This is Mark’s Walnut Lobe. The body is black walnut with a maple core. This bass has a walnut and purpleheart neck and purpleheart board. This bass is here for a straight clean up and refin. We’ll be leveling and radiussing the board, re-shaping the neck and cleaning up the curves. An interesting feature of the bass is the rail/thumb rest.
Completed Work:
Remove nut and thumb rail
Shape/thin neck
Re-shape neck to body join
Re-contour/carve edges
Radius board - 12”
Sand board to 220 grit
Shape/sand body to 100 grit
Sand/radius board to 1000 grit
Shape/sand neck to 220 grit
Clean up pick-up rout
Sand body to 400 grit
Sand/shape neck to 400 grit
Filled holes/gaps as required.
Sand body to 800 grit
Sand/shape neck to 800 grit
Sand/polish fingerboard to 4000 grit
Seal wood
Shield cavities
Fabricate walnut cavity cover
Fabricate new purpleheart thumb rail
Apply sealer and finish
Sand-back and polish
Redo wiring harness
Add three way switch
Fabricate nut and purpleheart bridge
Refit hardware
Final set up
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