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Put that volute away before You-Know-Who sees it 😉

Does the offer on European shipping work with shipping from the continent to Blighty or is it only from The Sceptred Ilse out to those Johnny Foreigners? How much jingoism can I get in one post? 😜

Mine is poor as well, but it's getting better 😉 We advertised on backstagepro.de, the notice board in the rehearsal room entrance hall and my brother in law's shop and on eBay classifieds, which is where Harry saw it. I'd not heard of eBay classifieds in England so it may not be a thing.

New Drummer Day! Our last drummer quit at the beginning of July, and we've been looking for another one since. We had a couple of responses to the advert but they proved to be masters of the inability to reply to any sort of message. Fortunately we found a guy who did and we "interviewed" him this evening. So far everything seems rosy. He liked us and the music and we liked him. We shall see what the next few sessions bring, but at the moment we're positive it can work. 😁

It looks a little lopsided from a distance 🤣

This is my GK in it's house. They make rack ears for it so it was easier for me 😉

Is that a Trump Baby Blimp guitar? 🤔

Not surprised, you do like yellow bodies 😉

Andy lives in a perpetual state of superstitious fear of routers 😉

Does moving on from building a bench to 3 1/2" guage locos count as a thread derail, or a thread rerailed? 😉

Very nice, well done on the Highly Commended award. Is there much Titch in it? Frames and running gear with your own body and power transmission? I'd like a lathe, but to be honest I can only think of a couple of projects that I'd need it for, and I probably wouldn't start them anyway.

Is that a Rob Roy lurking in the background?

Can you imagine doing all that you want to do on the bench in the kitchen? If you can, then a kitchen worktop will do you.

I got my Super Twin last week through here and I think it sounds amazing, I need to wind a little bass back into to my sound I think! It's the silver cloth version, and with the black ports down the side it looks like the amp is hovering on one side!

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It wouldn't be the first time that's happened 😉

I'd still go with the lob it on a lathe method, but mostly because I've never heard of anyone doing that way and it's sounds like fun. Go with the sensible option is my recommendation to you though 😁

Are you binding the inside faces of those headstock slots...?

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.