I’ve spent quite a few hours more working on the bass guitar.
I routed the shape of the headstock, cut the slots into the fretboard, made the taper on the fretboard, drilled the holes for the dots in the fretboard, glued it onto the neck blank and roughly cut the shape of the neck.
It starts to look like a bass…
You can read more about the building process here.
Shortly after opening up my first shop, I built a thickness sander. My father-in-law provided the motor and the drum, both with a pulley. I built the frame. It worked well and I had used it for more than fifteen years.
Unfortunately it wasn’t wide enough for the top or the back of an acoustic guitar, so I could only sand the halves. After joining them I always had to finish sand them by hand. This was very time consuming and I hated doing it.
Therefore I decided to replace it by something that is wide enough for jointed tops and backs. First I planed to widen my own design but because this proved to be too time consuming I decided against it and bought a brand new machine…
Here it is! It’s a cool design and so far I’m very happy with it. Wide enough for guitar tops and backs, with a conveyor belt design that moves the items to be sanded… With my own design I was the one pushing the pieces through the sander…