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Robot Rock - Daft Punk Too slow again, but it still works.

Are there any basses owned outside of BC membership? 🤔 😄

Do sit on that to play it? Hmm, what bass shall I take tonight? I think I might 'ride the giraffe'. 😁

I know, there's something very cool about a big chicken head rotary switch.

That is lovely! 😍 What a pair that would've been.

Flip those sheets are expensive, and too small as it happens. But it's giving me ideas. The bakelite sheet would be perfect for single ply black, not quite as jet black and glossy as a modern PVC pickguard sheet. Just the right level of sheen. I'm going to rebuild it tomorrow with the golden brown vomit tort that came with it, and then have a hunt around to something suitable. Either single ply black or very, very dark tort.

There's too much autocorrong in there for me to bother editing. Bug the hello out of me? HELLO!! 😄

I'll probably make my own as with it being a copy Im not sure if it's exactly the the same. The chances of all the screw holes, pickup holes and the outline being an ex act match is proba pretty slim. The body has yellowed outside of the pickguard so if a Gibson one was a slightly different shape an showed the old outline it would just bug the hello out of me. Not point gambling with £50 when I can make an exact copy myself.

BHHMA (Bloody hell, how many acronyms?) 😄

I like single ply, very vintage looking and the celluloid ones were single ply, and almost see through, the routing is visible through the old tort ones. A clean white perimeter line would be too new looking I feel.

Well, very nice, but I haven't really had a proper go. Just a quick test to check it works and then I stripped it down when I got home. The strings were really old and dead and I wanted to give it a fret dress and polish, and a general all over clean. I've got some new strings coming courtesy of D'addario's Players Circle. The both pickups in series but out of phase sounds really cool, like an extremely burpy Jazz but different. Once back together I'll do a little write up on the different tones available.

It already is black on the back. I could just mix some transparent black into some clear lacquer and spray it but the colour would be sat on top. I'd like to find a stain that would penetrate the PVC but I don't think anything will. I'll probably just make a single ply black one.

Gang War - The Members

Staring At The Rude Boys - The Ruts

That L6S is lovely. As you say, it would be a good companion to my Ripper.

That could quite possibly be a Teisco, it seems to have a nicer fretboard wood (and similar to the Teisco in your vid) than most Kays seem to have. My other Kay, Les Paul shape but the same pickup, bridge etc as your Tulip, has some cheap wood that is stained black for a fretboard. Maybe different factories/makers used different woods. Cool purchase either way. 😎👍

When I first heard Oasis and all the press started talking about the Beatles influences, all I could heard was a Slade-esque wall of sound. I guess The Beatles are cooler than Slade when you're trying to sell records, so they tried to sound more like The Beatles with each passing record. I preferred it when the sounded like Slade.

The Night - Frankie Valli Edit : Too slow again. Let's go with, Now I'm Feeling Zombified - Alien Sex Fiend

Dig deep, you're all on the home stretch now! 😂

We're all very proud. 😋

There seems to be serious lack of will power in this thread... but an abundance of excuses so it all balances I 'spose.

So you want his gold bridge then?

Nothing to add other than that title is a great blues backing band name. Blind Willie Fiddler and the Perennial Unwanted B-String Overtones.

The blue, but with the ivory pearl.