Last week, when the oil had to dry and harden, I thought it would be fun to try a piece of inlay as a logo for the truss rod cover. I chose an easy character type to start with (not!) and found out this is kinda hard. It took me three tries and two nights before it came out well. I inlayed a rosewood ‘H’ into a figured maple piece of scrap, as you can see on the pics.

Tonight I started assembling the bass. I first shielded the control cavity and cover, than isolated the controls, installed the pickups and control pots and started soldering. Didn’t forget to cover up my bass, since it would be a pity to accidently burn some marks in it at this stage.

I really hate soldering. I just don’t like it. But after the first couple of joins I got the hang of it and it came out to be very relaxing and enjoyable. I copied a scheme from a picture I found on the internet and didn’t really know what I was doing… but it works. Only not sure about the level of hum, but I hope that’ll be fine tuning.