I made a truss rod cover out of a piece of spalted wood. Tough to get such a small piece of wood so thin. I used the bench mounted belt sander, its kind of amazing I have all the skin left on my fingers. I am not 100% sold on this as a truss rod cover, but I guess it looks cool in one respect. I guess the reason I am on the fence with it is because its the only "natural" shape on the bass - not sure if it fits in with the other shapes of the spalted maple.
I guess in looking at the picture, it looks ok:
I still need to shape that headstock a bit more, its too blocky, I will make the bottom swing in a bit more above that second hole and I'll take a little off the top in between the second and third hole.
I also made the template for the pickup cavity routing. I'll go as deep as I can with the router (1/4" or so) then use the drill press and a forstner bit to pull out the rest. With the neck in the way, I can't get the router down deep enough to use it to clear all the wood. The forstner bit is a lot faster and less nerve wracking. I'll finish it off with a chisel like I did the control cavity. I did a test run with the template - I might need to adjust things a bit, it seems like there is too much space between the pickups, which is a pain, but a lot easier to fix now than after I get the holes cut! I'll draw in the bridge and figure it out once I see how it will all line up. I suppose that's the reason it didn't feel productive, making the template took a lot of time, I know it doesn't look like much, but there's always these little things that pop up.
I'm on vacation today (though calls this morning) and I have some yard work to catch up on, a couple of Craigslist sales to conduct (all to fund a new road bike!), then the work shop. Its going to be a busy day!
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