Thursday 11th October '07

 Here we are, the first bit of carving of the day was adding the contours etc and just tidying the top carve up a bit...

 the random orbital sanders are used to flatten everything off and get her ready for finer polishing.. mainly though this shows what is happening to the shape more clearly and leads me in different directions

 some wet and dry is used just to slightly polish the front

 and the epoxy still on the fingerboard after glueing in the frets is then cleaned off using very sharp chisels and a scalpel blade

 the bridge and ferrule positions are marked out... (the bridge will be chrome.. the gold just looks a bit too Rap..)

 and the pillar drill is used to drill the neccessaries..

 making sure that everything is even

 the control cavity was predrilled

 and then routed.. this was the reason for polishing the cap somewhat, I could see how deep it was possible to go.. there are some benefits to working with acrylic

 back to the front.. various contours needed to be adjusted to improve the general shape and look

 here you can see the cavity routed for the three-way switch

 on to roughing out the neck..

 which now looks like the most dangerous neck I've ever seen!  Imagine playing it in this state!!!

 Over an hour or so it is carved down to size and made very comortable..

 the back is then roughed out

 and carved..

 the acrylic melts and burns a little bit as it is carved which creates a cloud of smoke at the roof of the workshop.. I wonder how many health and safety laws I'm breaking on this project??

 Here's the original.. this bass the 'Vintage Rewound' was the timber prototype for Charlies perspex bass..

All my best,

Ben