SpondonBassed

That's some serious texture. Now you've got me thinking about a natural slate top for a five string build I'm fantasizing about.

Plus one for The Smiths basslines.

That's outstanding! You made a good decision to replace the bridge cover with wood. Not only does it look better but you have an additional advantage. On a cold day in the woodshed, so to speak, it will be more comfortable for palm muting. With the Steinberger bridge, that heavy wad of metal chills the hand somewhat otherwise.

I can feel the grain on my Ibby SR605. How deep are you talking about? More than a couple of thou I'd guess.

That'd have been a milling machine I suppose? Try leaving the chuck key in a lathe for laffs.

Where do you sit on spit and sawdust type venues? I'd recommend you never sit down in them in case you stick to something.

The burst is okay by me. It's just the colour of tobacco in those darker smokier looking finishes that reminds me of too many years of heavy smoking. When I was a tobacco consumer, every room in my house would gradually become tinted with the same depressing brown muck! I don't find the colour attractive on an instrument either. I like it even less now that there are no more smoking venues and everywhere looks and smells better. I don't know whether I agree with you on coffee table basses however. I'm still not sure what that means. I looked it up and found this. Cool huh?

What have you got against partially digested Farley's rusks?

It's when the voices in your head tell you that the sounds in your head are normal for everyone that you should seek help.

I'd need help finding my way out of an IKEA wardrobe. Good tip for the IEMs. Cables are a drag in more than one sense of the word.

How many pedals are you running Blue?

It's good of you to share it. I've seen inspiration taken from these sorts of projects by members who might not have had a go otherwise. I applaud you saying that you will reinstate the HB logo. From what I hear they're very good for the money.

Excellent work. Thank you for taking the time to write it up ...and you said you were lousy at it too. Far from it - great post.

Nice work.

Welcome Dr.

I'm wondering if there is an electrostatic effect at play here. Have you got a room ioniser? If you could get a charge onto the wood and apply an opposite charge to the liquid would it improve things? Like powder coating only with liquid.

Welcome Akio.

Rotten double posting software! I've lost count of the number of ruined replies this new forum has caused me. If it isn't having to log in repeatedly after reading, it's the double post. I might just bugger off for a few days.

Aw kwap not again!

I give up.

It could be worse. Emulation is the sincerest form of flattery as opposed to emasculation which is a bugger.

'He' should've considered it a gift to be able to play bass with no strap or indeed hands. Cuh! I dunno. Some people do look a gift horse in the mouth sometimes.

Luvly. Will you leave the cavity interior untreated?

That stuff's more like one of @discreet's bum wipes before he went for bum-fodder that has better (greener) credentials. I often thought there was non-degradable stuff in those tough 'paper' towels. Polyester or summat. I like the commercial though. That geezer's costume would go down a bomb on stage.

I understand. I was in a position as a child where I had the choice of learning it. I declined. I had gone to Ireland with my parents when the family emigrated there in '72. Children coming into the Irish school curriculum below the age of ten were to learn Irish (Gaelic). Children that were older were given the choice of whether to take it up as a subject or not. I was ten and a couple of months by then. For clarity, this was Ireland, not Northern Ireland. The Gaeltacht areas were probably larger then than they are now but I still didn't see the point of learning the language. Even if I had reason to visit the Gaeltacht I had decided that I was heading back to England one day with or without my parents. For visits it just wasn't worth it. I was just the same with Latin later on in secondary school. The difference was that I was forced to learn Latin by the school my dad wanted me to go to. That lasted for two years before I kicked it in the head. I demanded that my parents place me in a technical school rather than the academic one that my Dad thought of. My reasoned arguments worked. I grew up a lot that day. Had I not dug my heels in and fought, I would not have become an aircraft mechanic. Instead I might have been a priest, a doctor or a lawyer. I didn't then nor do I now want any of that. I have no regrets. Languages were never my strong point. My secondary school French language skills are the pinnacle of my achievement where languages are concerned. In an ironic twist, I became a technical author for quite a few years specialising in Simplified English to AECMA and SGML specifications. Funny ain't it? Full marks for expanding your repertoire to include a foreign language, especially one that you do not know. Well done. Did you gig the Gaelic song this year? How'd it go for you?