Maude

I'd seen the Thunderstruck one before, but not the others. 👍 For folks that prefer a more R&B/Hip Hop vibe there's this one.

Strict Machine - Goldfrapp

Suckerpunch - The Wildhearts

Skin Deep - Stranglers

Hurt - Johnny Cash (or the NIN cover 😉)

Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure

Nice neat job. Is that T. E. Stockwell's tone baking powder? It makes my muffins sound great. 😉👍

Don't Ask Me - PiL

Can't Stand Up For Falling Down - Elvis Costello

Just think what it would cost if they'd employed a real designer!

Wipe Out - The Surfaris

Pretty much as James said, but I think I'd definitely slacken the strings a bit to be safe. But not so much that the bridge loses it position, you'll have a whole lot of annoying intonation work to do else.

I just can't play with light strings. Well I can if I had to but blah blah blah. My tone is heavy strings plucked hard. I just seem to lose 'my tone' when I play lightly with light strings. As has been mentioned early in this thread, they don't seem to bounce and I find it much harder work to play fast without digging in. I can still dig in and rattle them off the frets if needed, softly for a mellow tone, or just normally (for me). I dare say I could adjust over time but heavy strings played hard give me a real solid tone, and as they say, if it ain't broke.

Brain Stew - Green Day

John Entwistle again. Let's just say the whole of 'The Real Me' is a bass solo. 😉 I know, I know!

Even though I'm not usually a gold hardware lover, I'm considering it for this colour scheme. I'll see when it's painted.

Does anyone know if the Gotoh GB707 tuners are a straight replacement for the Yamaha tuners? I could just find the Gotoh stats and measure the Yams but I'm feeling lazy tonight. 😉 These are the Yam's, These are the Gotohs.

Don't you just hate it when you prime something, and then think 'ooh that's a nice colour'! Red shades have notoriously bad coverage so I went with a red primer I had knocking around rather than the usual grey. It's more of a pastel maroon and I quite like it. It's a bit too much like a poor attempt at the Billy Sheehan Bex though so it'll still be sparkle pink.

Embarrassment - Madness

So would I but they're doing a fine job of making themselves look like idiots all by themselves. It would just be rude of me to intervene. It must nearly be time to watch their promo vid again, I need cheering up. 😄

Animal (F**k Like A Beast) - WASP

Under My Wheels - Alice Cooper

You Need Hands - Max Bygraves

Possibly. I'm probably going to do the back of the neck and headstock in the ink so was thinking a different colour for the front. I was going to do the neck pink but amount of layers that go on for a sparkle finish would mean quite a step to edge of the fretboard, which would feel and look odd. There is a way round that so it might get a sparkle finish but ink would be way way easy. We'll see after I've done the body.

Sunday Easter Bloody Sunday - U2