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Very nice indeed and it's inspired me to try 33" scale

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1424961039' post='2702350'] Something similar incoming soon, Dave? [/quote] It's food for thought. Soooo nice.

That's bloody lovely, if it had had 1966 style lollipop tuners it would have been my perfect Jazz spec. Enjoy

Anyone?

Escalated to a claim as they still haven't responded.

All my work is with the client for approval at the moment so I used the down time to attack the neck! I did a bit more work with the imitation wire wool, added a few dings to the headstock, then in a rare moment of inspiration I applied a load of HB pencil to a piece of paper and rubbed that along the top back area of the neck between the G and B frets on the E string, it's added a subtle greyness to that area, I have no idea if it will stay on there or rub off with playing as they is still lacquer on the neck, only time will tell. The Turmeric staining on the scratchplate has faded away again! The postman brought waterslide printing paper and clear matt lacquer today.

I'm no expert but I'm quite surprised that the original wiring didn't hum due to the lack of earthing.

Very long shot I know but does anyone have one of these? I have the seed of an idea for a bitsa bass using one but can't get info on the neck pocket size, I even e-mailed a shop who said they don't have that information

[quote name='dieseldalziel' timestamp='1424718143' post='2699606'] I saw Matchbox 20 a few years ago & I believe they were using Bad Cat Black Cat plexi amp heads with plexiglass cabs...looked great from an audience point of view spot them at 1.20 in this vid: [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uzQYmuxNwY"]https://www.youtube....h?v=6uzQYmuxNwY[/url] [/quote] I enjoyed that but forgot to look out for the amps

The Turmeric might be working, it's odd as it keeps fading back towards white but does seem to be retaining some yellow each time. I sanded the rough edges of the tuners that I used the Dremel on so they are now smooth. Ordered some Lemon Oil for the fingerboard. Not a lot else will happen with this now until the weekend due to work being rather busy.

Fingers crossed

I like the idea of the amp head, showing off the valves etc. looks really nice but I don't think the idea really works as a cab. As mentioned above wouldn't they weigh a ton?

After getting no response via 2 e-mail accounts, Twitter or phone, I have opened a case with Paypal and see if that gets any response.

I do love a bit of Buckeye

As I was on a roll I decided to fill the old scratchplate and bridge screw holes in the body as the previous owner had used big wood screws to fix both items, the scratchplate ones were also in the wrong place for the new plate. [attachment=184653:IMAG0707 lr.jpg] Then I cut a groove for truss rod adjustment using a tile cutting attachment on the Dremel a Forstner bit and a drill, it's not pretty but I'm please with my 1st attempt at doing anything like this. [attachment=184654:IMAG0712 lr.jpg] [attachment=184655:IMAG0713 lr.jpg] [attachment=184656:IMAG0715 lr.jpg]

Underside of the scratchplate shielded using cheap Aluminium tape and a couple of bits of copper tape with conductive glue to join it all up. I've laid the plate over the cavity and used a meter to check continuity and it works fine [attachment=184645:IMAG0706 lr.jpg] After spotting a curry stain on the white kitchen worktop I came up with the idea on trying some Turmeric on the white edges of the plate, I tried quite a weak solution at first and it looked like it worked but when I went back to it later it seemed to have fades back to white so I've slapped on a thicker more concentrate coating, I'll report back on the results later. [attachment=184646:IMAG0716 lr.jpg]

I don't have much time to work on this today as I'm off out soon but I have done some gentle matting down of the headstock and back of the neck using a medium synthetic wire wool pad, I wouldn't say it was relicing as such just toning down the shiny new look to the lacquer. One thing I'm not sure about is that the Rosewood fingerboard looks very new, it has a kinda grey hazy hue to it rather then the rich brown usually associated with this wood, I was wondering if there was anything not too expensive I could buy and apply to the wood to improve the look of it? I also worked out the depth and length of the slot needed in the body for truss rod adjustment, working out how wide it needs to be may have to be trial and error, obviously I don't want it super wide but it has to be wide enough for the allen key to turn enough. I know on Fender's you remove the neck to adjust the truss rod and I don't really need to make an access point but it makes perfect sense to me to only have to remove the scratchplate to adjust the action.

[quote name='JPJ' timestamp='1424453872' post='2696550'] looking good, you can't beat a bit of guerrilla engineering :-) [/quote] I've not done anything as drastic before, when I started grinding the tuners the smell instantly took me back 35 odd years to Metalwork classes at school!

[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1424447478' post='2696434'] I agree too. Looks like you've done a pretty fine job with that Dremmel IMO Great solution - you keep the slightly tarnished / roadworn tuners and it didn't cost you anything I find I'm looking at this thread every day now! So come on - get a move on.... get those stickers in place! We want more progress Lol (said the man whose had a bitsa P build sat in a box in the garage for 2 months! Cheers again Marc [/quote] Thanks Marc, you should get on and do your bitsa bass to, obviously you'd have to do a build diary Back in the day when I did any mods or bitsa basses I tended to rush them and often messed something up, I've learned the hard way that I need a lot of thinking/research time before proceeding with any work

[quote name='EliasMooseblaster' timestamp='1424443410' post='2696378'] Yeah, if you hadn't told us that you'd had to cut them down, I probably wouldn't have guessed from those photos that they'd had anything done to them! [/quote] Cheers, it one of those things isn't it, no one else notices but you always see it yourself.

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1424442753' post='2696366'] [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/255179-anyone-know-estuary-bass-company-update-all-sorted-now/page__p__2684923__hl__estuary__fromsearch__1#entry2684923"]http://basschat.co.u..._1#entry2684923[/url] [/quote] Cheers. I'll report back on the outcome. if I'd seen that thread I would have posted there instead of starting a new one sorry folks.