I got the mold glued up last night, and today I got the ABG’s sides trimmed and in place. It sure is nice to see that asymmetric taper in person - it looks just like the CAD model! Next will be to fit the sides together at the cutaway and install the kerfing. […]

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The picture says it all here. My initial idea had been to bolt all the layers together so it could accommodate instruments of different side depths, but it turns out my drill press doesn’t have enough throw to make a straight hole that deep. After several frustrating attempts to drill holes for the […]

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I built this extra-large router table to trim my mold slices flush with the master pattern. It’s basically just a board with a hole in it and a router mounted to the bottom. The whole mess sits on a couple of custom sawhorses that my father-in-law made for me - they fold up […]

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Recently I put together a vacuum bagging system for gluing up the composite sandwich braces in the ABG. You can see pictures of the process in the web album.
I’ve also built a vacuum press for gluing the braces on the top - stay tuned for that.

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Here’s my workbench, newly cleaned off and organized in preparation for the upcoming run of acoustic basses. Next to the bass is one of the flared port tubes that will be the soundhole of the next bass, and on top is a sample of the high-pressure laminate I’ve picked out.

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