SpondonBassed

Welcome Winton.

Welcome back Rick.

Welcome Fenderbird.

Welcome Richard.

...neht gnol uoy ekat t'ndid tI

I can only speak for my own experience from letting my beard grow out a while back. It took eighteen months to get to what you see on my avatar. Although I enjoyed ownership of it at that length, it was a responsibility which I felt would wear on me over time. It isn't so long now. You don't really want it much longer than that anyway else it gets caught up in stuff. More importantly, people don't realise what a fire hazard a long beard can be. As I am otherwise quite bald, what I learned from the experience was: I rediscovered the joy of being able to run my fingers through my own hair. I rediscovered the thrill of feeling the wind in my hair. Little children thought I was awesome Older people thought I was a dirty old tramp Oh, and when I trimmed it back to stubble I had the extraordinary feeling of wet skin where there had previously been hair. It wasn't actually wet but I still had to check in the mirror a couple of times at first. That took a day or two to get used to. Mr Sklar is therefore both my bass hero and my beard hero.

Welcome Iva.

Welcome Mike.

Welcome P-Belly. Great screen name. Unfortunately, your GAS will only be reinforced by viewing these pages. Mwahahahaha!

Welcome John.

Annoying. Next!

Welcome Bob.

Welcome Bassimmo.

Nice lines.

You could do worse than use a quality hand file. Do a few practice pieces first to get your eye in. You're looking for the best filing angle. You're also looking to clamp the workpiece such it can be quickly moved around as you progress section by section whilst always presenting the workpiece in a manner that gives you the best angle of attack. I enjoy a bit of filing. Metals and plastics are my favourites. Timber is a bit different because the grain affects the cut but I'm getting there with that more and more these days.

Top. I believe that the neck is where the magic happens. Having done a kit build I've decided that yours is the way to go when I do a scratch build. It's not a problem to buy bass bodies in varying states of finish but it's tricky to get a neck that's really nice from off the shelf.

If nowt else, it makes an interesting read when you look it up.

I agree with you. The second image looks more purposeful somehow. I reckon it would do more to protect the finish coat than the in first image. I suppose it depends on whether you do more plucking at the bridge or near the neck. If you aren't needing to keep faithful to the original that is.

I'm stumped for an answer to that.

I don't want to keep lumbering on about it because by now it should be ingrained in yew all... It takes tree fellers or more to a ply puns and knot two. Until Andy improves on "Oh dear....oh dear....oh dear" it just leaves yew and me Frank.

I have every confidence in yew.

Those bevel cuts are going to be exiting.

I think the way Mr Hook looked on stage was more appealing to me than his musical style, good and all though it was. Luckily I was jamming in a band with two basses and the other one took the high road like Hooky, so to speak, leaving me the meatier bottom end stuff. (Cheers Brian)

Great news. Now all you have to do is to style it out and say you wanted folk to think the bass was made from a huge Garibaldi biscuit.