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A lot depends on how you play as to wither it will work for you. If you have a heavy right hand then the increased tension of the longer scale or a shorter scale with heavier strings is probably going to suit. I have a less than gentle right hand but play a 33" with a 130 B and i find it perfectly fine. A lot also comes down to the feel of the strings a stiffer string will feel it has higher tension on a short scale and that makes a lot of difference in how the bass feels to you. It needs a bit of experimenting. For what it is worth I use DR Sunbeams on my own 6 fretless.

ACG will be going along with a selection of bass and guitars.

All good from my point of view. Agree with every thing Paul said. Also work really well on basses that are not the usual P bass setup. I use it on two pickup basses as well with the addition of a 4 way rotary selector for the pickups.

First time I have been accused of having all my body shapes to Jazz like,normally I get asked to do something more traditional . Or are they all to unusual for you which would be a more in line with the usual comments.

Happy to build them but now only to order. I thought the same as you in that building a left hander for the showing knowing there would be very few custom built left handers there would make me stand out and attract some customers but I was completely wrong there was no interest at all.

The previous two years I built a left hander to take to the London bass show. Over the two shows only one bass was tried by one person. I had to discount both basses in order to sell them and even at that it took ages. So at the last show I did not build a left hander and have decided not to build a stock left hand bass again for the simple reason there is very little interest. I am quiet happy to build a left handed instrument but would point out that it takes longer to build than the same instrument as a right handed one.

Time Lapse of the stage area until the iPad ran out of memory,managed to get most of the day. [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGtn6Rd02SU&feature=youtu.be"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGtn6Rd02SU&feature=youtu.be[/URL]

As I said the end of a perfect friendship.

Rather tired today so not a lot getting done. Thanks to my partner in crime Dave for helping out throughout and organising the stage. Thanks to Shaun as always even though he was under the weather from the party on the Friday night. Sandy for stepping up at short notice. Good to catch up with all the regulars,you know who you are. Thanks to Manchester Bass Lounge, Overwater, Alpher and Haydn from Williams Guitars all for bring gear along,very much appreciated. All in all an excellent weekend. I think we are now where we want to be with regard to numbers. The hotels where pretty much full,the curry house was full and the venue equally so. Since neither myself or Dave wish to grow the event any further which would require moving to a bigger venue outside Moffat this will be what we regard as the optimum setup and what we will be trying to maintain from here on in. There will be a Facebook page set up for pics to be shared,link will be posted once it is up and running.

Are you sure you are in Moffat. I have lived here for ages and have missed all these exciting things.

Matt is now back on board.

I have used a bandsaw that size and found it next to useless for cutting anything above 10mm in hardwoods. You cannot get enough tension in the blade to cut a body out the blade will wonder all over the place. I now have a good makita jigsaw and would use it for cutting out a body before a bandsaw that size. If the board you have is swamp ash the jigsaw will go through it fairly easily using a coarse blade with deep gullets to remove the sawdust. With bandsaws the bigger the better. They can put more tension on the blade which makes cutting much easier. Small cheap saws have frames that just can't generate the tension needed to produce a consistent cut. I use a 6mm blade on the bandsaw for bodies you need a narrow blade to cut a tight radius the width of the blade dictates the minimum radius it can cut. Try to force a wide blade to do a small radius cut puts all kinds of tension into the blade and guides.

I did several bodies with a jigsaw and a not very good one at that. If you buy a good saw and take your time it should be no problem.