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Are you grain filling before applying the Danish oil? With finishes such as Tru-oil, some prefer to fill using the "slurry method" (there are lots of tutorials out there) but basically you finish sand with sand paper/wet and dry which is lubricated with the oil, which then forms a slurry with the fine dust and grain fills as you go. Also, I've found it tricky finding truly lint free cloths if you are doing a rub on finish, and you end up with one or two tiny fibres in your hard earned finish, which you know are there! So I tried using coffee filter papers which you can wear like a little mitten and it works quite well and doesn't drop any fibres God luck Harry

Be careful dealing with Gear4Music though , they sell off an awful lot of (very) damaged stock on ebay They seem to be a bit cackhanded with their stock

Watching a very good programme on Wilko at the moment on BBC1

I like it I hope you don't think me rude, but I have some bridge parts and control knobs I would like to get gold plated to go on my Blingray in my avatar, where did you send yours to and how much did they charge? Did you get the gold decal made up specially too?

Love the designing that went into it, especially like the string trees Lovely job

An Alfa Romeo Disco Volante, and then whatever would fit in the boot, probably a PJB Briefcase or an Amplug!

Lovely job, and a right riveting read, what kind of wood is the body made from?

Rich beat me to it, but how about "One night at a disco On the outskirts of 'Frisco"

Mmmmn, I'm getting the picture now! I was hoping to end up with "something" along the lines of a Modulus , as it will have an obp-1 pre, albeit with a Delano alnico MM style pickup, and hopefully a badass bridge However, I emailed Status who said their 5 string Stingray necks are 22 fret as opposed to the G&L's 21 frets, meaning that I'd have to lengthen the neck pocket and/or move the bridge back. This would not be such a mare, as the body is to be refinished (sparkly black) anyway, but now I'm thinking is it worth four times the cost of a nice neck blank, to gain a bit of stability when it will spend most of its life indoors. Are the sonic benefits really worth paying the premium for? I could make a neck from a nicely figured piece of maple with a black veneer accent line between the neck and board and graphite rods which may perform as well and look better Still undecided

Me too, made a couple of stingray style basses myself, the build blogs are on here if you're interested (or bored!) I think I have a spare Stingray/Sabre clone preamp at home made by our very own Tommo Richards, its yours if you want it (and I can find it) Best of luck with this project

Just bought an Aguilar pre from Pete, a top bloke, his wife is a very lucky girl! Thanks Pete H

Does anyone know the nut width/depth of the Status MM 5 string neck and whether it would fit a G&L L2500 body. The website is a bit vague

Im in the process of re-starting a 5 string build using a G&L body adapted for a Delano MM pickup and was considering what if any benefits there would be in using a graphite neck rather than making a maple one. Anyone with first hand experience care to comment please? Harry

Beautiful bass I noticed on your build thread that you were considering adding bridge mutes. I did this to the same kind of bridge on one of my Blingray builds.........the parts are available from the EB website. I also added the allen-head bridge posts and gave it a string through option. [url="http://www.ernieball.co.uk/c/music-man-spares"]http://www.ernieball...usic-man-spares[/url]

Good on you, kind sir

I like it a lot Hidde, nice sound

Very nice bass, I recently put the same pre in my home built fretless Blingray, paired with a Nordstrand MM4.2 and it sounds awesome. Just need to figure out how to wire in a 3 way blade switch for the series/parallel/single coil options and it will be sorted!

Everything has been said here, a very talented and accomplished man, just love his playing, especially on "One of us"

Just obtained an East MMSR 3 band preamp and a Nordstrand MM4.2 from donnybass, a very helpful and trustworthy bloke. Deal with him in confidence, many thanks, once again Stephen Best wishes Harry

Fuzz?..........prefer a tidy wicket myself!

Tasteful and immaculate, as ever. This will be lovely. What sort of electrickery will you be using Ian?