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[quote name='Spoombung' post='454769' date='Apr 5 2009, 04:45 PM']Oh, c'mon now. You've just cut and pasted those scenes from nearby Suffolk![/quote]
Or you've airbrushed out the white stilletos and Ford Escorts!

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Those actually are a couple of photos of the Essex coast, if you look carefully at the first photo you can actually see some water amongst all that mud. :)

Im trying to figure out whats actually at the end of the lane in the second shot?

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Hiya Mikey

It's actually the derelict in the 1st pic at the end of the Lane, beside Dabchicks sailing club.

I actually used to live down the Lane, in Pacaroon Cottage.

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I bring you more news from a windowless workshop in windy Witham.

Bolts. Yes bolts. And holes too. Wanna see 'em? Of course you do:











I can't help thinking the bass looks like some kind of sad, beached, marine creature groping in the sand in these pics.

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[quote name='Spoombung' post='456589' date='Apr 7 2009, 05:15 PM']I can't help thinking the bass looks like some kind of sad, beached, marine creature groping in the sand in these pics.[/quote]
:) i see what you mean, though that's not the first thing that would have sprung to my mind!!

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Where else would the phrase [i]"Instead of gold, 'tis brass I find"[/i] be most appropriate? Why, in Essex of course! The brass adjustable nut was installed today into the devilishly narrow 34mm space (I'm really looking forward to having a bass with that narrow spacing - there really is no need for anything bigger than that IMO).

First of all a bit of measuring up with this funny, little high-tech device that Mike always seems to have handy on his bench next to his packet of Henri Wintermans.



Here's a close up of the component parts. An adjustable nut is dead handy - no filing needed.

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Then after the measuring it's over to the router to cut the channel:



Looks like a perfect fit:





Then it looks like there's [i]finally[/i] some shaping of the neck area behind the nut going on at last:



Mike has promised more pics tomorrow...

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They say that "Nationalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" but this country does make the best basses in the world, not forgeting Scotland, IMO, (your opinion my be different, please don't start fires). :)

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[quote name='steve-soar' post='462403' date='Apr 14 2009, 07:23 PM']They say that "Nationalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" but this country does make the best basses in the world, not forgeting Scotland, IMO, (your opinion my be different, please don't start fires). :)[/quote]

...Huh? I've absolutely no idea what you're talking about as I haven't mentioned anything about Britain or any other nation here. Unless the thing about 'starting fires' is a Springsteen quote...or something?

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[quote name='Spoombung' post='462443' date='Apr 14 2009, 08:04 PM']...Huh? I've absolutely no idea what you're talking about as I haven't mentioned anything about Britain or any other nation here. Unless the thing about 'starting fires' is a Springsteen quote...or something?[/quote]
I think he's just saying the best basses are made on these shores. It's a compliment :)

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[quote name='MacDaddy' post='462465' date='Apr 14 2009, 08:36 PM']I think he's just saying the best basses are made on these shores. It's a compliment :)[/quote]

Hurrah for Britain! :rolleyes: Yes, I realised Steve was simply feeling patriot - eventually.
Yes, we do make good instruments here but so does nearly every other country - I suppose it makes sense to buy British at the moment because of the sorry state of Sterling.

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[quote name='Spoombung' post='462761' date='Apr 15 2009, 10:06 AM']Hurrah for Britain! :) Yes, I realised Steve was simply feeling patriotic - eventually.
Yes, we do make good instruments here but so does nearly every other country - I suppose it makes sense to buy British at the moment because of the sorry state of Sterling.[/quote]

I see what you mean:

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[quote name='steve' post='462946' date='Apr 15 2009, 01:05 PM']:)[/quote]Look Edward, Chilllderen.
No Tubbs, they're not chilllderen, they're Monsters.

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