Tag: Bass

• Bass of Spades assembled!

  Jesse worked hard on the Bass from morning to night, with some long interruptions to build fencing around the chicken run. We started off the morning by soldering the knobs and and the pickups. It took filing a rough spot on the bridge and flux to get the ground wire soldered to the bridge. Then…

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  April 11, 2020

  Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, fun, music

  Bass, bass of Spades, bridge, DIY, drill, primus

• Stop the dizzy spinning!

  A clever way to keep that body from spinning in the breeze of the fan.

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  April 10, 2020

  Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, family, fun, music

  Bass, Finger, glove, spin

• Silvering the Bass of Spades

  Jesse carefully masked the body of the bass and we primed and sprayed two coats of silver paint on it. And I created a way to stop the body from spinning in the breeze

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  April 9, 2020

  Bellingham, carpentry, DIY, family, music

  Bass, bass of Spades, DIY, primer, silver, spinning

• Staining the Bass of Spades

  Jesse has named it The Bass of Spades. We gave a second coat of stain to the headstock and only coat was needed for the body. The neck/fretboard got boiled linseed oil.

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  April 8, 2020

  carpentry, family, fun, music

  Bass, spades, spin, stain

• Building a bass, 1

  Jesse is building an electric bass guitar from a kit we bought from Reverb. We need to sand and finish the neck and body. Then we solder the electronics together. The results will be gratifying. To focus on using supplies we have, we decided to use a darker teak stain for the body and headstock.…

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  April 7, 2020

  carpentry, DIY, fun, music, Photos

  Bass, carpentry, stain