The hardware will be black, Nordstrand Fat Stacks pickups, Aguilar OBP-3 preamp, brass nut.
First off I needed to buy some Rock Maple as I didn’t have enough left for a neck through body. Only problem is my regular supplier, Lazarides Timber closed its doors last year
They were awesome, they had everything. I was able to find a local guy with a few boards of really nice Maple, only problem was it was 50mm stock in widths of 250mm. 
Just huge really but I had no choice so I bought a board and went to my buddy Bill’s place for some resawing.
The great bit now is that I’ve got enough for 8 Fender style necks and a couple of neck through bodies. That should keep me going for a couple of years
We ordered a nice piece of Burl Redwood online. It came in a block, that also got resawn and I got enough for two tops.
Next, the laminates get glued for the neck through body
Once I finished touching up the design in CAD software I machined the new templates for the bass, below are the ones that will needed to be used for this bass.
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Here is the neck blank and the scarf joint jig.
The blank is bandsawn roughly at an angle to get the headstock and neck parts of the scarf joint.
The first part gets clamped into the jig and the router machines it flat at the angle we want to have.
Once the two pieces have been machined I clamp them together and touch them up with a plane to make sure they’re nice and flat
Eventually the two parts will be glued together at an angle as per below, not just yet though, that’s just for the show now
Drawing the locations of where the core needs to get cut on the blank
Next up is the truss rod slot and the end adjustment bit shaving.
The sides are roughly bandsawn and then with the core template are cleaned up on the router table
Here’s a look with the wing templates for what it will end up looking. Stay tuned for build pics later this week
