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Robin at @Manton Customs work is great. I've seen his basses at bashes and shows (and he has a thread here in affiliates) I have no association with him, or any idea of the cost, but someone to talk to.

This little piece of design fiction might be of interest. The author's "janky time machine" lands in the future office of a human who, it appears, needs to prove the work he bills for is done by a human. https://www.designfictiondaily.com/p/prove-youre-not-a-robot-and-pay-for

I listen to Spotify to search out bands and find new artists but their business model stinks. This is quite a good read - it does tend to repeat and rant a bit there is nonetheless some really interesting information. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mood-Machine-Spotify-Perfect-Playlist/dp/1399718843 Bandcamp is the best platform for artists to release music on. I listen to all sorts at work and have bought more than a dozen albums either as physical CD or FLAC now.

But, annoyingly for the rest of us, you seem to have sufficient other talents to more than compensate. Spare a thought for those of use without such balancing abilities in other areas🤪

That absolutely looks the business!

My thoughts exactly!

Grand Master and other rankings only reflect the quantity of posts, not the quality, as anyone who has read any of my drivel will attest. @Bill Fitzmaurice is however a proper expert 👍

The luthier said with annoyance My customer dislikes chatoyance He wants a P-bass in white No real wood in sight But I craft with far more flamboyance!

That's the intent. Can you ask the bride to relocate the wedding to Knowle? Lovely church a couple of miles from the venue, and you could do both then.

Nothing useful to add, just following with interest. 🙂

As I have ranted previously on this forum, the main reason I dislike B&Q is the appalling music they play. Dire cover versions of good songs. I walked out a few years ago because they were playing an easy-listening smooth jazz version of London's Calling. That red port looks the business though. If the cab is black TuffCab and you design and print a red "BC8" logo to go in the opposite corner it would look very cool. Red paint on the screw heads of the speaker too.

And now for something completely different .

I did like Skipton. I think it was there that had the most upmarket Oxfam bookshop ever, no cheap paperbacks but first folio editions of properly expensive books. None on bass cab building though 🙄

My son volunteered at a youth camp near Grassington for a year after uni. They referred to Skipton as " The big metropolis"

Good looking bass. What's a "TV Jones" pickup?

That is interesting. Had I realised what you were doing I would have been interested to know what was under the covers of my Brawley and how balanced they are. Where can I find this magnetic paper?

Very nice!

Both available on iPlayer as well. I watched Flight 666 a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. The contrast between Dickinson in stage costume performing and in his pilot's uniform doing the pre-flight checks made me chuckle, as did the band playing golf. I still don't like the music, but the programme was good fun.

Woohoo!

So if we're too noisy we can send you round to apologise to your former neighbours.

Or The Carpenters' version: "Every time you go away, you take a piece of teak with you."

The mind boggles!!! What was going on there @stewblack?

So here is an unashamed plug for the Midlands Bash in June. We have missed a couple of these and have moved venues, but hopefully 2026 will be the start of a long and stable run. Anyone up for catering?? 😁