Dom in Dorset

I'll go with a Tele headstock but precision body. The Tele body looks cool but with a long scale neck it dives like crazy. You may not be able to see in the picture but the front strap button has a six inch extension (hidden behind the neck) and the back one is half way along the back of the body to shift the centre of gravity and make it balance. As for the pickup , ideally I'd like an Entwistle PBXN as it gives the blue bass just the right sound. Sadly these don't seem to be available anymore so I'm looking at alternatives.

The Darkness in Bournemouth tonight. One of their songs came on the radio, "Ooh what ever happened to them? " Next thing you know we'd googled them , found they were playing next week near us and we'd bought tickets. I don't know much about them but it should be entertaining.

Hi, it's been a while since I posted here , I've been concentrating on gu*t@rs for a while but I have a bass build that I'm keen to get started with. If you haven't seen my stuff before I use reclaimed timber exclusively to make guitars and basses , most of the wood I use comes from 100 year old scrap pianos. I've just completed this thinline telecaster , walnut neck with oak board and ebony dots, poplar body with walnut and rosewood veneer front. This build will be slightly different... I front a tongue in cheek country rock trio and until now I've been using this bitsa that came together over a few years. It's made from various spare parts and plays like a dream , looks and sounds just right for the music we play (if Motorhead played country you'd get some idea of what we do ) As we are gigging again now and I also play the same bass in another band Ithough it was about time that I started using my own Scavenger branded reclaimed timber basses. I did have ideas of making some sort of cowboy bling bass a bit like the Thinline shown above but to save time, effort and money I have decide to go with something a little more gnarly .... I've been through the wood store and picked out the "character parts" : For the body: most pianos are poplar with veneer but this one has oak under the mahogany. Oak, gnarly oak! The woodworm holes were filled in under the veneer so they even predate the piano. Just to the left is a bit from the same source that I planed to make a fretboard but didn't use on account of the worm holes ....until now. From the left: two bits of an ancient bench that I may use for the neck although I still haven't decided for certain yet. The oak panel that will form the back of the body. Oak fretboard with ancient wormholes. An old orange box that I found in the garden. This will form the front face of the body. It's going to be a thinline style precision bass, the idea is to make something that looks like an ancient family heirloom rather that a barncaster. It's being fitted in around other more profitable builds so don't hold your breath ...but I've made a statement of intent and that's where it starts. Close up of a rotten , worm eaten orange box.

Well this is embarrassing , a little research reveals it to be a Burns Weill Bass. Interesting if a little blocky. Like a Volvo estate bass.

Spotted being played by Mungo Jerry's John Godfrey :

Could be...my old bass is looking a bit too fancy for that gig.

You can change the laws of physics after all then.

...between musical instrument and firewood?

Drill? My first thought was pick axe. "Didn't they do well???" Hmm No.

I wasn't sure where to post this so feel free to move if it's wrong: Spotted on Facebook: b I laughed , I winced, I thought "why?" Other than "I couldn't afford a Stingray so I made one" I am at a loss to explain why anyone would do this. Any ideas?

What name is on the headstock?

K Pop/ dubstep fusion

I know their set inside out after many dep gigs. They asked me to fill in while Chris was I'll , then a week later I was told the sad news.

Despite spending an uncomfortable night in van battered by the rain and being kept awake by a dance tent that had opened up a portal to Hell we had a good one, the sun shone during all bar one song. I was a bit nervous having been drafted in at short notice after the untimely death of the previous encumbent , I have depped for them many times but nearly two years off did make it feel a bit seat of the pants.

Tomorrow I'll be playing my first gig since November 2019 .... it's at a small festival in Sussex. I feel a strange mixture of excitement and disbelief. Hopefully the first of many more to come.

There's still a few loose ends to tie up but I'm pretty much there

Nothing to put on them 😁 In an ideal world I would have done so, time is against me, the priority is to make instruments asap. I'm doing a trade stand at a festival next month and I need stock. The work bench by the window has storage shelves built in so I don't need much right now. I still have to move the bandsaw and some of the plastic shelves from my mother's shed and I'm planning some sort of rack for work in progress.

Finally moving out of here: Into here: Total chaos 😁

Looks like I'll have to fold, all I have is a Bolder and Bowie

Rutgar Gunnarsson - it doesn't matter what pose you strike, what bass you play, what you wear , you'll never be as cool as the guy playing bass for ABBA.