Stub Mandrel

Surely that's a cravat?

Mine is plywood. Or maybe wood laminated with thin layers of lead.

He once ran back into a burning club to rescue 'Lucille'. Then he relaise what an utterly stupid thing to do that was, from then on he's called every guitar 'Lucille' and doesn't get attached to them.

See my avatar.

Yes it's true, nothing is happening... I'm waiting for some 1200 grit wet and dry to arrive., hopefully not before Friday and ideally Saturday to make sure the paint is at least six days cured. I've filled, primed, painted and lacquered a bit of 1/2" plywood about the size of my hand to practise sanding and t-cutting. If it all goes horribly wrong, I can always relic it....

Ian Curtis would have been 64 today.

Well you've got the same hair too....

You ain't been to Cairo. They all do there.

Actually, the resemblance is uncanny...

I want to know where he got the Lou Ferrigno wig.

I suspect it all kicked off badly because the initial complaint was questioning if it had a nitro finish. That lovely deep gloss probably took a lot of work and seeing it dissed may have been a touch upsetting, and certainly marked the OP out as someone who had ordered without fully understanding what they would get. Also speccing a P-bass pickup with Jazz neck and expecting the poles to line up. Good customer service ought to look past this. I think the biggest issue, though, is that the two parties are communicating in a second language. It's easy to seem in an email unintentionally. Emails from both sides seem to switch between trying to be polite and reasonable and being abrubt, and I'm sure that is is not the intention. I suspect even the Stinky Poo comment may have been an attempt at humour to defuse the situation that went wrong... My advice... use more smilies guys :-)

It depends entirely on the context. I enjoy playing long, rambling, medium pace partly improvised walking basslines but there aren't too many opportunities, what there are, are precious 🙂

Love the way Booker T. Jones uses the key clicks on the Hammond for percussive effect. Slap keyboard 😉

*Nempnett, Thrubwell, Richins Park

I fear a lot of trees disappeared during the lockdown 😞

Sorry it was this talk about 'Slices'"

Have you every read Northern Lights? You know that stuff about the terrible agony and anguish when they try to separate a child from its daemon? That's me and musical instruments, that is...

I was (and still am) a pretty awful electric guitar player, although I can manage half decent fingerpicking on an acoustic (which to my mind ought to be harder...) At Uni in Aber a mate had a red sunburst precision that I used to plonk away on when I was at his place. After I left uni he lent it to me for a month or so (thinking back, probably because I was a bit miserable after my three-year student relationship broke up). He made the condition that I only played it one-finger-per-fret 🙂 Didn't take me long to appreciate it was a much better fit for me than guitar. I got a Hohner jazz, and when I moved down to South Wales I was pretty crap but eventually tried an audition and failed miserably when it turned out all the songs I had tried to learn were just a 'guide to the sort of things...' Tried out for a covers band and somehow did OK, and then got about ten years under my belt with them followed by two original bands. About 23 years only doing the odd bit. Getting back into it seriously now, for about two years, definitely a much better player than I was before, but my guitar is even worse. So that's about 36 years.

You want slices along the trunk, not across it, for 99% of uses.

Unlike most of the quotes in this thread, when Neil Young said "now I'm livin' out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach", it was littoraly true.

Its over? Oh, you just mean the thread...

LOL! I actually read that... Well how about The Lion Sleeps Tonight...

Back to the true spirit of this thread... Stevie Nicks, guilty of a degree of meteorological inexactitude when she claimed 'thunder only happens when its raining'.