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The 43 was noticeable on mine so I got a bar of nut material at trimmed it down. The fireman had got monorails on it which when pressed together are 15mm. You can get stingray bridges at 15mm and I know you can get “normal” bridges too as I had a cheap bass with that spacing, but very hard to find stuff under 17mm

The neck isn’t hard to fix but the body isn’t really going to be that much use

Yes, the nut is a problem. I got a 43mm nut which was height adjustable. That would have been great except my neck was 42mm! My string spacing is 9mm at the nut and the 15mm at the bridge. Because it is not the widest 4 string neck it gets close to the edge and I was a little worried about it but it is fine and I don't have an issue with the edge at all (mind you I will be gigging it at the weekend, we will see how that goes). The P bass neck is I believe a bit bigger, or maybe it is an optical illusion. Turns out I love this spacing. Weird composite (to remove parallax) of the edges: The spacing of which is

Oh yes, that is pretty poor, wonder what that circle is? I get those in the garden! The luminays just look like stick on dots.

works fine here, have you got some kind of filtering?

Thanks It will be the normal P bass neck, but it will have 5 strings on it. That actually gives it a slightly wider spacing than my fireman, as P bass necks are so wide.

Sounds great - is that just normal car spray paint undercoat or anything special?

Ooh - that looks nice, I didn't know they had redone the spalted ones

Hi All, I have one of those cheap paulownia P bass bodies like people have. I have read all the threads and got very confused as to what I need to seal it with / not seal it / cover it. What I want is a P bass, normal size, 5 string (in a P bass 4 string space). I am thinking of painting it with spray can red, but the difference is that I want to cover the front with paper, a la the paisley telecaster (i have the paper, its a specific print). Then maybe a partially transparant pick guard (can't remember, I suppose it has routing holes). So first things first - do I need to seal this body and if so, what is the product I need to buy to seal it?

They don't look too intrusive. I am sure my fireman could make do with some of that.

On the plus side, nice to see someone so optimistic!

Works fine if everyone is 9-5 with regular commitments. Doesn't work if they aren't. Ours does. We send a thing out on the whatsapp group, like 'practice on thursday' (or sort of most regular day), 'no, can't do thursday, can do tuesday or wednesday' sort of thing. Almost every week we find a compromise and if not we skip that week.

Ooh - B2V going soon you say?? I haven't seen one of those before, but 5 string headless are always a bit of a rarity anyway, which is why it was on my 'to build' list.

He frequents these forums regularly, you could just ask him here.

I agree with the real luthiery thing, but I think you would be surprised at noise levels. A 2 year old is way louder and more intrusive than a thin acoustic guitar unless you are really going for it. Speaking as someone with a 2 year old next door!

We don't bother if someone is missing, we continually adjust when we can get together on a day by day basis and then turn up together or don't bother. I guess it depends, if you are a 13 piece with horn section then it is probably easy enough, but if there are only a few of you, there isn't much point

How about a thinline acoustic - a decent volume for yourself, but good in a flat.

Yeh, my first thought was they are ruining the chance of people doing a search with that name! Not my sort of thing really but very well done.

Not sure if anyone asked, but why two?

Yes, it certainly looks like the previous nut had some problems!

Any pics of what they look like?

I am guessing that even the budget option is expensive?

oh if you don't then let me know, I will get it off you like a shot. I see no reason why you shouldn't like it though, they are handy things if you are ok with the spacing and the fact you are always 2 frets further up the neck than you think!

I have a 12 string I have to redo the headstock for. I have a paulownia P bass body that I want to add a thin 5 string neck on. But what I really want to do now is make a bass completely including the neck. That seems like the bit that seems like the hardest thing to do for me, so presumably a complete neck through something!

Most (but not all) is one of those two types, yes, but which one of those? Can make an assumption on what is there now, but easier to saw which it is so it doesn't get done wrong.