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Hi all, I have my next bass guitar design on CAD and in drawings. My designs are pushing the size envelop. I would like to have a good thorough review of the design for strength at the neck/body union, playability as string spacing is 13mm and neck is very narrow (1.6″), string pitch at the headstock, strength at the headstock/neck union etc. I’m willing to compensate for your time. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks.
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I think it looks really cool! Also, great to have someone in the group that is fluent in Solid Works!
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Thanks Ian. I am hoping others will like it too. Yes I am currently a Solidworks user and the price keeps going up. I recently considered yet again to use Fusion 360 but have issues with them storing my files. Plus the software does assemblies radically different.
I really love Solidworks and it has CAM integrated. Solidworks CAM is intuitive and will give a good start of the tasks with your custom tool crib. I’ve used SprutCAM in the past and it was not as easy to use. I have a rep meeting for Rhino next week.
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That looks super cool! Is that going to be a neck through design? I see maybe a truss rod slot at the heel. Definitely looks like a small neck pocket area. Curious what the neck pocket/neck attachment design looks like. I want to play it, looks light weight and fun.
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Hi James and thanks for your interest and kind words. I’d love to have you play one of mine! Would be an honor.
I am attaching a few more images that show the neck and body. It is not a neck through as the pickups are so huge! I use sidewinders for this build. The neck plate is 1.8″ x 2″ (very tiny) with 0.7″ of wood for both the front of the body and the neck. I plan on using inserts with bolts. The neck plate is under the body back. It isn’t drawn only a recess for the neck plate is shown.
I have a full body back cover which is not common. I’m thinking I might need to add more to the back for the neck attachment. My initial build was a glued neck and it is very stable. But for ease of manufacturing, I want to use a bolt on neck.
Yes the truss rod nut is located on the body side instead of the headstock because my neck is on the thinner side (0.65″).
The bass will be probably under 6 pounds or 3 kg. I use a balancing device called the “Comfort Rod” that is integrated into the build to eliminate neck dive. This is how I can make a body so small. This is the first design with many more to come! Let me know what you think. I could do a session on the loothalong showing the rendering.
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