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What's on your workbench?

This could be git related or not. So, what's on your workbench at the moment?

I have 4 scarf joint necks in different stages of work.

A 25" scale pine 5 string neck for a Banjo-Res, A 25" scale Red Oak neck for my 6 string Strat-Res build, A 24 & 1/2" scale Red Oak neck for my 6 string Double Cut Tele build and a 27" scale 6 string Baritone Conversion neck for a Modern Strat body I have.

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Permalink Reply by Kigar on August 21, 2017 at 2:38pm

Made a Jenga set with neck size blocks - 3/4" x 1 1/2" x 4 1/2" oak. I had a bunch of odd pieces laying around. Sort of big but not massive like the 2x4 ones. Couple coats of truoil and they looked and worked great.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 21, 2017 at 3:17pm

Always good to hear that someone made something useful out of scraps.

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Permalink Reply by Sean on August 22, 2017 at 3:11pm

Here's the pics I snapped the other day of my diddley bass build...

Decided to change from this Comacho to an Undercrown box. I always seem to use Undercrowns, but it has more room for counterweight....

The headstock is recut and reshaped already. Hurricane bolt replace with hose clamp, and getting a real bass tuner. Going to put a yard stick fretboard on top of the pick axe handle to help raise the action so I can play it fretless.

Need to chisel the pickup out of the neck, and get to work on the box and fretboard...

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 24, 2017 at 7:14am

Nice.

Just watch it on how material you cut away. If your removing a lot of material, you may need to add some wings for stability.

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Permalink Reply by bigmcgiv on August 23, 2017 at 2:22pm

Couple pics

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 24, 2017 at 7:15am

That should turn out nice.

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Permalink Reply by bigmcgiv on August 26, 2017 at 8:38am

Completed this today

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 26, 2017 at 9:08pm

Looks great, love the scripted plate and knobs. Are you liking the pickup? Also, does a switch involve a piezo or Esquire Switching?

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Permalink Reply by Lonman on August 27, 2017 at 2:32am

This will be a 3 string acoustic/electric, 25" scale, 17 frets, reverb springs, poplar neck, walnut stained oak fretboard, fret dots, piezo. I really like the look of the oak fret board. The SGI cbg had it also.

I still have a few things to get finished.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 28, 2017 at 7:15am

Looks great Lonman. Your going to like the springs, I love the tone they add.

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Permalink Reply by bigmcgiv on August 27, 2017 at 3:08am

I Have a single coil and a pizeo under the bridge

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Permalink Reply by Paul Craig on August 28, 2017 at 7:20am

Has the piezo had a hum cancelling effect on the single coil pickup? I'm asking because I wired 2 singles and a piezo on a 5-way switch and the single coils 60 cycle hum disappeared, wondering if it had something to do with the piezo.