NBD: another one I can't play

[swarfrat]

No - not the fretless. This came up on another board. Since my son has expressed interest in my basses again, and I actually found a left handed short scale mini-p-bass  - and these are hit and miss - I decided to go ahead and bite the bullet:

 

[swarfrat]

And it means I can keep the red right handed mini-p intact. It's a hoot to pull out a guitar sized instrument and shake the house

 

[PhilHill]

That is cool. Lucky Son, now if he'll just let you play it........... :dontknow:

 

[swarfrat]

I can't play it because I am not left handed.

Here's mine (bought it for him before we found out he was a lefty)

 

[PhilHill]

Ahh, my 66yr old brain strikes again. I like the red one better. :headbang:

 

[swarfrat]

Waiting on my new neck - I've scrapped the plans for the tort guard, because his won't match dad's anymore and that was why he liked the black one over tobacco burst.

 

[PhilHill]

Naturally, Dad is Superman. Who wouldn't want to be like Superman!  :icon_thumright:

 

[swarfrat]

Dang - somehow the guitar/bass ratio got out of whack again. Gonna have to remedy that.

 

[swarfrat]

Got the first blank sanded to thickness using the handheld method. Ugh. Wheely jig on the way.

 

[PhilHill]

So far, so good. If the old nut was ok on general shape, use it to trace the outer shape onto the new one. Then finish shaping. Then I would measure the height of the frets, add .015 to that and get some feeler gauges that add up to that thickness. Lay the gauges on top of the board next to the nut and file your slots down till you just touch the gauges and stop. That gets you close to the height you want on all of them, then you can final file them string by string.  :headbang: