JohnH89

Looking good . Just an idea for you . Lose the choc blocks and get yourself some wago connectors from screwfix or the like . So much quicker and easier if you are changing things around

I have to disagree with your disagreement . 😆

I know what I agree on . Can't speak for the rest of you .......😁

Shim at bridge end of neck pocket . Business card or similar . 1/2 in or so wide and full width of pocket . Don't be led down the rabbit hole of full pocket shims , angled shims or horror stories of ski jump necks . Seriously , this has been done for years by major manufacturers with no ill effects .

McNeela or Ozark will get you in the ballpark . Decent instruments .

Personally I'd go for the Irish bouzouki . Longer scale length sounds better to my ear . Both are beautiful sounding instruments . The only place I can think of to try them out would be a branch of Hobgoblin music . I don't know if you have one reasonably local .

Please take his tools away .

And yet you still feel the need to post . That is my contribution to the 'bitchfest' .😁

I have a very good idea what mine would say 😁 . But not in polite company .

Another vote for Scottish power . Taking incompetence to another level . But favourite of all is an energy company called BES . Criminally dishonest . Failed to honour a contract that put me out of business. I won't go into details here . Customer service was like trying to reason with a seagull . May they all rot in hell .

No pressure mate . Let me know when/if you get round to it .👍

If you ever are tempted to go for a headless , message me as I have a Nova headless bridge and headpiece that is no longer being used . It is a marvellous design by a member on here @Andre_Passini. I am happy to donate to the right cause . There may even be a neck in it for you .... The bass is looking spot on by the way . 😀

Amazon . Hate them with a passion for a whole lot of reasons I won't go into here . And as its a bass forum , Sterling . Never , ever again .

Hipshots that I have used have a hole in the middle . Just cut string 4in or two tuners past the one you want , bend the last 1/2 at 90 degrees , insert in hole , tune to pitch . I may be missing something ................

Agreed . I don't have enough to do a whole headstock left anyway . Lets get on with the proof of concept idea first . Crack on mate . I'm waiting with bated breath .... Here is the guy I bought it from https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/183424553423?var=691735066632 When the time comes ....

I'd come up and do it for ya but I'm at the other end of the country mate . I'll have a look and see if I have any of the walnut veneer left . If I have I'll send it up . 😁 . It will be my small contribution to your most excellent project . When I needed bushes for some hipshot ultralites , I used some carbon fibre tubing . I was lucky that I found some with the right ID/OD .

Bison wax is expensive but I have it in the workshop . Furniture wax / beeswax or something similar is fine . I am sure that you could print a laminate in plastic , already shaped and with holes for the machine heads . Or even with the reducing bushes as part of it . Glue , clamp , job done . Even put a logo of your choice on the back of the headstock . Just a thought .

That is walnut veneer . 0.6mm thick and bought (I think) from ebay . Wrapped it in a towel soaked with hot water to soften it for a minute or so Cut roughly to size and glued up with PVA wood glue . Clamped solidly and left to cure . Trimmed and finished with with hand tools ( scalpel and files ) and finished with black bison wax . The secret is not rushing it and working out how to clamp it solidly . Easier on the back of the headstock as no curves and no truss rod access . Veneer available in all sorts of woods to match your neck . I am guessing maple ?

Laminate ? Heres one I did in walnut to match the body . Looking good so far mate . It confuses me just looking at it . I'm fine with wood and metal but the whole computer/CAD thing is for my next life I think 😁

Likewise .

Perception of tone changes over time . The bass sounds the same as it ever did but you hear it differently . The sound of my bass changes enormously depending on the room or environment I am playing in . I have played gigs in the same place on multiple occasions with the same equipment and had to change EQ settings . Never had any complaints so don't overthink it and just get out and play . 👍

Played rugby as a no8/second row for 27 years . That and 38 years of mainly manual labour means everything I do causes pain . I got used to it and at least playing any bass gives me a huge amount of pleasure . Even the Paving slab P bass . 😁

My slab bodied fretless P bass has a custom body from baseball bat ash . It weighs the far side of 12lb . I love it . I appreciate it is not to everyones taste but I have no problem with it .

I have 2 fretlesses and a Jack Casady bass all strung with Roto88s . Love em 😁

I bought mine new over a year ago . Fit and finish are superb . Strung it with Labella original 54s and it sounds killer . 60/40 towards the P pickup and treble rolled off . It instantly became my no1 bass and gets more play time than all the others put together . It is the only bass I have ever had that has stayed as it left the factory . Says it all really .