Si600

I'm not sure I'd bother. Hole in the fretboard, bad nut and the neck doesn't fit the pocket properly? Once it's been sent from Australia you're a bit knacked sending it back but I'd be certainly writing a very stern email to get onto the QC bod.

Something new in the 'shop yesterday. Clamp storage. Saw till next to display my new purchases... I was thinking as I was sweeping up that all this storage making is just playing, not making real things, but then I thought, no, it's learning. It's making shelves and boxes, trying new things and if it ends up a bit wonky then no-one's going to see it apart from me and the "real" things will be hopefully better for it. Pics once it's been varnished.

No PG made from a licence plate hand beaten in a state penitentiary? You are dead to me.

Me again. After facing the vice with a square of 12mm ply and taking the opportunity to make the top of the chop wider I now need to put an apron on the bench. It's never bloody ending this tinkering. Anyway... A big sheet of ply or something solid wood?

Front, rear and fretboard bound Westone Quantum in natural it is then?

Do it. I'll never speak to you again if you don't.

All manner of things then, from weird noise effects to total silence?

Do valves fail slowly or just stop working? What sort of things happen if they're on their way out?

Actually, I want to know how much a set of pickups would be and whether they come in 5er versions.

I'll offer a full bag of vintage Wotsits in a genuinely roadworn packet, a bag of Minstrels and a mystery box* *no guarantee the mystery box is even a box.

It's kind of double voluted as well, with the neck to body carve.

I've always liked a Thunderbird body, but despised the headstock design. My Peavybird will be starting soon, promise. Maybe.

*#$k off you 🤪 What is it? There's a Lewin combination plane on it's way in the next week or so, I need no more tools.

I've been arsing about in the cellar again. French cleat "wall" and plane till. Saws next, or possibly clamps.

Something by Rob Zombie? Xanadu by Rush?

Have you got your neck angle correct? The bridge and bridge pickup look awfully tall.

Gunmetal deffo, but you'll need to show a mockup with the two 'guard colours before I can decide which looks better

Tobacco sunburst and tort. You know it makes sense. 🤮

I clamp my backsaws in mine for sharpening. How much do you use your block plane? I've got one but prefer a bench plane.

Mine is a 4 1/4" Fortis Engineering Co one.

I'm always clamping boards on edge, which is probably why the corner popped off.

Ply I have, 12mm from memory. Would you cut the break out and square it off, or just leave it as is?

Oh lackaday! Woe! Lamentations! This has just happened. It's the insert which I had to fit after knocking the wrong corner of the chop off. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it's the top edge of long grain and taking all the force of clamping boards on the edges. However, what to do about it. I've got some oak, mahogany or ash to go in there, but it will be long grain again but bigger, or I can go pine again. Or... say nuts to it and fit a whole new face to the vice with the grain running vertically. Then I lose the massive flat clamping surface. Or a short length of vertical grain inset into the chop.

Given that they are not identical but very similar, how do you choose one? I'd go for the one on the left. The knot in No. 2 looks like a belly button and the tiger stripes on No. 3 are a bit regular to my eye.