The body is to be made of English Beech with American Black Walnut. These will create the 'sides' of the Bass along with a centre core of Honduras Mahogany and Walnut also. The woods have been selected to compliment each other in tone and also from a cosmetic perspective. Therefore the front of the instrument will have darker, rich woods, whereas the back will have a lighter softer colouration.
The second image shows the routered channel for the pick-up wires. I found this to be much more effective at the gluing stage rather than drilling the worm hole when the body is completed. The wires are fed down the channel straight into the control cavity so that maintenance or changing the pick-up should be a straight forward affair down the line.
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