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Spondz has occasionally some genius ideas, and equally frequently a lot to answer for 😉 I'm intrigued by Appliance White as a colour though.

Sorry to hear that you've been unwell, I was just wondering where you'd got to the other day. In principle it's no worse than Andy chambering Harry's Harley Benton... Apart from the magnitude increase in the cost of the bass in the first place and the quality of the instrument. I'm glad that Martin agreed to take it on for you so that you can keep your favourite instrument. All the best with your health and stay away from this pesky virus!

And why doesn't it pop the fretboard off?

That @Andyjr1515, he's such a card 😉

Mirror. I don't think that the clear one has enough pizzazz with those sparkles.

Feature. Do all of your crown inlays rectangular at twelfth and above and it can be your thang along with flocks of swifts. I'll flock off back to the garden now, though it's a bit cold out, so I won't be out for much longer!

Network Rail would possibly disagree with you on that.

Will it be close enough to the strings through the scratchplate?

I think we should all make voluteless instruments from now on, just to put HWSRN off his morning toast and marmelade

Interesting point. I would have expected that as they would have done everything by knife and not router the chips would be bigger and less likely to be digested, also any sanding would be done with either stones or handfuls of sand which would retain the dust. Someone must have done a study on it by now!

To quote a certain member of this parish, "Twerp"

Oi, Andy! NO!! Guitar builds belong on Guitarchat. It'll keep Kiwi and Ped happy anyway 😉

You want shonky "carpentry"? I present for your amusement my bench legs.

How flat does the flat surface have to be, gauge plate flat or glass sheet flat? I've got a small piece of glass but decorative stone window cills are very common over here, every house has them common, so I could, when we're allowed out again, get a small one of those from the local equivalent of Gumtree.

Have you seen a tapered tenon cutter? That's really like a giant pencil sharpener.

Lookit what I got in the post today, despite DHL telling me one wouldn't be here until Tuesday. Now I can do one of those perfect restoration YouTube videos Or just clean them up and learn how to use them

What would happen tone-wise if you angled the pickups the other way, so they and the end of the fretboard made a V shape? Not suggesting that you should mind, just curious.

Until I started down this rabbit hole I didn't appreciate how many different types of plane there were. Block planes are for endgrain I understand, where the lower angle cuts the fibres better. I've certainly used a no4 plane on endgrain and it's been a pig. I usually end up with the bottom of a door that is slightly convex due to the middle being easier to work.

Curses! Have I bought the wrong sort?

Er, no. I managed to post the wrong link. It's a block plane that I think from other pictures on the net is a 60 1/2. The link is now correct for the one I bought 😉 They will be on the bench when I get them and have time to Christinise them. Be prepared for a series of what do I do next PMs 😉

Right, the no.5 is mine! And this one https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-Block-Plane/184211082164?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649

Any of you f#kers buy this and I'll hunt you down and use it to shave your face off! Looks a decent one to me. Old and tatty https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Record-No-5-Woodwork-Plane-Made-in-England/184181780724?hash=item2ae216f0f4:g:h~AAAOSwJJxeUVIU

Yep, I've read it. I think it will make more sense to me when I've got a plane in my hand. A wet grinder is first on the list, Amazon are doing a Scheppach for 105€ at the moment. All the planes on eBay are a) expensive and b) all in the UK which does bump the post price up unfortunately.

Twerp