Maude

I'm looking to seeing what you find under the black.

Italian Leather Sofa - Cake

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You're more likely to see a clown vomit sparkly green than see any sea foam that is a lovely mint green, rather than the sludgey pale brown it actually is.

I gave it a quick go over with a 40 grit belt sander and wiped a wet sponge over it, just to see what it looks like. It's quite a substantial slab, 225cm long, around 60cm wide and about 4-5cm thick. It's quite mad how different the wood is either side of the black spalting lines. To be honest I'm not sure why the wood changes in colour like this, the black spalting is essentially rot, but is the wood sectioned out like that in light and dark contrasting shades before the spalting, or is it a consequence of the spalting?

Thanks folks. I work in a bodyshop so could leave it in the bottom corner of the spray booth with a cotton sheet over it to keep overspray off but let it breath. Although the booth gets hot, it wouldn't get very hot in a lower corner due to the way the air flows, but I still think the constant hot, cold, hot, cold would do more damage than just putting it somewhere dry.

Blast Cult have long made very nice doublebasses. I love the look of that bass, and I'd be more than happy to declare it's 'Clown Vomit Green'.

Sees five string, left handed fretless... ... mind explodes. 😄

The last time I went to my local shop I said I wanted to try some flats on my Precision. The owner said, "Why, they'll sound like sh!t". That was years ago and I've not bothered going back. For shops like this, saying that the internet is killing them, is like saying the fly in your strychnine will make you ill.

Meant to edit but quoted myself. I keep doing this since the software update moved things around.

Wrong Side of the Tracks - Biohazard

Evening all, not build related yet, but possibly in the future. Today I bought a substantial slab of wood to make a bathroom counter top for a sink. I wanted something figured as most of the room is slate so wanted a feature piece as it'll be the only piece of wood in there. I found a farmer on Dartmoor selling slices of trees that had come down on his farm. He had some spalted Beech with some lovely figuring. I bought an oversized slab for what I need so that I can cut the area with the nicest pattern for the counter top, I then realised I'll probably have enough left for a bass body. My question is how long should it be seasoned for before attempting to make a body, and is a solid Beech body even suitable? It'll be my first first build and won't be happening for a while as I've got so many other things on. It was sliced up about six months ago and has been in an open fronted barn all summer but I'm guessing it'll need a few years, I don't know. What do we think? 🙂👍

South of Heaven - Slayer For me Slayer are the sound of Donnington, takes me straight back to so many drunken, hazy, good times.

Because it's a bloody catchy tune basically. It's non pretentious, ballsy punk pop rock, with an uplifting, call to arms, football terrace, chant-along chorus. It has a familiar feel, almost as if you've known it for ages, which can only help. I hate myself for comparing new songs to things I've heard before but it's only human nature, and I can hear original punk with hints of Rancid and Distillers punk revival thrown in, with a healthy nod to The Ruts' 'Staring at the Rude Boys', all great stuff. Whilst feeling familiar it also feels new and exciting, especially to a generation that hasn't experienced punk and its nineties revival, helping it appeal to a wide age span. Look at me, the music critic 😄. The bass is sounding especially great in the bit between the Clash quote and the lead break. And a link needs adding here because I clicked your screenshot again.

(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care - Elvis

Die Laughing - Therapy?

What is happening?

I'm still kicking myself that I dithered over, and missed out on, the blue Precision one a few years ago. The only time I've seen Dave the grumpy Canadian YouTube guitar bloke truly happy was playing his red Aerodyne P.

"I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you... ooh, ow, ow, ouch, hot, hot, HOT...........B0LL0CKS!!

A little tale that's been told here before if I may. I started with a plywood SG copy which was soon replaced by my first 'real' bass, a Yamaha Attitude Special in seafoam green and the SG got a ceremonial cremation. A few years later the Attitude got traded in for a brand spanking Yamaha BBG5S, which was my sole bass for over a decade. After a couple of years break I went back to fours with a Yamaha RBX374. I then discovered Basschat and replaced the RBX with thirty or so other basses (🙄😄), but every time I play a Yamaha it feels like 'coming home'. My two latest purchases have been a BB424X and a BBPH, to join the BEX4 I've had for several years. I've got lots of other nice (to me) basses, but if I had to I could quite happily only ever play Yamaha basses for the rest of my days. Whatever price point Yamaha you buy, you always get far more than your moneys worth.

My current Yamaha family, enjoying a bit of sun. 😎 BB424X with reversed P pickup, BEX4 and BBPH.

Great picture. 🙂👍

I was only messing with you, hence the winky face. I guess some like to discuss/debate more than others. You've lost me there I'm afraid.

Can you think of any reason for that @TimR? 😉