A couple of new prodjects that I am starting!

I have decided to start some new prodjects this weekend. The first being this bass body I have had in my scrap bin for about 8 years now and could never think of anything to do with it. It had started life back in the day as what I thought was the finale design of what is now called my TBM model (Picture of current body previousepost). Back in the day I wanted everything to have 24 frets 35 inch scales, tilt back head stocks and the body to be as small as possible. Now I have become just the opposite! So I scrapped the body years ago and was in my shop yesterday and came across it and thought "what can I do with this now" and then it hit me. Make a bass with a 30 inch scale so one day when my Son now One month old can have something to learn on and I can use it in the meantime. So that is what I am going to do. I also had a neck blank (see Picture below) I built for my current TBM project but have since decided to go with a none tilt back head stock with in-line tuners. So I had this just sitting around as well. It is a three peace Maple, Purpleheart, Maple set-up and at 30" scale it should be very stiff and should have some nice low and fast action. Now I need to mill the top of the body down and add a top to it. This was another not so bright idea back in the day. After I built the bass body you see hear I decided to try and mill it down with the wrong tools and add a top to it, BAD IDEA!! So now I am going to take the body to my Dad's and run it through his planner to level it out and I will put something back on top. I am not sure yet asto what I want to add to the top but I may go with a Poplar cap and paint the body BLUE and I may do it Trans Blue but not sure yet. I also have had this peace of Birdseye lying around for a few years and I am going to use it for the f-board. This will be the first time doing a maple f-board and I figured this would be a good place to start. I also took a picture to see if I want to use a rose wood f-board but I think I will save that for something else. I can't wait to see how this turns out because my first bass was a Fender P-Bass Squire with a short scale. I have never seen one since but I loved that bass. Amazingly enough I still have the P-bass pick-up and electronics from that bass and that is what I am going to put in this bass. I think I will build a wood soap bar cover for it, to give it a full on custom look to the bass. I am also thinking about putting a pickgaurd on this bass and make it out of Ambrosia Maple from the same log you see pictures from here. I will add new pictures as I move forward.

For my other project I am starting on. Iit will be from this book matched block of Ambrosia Maple you see here. I need to plane it down smooth and level. I may also need to add a top or bottom to this body blank to build it back up to 1.75" thick. I am still up in the air about this body but I may build my first Electric Guitar with it. Once I decide on what to do I will post pictures. The cool thing about this wood is that my Dad and his Uncle cut it down in the woods by his house and I got some and my Dad and great uncle made bowls out of the rest and the bowls looked awsome. In the picture it is hard to tell but this wood looks good, no flame or quilt but some good spalt and grain patterns. Hope you like what you see.

Also if you would like me to build you something please get in-touch with me at meyersguitars@bellsouth.net . I am only offering my MG-1 4 string at this time Bass pictured at top behind company name. I will be offering the TBM model in a 4 and 5 string in the near future. Please contact me for more details. I hope everyone had a Great MLK day I know I did because I was not working. Until next post, have a good one and Play On!!!