kodiakblair

For the love of God don't ask John his Wal story, or mine for that matter 🤣🤣🤣

Oh Mark has done you proud there John. Wonderful end to 2024 🙂

No Sh*t Good few years back some bright spark started a thread titled " Opinions on US guitars/basses. Replies from Non-US Citizens only please" Result was 99.9% of replies came from Americans outraged that nobody wanted to hear their opinion🤣 There's small group of decent folk on TB but mostly it's a $ sign pissing contest, " Bedroom player. Which $10k bass should I but ?" or folk seeking validation for their consumer choices .

Well the USA had a healthy cottage industry in the 70s knocking up 'Fenders' for unsuspecting Japanese buyers. Poetic justice if traffic now flows the other way 👍 Far as the main story goes. Fake drugs flood into the USA every day, nice to know theirs customs folk are concentrating on consumer goods rather than the health of their citizens.

Not that much of a minority, I'm another who used the Overlord with no issues; think Andy did a couple with it too. Never intended to build a headless but I was given some torrefied Obeche, weighed very little so neck dive was a concern . Solution presented itself when I recalled playing a Hohner for 5 minutes at the 88 BMF 🙂 Compared to fitting mono saddles the O.o.M. was a piece of p!ss. Bass turned out nicely, still going strong nearly 4 years later.

@MNY Stunning work 🙂 Congratulations on a very wise decison.

Mark Provan, Bonny Wood Guitars. Link goes to a build Mark did for me earlier this year.

What always gets me is I'd known about his 'Super Yob' guitars for a year to 18 months, had posted photos on a few forums, before I found out he was just up the road 😀

It's looking braw, Mark is doing a grand job 😎

Wise decision 🙂 He's a good man is Alistair, think he still uses a photo of my Cabronita on the site.

It is. Alistair Reid sells Fender bass maple blanks, 22mm × 100mm × 940mm, out of his shop in Glasgow for £18.50. He does a roaring trade in mail order. With a plug cutter you'd be set up for life 😀

You and me both 😀

Maple blank 1" thick x 4" wide x 36" long = 1 Board Foot. Standard shaped Fender bass neck 1" thick, 3.5" wide at the peghead, 33" long =0.8BF Standard bass body blank. 2" thick x 14" wide x 21.5" long = 4.1 BF. Paul Reed Smith might take a few hours one afternoon to film a nice PR video of him knocking on bits of wood but if you're FMIC in Corona there's 360 units to produce in a day, that's them at lower production levels. Factories go through 1000's of feet every week so buy direct from sawmills, with bulk purchase discount. As to how little Maple actually costs, let me run this by you. There this decent wee sized mill in Michigan, Bell Forest. They mainly deal mail order to hobbyists and carry a very healthy list of timber. Their top grade hard maple is $6 for 1 BF, drops 25% to $4.50 if you buy 100 BF. FMIC are going through more than 70,000 BF in a year just for necks. 2" (8/4) ash for a body is $7.50 for 1 BF, if you use Basswood it's $6.35. Discounted for 100+ BF, $5.50 and $4.80. I'll leave you to ponder the discount offered on orders for 100k BF p.a. p.s. The 100k BF is just a random figure. FMIC build more guitars than basses, 3.7 BF for a guitar body blank, and not all of the 80-90,000 instruments they produce yearly in Corona use ash 👍

I'm looking forward to seeing it come together and I'll never get a chance to play it 🤣🤣🤣

Bloody Hell !! That neck is pretty. Stick to your guns regarding the colour scheme and you'll have yourself a cracking bass 👍