I tell you, this headstock has been through the ringer. As I mentioned a couple posts ago for my 33rd birthday my buddies bought me a fretless bass neck—what they call rough-finished (still needing final sanding). It had kind of an Ibanez-lookin' headstock which I trimmed a little for the failed "tele bass." Then I started cutting away at it for the original "cubist bass" idea and then I settled on a kind of skinny upright looking headstock. Only, I wasn't really excited about it. I didn't know what to do with it so I set it aside and worked on the body.
…well a couple weeks back I decided to stop in the Chicago Music Exchange and play some professionally built basses when I came across an NS electric upright. I've seen these online, but in person I thought this headstock is great—simple, slick—and there you have it—I knew what to do. I came home sawed off the "ambivalent headstock" and roughed out my version of an NS headstock from paduak and poplar.
With the Dynamism Dog I tried to go about building it like I would paint. Which is roughing things out, reacting to it, repeat. When it comes to woodworking and specifically instrument making, I don't recommend that approach. It's not terribly time efficient and there is a lot of starting over which can lead to frustration. Eventually I got there.
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