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Fender Mustang. All kinds of ugly wrongness.

Weird scenes inside a goldmine - The Doors

I just went as close to the bridge as I could tbh

The only problem with Andertons is they keep a list of all the things you've bought over the years... I'm terrified the wife may find it one day...

Looks excellent 👌 excited to see how it sounds! How did you decide on placement? Did you eyeball it or go with any specific measurements? Me too, was debating if it was worth the extra spend but I’m all about that mid growl. Knew I’d regret it if not🔥🔥🔥

Probably in a tiny minority here judging by some of the stuff I've read, but I've played a couple of gigs with IEMs and absolutely hated it. Just feels like you're in some sort of cocoon where you're shielded from everything apart from the band. No connection with anything else and also I found them uncomfortable and irritating. Give me an amp and a cabinet any day.

So after being named on talkbass ladies and gentlemen Squal audio demo coming soon!! it sounds so good tho I’m a happy lad!

My ultimate favourite shape is the BC Rich Warlock with the Widow headstock. My number one bass is a glossy black Warlock NT and I love it to bits. I have an Aria Pro II Magna Series MAB 20/5, which is a fairly standard shape, and I hate it! It’s just dull dull dull. It plays and sounds great, though.

That looks cool!! I went for the English voicing

Stunning

It's not the drummer's job to keep the band's time. I said I wished more people realised that and understood it. The first paragraph of the link says its the drummers job to keep time. Pretty much proving my point that too many people (mainly drummers) think it is the drummers job. Even the OP realises that the drummer isn't there to keep the band in time. The band can do that themselves - especially when the drummer isn't able to and needs a flashing beacon stuck in their line of sight. I wasted years playing with a drummer who sped up if I stopped playing. Every song we played I had to lean back on the beat in order to keep time. One gig I had had enough and went with him on the final song. It just crashed and burned when it was going so fast the singer couldn't get the words out. The singer tore him a new one afterwards.

In the short breaks between eating fresh pasta and drinking prosecco, I started on carving the brace(s). There only one glued on for the moment: My plan is to have one jump over the other, rather than an X-brace which is glued together. Having shaped the first brace into a sort of conical shape, the handle of an iwasaki file was the perfect shape for the corresponding hole in the other brace: So they fit together like this: Clearly, that second brace has still got some work that needs to be done. Just a tad oversized.... Those iwasaki file are the nuts by the way. Hands down the best files I've used. Much better than the Dragon files that Stewmac sells. They create shavings rather than dust and leave a ridiculously smooth surface. Even the handles are the perfect shape.

Heck, the Turner multicoils just arrived today and they’re hefty! Here’s a DiMarzio Model P for reference. Build quality is fantastic on these!

Little bit of drive to add thickness. Dont over do it. Then redo the arrangement. Thats far more important. Channel your inner Jack Bruce.

Down in a (Pot)Hole - Alice in Chains

Yep, I realise it's entirely unjust. Nor deserved. I've led a terrible life being unkind to the young and infirm and listening to progressive rock. Just goes to show that there really is no justice in this world.

Nice! I’m doing the same at the moment except with the Lusithand NFP Special. Just need to strip everything off and take all the copper tape out of the cavities ready to route it next week. Need to make a new scratch plate and fix a few dents well I’m at it too, very excited to get it all sorted 🙌 @0175westwood29 Did you go for the Original or English voiced version?

Wait! He can do all this with wood AND he gets to live in Italy? Wow. Lots of good things in one place there.

While the glue malarkey kafuffle was ongoing, I cracked on with the sides. First job, trim the kerfing back with a spokeshave. The best job in luthiery. It's like popping bubble wrap but much better The back is dome shaped, with a radius of 12 feet. So that same radius needs to be sanded into the sides & kerfing. Straightforward to do on the radius dish, even if it takes quite a while. Any time I'm doing sanding I try to do it inside my hi-tech sanding cubicle. A quick n easy downdraft table. Or sidedraft I suppose. Works a treat. Next I need to carve channels through the kerfing so that the braces sit nicely inside. I used a dremel, again in my sidedraft cubicle. (I must get that patented, pronto). The idea being that the ends of the braces go into the kerfing, like this: The gaps will get filled with epoxy when the back gets glued onto the sides. And here they are, not glued yet as there's another job to do first......(ooh mysterious!)

Well as your gear is Ashdown a solution could be their RM500 with the footswitch that adds in the valve drive and the sub harmoniser. Just adding a touch on each would add in nicely to the sound without any drastic changes.