Maude

That's exactly it, at first glance I thought ooh that's nice... then I clicked on it and looked at the pictures. With every picture it got worse... then I read the description, yep, it got even worse.

Wild Cats of Kilkenny - The pogues

I first thought (and hoped) it must be a hoax but sadly not. A fabulous drummer who could easily play what the drummer in Dave Grohl wanted and had the personality to match the frontman in DG, the perfect counterpart. Such a large part of the infectious energy of Foo Fighters. Terribly sad 😔.

At least you forgot your ears were hurting for a bit while they burnt your retinas away with the strobes in Overkill.

Breathe - The Cure

While on my occasional browse for an Aerodyne P this appeared. Aerodyne?? If I was after a quiet pickup'd, crazy actioned, t-shirt tearing neckplated, orange peely painted with a wonky hand drawn binding bass that weighed a ton, then I'd be all over this. Unfortunately I was after an Aerodyne P. At least the seller knows how to sell it.

Mediocre would be suitable. 😉

Fascination Street - The Cure

Do Nothing - The Specials

Speak My Language - The Cure

A Night Like This - The Cure

East Easy Rider - Julian Cope

Johnny Come Home - Fine Young Cannibals

I've got a little, plastic, three legged fold up thing. It's basically cheap tat but it works, it's useful and I haven't felt the need really to get something better. I've just looked and it's this D'addario one.

I love this song. Beth Ditto has a monster of a voice.

4wd electronic rodent demonstration! Count me in.

Wonderful Life - Black

Push The Button (snooze) - Sugababes

I used to really like using lots of compression as an effect. I didn't know what I was doing but I just turned the knobs until I got the biggest, punchiest sound I could.

As aluminium expands with heat more readily than steel do you think it will cause the fretlines to be felt more in hotter weather? Or is it probably not enough to be worried about? Just thinking out loud really. They do look lovely though.

You can wire a four wire (or five, makes no difference) humbucker in to give you bridge side single coil, both coils in series, both coils in parallel and neck side single coil with a four position rotary switch, or push/pull volume and tone controls. I did this on a Stingray copy.

Thanks Andy, time to do some test pieces. 🙂👍

Thanks folks. I'm going to do a couple of test pieces as I just need to get it done, and I don't want to be redoing the big piece if something doesn't work. I'm going to try just lacquering the bare wood first as quite often that will darken it in the same way that my white spirit test did. Some woods darken a lot, others barely at all, I'll see what happens. If that doesn't have a satisfactory result I try a sepia calligraphy ink and see how that goes. @Andyjr1515, thanks (as always) for the advice. If I were to slurry and buff, do you think the differing shades of wood would be an issue? Would the slurry of darker wood and Tru-oil stain the lighter areas? I'd only be doing the slurry to grain fill as the finish will be 2k lacquer whatever happens. I know the lacquer will work well with wood and be completely waterproof, so no risk in the bathroom. I don't know if you saw but this was calligraphy ink then lacquer on a Kay that I did, this finish is what I'm aiming for (not the colour though).

She's Not There - UK Subs (The Zombies are dead 😉)

Lazy Sunday Afternoon - Small Faces