Stub Mandrel

It started with one comment, but they just kept doubling.

So rather than a Hardly Bent-One, you prefer a NoBend?

Just demonstrates how the knob on the end is to stop it slipping out of your grasp at a critical moment.

I could play a straight bat assuming it doesn't have any kinks in it I could go with: "Hardly Bent-One"

Oh that's been done.... I blame the minions...

Seeing as how I've cut the very end off it... CIRCUMCISION BASS

That's a U-Bass...

Excellent, good job Si. Nothing like using self-made tools to give you a grin 🙂

But... but.. that's straight from the horse's mouth! It's Dio's own explanation, it MUST make sense...

Do you do any Cactus covers? 🙂

I did think of 'Imprecision Bass' but technically I'd argue a 'Precision Bass' as any one with frets... 🙂 Trouble is that's very rude in Welsh... I feel a bit guilty about 'made by me' as aside from shaping the headtock it's just painting and screwing the bits together...

Ammon Duul II are a band I have been meaning to follow up since the 80s....

More logo thoughts (all my other builds/butcheries have been 'Deathburgers').

I'm more worried about blending the headstock into the neck which is pre-coated in a matt finish and doesn't require further treatment. The instructions say "Remove the neck and all the frets cleanly before you start painting". I suspect they mean 'mask off'... I may try and spray just the headstock and 'feather in' as I like a satin neck finish. Sprays from Northwest guitars due to arrive tomorrow. I've bought a sheet to make a 'spray booth' but I have to use it as a photography backdrop for a few things this week first!

I just found this. Two pensioners making random silly noises for a quarter of an hour. It's mind-blowingly brilliant.

" The song ‘Holy Diver’ is really about a Christ-figure, who on another place, not Earth, has done exactly the same as we’ve apparently experienced or were supposed to have experienced on Earth: dying for the sins of man so that man can start again and be cleansed and do it properly. So, the same thing happened on this other far-distant planet, and all the people on this planet are calling him the Holy Diver because he’s about to go to another world to do what he did to the first: absolve them from their sins by having himself killed. And the people are saying to him, ‘Don’t go,’ with innuendos of tigers and stripes and hearts and being eaten. It was meant to show just how selfish humanity is, that this one form of humanity on this one world said, ‘No, don’t go down there and save anybody else. Stay here, we need you, you are ours. " So that''s all clear then?

The only one I can find* is a Midnight Black but as its 'made in Japan' it's clearly 60s-style not original. *Gogle image search for "60s fender precision bass"

Maybe but aside from Sly Stone I don't see much of merit... Why is it when drawing people for album covers so many artists seem unable to give them any feeling of depth? It can be done, look at a Judge Dredd strip or an early Iron Maiden cover. Or Molly Hatchet's first album.

Why is so much album art so utterly, indescribably bad?

Outrageous suggestion! Dio always researched his lyrics in detail! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbow

But it isn't. Not by any civilised measure of 'untidy'!

I m,eant 50s, but how many 50/60s Fenders have painted headstocks?

My only regret is not replying at length to each of Scott's emails. 🙂

If the cover wasn't textured it would be a dead ringer for the J pickup on my Jag SS.

My ears are fairly indiscriminate, it may just be that its the only one that stands out or perhaps its that I'm a sucker for any pedal that growls. I must ask... why do you have so many? It';s an odd thing to collect. I was wondering if you daisy chain them to play music to whales or bats?