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The earliest known examples of the lyre have been recovered at archeological sites that date to c. 2700 BCE in Mesopotamia. (OK, this sure is vintage, not some surf board.) Baroque, flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s. (I think this old instruments may carry the sticker "vintage", too.) According to Wiki there seems to be some 4400 years in between these two.

You have shown him the true path, well done.👏👏👏

I prefer 'boutique' over baroque.

I’d told Trav “that’s Pete from basschat”

Both routes done and pickguard drawn on tracing paper, going to attempt cutting it with a Dremel 😱

And made a demo video of course.

My only experience in this is that my first 5 string was a new Cort C5 about 21 years ago and although it was a great sounding bass, I found the string spacing to be too tight for me compared to the 4 string Jazz I had before. I think that is the Cort in my Avatar on the left. My sausage fingers kept tripping up over the strings so I have ended up always trying to get 5 strings with widest spacing over the years which isn't easy at the budget end of the scale - I note it is not even mentioned on a lot of online listings.. I also remember that after about a year of ownership a ground wire to one of the pots fell off and it kept cutting out, so I had to get my soldering iron out. It was fine after that but did concern me with their QC - although he later ones may be better. It is the only bass I have ever sold on (due to the spacing), but I sold it to a mate and he seemed very happy with it.

Im not sure but it had a lot of miles on the clock and too many previous keepers

The problem was the sound post, it was way too tight and choking the bass. The bridge also had some problems but he did some creative woodworking on one leg and set it up so the adjusters work properly. I had asked him to check the bridge position and he decided to leave it in the same place. Bass plays a lot better both arco and pizz and is louder with a better sound, strings (Spiros) are roughly 5,6,7,8 mm but I may change that a bit, gotta love adjusters. All in all money well spent but a bit tired today after a 9 hour 800km round trip yesterday into the craziness of Toronto's traffic, happy to get back up north where things are much quieter.

From last wednesday's rehearsal(!)

Maybe mix in a very small amount of amber stain with a compatible varnish.

Publicity shots ahead of Fridays Fractured Persona gig!

Thanks for this! He's absolutely flying with it, he spends so much time playing it's incredible! Not even a year in, and I think he'll be better than me soon 😅 Got him his first proper bass at the guitar and bass show back in March, a Dave Ellefson 5-string Jackson, and he's wanting a new bass for his 16th next month! Here we go..... #GAS

That was ignorant! 🙂

As someone who loves Mustangs but doesn't really like PJ setups at all, this thread is giving me very mixed feelings...

Re NuX I use it on my Shen SB 100, my old Czech ply and my Yamaha SLB 200 and it is great. I have used it for home practice, at band rehearsals (jazz and bluegrass) and at gigs going into an amp, the jazz band's Bose or DI into a house system. You can charge the units from a wall plug or from the sturdy case that they are stored in, a handy feature. I must have had them for at least a year now and have had no problems. I don't know all the technical stuff but you can find that easily enough, I do know that the system is simple and sounds good and that it works for me.

Did some pore filling. And stained the back and sides a mix of yellow and oak. To give it an aged Korina look. After lots of spraying and sanding layers of clear, I could apply the decals. The top was quite a bit of a challenge. Customer wanted a teal blue sparkle finish. The only proper way is to make it a candy finish. First a layer of coarse metallic flake silver. Then a layer of transparent mixed with silver particles. Then the cobalt blue transparant layer to achieve the teal/turquoise look And sealing it off with several layers of transparant. The matching headstock got the name decal Laser cut the pearloid pickguard Modified the Schaller Grand Tune octave tuners to save some room

Then I came up with a crazy idea. I had the big tone chamber on the lower horn. And I had the extra large controls cavity with some spare room for a little extra feature. Why not put a led light in the lower wing? I did a little test with a discarded pickguard... Let there be light. And there was light

Shaped the heel of the neck to fit the pocket Checked the neck joint angle Routed the pickup cavity Drilled the holes for the volume pot, kill switch and jack output Glued the neck in the pocket