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Bailey custom one string bass-6/7- making the body

Apr 7th

Posted by Mark in Bass guitars

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…and stringing it up for a test…

: The body is marked out

: neck-slot

: Rear cavity and battery box

: Neck mounting screw holes

: Recessed neck anchor washers

: The neck is screwed on for the first time

: Marking out the output jacks

: ‘Stitch drilling’ for the midi jack

: A 22mm hole is drilled for both outputs

: The rest of the waste is removed with a chisel

: Tools used to fit the output jacks

: Test fitting the jack sockets

: The finished holes for the output jacks

: A small sanding block was used for cleaning up the square hole

: Marking out the individual string saddle

: A slot is made for the piezo wire

: A hole is drilled through into the control cavity

: The drill pops out in the control cavity

: The nut is fitted

: Strung up and tested

: Carving the body

: Sanded and sprayed with sealer

: The front of the body

: The neck and body are hanging to dry

The bass will get another coat tomorrow then hang for a while to dry. We are still waiting for the acoustiphonic volume control. It is expected in about 10 days so we will have to wait till then to find out what it really sounds like.

Meanwhile I strung it up ‘in the white’ to check all is OK and it looked great. If you remember: There is no truss rod in this neck- I was pretty sure it would be OK as there is only the one string but I wanted to make sure it didn’t bend too much under string tension. As it turned out it hardly moved at all. Result…

Next time I write about the ‘one string wonder’ it will be finished!..Part 7

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Custom Bailey for Skerryvore…Design Session

Mar 16th

Posted by Mark in Artists

…Choosing the wood and making the blanks…

: Alec drawing his headstock design

: The finished drawing

: Checking over the wood

: Alec taking a picture of the wood for his custom guitar

: The fretboard and neck blank for Alec’s guitar

: The fretboard is being glued on to the neck and the ‘drop top’ is glued to the body

: After removing the clamps

: The body with it’s ‘drop top’ maple cap

Alec is the front man (guitars and voice) for West coast band Skerryvore. He visited at the weekend to finalise the drawing and spec for his new Bailey Custom. He drew his own headstock shape it will be a unique one off custom and requested that the guitar have a ‘sustainer unit’ built in and probably EMG pickups (still to confirm).

After seeing Steve’s guitar made on our build your own guitar course, he has decided to have it sprayed with the same red wine burst so it will be a stunner.

Alec brought his favourite old guitar for me to copy the neck, so I took all the dimensions.

While he was here I got out the wood I had selected for him to check over. It will have a maple neck with a birds eye fretboard. The body is ash with a 4mm highly flamed maple ‘drop top’ cap. This means that the ‘elbow carve’ is cut into the ash body blank before the cap is bent and glued on top.

I took him back to the train station with some homework. He is going to work on an inlay design for the 12th fret and decide for sure which pickups he wants.

When I got back from dropping him off I got started straight away gluing up the body blank. I also made the fretboard, roughed out the neck, and glued the fretboard on before calling it a day. Next job is to put the truss rod in.

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Bailey Guitars on Second Life

Feb 7th

Posted by Mark in Extra curricular activity

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….is it me or is life getting weirder?

While you are saving for a real one why not get a virtual Bailey?. Great idea -I have to confess that I don’t understand most of this but a friend of ours has created an animated Bailey guitar on ‘second life’. This is him playing it in his band – he’s the one with the ‘lectrik blue’ guitar…..weird…. I should mention that he has already made several REAL guitars here at ‘Bailey world’ on our build your own course – but I think it has been harder and taken longer to make a virtual one! Thanks John….see below for details of how to get yours!

: bailey-guitar-eagle-lektrik-blue

: bailey-guitar-eagle-motor-red

: bailey-guitar-eagle-rocknrolled-gold

: bailey-guitar-eagle-slash-black

: Get your virtual Bailey here!

QUOTE

Hi gang
I enclose a picture of the wee shop I run on Second Life which is called “Metal’s Guitars”. It’s in a place called Wajo Hill on the south coast of the Jeogeot continent – Clicking on that SLURL will bring up a map and you can teleport you there if you’re in the game. (if not you are prompted to signup)

You’ll notice 4 boxes on the floor of my shop… well these are the guitars I make on here. I call them “Eagle” on here and I retail them on SL for L$500.. L$ is Second Life speak for “Linden Dollars” which is the game currency on here… Roughly L$400 equals £1 so basically my guitars retail for £1.25. Bargain eh… lol

I make 4 colours so far with a flame maple cap:
Lektrik Blue, Motor Red, Slash Black, Rock n Rolled Gold

In the video, I’m wearing an Eagle with a custom texture I call “Mad Blue”.

Each colour comes with 3 versions…
Chrome hardware no trem, Chrome hardware with trem, Black hardware with trem

Each of the boxes contains 1 of each version, which means L$500 gets 3 guitars, not just 1, in a particular colour.

For L$100 I can change the texture on the guitar body (ie replace the flame maple with a picture of their choice) if they supply the texture, although I will recolour the existing flame maple texture to any other colour for nothing.

Bit of SL speak now, each guitar is…
Full Prim…. Prim count is between 163 and 175 depending on the version,
Non animated, Non scripted, Non particle emitting, No music, Unmodifiable, Untransferable, Copyable

I hope to offer in the future a scripted resizing and colour changing option.
OK I hope to catch you guys soon….Oh by the way, my Second Life name is “Metal Bookmite”:

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