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Dollar Bill - Screaming Trees

Is the band in the above link supposed to be Smethurst's band, or Mason's? Whichever it is this is taken from the band images from the above link, lurking behind one of 'Take That' playing bass. This is 100% Mick Mason.

You should be OK on a banjo forum. They've got to have each others backs. The rest of the world have got it in for them. 😉

Shallow superiority probably. A kind of, "We've covered this already, do keep up" response. I expect the more hostile feeling the forum, the more 'Do a search / Zombie thread negativity' there is.

It's gotta be time for this. 😁

If it's sent as 'friends and family' or whatever they call that nowadays, I dont think the buyer can claw it back, can they? It's basically a gift rather than paying for a service.

Probably new folks signing up and reading old threads, then commenting on them. Perhaps they searched for something, found their result and commented on it, rather than start a new thread to ask their question and then be told to 'do a search', then search, find their answer and comment on it, resulting in a zombie thread revival anyway.

Sorry, fifth. 😄

Oh yeah, way to disregard groundwounds!! Get a forth. 😁

Muscle Museum - Muse

Wow!! That looks loads better. Nice job. I saw that on ebay but it looked like a bit of a disaster, nicely rescued though. 😎👍

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