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I suspect that the snipped corner is to attempt to circumvent any copyright issues. It's really obviously a Thunderbird anyway, but that may be enough difference to stop the lawyers sending "Da Boyz" round. What's the quality of the body like? I'm thinking of getting one for my weird T-bird project as no-one seems to be selling any second hand T-bird bodies at the moment. Customs and shipping costs could make it a teensy bit expensive though.

An interesting arrangement by the string clamp. Is that two nuts or a nut and a zero fret? Or a nut and an extremely scalloped first fret? 😉

No more than the next average human. Seeing as the bench is only 2m long, and the current vice is in the middle, I can envisage an elbow/cast iron interface at some point if I put the other vice on the front. It's only held on with two bolts, so not the end of the world to move it when using the new one.

I'm considering mounting a flush woodworking vice to my bench, on the short edge on the corner, see pictures! Obviously the existing leg will have to be changed for something suitable. The question is I suppose, is there any reason I shouldn't? I don't have space for a second bench at the moment, and the engineers vice will get in the way of any planing elbows if I put it on the long face.

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 😉