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Not really. The 'photo-flame' and thick poly top coat are there for a reason 👍

Last time I made up a varitone pot I just replaced the tone pot with it. Followed this from a boy on TalkBass.

Or just rub the logo off, it's only painted on 😃 Thread jogged my memory about this Revelation, really regret selling that one 😞

Much the same. Pickup shell discrepancies, loud AF, potential foam/shallow cavity issue. The output from Entwistle neos really is alarming 😁 My Peavey Ellefson sig came with a PJ set of Duncan QPs. Took a wee screenshot of an Audacity snippet. This was my other Peavey Ellefson Zodiac with the Duncans replaced by Entwistle PJ set.

Long time fan of Entwistle neodymium pickups. Loud AF, don't lose the mids and they don't have a stupid name designed to attract impressionable Americans 😁 I've fitted plenty of them over the years. Pickup covers too big. Covers can be swapped, you just pop them off. Either reuse the one from your old pickup or £3 from eBay 👍 Poles too long. Generally not an issue if you're replacing a ceramic mag pickup or as @Bassman68 mentioned use springs instead of foam. Should the pickup cavity be particularly shallow, you'll want a pencil, some masking tape and a drill. Masking tape goes in the cavity, rub the pencil on the bottom of the poles then press the pickup into the cavity. You'll have a line of dots showing where the poles will land, use the drill and make holes 🙂 Pickup will now drop in nicely and you won't have made the cavity any deeper.

China is home to 15 local varieties of Lime/Linden. Indonesia has 3 if my memory is playing fair. Mongolia has one, it's fairly widespread but is quite small ( 20ft to 30ft). Japan also has it own native Lime tree.

As with all families it's seldom you find two siblings exactly alike never mind cousins. Basswood is a softer lighter Tilia, average Janka 410 and 26lbs ft3. European Lime has average Janka of 700 and is 33lbs ft3. Guitar companies aren't stupid, they know that 99.9% of the general public see the word 'lime' and think of the citrus fruit and unless folk are familiar with Ancient Germanic warfare they won't have a clue about 'Linden'; it was used for shields.

Got ma fingers an toes crossed for you 👍

Morning Dave. Just nipping out for hour or so, will PM you with details when I get back 👍

Congratulations @JohnFitzgerald Stunning choice of materials, great design and top quality parts; you picked a fantastic project which allows Mark's skills to shine. That's an all-round winner 😎

Damn straight. I'm equal parts grateful for having the Wal and finding somebody with spare cash. Getting shot of it meant month's deposit for rented flat, that put an end to couch surfing and sleeping rough.

You did better than me. JG Custom, leather scratchplate so one of the first 50 Wal built. £250 cash and a beat to blazes Gibson SG. Later took £50 for the SG due to being on the bones of ma arse 😃 I've no wish to see the early 90's return 🤣

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 👍