| This blog is written by John | 15 entries so far |
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Kill the Treble #14: The Radio Silence
The month of April has been a busy one to say the least. My “Real Daytime Job” has been very gree...
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Kill the Treble #13: The Cats Eye
Yesterday I had left a combination of wood glued onto the top horn of my bass, and wrote abou...
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Kill the Treble #12: Affixing the Cat's Eye
Walking around my bench more times than I remember puzzling over one of the coolest touches I...
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Kill the Treble #11: Guitar Making; Tradition & Technology
I was alive in the forest I was cut by the cruel axe In life I was silent In death I swe...
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Kill the Treble #10: Six Gun Guitars
I have to admit I was more than ready to accept my losses on the walnut bass that inspired this b...
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Kill the Treble #9: Prior Planning...
Here in the South we have a saying about Prior Planning, and what will happen if you don’t do...
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Kill the Treble #8: From the Neck Up Part 2
Since my last post, I thickness planed the peghead down to just under 5/8″. I’ll build it bac...
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Kill the Treble #7: From the Neck Up Part 1
…A delicate taper, multiple layers and precise dimensions=a standard guitar neck. With this b...
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Kill the Treble #6: Taking Shape Part 4
I’m not into production work, and to me the phrase, ”one-at-a-time” means exactly that. Takin...
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Kill the Treble #5: Taking Shape Part 3
In these next few posts you will see mulitple failures at creating a suitable neck blank. Not adm...
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Kill the Treble #4: Taking Shape Parts 1 & 2
The bass guitar within…. With the body profile cut free from the waste, I began shap...
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Kill the Treble #3: Body Building
The mahogany core blank was removed from the clamps this morning and flattened and smoothed v...
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Kill the Treble #2: From the Yard...
This is how it begins…I’ve selected the mahogany, and the top plate of walnut. Today I spent ...
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Kill the Treble #1: Killing the Treble
“This blog is written on wordpress. In order to catch up my LJ version of this blog Ill be ...
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Bass Blog #1: Kill the Treble... #1
For those of you who wanted to follow this blog, Im updating it from my main blog on wordpres...
