Maude

I don't know. 😄

The fretboard is now the big let down. I'll give the frets a level and polish, and might look at dyeing the board black to look like ebony. It's already very dark and I've a feeling it's a cheap wood dyed black originally. I'll look at it in the daylight tomorrow, I think we get some between about half twelve and one at the moment. 😉 If I'd had time before leaving my last job I'd have prepped the fretboard and dyed it black, polished up the brass fretmarkers and lacquered the whole thing. It would've kept the markers nice and shiny and looked quite good as well I reckon.

Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin / The Clash

Been Caught Stealing - Janes Addiction

Well well well, impatience rears it's ugly head. In an ideal world this, as mentioned above, would get another couple of coats of lacquer. But I'm home and want to finish it. I flatted as much as I dared and then infilled any little low spots with superglue. Superglue polishes up nicely and it was mainly along the borders between differing woods that needed filling. In certain light you can just see the difference between lacquer and superglue, but as it's over woodgrain, not a solid colour, it's very difficult to see unless you know what you're looking for. A, you can barely see it. B, it's an old Kay that was free. C, I need to stop being so fussy. 😁 Now the body/neck is done I need to do something to stabilise those pickup casings. More superglue I expect, or some black resin, depends what I've got at home. I've got a Wilkinson bridge with brass ferrules in my parts box which will suit and a set of gold speed knobs. I'm sure I've got enough spare looms to be able to renew the wiring and pots as well. The TRC and nut have been polished and lacquered. Just the neck and frets to sort then. Horrible indoor lighting photos.

Butterfly on a Wheel - The Mission

One of our resident wood whisperers, @Andyjr1515, has just slimmed down a neck, for Happy Jack if memory serves. Something else I've done to a couple of basses of mine is to just cut a new nut with slightly tighter string spacing. I've found for me, it's more the string spacing rather than the physical size of the neck that my left hand prefers. Bringing a 41mm nut down to a 38mm only means bringing the strings in 1.5mm either side (obviously all four are spaced evenly) an amount which neither looks, nor feels, odd. But makes playing the bass much more pleasing for me. I keep the original nut for if I sell the bass. The new nut is the full width of the neck, just the spacing slimmed down. Bringing 44mm down to 38mm would be too much, but 44mm to 41mm would be fine. Nobody ever seems to do it but I've found no issues.

I guess they are made a certain way and that is that. But if the internal wiring was accessible I can't see why it couldn't be changed. I imagine they are sealed in an epoxy resin though.

Yes, that is one of the problems with reversing the P in standard P BB body. With a scratchplate the PU needs to move neckwards slightly. Without a scratchplate you can put it where you like but will have to fill the existing cavity, and that's not easy as any wooden block and/or filler will eventually move differently to the body wood and a tell tale 'ghost' will appear, especially in black. Just thinking out loud, but the Sims quad pickup would be great if they'd wire it for a reverse P option. It must be do-able as it's essentially four pickups in a 2x2 grid, with P, J and MM options. That would then fill the entire cavity as long as you didn't want to move it anywhere.

I've just bought a Yamaha Attitude which has a 44mm nut. I prefer a 38mm nut, and while the Attitude does feel very big it's not uncomfortably so. Jumping from 38 to 44 might feel odd, but if the Shuker was to be your main player I think you'd get used to it. Unfortunately only you will know. I know, that was no help was it? 🙄 😁

The added weight of a pre amp and battery would more than counter the weight of the removed wood from the PU cavity. If only there was someone around with a spare 1024x, a template for a reverse P scratchplate and the ability to do it. 🤔

I don't mind supplying the chisel. 😁

Spanish Flea - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

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Drain You - Nirvana

Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue

I don't know of a supplier of off the shelf replacements, but there are plenty that will do you a custom made one. Try a seller on ebay called 'earlpilanz', he's a member on here but I'm not sure of his user name.

Being born in '73 I was too young for Punk but discovered, and loved it, in the mid to late 80s. All my mates were metalheads and while being into that I'd always loved the slightly more melodic, alternative side to rock, punk, post punk, goth etc. When Grunge hit it was like the perfect blend for me. One of my favourite albums at the time was a little known compilation called 'Another Damned Seattle Compilation'. Seattle bands doing The Damned covers. Yes it was just cashing in on the grunge scene, but it had unknown (to me) American punk/grunge bands and was fantastic. Seek it out, it's a great album. In a similar vein, I used to buy the Epitaph sampler albums from a small record shop. Fantastic albums full of bands I'd never heard of doing stuff I loved, more stateside punk though, but where does punk end and grunge start?

Robert Smith loves cats!

Trust - Neds Atomic Dustbin

Go on then, count me in. A combination of having a few unfinished projects (parts already bought) and last year getting a bit expensive, means I have no need to be buying anything other than strings 'n' things this year. Maybe even sell some stuff.

Carrie Anne Wayward Son - Kansas Edit, @SteveXFRwell that's ruined my joke 😄

Gary Gilmore's Eyes - The Adverts

On a Rope - Rocket From The Crypt

Ignore me. Too slow.