SpondonBassed

Congratulations! You know, of course, that you can't write your notes in conventional TAB any more. They have to be written on multi scale lines as well.

There are some people who just can not spray even with the best kit in the world. Don't undersell yourself.

Getting good contact between the two mating parts is the key. The bonded surfaces are subjected to a combination of compression and shear forces and a little tension force. Under compression and shear, wood glues are quite good. Even under tension they're resistant to failure as long as the parts are a good fit to begin with. If a bolt on neck is a good fit in the neck pocket you could bond the neck in place with no bolts at all and have no problems with it as long as it is set at the right angle relative to the bridge to give a full range of saddle height adjustment. You lose the feature of being able to change or repair necks easily, that's all. Lots of guitars have set necks. PS: Christine's spot on. We must have been typing simultaneously.

Well done!

Welcome NFF.

Welcome Joris! (returns salute) Many thanks.

The Urban Dictionary definition of "firkins" I was surprised that the correct definition IS at the top of the list. Definition 2 is interesting. Definitions 3 and 4 are your own business and are indeed more appropriate to the Urban Dictionary. You'd need protein supplements as well as lots of fluid intake if that's your "thing". /Ooer.

They're lovely!

Crikey.

That's the bottom end taken care of...

You'll soon be knocking out some industrial grade grooves with no fear of slippage at all. Trouble is, you'll be told to wear Toetectors by the safety elf.

Be sure to have a draft from the firkin whilst making the kerfings else you'll dehydrate in this heat.

Welcome CC. Good to see you are GASsed up and ready to go.

Tell her that even fewer people will like her if she looks like Adam Ant.

Even though it's a (spits on the ground) guitar, it's a worthy project. Good man!

How about the pickguard and control plate made out of one piece of polished and laquered brass? You could have it chromed if it didn't look right in brass. Hammered and laquered copper plate perhaps? Worrabout a textured chequer pattern on brass/copper/chrome plate? @Jabba_the_gut made a lovely control plate for one of his builds. That was brass to start off and he then had it chrome plated. His pick guard was made from the plastic cover of a note book. Boy did it look good, the textured black plastic pick guard with the chrome control plate.

Thanks for confirming that. It was as if Laney were rebranding a Richter unit if you look at the label sideways. I shall be releasing a new line of amplifiers under the Grumble brand name very soon. Just because. When's the next moose hunting season start?

Happy to oblige you with one; If you want more Bazz, create a post and I'll provide some more images. Sorry for the diversion from the OP.

I'd like to mention one of the brass section - Bill Holloman. I don't know if he was at that gig but he's got great stage presence that shines out from backstage and he seems to have been with the band on quite a lot of tours. He's also a bassist and had bands of his own. Session players come and go but Bill is seen in a lot of the Chic footage that I've looked at on YT. Sax Solo Bill Holloman Quartet Jerry Barnes is a BIG lad. I enjoy it when he's on the move with his groove. Of course I miss Bernard but I'd rather see someone play their own bass lines than ape Mr Edwards'. Jerry's got much to live up to and he does it well.

This isn't the topic I expected.

This just got REALLY interesting. Haz, this would put you at the cutting edge of Build Diary home builds. I wish you luck.

That's what Ken was using, I'm sure. He seemed to have it in a compact galvanised steel tank (possibly repurposed from some other water system) that was no longer than eighteen inches. You'd need some good ventilation for your workshop to help prevent water vapour condensing on your tool steel.

I have to be careful not to follow through in some of my dreams...

It would be very welcome. I'd like to get a better edge on a chisel than I can manage currently but I have some planes that could do with being restored too. They've not been touched for nearly forty years! I also have my Dad's wetstone but no grinder other than my Dremmel's stone bits. It's feeling like the right time to finally get them out and incorporated into my workshop.

A chap we know uses steam. I seem to remember that he pointed to a device that was basically a hot water tank that you hold the piece over before using a former. Kenneth Smith Ukuleles Maybe worth an enquiry? He lives in north Derbyshire, Clay Mills if I recall, and is a master joiner, a bass player and easy to get on with. He gave us more information than we could take in each time we visited.