Last week I did some small things like drilling the wiring channels from the pickup cavities to the control cavities, cleaning up the scarf joint and bevelling the edges of the frets. I also sanded the whole neck and body up to grid 180.

On Thursday I finally received the parts I ordered. But, in fact.. I needed a drill press to assemble most of the parts and I didn’t have one. I thought about buying one for a few weeks now and yesterday I made the decision. So here’s my latest toy: a brand new drill press!! I am very happy with it and it already proved it’s value today. I spent several hours working on the bass and got two major things done. I installed the tuners and made the bolt-on connection between neck and body. Both came out well and having this done I’m getting close to finishing this project!

There’s only one thing that bothers me a bit. When I attached the neck to the body, I got to feel the balance of the bass and as I expected it’s neck heavy. This is caused by the combination of a fat neck and a relatively small body. If you point the neck upwards, it’s playable, but it’s not ideal. I think correct placement of the strap holders is really important and could improve the balance. And maybe, installing the pickups, electronics and bridge will also help a bit, but this might or is going to be the only ‘negative’ habbit of this bass ;).