Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Nadz1lla on November 05, 2011, 06:26:37 PM
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Hey all, I was thinking today about some of the bits and bobs I have laying around, for example I have a Mahogany body I started building a long time ago that I never got around to completing. I thought about making my own Baritone, but couldn't afford a fancy new (or even a used) neck. So I got to thinking (hah, here we go!)...
What if I bought a cheapo short-scale Bass neck, filled the tuner holes and sealed them with wood and a good, strong glue, then cut a custom nut... do you think this would be a viable plan to make myself a ratty-but-functional 30.5 inch neck? I was just going to modify the neck pocket on this piece of junk body I have, fill and re-route the pick-up holes and reposition the bridge, see what kind of monster I could come up with. I have loads of parts laying around to build this, and a few cans of paint so, eventually, nobody would be able to see where I had chop-shopped the parts, heh.
Opinions?
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you can modify headstocks this way
the correct way to do it is with a plug cutter (not tapered) and matching drill bit. drill out the holes to 10mm, make 10mm plugs to fit. glue in, level off and then veneer front and back to hide it
http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-axminster-barrel-plug-cutters-prod831605/
this is much better than using a dowel because you can match the grain appropriately . if you need some scr@p wood/veneers to do this let me know
paint will hide the work temporarily - a veneer will hide it properly
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Cool! I thought it would be something like that, cheers dude! Any idea about modifying the rest of the neck to be a 6 string baritone rather than a bass? Is it just a matter of cutting a custom nut?