Throughout my senior project experience, I found myself returning to my initial question as well as my inspiration and intent for this project. chose to build a bass using nonelectric[…]
Author: 20timurs
CR 5
My essential question for my experience building a bass is does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and[…]
Week 6
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[…]
Week 5
At the beginning of this week, I made a major mistake, I needed to thin down the headstock enough so the tuners would fit all the way through. Instead of[…]
Week 4
On week four of my senior project, I finished getting the body to shape with files and rasps working on getting out small imperfections and bumps. I then made the[…]
Critical Reflection 4
Throughout this experience, there have been a lot of different experiences that have brought into question my essential question and the way I have framed it. Throughout this process my[…]
cr3
My essential question has been in this process does use hand tools and traditional woodworking methods create an artistic connection to the instrument I build? As I approach the end[…]
Week 3
This week i got a lot of work done, I glued the fret board onto the the neck. The fret board blank I was using was oversize and not[…]
CR 2
Going into the project my essential question has been Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the[…]
work days 7- 9
I am starting to get close to the end of building this neck i used a saw rasp to get the neck to first the right thickness then to the[…]
CR 1
My essential question is Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Ever since I was[…]
Work day 3-6
On day three of my project, I worked on making the volume knobs out of the same wood I was using for the neck of the bass. I started with[…]
Work Days 1 and 2
On the first day of my project started researching luthiery and the process of bass building. In my research, I got an idea of what needed to be done first[…]
Final Proposal: Building a Bass Using Hand Tools and Traditional Methods
Essential Question: Does using hand tools and traditional woodworking methods to make a bass create a strong artistic connection between me and the instrument? Statement of Definition: For my Senior[…]