SpondonBassed

Looks like the victim of assault on a battery to me...

My '80s Hohner is better overall than my recent Steiny Spirit. The Spirit's fine but it just doesn't feel as good somehow. It's passive and that's fairly adequate. The active Hohner just sings with lightweight and Superwound DBEs on.

"The Last Chicken in the Shop"

Welcome Nitebytes.

Welcome Straycat.

Welcome Fternolad.

Set to record. Thanks.

Hungry now...

Andy's basement earlier...

I always thought of The Smiths being somewhat limited by their singer. The instrumental bits were always special.

Given my feelings towards this, I will not be clicking on that! Thicke by name thick by nature. A bit like the Ross/Brand thing. Some folk are easily led.

One question about the Sims pickups. I read that the battery was just for the LEDs on the pickups. Would you still be able to see what had been selected at each pickup by looking at the switch if the battery went flat, for example?

You've got to admit... he's pushing the envelope.

For the first part of your question; There is a fair bit of instruction within these build diaries. You get posts from members with rudimentary skills all the way up to pro luthiers. Time would be well spent here. YouTube, of course, is another great resource. Parts rarely fit together straight from the factory so some amount of fitting is involved when buying loaded bodies and neck sub assemblies. For the second part; You can start out simple with a kit. I did this and learned a lot from the process. It will almost certainly give you a thirst for more. From there you can go as far as your ambition takes you given access to good timber and tools, either hand or machine. There's plenty of scope for creativity. It's not quite like Meccano but, as mentioned in the first part, it is possible to get playable results from off the shelf items with a little bit of fettling. I wish you a lot of joy with it.

Welcome Rob.

Four year old thread resurrected for this? Unfollowing.

Welcome Nobbie.

I don't suppose you'd have all three together...?

I like that a LOT. Especially if you have a Don't Panic sticker made up for it.

Paging the resident mathematician from the DoI; @leftybassman392...

You would have to call yourself Deep Thought. It'd put you at increased risk of typo related throat injuries however.

They're lovely pieces of engineering. @Hellzero sold me a set of six individual ones. Instead of a headpiece I have six individual clamps. I'm hoping to use these on a build with a nice MTD five string MM type pickup that @owen kindly gave me.

I was thinking the same thing. I don't want to pry but I imagine that there would be prohibitive costs to changing it now anyway. I only wanted to wind you up. Job done by the look of it.