Old Horse Murphy

Bought a Boss Bass Chorus yesterday and it arrived today!! Quality product and quality service. Has my vote in the next round of life-peerages!!

Wheres IWTait???? Where is he? Your public awaits....

Awwww not fair!! Where's the Buzzard??!!! Welcome aboard

Nice guy and 100% reliable. He bought my black US P bass from me and still taunts me regularly with it!!

[quote name='Baldwin' post='164648' date='Mar 27 2008, 05:34 PM']I've heard lots of good things about the Lakland Joe Osborn 5 and I'd really like to try one out - The Gallery has one Skyline, but I'd like to compare a few back to back if possible. Google isn't giving me much to go on, so does anybody know a place in London that has a few in stock? Cheers![/quote] Where abouts are you? I've just picked up a JO5 and am based in Woking, Surrey

[quote name='lwtait' post='164686' date='Mar 27 2008, 06:36 PM']that's the one! just got back from day four of the course. to be honest we didn't do anything too exciting today. i finished carving the neck with the spoke shave (thanks scoop!), sanded the lacquer on the body from yesterday so that it was flat, routed the musicman pickup, then we spent the rest of today lacquering. there was nothing much we could do whilst we were lacquering - we started cutting the nut, switched the blend on the seymour duncan tone circuit to a 3 way switch and sanded the edges of the scratchplate, small jobs like that, but mostly just played with ruby (jons dog) whilst we waited to put on the next coat. the neck's feeling lovely now, and the body's looking really cool. [attachment=6960:shuker_day_4__1_.JPG] [attachment=6961:shuker_day_4__2_.JPG] all looking good, but quite a hard day tommorow as we've got a lot to do.[/quote] Looks better each day!! This is one of the best Posts on BC I've come across. I've been tuning every evening and looking forward to the next one each night. God knows what I'm going to do after tomorrow night. My wife says I'm sad How about we have a whip round and send you back to build another one during your next holiday!!

My Grandfather was the first person to ever do this. He started this trend long before electric instruments were invented. We had a certificate at home from the King confirming that he was the first person to do this and bestowing on him the official title of Leader of the Strap. Unfortunately he's dead now and so is everyone who can vouch for this fact.

[quote name='jonthebass' post='163666' date='Mar 26 2008, 12:01 PM']A much anticipated update from Jon. It seems like forever between updates but when they come through - yowsa!!! Anyway here we have the swamp ash body with it's poly base coat done. Looking good if I don't mind saying so! [attachment=6876:Shuker_B...npainted.jpg] [attachment=6877:Shuker_B...npainted.jpg][/quote] Do you think Jon had a base coat and photo party? Here's mine!!

Sadly, it's this one (currently for sale). My Stingray is pretty special to me too

Very nice and I love the headstock shape. Can't wait for more updates

Many apologies, but the arranged visit to Jon never happened, as I spent most of Thursday waiting for police, scenes of crime, the insurance company etc due to some piece of scum trying to break in during the early hours. Fortunately, the security bolt and the dog frightened them away before they got in fully, but 2 houses down the road weren't so lucky. In a way I'm glad I didn't catch them as if I had, I'd probably be in custody as we speak. There seems to be a run recently of burglars seeing a nice car on the drive and breaking in to steal the keys and take the car. We were away this weekend and i managed to avoid my wife's question as to why I was bringing a Stingray and a Lakland JO with us. I think she would have been more p*ssed off if I asked her to sit in the back and put the basses in the passenger seat!!