Si600

Is that massive bulge your tummy?

Mildly unsatisfactory hour and a bit at the bench. First up I had to trim a block of mahogany lengthwise for the next project. Giving myself plenty of wiggle room I marked it up at 25mm and set to. Of course, I cut it bang on the line and pretty much parallel. I've got a 4mm oversize to deal with now. On a related, I've been getting bits of shaving caught between the plane iron and cap iron so I thought I'd adjust the leading edge of the cap iron to close the gap. Of course, I made it worse.

Straight from @ped's dingy backstreet lockup to my bass! BC Grolsch button straplocks, unfortunately they didn't come attached to a BC brewed bottle of beer.

Some questions/thoughts on bass design. Singlecut: why do they all look like sperm whales? A singlecut guitar like a Les Paul or a Tele doesn't join the neck up by 5th fret* so why do basses? Offset: What is an offset body? A jazz bass is technically offset, but the term is usually applied to something like a Jaguar body. *Exaggerated for comic effect.

Mmmm, Jane Jetson...

Of his own accord Dean tidied up my makers mark for me, and then sent me a PDF which I can just print onto my waterslide paper with no extra processing. A proper Gent and a credit to BC

It's really simple, my surname is Orchard and I live in Aukrug, which is in Germany. The line design I suspect I've seen on a London road name somewhere, or it may be some art deco thing.

Told you mine wouldn't be nearly as interesting or cool. It needs a smidge more tweaking, the text isn't exactly central. Obvs, any comments welcome

But it all breaks down at the first rehearsal... Looks a spiffing piece of work.

The weekends pottering. A pocket for the sharpening board, a little moveable tool tray that hangs on the side of the bench and a rather wobbly drawer. The drawer is an "it'll do" rather than done properly. It really needs a proper four square frame building around it and then that fixing rather than screwing bits of wood together and crossing my fingers.

A thin veneer on it? If you've not already seen it @Andyjr1515 has a genius how-to on veneering.

I saw them at Wembley Arena in 2002. Motörhead, Anthrax, Hawkwind with Arthur Brown and Skew Siskin, who we missed. Lemmy came on to do Silver Machine with them.

Nice, yours? TBH I don't know why it's called a shooting board, but much to my surprise it's accurate! Though my wedges need to be thicker, anything above 15mm has nothing to support the top corner.

This is one of those things where those who know will nod sagely and approve (hopefully), and those who don't will nod sagely and go 'Er, WTF?' in their heads. From the design/tutorial by Paul Sellers:

Mr. DeVille has had quotes ranging from $80 to $230 for posting a lump of wood halfway around the world. However, I believe that it's now in the grimy hands of the USPS and assorted international couriers. It does mean that I may be second in the Slowest Build Ever competition. However, unlike@SpondonBassed, I haven't lost 😉. Mr. DeVille is a sterling chap of excellent character and an all round good egg.

What's the inlay made of? Or did I miss that in the depths of a thread?

The paint's all falling off already. I think that you should give it to @AndyTravis. Looks a properly nice bass that. May it give you years of plunking pleasure.

Chaps and chapesses, The body for my entry into the slowest build is on it's way to the kind gentleman in New Mexico. Do you collectively have any recommendations for companies to send it from there to Germany?

Mmm, custard. It's a recorded fact that sunburst and tort are the emanations of the devil's backside.

Said nobody with any taste ever.

I think you've been out too long, or at least it's time to turn over.

Old style egg beater drill for fiddly fine work?

Congrats on the baby squeeze out 😉 Looking a nice bass, my friend made a telecaster that he sprayed Ford purple. My superstrat bitsa is Vauxhall green!

WTF are you using as strings if you need 22 mm string height All joking aside, what's the height range with the barrel screwed all the way in? 😉