SpondonBassed

Remember... Basschat Watts only appeared with the last regeneration of the forum a couple of years ago. Some members have been here over a decade and all of their posts are counted. A relative newcomer such as myself can appear to be more popular than is actually the case because of it.

Is it on the Basschat 'bike thread? Ex 'biker wants to know.

Welcome Eldon.

Cool. What caught my eye though was this:

No pain, no gain. No sandpaper no pain. Er... What was the question again? Heeheehee. Now you're living it. If you can keep your plan and your patience the pay-off is nearly always worth it. You WILL be thinking about how to go about the next one towards the end too. Just in case you weren't warned.

I wouldn't touch that one with a ten foot barge-pun.

I'd love to get a sneaky look into the future to see what other stuff you have surplus. At the rate you're working just lately it's likely to be a little treasure trove. Thanks for the info on hardware. £250 for the ABM unit tuners and headpiece or £150 for the Nova system. It's really not as bad as I thought.

They have something on that in the Bad Jokes thread.

I'm going to need a headless mutli-scale system in the near future... yikes.

As far as I am aware only the positive ones are counted. If someone reacts with "confused" or "sad" your total remains unchanged

I've got an itch to scratch. It breaks down into several sub-itches. I want to do a scratch build I want to own a multi-scale five string bass I want the B to be 34 inch and the G 32inch I want LED side markers I've got enough Sapele left from another project to put towards a headless neck-through I have a hefty chunk of white timber to identify from a kind neighbour who's done the lockdown garage-reshuffle I've been promised a rather nice pre-amp from a kind member I've got an onboard headphone practice module with Aux-in and Phones out. Thanks Owen. I've got a test bed for pups and electronics in the form of a bass I built from a kit a couple of years ago I'm bored It's a start and being honest with myself, it could take as long as @owen's project. I welcome opinions and discussion in order to draw out my ideas. Then I can make a plan. This supersedes the idea of a "dream bass" that I previously wrote about. That one was highly impractical and employed unnecessarily exotic notions such as a white enamelled mild steel fingerboard and gold plated hardware on a gold-leaf flecked white body... I'd have had to come on stage playing it from the saddle of a snow-white unicorn for the full effect to be realised because otherwise - I am just not pretty enough to carry it off. This one is more about the sound it's going to make than how it looks.

Then where have most of mine come from...? They definitely count now.

Welcome Matt. (That looks like an insult... not my intention of course.)

I see 24 frets, a zero fret and an extra one the other side of a bend well. That looks lovely. We must know more!

PM'd.

Drop the Dead Donkey

Have you got extra pointy elbows then...?

No reason why you shouldn't. You could make the leg modification so that you can remove the newer vice if you need to for a one-off. Having said that... I'd imagine you'd be more likely to find the engineer's vice in the way but you can remove that too without a lot of hassle. I have a similarly sized workbench and limitations. I have a vice on each of the long and the short edges that are accessible. If one or both of them is in the way it or they can be removed and put back after.

She's a good 'un. I liked her sense of wit* when she took part in Taskmaster.

Welcome GJ.

Welcome Rob.

That sounds interesting. Might we see you putting up a thread in the Build Diaries soon?

Interesting. It's good to be adventurous.

Ayyyyy! THE Spondz, if you don't mind.