Monday, August 28, 2023

Post 33: Ready for further tests

  I took the instruments completely apart to bend the end of the neck back, and then reassembled it and restrung it with a new set of flat wound strings in diameters .26, .36, .46, .59, .70, .85, and .105.

  The tuners ended up being too hard to adjust by hand, I will need to change the thread of the screws to a smaller one, probably using M4 metric screws fitted to the knurled knobs.

  I gave it to my friend LaDonna to play with and test for a while.



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Post 34: Thinking of a headless and fretless bass

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