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Why not make a matching sleeve for your F1?

just me but i'd prefer shoreline gold............or teal/sherwood green............or inca silver?

Don't know if you've heard of him but there's an Isreali guy called Gil Yaron who does scarily authentic vintage builds and posts them all on TDPRI under the name of Preeb. Well worth a look, not just at his bass builds

Any updates Tommo, I can't wait to try one

have a look on the TDPRI site, I've read of people on there using shoe polish! What you must remember though is that you will be clear coating over the top, so it would be safer just to get a tin of tinted nitro and a couple of clear from the same source to avoid unwanted reactions

Shedua, nice. I've a one piece body blank of Tambooti, what a name, and was going to build a 5 string using all African woods....Shedua/Ovankol facings and a Wenge neck, but read bad things about splinters from Wenge. Does your Warwick have a Wenge neck?

Pino's favoured Stingray was identical if I'm following this correctly, I presume he got two identical ones and is offloading the less preferred. Wonder why he hasn't used e-bay! Or stuck it in a Hard Rock Cafe, more right to be there than Boner's Fender Bullet!

Nice one, yours is about the same age, post a pic of it, just to make me feel really sick. I remember mine arrived for some reason separately from the case. It was in a molded block of polystyrene inside a big cardboard box in the early part of the year, freezing outside but the neck was straight as an arrow and it was still in tune (well the open strings were!) To try to console myself I've started building a Blingray, that is a Stingray style bass but in the stlye of a Wal. It will have a walnut core instead of mahogany, then cherry veneers front and back, then claro walnut facings and I might make the arm and tummy contours more like a Wal. The neck is a maple and walnut laminate like a Wal, but as you cannot get Wal like electronics I've done it in the shape of a Stingray (my second favourite bass) and got Stingray hardware I hope it might ease my troubled mind! all the best mackem Harry

Didn't Andy Rourke sell his Yamaha recently as well? Can't think why, never had one but I'd like to maybe one day

[quote]Ooh nice! The famous one has a big Wales sticker on the back, can't think why [/quote] .........to stop people nicking it?

Am I right in thinking these come highly recommended? [url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Trace-Elliot-5-string-T-Bass-/160781536133?pt=UK_Musical_Instruments_Guitars_CV&hash=item256f538b85"]http://www.ebay.co.u...=item256f538b85[/url] shoolboy grammar corrected, it's been a long day

Sorry leftyhook, I've been misunderstood! It was a poor attempt at irony, I am a huge fan of Wal basses, in fact I will tell you a sad story. I come from Seaham originally and was an apprentice during the miner's strike. At that time I owned a burgundy Rick and a fretless Aria ( might have been an SB1000) I didn't like either of them so just as the strike was ending in spring 84 I sold them and bought a fretless Wal exactly like this one [attachment=104802:W2330.jpg] [attachment=104803:W2330-1.jpg] Then in 1989 I left the promised land after making the only move I've regretted in life, I traded the Wal for a strat and a Vox in that shopat the bottome of Mobray Park (King's Music?) WHAT A TW** I miss that Wal more as I get older but there's no way I could afford one now So if you see someone playing one like that around the toon, ask him whiere he got it from, it might be my old one. All the best bonny lad

Pretty good price for an ugly Shergold copy

I haven't updated this for a while because there has been nothing really positive to put on it! I shaped the neck and left it purposely fat (an enlarged version of the Warmoth fatback telecaster I have and which fits my shovels nicely!) I was thinking it's better to be too thick as too thin! Anyway it felt nice and chunky when I was done, so I backstained it to make the grain pop some more, sanded it all off and then began to give it some coats of oil. Now this is where fortune took over and it became obvious that it was giong Benidorm brown, just like Madge in the buggy! Despite the lady who sold me the oil saying it was clear, it's obviously not and I don't like it at all, but fortune was about to intervene again as despite measuring several times before drilling for the tuners, once I strung up it was obvious that a couple of tuners need moving, not by much at all but enough for it to bug the s*** out of me. For what its worth here are the pictures that I did take, I haven't took any more and probably won't till it looks better (unless you want something to laugh at) [attachment=104546:Picture 544.jpg] [attachment=104547:Picture 539.jpg] So what I will be doing next is slimming the neck down some more, removing all the finish and moving the offending tuners! The long term plan will be to repaint the body, either a very dark met blue/black or just met black and I will colour match the front of the headstock Then I tried to try out the wiring harness and could find no schematics at all on Dean basses. EastcoastEddie on Talkbass along with a couple of kind people here, but it won't work. I think it's Donald. This is the point where good luck comes in because I found another cheap MM style pickup to tide me over and noticed that the very talented Tommorichards is making MM Sabre style preamps at a very reasonable price on these shores Perfect!!!! The G&L body has the same pots and swiches layout as the Sabre, I need something simple ! You'll do for me Tommo! So that's it for now........It will return

PM'd

How soon do you think would these would be available ?

I'll have one please to fit in a G&L 2500 body

[url="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280858163100?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649"]http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/280858163100?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649[/url] Always liked these, back in the day, they seem like a good bet too

You could consider gunstock oil, it's easy to apply and starts of matt but the more coats you apply the glossier it becomes. Quite durable too and it will accentuate the grain a bit more

Is that a brass plate at the heel of the fretless neck? I think Wilkes used to do one like that for slapping Is it any good?

anyone like to buy a 48 year old kidney, vgc, one careful owner?.....I'll throw in an eyeball for a quick sale!