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Given the strange pickup arrangement there would be little point in using anything magnetic, certainly not on the E.

I used "Fragments of Time" from Daft Punk's Random Access Memories for a while. Then I realised that album is so fantastically well recorded and produced you can play it on a phone in a bucket and it sounds awesome. So no use at all for test and diagnostics! So I went back to my mix CD of selected bits from Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, Queen's The Works, Madonna's Music, and Bat out of Hell. Stuff I know that covers all the bases.

Fender purr-cision bass

Thanks, I shall go exploring 👍

Decided I need to increase my limited knowledge of The Dead (limited to American Beauty), and this seems to be a "must listen" live album based on the internet. Enjoying it, obviously much longer jams than on record. What else is worth sampling, @FinnDave?

Yes. But it would progress like this - numbers represent what each sprint delivers a rubber band. 4 rubber bands and a packing crate 4 rubber bands and a matchbox a cardboard box of about the right size five guitar strings and some plywood a fully operational 3 band EQ with custom pickups as above with working pickups plywood guitar body to match 6 bass guitar body in pine with 27" neck fretted for 35" a skateboard ...

Interesting reading this thread and comparing it to software development. "WFT?" you all say, but bear with me. Quite often business users come in with an idea of what they want and need, and a solution in mind. It is really hard to get them, especially the technically competent ones, to stop proposing solutions but to let us talk until we have understood all the requirements.. Frequently there is a relatively minor piece of functionality (ie used in about 1% of cases), which dictates a very different underlying data structure or software model than the other 99% alone would. Yes you can change this down the line, but the more you understand up front the easier the process is. Likewise the thread emerging here seems to be that if you go in with clear requirements (sound, intended use, preferences and desires) but discuss and be flexible with the final specifications (exact wood, preamp choice, neck construction), then you are more likely to get an instrument you love than if you spec everything in detail. Some people have more detailed requirements that others would be more flexible over, but it seems that in all cases discussion is the key.

Not seen one of those since I was in school!

http://thepipeandslippers.com/ They haven't got any events on yet either 😞

Only if you play in 4:2 time.

The chap who sat next to me, when we were allowed to be in work, turns out to be a rather good graphic designer on the side. He took a scribble I did in a meeting and I have a very nice moniker for when I finally build something. Not as clever as the infinity bass clef though.

Paging @ped..

The benches in a lab I once worked in were made of afromosia. It's a tropical hardwood, as far as I can tell was indestructible. Chemical burns, soldering iron burns, occasional frustrated fists, nothing touched it. When the labs were refurbished we bagged the benches. The stuff was also impossible to saw and denser than a white dwarf. Waterproof to me automatically suggests yacht varnish or an exterior grade varnish. They're probably heat proof for typical plates, maybe not boiling jam.

He's already there!

Welcome aboard! I've got a proper job. They're overrated, but do enable me to feed the family. If I had to rely on my interests to feed them...🙄. Good luck on the auditions! 👍

VERY green thing!!! Nice 👌

Second post on the forum and it's straight into the build diaries. You'll fit right in.😁 Lovely grain fill, what did you use?

Welcome aboard! If the SW Bass bash happens you should get down there.

Welcome aboard! There seems to be quite a North Wales mafia growing on Basschat, or should that be a maffia? If you make furniture, do you already know @Christine? The renowned BC expert on sharp tools, and lots of other woodwork and cabinetry things.

No idea, I haven't played many basses other than the one I have and a couple of friends'. So, being entirely selfish, spend the majority of the dosh on getting this b@@#$%y virus under control - but solely so that we can restart the bass bashes and I can go and try lots of things! 😁

I saw the notification and was all excited to see progress on the bass. 🤗 Now it seems you have skipped the build entirely and gone straight to the Hendrix setting fire to it stage.

Love that phrase!!

Will do now I know who it is - thanks 👍. It will be at least next year before I do anything.

I was in a long meeting last week and when not required directly I was designing a bass with a black body and wood pickgaurd. That swooping shape is much nicer than I came up with! Is it proprietary and would the luthier mind if I copied it?