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Although I may end up buying SolidWorks, although I haven't got a CNC at the moment, I've just seen a demonstration of a small desktop CNC 9060 that comes in about £1800.
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Also in the mean-time try and chase down a dimension - looking closer the distance between the two body wings across the neck through might be best because it is so sharp a contrast maple to rosewood(?) and it is perpendicular to the centre line. If not, calipers around somebody's Alembic pickups would do it too.
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Here I would also check the 24th fret to high E saddle, as it should be bang on 1/4 of the known scale length, +2 or 3mm for intonation.
i.e on a 34" scale bass the distance from 24th to saddle will be 8 1/2" + 1/8" compensation = 8 5/8"
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The pic above is not quite horizontal but a tiny rotation of 0.1deg anticlockwise got the centre line horizontal. It isn't super high res but it's got a lot of info in it and I think we have enough to get Graham what he needs. My initial fiddling:
I'm looking for another picture very similar that includes the 12th friend fret as the scale length is 30" I believe this hopefully will give us a much more accurate scaling of the body. I should also say it doesn't have to be an exact copy of the body lookalike will be good enough I think.
@jasonbone75 it looks like you will be able to do it, a PDF would be great.
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Also useful was the 24th fret width at 2.15inch which I was able to scale with and confirm the 24th to E saddle as well. I'm pretty close to done. Just having issues exporting it as usual! Want to make sure it is 1:1 when you actually receive.
I'm not near SolidWorks from lunch today till Monday so if I don't finish I'll pick it up later.
OK think I've got something for you to try. This should be an A2 sized page with a 1:1 body in the middle. The centre line should measure at 330.30 mm when printed:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DLJwuu21Ug_609NSBwUwz4cVqz6perGR/view?usp=sharing
Once you've had a play come back to me next week in case we need to tweak anything.
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Although the customer who initiated all this seems to gone very quiet at the moment, but there's been a bit of interest in it as I don't think anybody makes any kits of this particular bass.
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