SpondonBassed

Good question...

Yes. It's here. I've also just built a Frankenstein bass I call a YamaCore.

Welcome Alan.

No. That's haemorrhoids.

We owned a Vauxhall Chevette in the eighties (I know). It was Arctic White. It was a readily available colour at the motor factors then too.

Another Pitbull IB5 builder. Nice.

Ahhh. Back to bassics.

Good luck. I'm interested to see how durable this jig will be. Then you said: Why didn't I think of that before? I'll just go and find mine. Heeheehee More seriously, is there a reason you can't use the cutter engraver directly on a fretboard? Is it just going to cut right the way through or what?

Welcome back Steve.

Striking combination of grain and ash detail. Very nice.

I'm scared of mandolin(e)

Nice knob(s) mister!

I threatened you with this warned you politely about this above. I've kept it short for mercy's sake: ExtractAnotherBrickInTheWall.mp4 Played with Vol and Tone open through my Laney RB3. Tone is flat on the combo and the gain set to trigger the compressor (such as it is) most of the time. Recording is via an LG 'phone camera. 30mb for a few seconds of video is a bit more storage than I wanted to use so make the most of it.

I missed the fact that the floor was concrete. I assumed timber. Forget tiles though. Now that you've sealed it makes an excellent foundation for some nice parquetry. Nah. I'm impressed with what you've done. Anyone would be proud to have a shed like that.

Jazz is seen as being a Marmite thing too you know. You have illustrated my point for me. I have nothing more to say about it. I have tried to unfollow this thread three times now. Please don't quote me again.

Although a simple Yes/No option without the hyperbole would have been more representative of my feelings I have voted Yes (ignoring the "can't live without it" part). I don't use mine often but when I do, it's a powerful ally. Like real-life allies, you must treat them right. I consider them specialist tools that require as much respect as lathes or milling machines. There are other ways of doing a job such as rounding over or cutting relief patterns or cut-outs with templates. They take longer and they still involve sharp tools. You takes your choice... It's probably a good thing that it scares some folk otherwise we'd see more maimings.

I'd have thought exposure to jazz would predispose you towards Prog somewhat.

I think Prog is a little less accessible than some genres. It may depend on where you are coming from too. I remember my Dad "getting" it, I think, because he had a classical background playing piano.

Ignoring their commercial singles in the eighties, I'd say so. Isn't it like that with Prog generally though? You don't quite "get it" until you hear a gateway song to make sense of the band's work. Sometimes you never hear that song or when you do you aren't in the right head-space to let it connect with you.

Thanks. That's interesting. It kinda endorses the mod somewhat seeing that. As if Billy Sheehan's use of it wasn't enough. I wonder where it first appeared. "Mitre Bolting" Gosh. Now I can say I have a mitre bolted six bolt neck just for geek points down at the Pullet and Whippet. It's an odd coincidence that it's the Yam BB series though. I had no knowledge of the model you illustrated beforehand and yet ended up what Yamaha have done on some of their BBs on my BB1100s neck. Ah well Ruth is stranger than friction, as they say (almost). The thing for me was having the extra heavy Encore body, I wanted to make the most of it. I reckoned the Yam neck was a good 'un and coupled with a high mass body, I would gain whatever benefit there is to be had from it.

I have a black and white chequered strap (see my signature file photo). I'm not selling it... I just thought I'd rub it in. Heeheehee I think you have it covered with the white knobs. Anything else might risk making it look fussy. Right now it looks smashing. Your pick hand would cover the bridge and between the punters not seeing it and the sweat from your palm making a slimy gooey smudge when it meets the adhesive, it doesn't deliver much in the way of value.

It's something I copied from a YT clip of Billy Sheehan. In it he explained how he liked to have the two extra screws to pull the neck right into the body before the traditional screws were tightened up. He went on to say that the mod was one he had done on more than one bass. Like his neck mounted humbucker and the scallops between the upper frets he seems to see it almost as a part of his identity. He said that he tried a bass that was being built for him before the two angled screws were tightened up and then afterwards. The bass just came alive, he said. It looked like a very easy mod to do with no bad consequences as the bass is built from donor parts. If nothing else its experience. It's also going to be a laugh to be able to say it's modified like Billy's then watch them looking for scallops and HBs hard against the neck end like they expect. I haven't tried a before and after. I am not disappointed with the way this hybrid holds its notes either. You might be a better judge than me having made many basses and guitars.

A mate of mine had carpet down in his garage! He'd always wash the machine before putting it away after a ride. Tiled garage floors are a luxury you might expect if the Victorians rode exotic motorcycles but on a wood floor it just doesn't sound right.

Okay, so I've had some bird-brained schemes but really... there is no need to rub it in.