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Maybe there is one really simple reason why floating bridges are rare on flattops: namely that there have been times they were not rare, but actually pretty common in ultra cheap but robust guitars. Here in Germany called "Wandergitarre". I remember instruments which sounded like crap - li...

In order do end this thread a picture of the almost finished bass: DSC_5078.JPG In the details there is still some work to to: today i modified the flat surface of the bridge and removed 2 mm from the central part in order to concentrate the load to the braces. That instrument will also profit from ...

Thanks Alan, again, for Your great hints. @jarno: These are just shavings glued with fish glue. As the repair is mostly covered by the fret wire i ommitted the last step - cutting deep slots parallel to the grain and filling these with matching shavings as well. That leads to almost invisibility of ...

Roughly successful - i had to redo "only" 3 fret slots. The wooden "jig" was a bit to slippery.

My "solution" was to use a rest of alder left after cutting a solid body guitar. Pretty mach improvised, but feels a lot better than the more or less free handed attempt on the sharkfin bass. Partially with slighly narrower radius than the fingerboard and sufficiently elastic to be clamped...

Bob Gramann wrote: ↑Tue May 07, 2024 4:21 pm I know freehand is tempting, but that blade wants to dance and it will get what it wants sooner or later.

That's why i was asking

... into existing fingerboard which alread has a radius. It is this project: https://www.mimf.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=66356#p66356 Actually it is my 2nd attempt on a fanned fret fingerboard, and it is the 2nd time i have to cut the slots into an already finished fretless fingerboard, which has bee...

My time currently does not permit for full builds, but one ore the other small and experimental project is a must have :-) This one: i want to put a short scale multiscale fret system on an existing fretless bass. A 2nd Harley Benton B30FL, this time long scale (most of these basses are medium scale...

THX

Nice. Looks very interesting. That kind of fan bracing also came out pretty well, also a bit more mellow, but still projecting: https://www.mimf.com/phpbb/download/file.php?id=9542&mode=view The background of this structure was a different one: i wanted additional support on the previously delam...

well i did what i had in mind, it resulted in a 4 string barititone guitar and it really came out well. i think i can easily fit it with bass strings as well. Cool. That is still the original guitar scale, isn't it? (i hope i can come back to actually make complete guitars as soon as i retire (in a...

The extra air space adds a lot of complication when it comes to the way the back vibrates, with the usual solution being vent holes on one or the other back. Obviously. But anyaway: as soon as i move away the bass a few cm from my body, a similar situation arises there will be a gap which will of c...

So here's my prototype - two stripes of poplar, the spacers made of XPS, and all temporarily fixed with double sided tape. It actually works as indended, and that's sufficient for testing and getting experience over longer time. DSC_4821.JPG Quite interestingly, tapping the top shows pretty large st...

Yes, i do. Again, that was meant as a question.

But that fortunately sounds as if my idea was not completely crazy ... encouraging.

Hi Beate - glad to see your still alive and kicking! Unfortunately i still lack energy for even making the neck of my Bass VI or repairing my amps. Reasons: an old house - isolating and more - still cannot be userd for living and restoring and improving an old velomobile (see attachments if Youre i...

Maybe that sounds strange, but at least some guitars have more volume or simply play louder if there is no contact (or as little as possible) between the bottom and the player's body. That's the case with my cheap ABG - which is, btw, surprisingly loud and well sounding. I want to play the instrumen...

I don't know if the question is still relevant, but i would like to add that i put together an archtop body without using any mold. In my case the rims had been cut from massive wood (it is an electric thinline, and i wanted to try out that approach although it is a waste of material), so keeping th...

Minor update - access to the electric cavity from the back:

Yes. Maybe slightly more, especially toward the end of the fretboard.