Building a bass from the ground up

[jakobdoesathing]

Hey everybody, sorry for the long bit of silence. Had actual schoolwork to do.
Finished my first test for the neck, getting the taper down. It worked! ...but not the final product.
I ran the test on a piece of wood, and the top of the fretboard where it meets the nut and headstock is a tad small. Not too big of a problem though, just some minor code tweaking. I'll post pics when I get home and can send them through my phone.

Here's the initial test run. Put my zero in the wrong point so it's backwards, but once I switch to aluminum I'll make sure it doesn't happen. Happy with the overall success of the program tho!

 

[Kashofa]

Code tweaking? Back in my day, we'd fix that with a swipe of a hand plane. Or maybe a subtle tap of a hammer.......

You might not be following the thread. I believe his neck will be milled from aluminum so hand plane is definitely out and probably tapping with a hammer would not accomplish much either

 

[Matt Liebenau]

Code tweaking? Back in my day, we'd fix that with a swipe of a hand plane. Or maybe a subtle tap of a hammer.......

That would be an analog code tweak?

 

[Bruce Johnson]

You might not be following the thread. I believe his neck will be milled from aluminum so hand plane is definitely out and probably tapping with a hammer would not accomplish much either

I'm just makin' old man jokes. Back in my day, we made bass necks from hard maple, hand shaped with planes and files! By sunlight and candle light! We didn't sit in air-conditioned rooms tapping keys on a new-fangled computer machine.

If you need to tweak the data on an aluminum neck, I'd go for an angle grinder or a small hydraulic press. That'll correct the measurements to make it fit your computer model.

 

[Kashofa]

I'm just makin' old man jokes. Back in my day, we made bass necks from hard maple, hand shaped with planes and files! By sunlight and candle light! We didn't sit in air-conditioned rooms tapping keys on a new-fangled computer machine.

If you need to tweak the data on an aluminum neck, I'd go for an angle grinder or a small hydraulic press. That'll correct the measurements to make it fit your computer model.

I have seen a lot of episodes of "Forged in Fire" and now I picture you, hammer in hand, making those fine neck adjustments.