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Look at the chaos that is my bitsa build, there I fit a 5 string neck to a 4 string body. There was only a couple of mm on each side to widen the pocket. I can take a picture of the g side overhand if you would like so you can judge whether you can live with it or not.

Spelt ebOnol. Not to be confused with ebAnol, which is a perfume ingredient. No, I didn't know that either until a minute ago.

It's ebanol. Some sort of composite I believe. Yeah, it wasn't great. He came to rehearsal one evening, did a song and a half and said, "Sorry guys, I don't feel great, see you next week." The next day he was in hospital with a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and six weeks later we had his funeral.

I'm not making a banjo. Twerp

I've had it since early summer, it just hasn't got home before now. A Squier JB V Active Deluxe from 2008. It belonged to our guitarist who died in October '23. The chap who was helping his widow out with sorting through his instruments and musical accoutrements called me and said that Angelika had asked if I would like it. It's been in our rehearsal room since then. I brought it home to change the strings and clean it, did a smidge of setup and the truss rod nut promptly stripped. I've just come back from the luthier after having a new TR nut fitted and everything is happy again. Neither of us expected it to be so simple!

Second coat of oil. Still no slurry, and it's now the same colour as my bench! It's slightly darker IRL than my phone camera shows.

I saw those recently. Do they model the Vox/Aguilar tone or is it just a look and feel thing? Though as my phone doesn't have a 3.5mm socket I'm sort of looking at a NUX mighty Plug so I can BT to it to play along. I've brought a bass to work so I can practice at lunch in our storeroom!

Therapy? @ Gruenspan in about 6 hours 😁

Well. It didn't do what I expected, but with one application of oil at 600 grit it is glass smooth with a few grain ripples here and there. 800 tonight and 1200 later in the week and see what it looks like then.

Dunno, I'm making it up on the fly. From the threads by Andy and Honza, no, I don't think so.

Plate of scratch The chamfer is more a round over in places, shows it's hand crafted 😉 First coat of oil, it didn't slurry like I was expecting, maybe the wrong oil? 600 grit and the oil is for worktops/tabletops and has waxes mixed into it. I hope it gets darker, it's too light for my taste at the moment. Yes, that is an original Mate Tools Workmate 😉

I'm beginning to wish I'd left it alone and lived with the slightly questionable setup.

I've got the nut out, and it goes back on again, it just won't tighten. I'm hoping it's the nut that's gone rather than the rod.

The nut thread *looks* OK. What tool? If it is stripped it's a fingerboard off job I suspect.