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Beautiful work 👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼

Have you considered asking your local body shop spray painter?

These guys do this work to an amazing standard day in day out to cars, and I'd imagine they'd welcome doing something slightly different from the usual. No harm in asking for a price?

I got my Build Diary BlazerRay bass project sprayed by a car painting mate of mine who has since retired, but he did a superb job of it with a primer coat, three white top coats and completed the finish with a laquer top coat.

12 hours ago, wright/watt said:

 

Oh my!!!! That is a stunning bass 😮

5 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

That is a stunning bass....

 

Shame he didn't know about your magnet trick on the back though  

3 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

That is a stunning bass....

 

Thanks Andy, it's a Cliff Bordwell fretless. 

On 07/05/2021 at 15:27, Andyjr1515 said:

I did a number of passes, ending up with a 4mm deep slot:

 

Then, from the other side, cut the chamber as I do my pickup chambers nowadays...starting with a Forstner to part-depth:

 

Then chiselled the periphery to act as a guide for the bearing on a top-bearing router bit:

 

So now, and only now, when it is captive and can't go anywhere because of the bearing, out can come the horrible hand router... :

 

...to tidy up the sides and gradually deepen the body until breakthrough!  :

 

And, with a mm adjustment of my chisel line eventually release.  And we have a grain matching, 3mm thick back cover 

 

I think the phrase, 'Well, you could knock me down with a feather!' springs to mind.  I wasn't expecting that!!!

Time for a cup of tea, I reckon....

 

 

That's really clever! I have a bass that has a matched grain cover, and it had me beat how that was achieved, now I know

Just to clarify (and I've just come off watching a live 1985 Paul Young gig from Rockenplast, complete with Pino - absolutely awesome playing, plus 3 fabulous backing vocalists and PY at his showman level best, no auto tune or whatever to make the vox in tune required) my previous rant related to the inability these days of performers to sing live without any enhancement to improve tuning - whatever the particular kind of technology that may entail these days. I'm really not interested - because I prefer anyone singing live to be genuinely just that, without anything electronic pulling them in tune - I'm not really sure how I can possibly emphasise that point any more than I already have. What happened to talent?

Call me old school, call me old fashioned, call me old, I really don't mind 😁

Over the years I've spent hours and hours with fellow band members working on harmony vocals till it totally cheesed everybody in the band off, and on the gig nights when it all comes together down the Dog and Duck (remember those days?) it all seems worth it for that nanosecond or longer - because of all the work and effort put in - not just for the band members, but the audience too.

Younger BCr's may argue modern gizmos - to enhance dodgy live vocals - are to be embraced, and will call it progress. 

That's fine, we are moving on all the time.

But for me personally, I disagree.

Again, IMO - it's simply cheating  

Anyone want to see a great vocalist, three fabulous backing singers, and a half decent bassist (   ) plus a kicking band, check this gig out... no pitch correction required back then 😎

Call it old school if you like   

3 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

Certainly. Your concluding paragraph on stadium gigs endorsed correction as a means of giving the paying audience better value.

Certainly did not intend that as an endorsement, that was not my intention at all.

I honestly thought I could have not have been clearer.

Pitch correction in any form, any performer, from Arena to pub. No.

IMO  

1 minute ago, Downunderwonder said:

The bit I quoted was accepting of big gigs using the tech but in the next breath pilloried the solo artist for needing to practice to make auto correct unnecessary.

Suggest you re-read my original post @Downunderwonder maybe I didn't make it clear, but regardless of either big band in an Arena or solo pub player, I think the same of both. I'd rather hear how they really sing, and think it's a shame an audience has to be fooled by tech these days.

As I've intimated, I'm old school, plug in, play, let's hear what you've got.

Without pitch correction  

22 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Alternatively, if you could veneer the body - there are some really special ones available, and because you're buying 0.6mm slivers they are generally inexpensive.

IIRC the sheet (enough for 2 or 3 basses) of "Iron on" veneer which @Andyjr1515 used on my Nanyo cost about £15. Loads left over.

 

Who is the supplier Mick?

13 minutes ago, Downunderwonder said:

What's the difference between a stadium act selling their best performance and a fool on a stool doing the same?

First off, I never said fool on a stool  Anyone who is prepared to get up in front of an audience and perform has always got my backing, but when it comes to masking ability with electronic gizmos it comes into question, again this is my opinion 😎

But, just so there's no ambiguity - there's no difference at all.

Both, IMO, are cheating.

That's an interesting build process Dom, I've always built from the floor upwards, with wall framework coming up from the floor itself 

Never seen it done with the floor installed last, but it's worked for you 

What have you used for insulation? Looks like laminate flooring underlay? 

I only see photo footage..

3 minutes ago, PaulThePlug said:

Yeah, well aware of it, was my Mum's fav back in the 70's... And one of the only chocolate that is safe in my house from the wife n kids... I'm glad its back. Home bargains did a copy... OK but not quite...

18 bars? some will power or "Mum... i feel sick!...."

Aye Paul, that was my Mam and Dads way of not sharing it with us, it had rum in it 😆 

I'll be out looking for it next week! 😎

4 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

🤤

What he said...Old Jamaicky as me Dad called it...mmmmmmm  🤣

Those Babicz bridges are great  

Well, since you ask..

Cheating. Simple as.

As a semi-pro 'singer/bassist' (been called a lot less) of 43+ years I have absolutely zero tolerance of it. I'd rather see people up there doing it live, whatever that entails. Mistakes, bum notes, warbles, chokes, whatever..

That is what should be on show from any performer IMO, warts and all as we used to say..

However, I've heard very reliable tales of entire vocals on DAT back in the day - in particular a very famous girl 'band' - with live mics dropped in to talk to the crowd etc simply because they were too bloody awful to do it live.

I've heard from reliable sources that pitch correction/autotune is massive when playing to arena audiences paying big bucks to see perfection.

In the past few years some MAJOR big bands doing huge stadium gigs have relied on PC/autotune live that I've heard about from guys behind the scenes - using some very expensive processing gear - but a paying audience member would never know, as long as they walk away happy, it's job done.

On the local pub circuit (when it was running) I've seen solo artists with an acoustic  guitar using it - really? Can I suggest you try practising more? 🤨

Maybe as well as being older, I'm also old fashioned - but personally, I give Pitch correction/Autotune a big NO.

Perhaps I'm just a grumpy, older git 🙄

I bought a pickup from Nigel, deal done in seconds! It was in superb condition, excellent quick delivery and extremely well packaged.

As said on here, top BC'r, deal with confidence 👍🏼

22 hours ago, PaulThePlug said:

Nice...

although the latest pics look a little washed out in colour compared to earlier December body n fretboard pics.

Can we have another?

I'm guessing the previous pics showed dampened wood to give us an idea of the grain? 🤔

58 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Excellent…

*dons fez, cleans glasses, settles into deep armchair, lights pipe*

You'll need a decent supply of Condor and a big book Frank...

.... for a month or so 🤭

On 25/04/2021 at 15:25, benh said:

WOW. That is all 🙂

^This^

Oh, and... stunning 👍🏼

On 27/04/2021 at 12:32, Andyjr1515 said:

 

 

 

There's a volute!

There's a volute!

Does he of this BC parish - what doth love a volute - know?!

🤭

Those pickup positions remind me of 70's Kramer basses 👍🏼

20 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

I think that’s too nice to put in the garden , what a lovely memory 🙂

Yeh, as soon as he saw it he said there's no way that's going in the garden!

Got to say I was more than relieved 😆