journey. Thanks for posting the photos.
 
bea said:
Well, that's what dict.leo.org called it. I looked up other sources - i think mallet should be the right word.
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Oh, now I get it. You were using a mallet with a scooped chisel. I thought you were referring to some specialized tool.

Thanks!
 
Carving the top. A lot thinner than the bottom plate and also the space in the central area. The remainder will somehow resemble the bars of a conventional archtop. Pear is a lot harder than alder. No chance without a mallet, and my hands also need some protection... (old gloves from my race bike, of course labeled "Campagnolo" )

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Back to the guitar:


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