Jimothey Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 After I've done the fretboard etc the remaining bits of the build I'm fine with but as you said after all the hard work of building the body I don't wanna screw it up but this build has been dragging on so I just need to get it finished now! 👍🏻 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba_the_gut Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 21 hours ago, Jimothey said: I started building my neck-thru in May '18 so I think I should have this build title!! 😁 I'm afraid not. I started this build in 2013 and still haven't finished it. The title is mine!! Scratch Built Bass #4 - now with LED markers..... - Build Diaries - Basschat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted January 7, 2021 Author Share Posted January 7, 2021 You are all pretenders. You will all finish your builds. Mine can never be finished. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimothey Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, Jabba_the_gut said: I'm afraid not. I started this build in 2013 and still haven't finished it. The title is mine!! Scratch Built Bass #4 - now with LED markers..... - Build Diaries - Basschat Ok you win!! 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba_the_gut Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 21 minutes ago, Jimothey said: Ok you win!! 😁 Yay! I'm off to slowly build myself a trophy... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Jabba_the_gut said: Yay! I'm off to slowly build myself a trophy... I'll be pop back in seven years and see how it's going. 😁 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 10 hours ago, Jabba_the_gut said: I'm afraid not. I started this build in 2013 and still haven't finished it. The title is mine!! Scratch Built Bass #4 - now with LED markers..... - Build Diaries - Basschat there are pictures on there that look like a bass. owens just started an small fire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard R Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I think the thread should remain Owen's, but the awards should be selected on an annual (or perhaps bi-annual) basis. There needs to be a proper award for the slowest build, as actually measured from start to completion, and interim awards for lack of progress. If no progress at all is made in three years, then the project may be considered "abandoned", and only reappear as a contender when something is done. I propose a suitability uncommitted committee to begin thinking about consulting on draft rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard R Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 The award could be named "The Berlin Airport Award". https://m.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-story-of-failure-and-embarrassment/a-55446329 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LukeFRC Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 1 minute ago, Richard R said: The award could be named "The Berlin Airport Award". https://m.dw.com/en/berlins-new-airport-finally-opens-a-story-of-failure-and-embarrassment/a-55446329 Or even the HS2 award... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I'm not vying to take anyone's crown for slowest build because that's far too much like hard work, and it wasn't a build anyway, just a make over, but I started my Longhorn in 2016 and only got round to finishing it in the first lockdown last year. But it is finished. My contender would have to be my flip top combo I'm 'building'. I had an old dynacord valve amp kicking around with all the front missing and some old early 70s celestian 15" drivers. The plan is to rehouse it all in a flip top combo style. So far I have taken all of the internals out of the amp at the end of 2019 and put them in a cupboard, now I'm not a hundred percent sure how it all goes but fear not because the amp apparently runs a very high voltage to get 80watts out of the two valves which would normally give 50watts, or something like that, so it shouldn't hurt too much when it tries to bite me. I haven't got time for the amp though because I've got a precision/jazz/ray I started last summer (shelved temporarily) and a Hofner I'm doing now. 😂😂😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonBassAlpha Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Ooh, yeah, Iforgot about the Hofner, how's it coming along? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, MoonBassAlpha said: Ooh, yeah, Iforgot about the Hofner, how's it coming along? All the bits are here now and I'm furloughed again from Monday so progress should resume then when I've got an empty house, the sheds just too cold at the mo. I need to get a woodburner out there to get through my projects quicker, one in the burner one on the bench, one in the burner one on the bench. 😁 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba_the_gut Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 I've just started what will be the slowest build ever. So slow it won't be complete in my lifetime. It will have a one piece sycamore body and a neck from the same tree. Here it is so far: 4 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted May 12, 2021 Author Share Posted May 12, 2021 Will your apprentice's apprentice wait long enough for a neck through? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabba_the_gut Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 Just a quick update on this build. 6 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted June 9, 2022 Author Share Posted June 9, 2022 17 hours ago, Jabba_the_gut said: Just a quick update on this build. You cannot rush the tone. Are planning a nice bit of burl? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishman Posted April 10 Share Posted April 10 Any progress @Owen? I'm thinking of getting back to my Stingray 4 build in the next year or so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted April 10 Author Share Posted April 10 I have given up. I will never top this timescale. I recognise greatness when I see it. Feel my defeated spirit 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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