On the last official week of the senior project, I got very close to finishing the bass but plan to finish it in the coming week before the presentation. At the begging of the week, I was ready to cut the fret slots and install them. The positions of the frets in relationship to the nut and bridge are what defines the scale length of your instrument and if each note is in tone or properly intonated. The 12th frett has to be exactly between the start of the strings the nut and the end of the string the bridge saddles. The distance between the nut and where I was going to put the bridge when I put the neck on the body was 34 inches which means my bass has a scale length of 34 inches. I used an online fret calculator to find where the frets went and spent a lot of time marking the lines for each frett. After I finished marking up the neck I then used a Japanese jointer saw and a saw guide to cut the fret slots in the fretboard. the next day I worked on getting the inlay dots in. The dots where blue abalone, to inlay them I used a drill bit slightly larger than the dots and drilled into the fretboard slow by slow till they sit flush. It was almost the same process for the side and top inlay dots, but the top dots took much longer since the only drill bit I had that was the right size was very dull. At the end of the week, I glued in the neck to the body after touching the neck pocket and the final shape of the neck and body. I was worried that since the surfaces where rough the glue would not hold as well but I did some research and rough material actually helps with a glue joint. The next morning I started putting in the fretts when the neck cracked right at the headstock right where I sawed to thin. luckily it was a clean crack and it was still attached to the rest of the neck. I had fixed many cracked necks like this before so I glued it before I started to freak out. But after it dried the crack is barely visible and seems very strong. If it ever cracks again I might look into gluing in wooden pins or splines through the crack to reinforce it.