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Presumably no-one else saw, at first glance, a model bass lying on a pair of legs in leather jeans? Just me then.

No, but if say you wanted the dome to be in the middle of the waist of a P-Bass then you would turn a disk big enough to get the body shape out of it. If you wanted the dome to be in the middle of the fat bit, between pickup and bridge say, then you would be turning a dish as third as big again. Which in anyone's book is a huge throw for any lathe. I concur with @honza992, it's a hellishly complicated first project, but as a concept I'd love to see it happen.

OK, so here is the beginnings of the latest missive. I keep thinking up amazing lines in the car, but by the time I have chance to note them down. they're gone. Front Page I heard about a demonstration, My friend told me he was there I didn‘t read about it in the paper As if nobody cares You can read it on the front page You can see it on the TV news Who tells you it should be on the front page Don‘t they see there are other views Politicians use the media To the growth of their own glory They shout out that it‘s Fake News When it doesn‘t suit their story You can read it on the front page You can see it on the TV news Maybe you should read a different front page Try to understand the other views I also seem to be stuck in a four line verse-chorus structure, when a lot of the things I hear on the radio are nothing like that. Not sure where I've got that from.

Where do you want to have the dish centred? If you want it anywhere other than the geometric center of the body you're going to be turning something that is bigger than the end product. Not a problem in itself, if you have the means to do it. Go for it, it's going to be an interesting build.

Wot he said. Then split the binding along the length and add another strip in the middle 😜

I've always sworn by, and occasionally at, the Schaller 3D series. The ones with the little roller to adjust the string spacing.

I've bought a BF Super Twin from Dan. Immaculate condition as described and excellent communication throughout. Even though he was a bit reluctant at first he shipped the cab to me in Germany, his packaging skills are second to none, he could probably post something to a war zone and it would arrive in the condition it left. Excellent all round good egg.

What kind of strong man are you to carry a pillar drill outside? 😳 I can barely lift mine in its component parts!

Böhse Onkelz at Werner Rennen on the 31st.

Are you facing the headstock with anything, there's a few layers under that 😉 Though it would be a shame to not see that GT stripe from the front. 🤔

I do love your eccentric soundhole inlays.

Enjoy The Cure, they were excellent at Hurricane this year. Though my friend was a bit miffed they didn't play Disintegration.

Dunno how to get rid of your 1.! Lemmy complained at us for sitting down at the Royal Theatre in Nottingham when I saw them there. So we all stood up as instructed 😁

Spellbound surely? 😉

I'm a little confused here, not an uncommon condition it has to be said, but I'm not sure I understand how the neck bolts on. Are the bolt heads inside the body so you do them up from the sound hole?

Buy black ones and then build another bass so they're not wasted. Obvious really.

When milling it's when you feed the workpiece in the same direction as the rotation of the cutter. The teeth of the cutter drag the material rather than cutting into it. It can be useful if you're only taking light cuts as it means you can cut both ways, but there's the risk that the cutter with catch, pull your half finished part out of the vice and fling it across the workshop. I'm assuming that the same thing can happen with wood if you cut in the same direction as the router rotates.

Downhill, known to @SpondonBassed and others as climb milling 😉. Can make a horrible mess if it goes wrong.

We are indeed. On your other point, mass produced instruments have economies of scale behind them, as nice as Alpher basses are, and I'm sure they're lovely people to boot, I can't afford over £2k for a bass, but I can afford to buy a Fender. Admittedly mine was second hand, but I could have bought new if I'd had to. Having said that, a bespoke bass isn't completely out of the picture forever

I've been told I bear a passing resemblance to Ronan O'Gara. I don't know whether he plays bass or not, but he's a tidy fly-half.