saudivette
Clueless In Sandland
I haven't done a damn thing to the BOSS since we moved onto out new compound. At the behest of the Department of War and Finance, I've been putting up shelves, clocks, pictures etc and then spent two full weekends building a new deck for the back yard (or yardlet). I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.




I was finally free to do other stuff last weekend but as we're going on vacation next Wednesday, it didn't seem worth starting anything on the BOSS - also, it was as hot as the surface of the sun so I found something to do indoors. My new Thunderbird project.
John Entwistle (The Who bass player) used a Gibson Thunderbird body with a Fender Jazz bass neck on it and called it his Fenderbird. I wanted to build a similar bass, and I managed to find a Thunderbird on eBay that was going very cheap on account of it having a broken neck.
I spent this last weekend routing out the neck pocket to take the Fender neck and hand filing/sanding a 6" piece of 1" square mahogany down to make 1/2" dowel to fill in the bridge mounting thread holes - the original bridges are crappy and sloppy enough that the mounting holes don't need to be spot on but the solid, machined, "simple-drop-in-replacement" bridge does need the holes spot on! So, dowels were made and smacked in then drilled out in the correct place.

This interesting lens effect is called "taking your camera outside when it's disgustingly humid"

Anyway, that's what I've been up to...




I was finally free to do other stuff last weekend but as we're going on vacation next Wednesday, it didn't seem worth starting anything on the BOSS - also, it was as hot as the surface of the sun so I found something to do indoors. My new Thunderbird project.
John Entwistle (The Who bass player) used a Gibson Thunderbird body with a Fender Jazz bass neck on it and called it his Fenderbird. I wanted to build a similar bass, and I managed to find a Thunderbird on eBay that was going very cheap on account of it having a broken neck.
I spent this last weekend routing out the neck pocket to take the Fender neck and hand filing/sanding a 6" piece of 1" square mahogany down to make 1/2" dowel to fill in the bridge mounting thread holes - the original bridges are crappy and sloppy enough that the mounting holes don't need to be spot on but the solid, machined, "simple-drop-in-replacement" bridge does need the holes spot on! So, dowels were made and smacked in then drilled out in the correct place.

This interesting lens effect is called "taking your camera outside when it's disgustingly humid"

Anyway, that's what I've been up to...