Andyjr1515

Yes - that bottom picture is wild!

Wow, you are certainly motoring! I like the neck laminations v much

That's a lot of progress in a week!

It's a delight, @Marcoelwray !

Just had a peep at the description and it states it's had a makeover prior to present ownership. Isn't this the work of one of our Basschat members? Seem to remember seeing this and another one being done. Whatever, fabulous makeover!

I think that's right, @Marcoelwray . It's something I've drifted into in the past - where I've changed so many things that I may as well have built something from scratch in the first place! And anyway, it's going to look fabulous with that top whatever the fretboard colour!

That last picture. Wow....

I'm particularly impressed how you added the hologram of a guy holding a camera into the finish Seriously, looks brilliant

Either would look good, but certainly gold wouldn't be too much

That's ma boy! Excellent. Can't wait.

Lovely bass. This one's a particularly nice looking one

Yes, indeed. Great Bash and excellent result

You say the nicest things, Frank

Now then, @ped - building the tuner in too is just plain showing off!

Well - that would have to had to have been the one that I stole off Jez and pretended it was one of mine. Unfortunately, no-one believed I could build something this cool nowadays, in spite of past glories I know when I'm beaten (but like a Phoenix.....maybe, just maybe)

OOOOOOooooooooooooh! Lovely!!

Nice job!

And DiMarzio P's are excellent...

Cool logo! Looks good against the grey

The DiMarzio Model One (DP120) is a WONDERFUL pickup. I've fitted them in two builds, Pete's EB-3ish tribute: And @gelfin 's Mouradian-ish: They sounded epic in both. Power of a mudbucker without the mud

Love it!

No hadn't seen this - thanks for the link!

Hope Mrs Zero gets well soon! All the best to both. And yes - I think the poetry's stopped...

For those who were at the talk on experiments with taking weight out, I mentioned an interesting YouTube clip someone's done using a neck-only guitar with detachable identical bodies in various woods. I said I'd post the link, which is here: The first part covers what he has done and how and why and includes the results through a microphone (not an entirely scientific method) but 12min 40sec onwards covers all of the results, one after another, on the DAW (including the wave-forms) - by his admission, still not properly scientific but more relevant. Clearly - and he mentions this - it is still affected by the way he plays the down chord in each case so not infallible, but interesting nonetheless. The relevance to my talk was my own realisation (from my own experiments and off-the-wall projects) that actually, you can get SOME sort of half decent instrument simply by bolting everything to a suitably rigid neck - and that you can then take significant liberties with the body itself (in my case, taking weight out). Clearly, this guy sort of comes to a similar conclusion, albeit from a completely different direction.

No problem - only pulling your leg. A few years ago, in front of my wife and two daughters, I walked up to someone I was meeting for the first time and said, "Hi. My name's Alan...er...no it's not, it's Andy." Wife and daughters have never let me forget it...