Richard R

Looks lovely 👍

Welcome aboard. 

Beware the marketplace here.... 😉

12 hours ago, Maude said:

It's not the worst named tool brand. 

I could pull my drawers open and show you my King D!ck. 

I'd forgotten those! I had a 4" and a 10", but the 10" got so stiff it was unusable so I only have the 4" now. Last used on the canal towpath in Brum. 

* adjustable spanners.

Helloooo!

So now you can regail us with bass player jokes in retaliation for all the drummer jokes on this forum. 😉   Lots of helpful people here, just don't ask me as I've not been playing long and have no idea what I am doing.

Welcome to the forums.

Lovely basses those. I went a while back with a friend who was intending to buy an Ibanez 400 series during lunchtime at work but "accidentally" picked up a 1400 identical to yours. I practically had to prise it out of his fingers as were were getting very late and then his hand went straight to his credit card! To be fair though, he hasn't stopped grinning since. 😁

Lots of church bassist here, but Basschat is an even broader church. Welcome aboard 👍

3 hours ago, owen said:

It's no good. I cannot stop myself. I have dropped you a PM. The rest of you can guess what I want.

I thought you were building your next bass, not buying?

3 hours ago, rubis said:

I saw this, thought they were jump leads and wondered where the -ve connection was going. It's been a long week...

I'm in Solihull,  I'll keep an ear out.

I can't get to any of these, but coming across this post has reminded me to sign up for your mailing list! 👍

Whatever you get, these are how to keep them bright:

https://uk.farnell.com/techspray/1610-50pk/wipe-isopropyl-alcohol-ipa-pack/dp/2501334

Really clean strings, squeaky clean if you wanted. Easier than the meths in a tube approach as you can just clean the strings in situ, and easier to leave in a gig bag than lighter fluid. Slip a piece of plastic under the strings to protect the fretboard if you want to. 

15 minutes ago, SpondonBassed said:

I dunno, you know.  Lots of folk put their food in fridges with the word SMEG in big letters on the door.

Provided said fridge contains shami kebab diablo, beer milkshake and lager, I don't have a problem with that.  Now run down to G deck Kryten, we're out of poppadums.

I idly googled spokeshaves. I know judging a tool supplier by their name is like judging a book by it's cover, but surely few people will buy Mingz tools. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B078LDXG7P/ref=sspa_mw_detail_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1

But I guess if the blade is sharp and holds position that's what matters? 

5 hours ago, Unknown_User said:

Proud Mary is another contender from the set but for some reason people go mental for it, which has made me hate it less but I still can't listen to it.

It was my son's wedding on Saturday. Fantastic day, and the band at the reception were cracking and had almost everyone on the dancefloor. They played Proud Mary, and as you said, everyone seemed to go mad for it. It's a perfectly good CCR song, if you like CCR, but playing it at 900 bpm as a hardcore dance track just wrecks it. 

Bemused of Solihull 

10 hours ago, 4000 said:

10 hours ago, Richard R said:

 

Don’t Fear the Reaper? God, I LOVE that song!

Lots of people do, and I understand why, it just annoys me. I quite like Walk of Life, which seems to be a minority opinion too. But then I haven't heard many cover versions 😁

1) Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.  Hated the song since I first heard it, and then had a job in Currys for a while where it was the first track on the demo CD for music systems so I heard it at least twice a day.

2) Imagine by John Lennon. AAAARRGGHHH!!!!  Mawkish dirge.

3) Barwick Green, aka the theme to The Archers. The tune is OK, but I am up across the room hitting the off switch within nanosecond because of what follows.

I had tucked the idea of bronze tuners away for my eventual build in a few years. I'll have forgotten by then, so it doesn't matter either way 😁

It has to be done by the 2020 Midlands Bass Bash, because it sounds very cool indeed and we all want to see and play it.

I love the bronze coloured tuners 😀

JCongratulations. All the cliches about children are true, even the ones that flatly contradict each other! 

Just play whatever the child likes and what you like or whatever makes them sleepy or happy. I often walked round and round the bedroom at 2am with my first baby singing the theme from Red Dwarf until he fell asleep. 

But if there was a CD player nearby during the day then he got whatever was to hand. ELO, Air, Jethro Tull, all sorts.

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

Slowest build ever??? I'm actually growing an Acer Bonsai tree and thinking about using it for a neck. Should take a couple of hundred years...

Beat that!! 

Short scale then?

This could be a whole new "BenchChat" forum :-)

@Soledad The pictures have gone from the Hemmingway thread, could you post one here?

Our previous house had a huge double garage, with a massive 9'x2' bench under the windows which was 2/3 carpeted with contract carpeting.The previous owner was a rally enthusiast and this was his engine rebuild bench. They apparently often have rubber on top to prevent slipping but his was carpeted instead. I didn't do much woodwork on it, but the carpet did stop little screws from bouncing away if I dropped them.

I now have a tiny L shape of kitchen worktop crammed at the back of the garage in this house, and I had to sell my pillar drill 😥

Welcome aboard. 

Your English is better than my French,  and my bass playing for that matter...

Welcome aboard.

So now of course you have set us the challenge of working out what your pseudonym means.😁

I'm guessing that when you were at school you kept saying "Two can play at that game", so you acquired the nickname "Toucan". But you use that on other boards and don't want GCHQ or your missus to make the connection,  so you've gone to YellowBill, and then to Bill Yellow. But, my friend, you made one tiny error and used the same picture...