{"id":166,"date":"2011-02-27T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?p=166"},"modified":"2016-12-06T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:26:38","slug":"its-all-about-the-jig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about the jig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a tremendous amount of work done today on the bass.\u00a0 It seems that all of woodworking can be reduced to making jigs or sanding.\u00a0 We started by building several frames to hold the routing template for the pickup.<!--more--> The routing bit came with a small sleeve ball bearing that is exactly the same diameter as the router bit.\u00a0 We cut a bit of teflon tubing to put above and below the sleeve, to keep it precisely in place, against the template.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-169\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=169\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-169\" title=\"P1020150\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201501.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201501.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201501-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-170\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-170\" title=\"P1020152\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201521.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201521.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201521-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-171\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=171\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-171\" title=\"P1020153\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201531.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201531.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201531-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had one fantastic stroke of luck while testing our setup on the walnut.\u00a0 After routing the hole, we grabbed one of the pickups to test the fit&#8230;. it would not.\u00a0 We scratched our heads and then tried the other pickup. It fit! Suddenly, we realized the two pickups were not identical, and the template we had fit one, but not the other.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-175\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=175\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175\" title=\"P1020161\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201611.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201611-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yikes!\u00a0 Had we not accidentally grabbed the wrong pickup, we would have used the template to route both pickup holes, and then would have had to do some ugly stretching of the hole to fit the pickup.\u00a0 So after routing the intended hole we spent about an hour carving a template of our own for the other pickup.\u00a0 Whew, close call.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-172\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172\" title=\"P1020156\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201561.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201561.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201561-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-173\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=173\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-173\" title=\"P1020157\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201571.jpg 600w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201571-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-174\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=174\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-174\" title=\"P1020158\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201581.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201581-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were a bit worried about the purpleheart.\u00a0 When we were using the plane to level the surface the purpleheart suffered &#8220;tearouts&#8221; easily.\u00a0 We were also nervous about routing the thin laminated strips, but with the new sharp blade and making 3 passes to work our way through the 3\/4th&#8221; made the work easy.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-168\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=168\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-168\" title=\"DSC_6913\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC_69131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC_69131.jpg 644w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DSC_69131-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I when to pickup a celebratory pizza, Paul took the neck and bridge off his old base and decided where he wanted to put the control knobs.\u00a0 We then mock assembled the pieces to see how they would look.\u00a0 We will need to pick up some long-neck potentiometers, since they have to make it through 3\/4&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>Then it was time to relax&#8230;\u00a0 We had pizza, and I kicked back with a beer.\u00a0 Then we topped the evening off by watching Netflix.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-176\" href=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/bass\/?attachment_id=176\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" title=\"P1020164\" src=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201641.jpg 800w, http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/P10201641-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a tremendous amount of work done today on the bass.\u00a0 It seems that all of woodworking can be reduced to making jigs or sanding.\u00a0 We started by building several frames to hold the routing template for the pickup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leopardshark.com\/music\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}