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After much delay (apparently Aguilar haven’t been particularly helpful in supplying my pickups) Andy Brown has sent me an “in progress” shot of my Wing!

If you’re playing an unlined fretless, then you are (by default) a superior musician to all others in any band situation. Therefore all other instruments are out of tune with you. This revelation has helped me enormously and haven't bothered setting up intonation or tune my fretless for years. Let the peasants fret about that. 🧐

First ever Yamaha at 74 And loving it ,😊

So would a belt sander but there's more than one way to skin a cat. Actually the belt sander would do that as well

You Only Live Twice. Went to see this with my Dad when at the time it was an (A )certificate film . I was to young to see it, being tall had its advantages though in them days. Made it all the more special knowing I shouldn't have been in the cinema for another year'.I would give anything to be able to sit and watch this with my Dad again. Even Robbie flogging the opening few bars hasn't spoiled the great memories of a Dad and his son sharing one of those moments that stay with you.

I like 90% of them. I voted for Nobody Does it Better simply because Carly Simon had one of the best voices in the business. I agree re Gladys Knight too. And can anyone ever arrange strings better than John Barry did? You see, by having to have just one favourite you’re shutting out so much other good stuff.

Thinking of this as my new compact Stomp setup:

License to Kill - Gladys Knight. Epic!

Double thumbing sounds like something unsuitable for discussion on a family website..

Three words: "My Lovely Horse"

Finally! The small AND the big guy..

Sellers can be freaks as well, I had a right one on a Facebook selling page. I wanted to buy a VCR to convert some old videos of the kids to DVD. I work in Plymouth and saw one for sale in Plymouth, ideal I'll swing by one the way home from work. "Is it still for sale?" "Yes." 'I'll have it, I'll pick it this evening at half five." "Yes." “Can I have you address please?“ “Yes." After about an hour, " Can I have your address please so I can pick it up this evening?“ “Yes." Another half an hour goes by, “Address?“ “I'm not giving out my address over Facebook, here's my mobile number, if you text when you're five minutes away, I'll give it to you then". "How the feck will I know when I'm five minutes away, five minutes away from where? This is too difficult, you can keep it!“

This morning I finished this build, strung it up and christened it with a blast through "One Step Beyond"...…………...I am a happy lad! I could never justify buying a genuine 1964 bass or even a CS Fender, Limelight basses don't, as far as I can see, seem to offer the laminated fingerboard option, and I am reasonably handy, so why not give it a go? The idea was to build my ideal bass, a sonic blue Precision, and to see if I could make it as close as I could to 1964 spec, in fact to look as if it was made on the day I was born 17th March 1964. Before I go any further, I realise that recently there has been a bit of polarising reaction to relic'd/roadworn/aged (call them what you will) basses, and I completely understand this, in fact up until fairly recently I didn't like them either. But, because this was a hobby build, and not a commercial one, I thought I could pat attention to the 'hidden' details , such as the scratchplate shield and the sunlight fading, and see how far I could take it. Again, I wasn't trying to forge a copy or mislead anyone, so I put in deliberate references to my date of birth, such as the serial number, neck date and the decal on the back of the headstock. This bass is for me, it is my ideal bass, with my favourite parts fitted and it will not be sold. The link to the build diary is here, for those interested enough to want to read further https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/326421-17031964-a-day-of-birth-precision-bass-build/ Sorry about the quality of the photo's by the way, photography is not one of my strong points

Although it didn't get selected, Radiohead's song for Spectre is utterly spellbinding.

They are, and have fairly different sounds. The CS62 is warm, rich in the low mids and breaks up nicely whereas the Original I would describe as ‘woody’ having a presence in not high mids as such, just higher than those of the 62, plus it has less lows. It really does sound like the recordings of early bass, in contrast to the 62 which is a much fuller sound - imo of course.

I did some fretting in the garden today... Fretting in progress Frets in but untrimmed. (and for some reason this is underlined) All trimmed and cleaned up.

Arrived 1 day from Strings Direct. A reminder these are the 45-100s. Checked on here (old threads) and decided to string through body. These cobalts feel very compliant, flex happily, and generally it seems many here string flats through with no probs. Bit OCD but tidy how the silk wraps all start just past the nut and almost in line... tidy that (see pic). First very quick impressions - the tension is about what I was looking for, more than equivalent rounds but not loads more and I wanted the tighter feel and sound on these (compared to my usual D'addario 45-100 rounds). Boy are these bright - very crunchy/cracky on top - turned the cab HF down, cut treble on head a tads. Very slight lift on lowish mids, bass flat (all on a Tone Hammer 350 through TC 212). Tight firm bass, plenty of top to play with but it's easy to control and will mellow off with use for sure anyway. They felt a tiny bit sticky, I mean not super-slippy not actually gluey. I think that's a newness, these need playing in. Dead pleased with these, they suit the P really well and will probably last way longer than I keep rounds on (typically 2 - 3 months, depends). In summary I'd say if you want to venture into flats but not go all out dead n thumpy, want to retain some (quite a lot) of the crunchy top of rounds - this is a very good place to start indeed. Bottom and low mids way more solid, top very forward but never as ringy as rounds of course. Thanks all above for guidance - at £45 a set it's nice to get it right first shot👍

Aside from hearing how off pitch Madonna was in some news reports, I have avoided watching Eurovision since the late Terry Wogan stopped doing the commentary. For me it was only Mr Wogan's observations that made it entertaining enough to make up for the political nature of some of the votes - and I gather that aspect is even worse these days.

Live and Let Die. All day long.

They were obviously being widely stocked at one point - I'm sure Anderton's has (had) a video in which they compared the Studio (passive) and Session (active) models, and Westside (Denmark St) were touting the passive Model T as their alternative to a Fender Precision back when I bought mine. But yeah, Schecter's heart doesn't really seem to be in it compared with how they promote some of their other models, which seems like a missed opportunity, if you ask me.

See also pretty much everything 'sportsy' being called 'the Emirates' something something... People keep telling me 'ooh, go on hols to Dubai! You'd love it!' Um, if they let me in at all i'd be arrested at the airport for just existing! Ironically i have enough jewish ancestry that i'm allowed to go live in Israel if i wanted to...!

You know, I've lost count of the number of basses that have passed through my hands; obviously having done my due diligence pre-purchase, I know what I'm buying so I'm more than familiar with the specs, but never once have I really bothered about the weight, nut width, neck radius/profile, type of wood, pickups, bridge (except where Gibson 3-pointers are concerned). It's all a nonsense. Sure there's a need if you can't actually lift 10lbs or you have the hands of a five year old girl, but in general, nah. I know the shapes I like and I have a visual preference for solid finishes and dark wood on my fingerboards, but that's pretty much it.

Maybe there should be some form of selling template whereby this information is required to put a bass up for sale.

asking the nut width, weight and model of the bass seems totally reasonable and would be what I would want to know too.

Fair play. The Vlogging format is something I'm new to experimenting with so still learning. That's actually some useful constructive criticism which I'll definitely take on board. Scott.

OK my comment was a bit harsh, but I one quarter of the way in to the video and you still haven't begun to touch on the subject matter in the title. This is why I don't like vlogs, it gives the creator too much opportunity to pad it out with content that is irrelevant to the subject it is supposed to be covering.

I acquired most of the bits for this before moving. My music room is all set up now so it seemed rude not to put it together 🙂 It's a no-name P neck on a Kit Built Guitars Jazz body. Everything black except the SD bridge pickup. Delano neck pickup, Gotoh bridge, Schaller tuners. Klogon loom and silver screws for a bit of rock and roll contrast. I've strung it with Roto black nylons to continue the black theme so it's got a lovely mellow tone. I'm letting it settle for a couple of days before the final setup tweaks. Need to find some black strap buttons too...

There's definitely a hint, I had a look this morning in natural light and it does seem that way. Here's another pic, in daylight...

Sting - The Poultry Years

Great interview which I have just discovered. really pleased Derek mentioned and sent his best wishes to the now sadly departed Mick Karn.

How I imagine seniors research a guitar on tinternet. 17:15 Tuesday Afternoon. Fred - "Right, what does it say on the top bit?" Ethal "FENDER JAGUAR" (Fred Google Search - FENDER JAGUAR) (Look at Shopping results. Prices range from £500 to £6000) "Which one have we got Ethal?" "I don't know Fred, its red. Is there a red one on there?" "No" "I don't know then. Why don't we take it on Flog It!? That Paul is such a nice man, if they can sell it for us maybe we can afford to turn the heating on over Christmas!" 😢 "But shouldn't we take it to a specialist guitar auction house? After all, that's what anyone who knows anything about vintage guitars would do!" "Shut it Fred, I wanna go on telly, meet Paul and make some dosh!"

Buyer - "I will take the item, how do you want paying" Me - "Bank payment please if thats ok?" 5 days later, buyer responds. "Thats fine." Me - "It sold 2 days ago after you didn`t get back to me."

I'm not sure whether anyone is interested, but I've just finished a guitar with a brushed nitrocellulose lacquer finish. I always swore that I'd never use nitro - too poisenous both for me and the planet. However, a friend asked me to make them a Tele using a beautiful piece of flamed spalted maple, and nitro was the only finish that worked. Polyurethane, oil and CA glue turned the test pieces into a dull splodgy brown mess, not exactly the look I was going for. Nitro though brought out all the beautiful colours and let the flame really sing. Here's the piece of wood before I started.... Although I do spray waterbased polyurethane, there's no way I can spray nitro so I thought I'd try brushing it on. The internet though had almost no information about whether it was possible to brush it on, how to do it, or what the results would look like. So, hopefully this thread will help you decide if you want to do it. It is definitely not an easy option, but.....let me get up some finished pics, and you could decide whether it was worth it. This is what I used: This is Rothko & Frost's standard gloss nitro that they sell neat, ie not in aerosol. This was a 250ml bottle and I used the whole thing plus a bit more on the body. I brushed it on with an artist's brush, a trick I stole from @Andyjr1515. You need to make sure that it's a brush for oil paints, with natural bristles, otherwise the solvents can melt them. I used a Daler Rowney Bristlewhite hog hair fan brush, size 4 (though a size 6 might have made life a bit easier). They are comically long so I cut mine to a more manageable length. Schedule was something like this: 1. Sand to 220 2. Grain fill with Aqua Coat 3. Ignore the fact that the grain fill was pretty poor and crack on with finishing (john, john, john, will you never learn?🙄) 4. Brush on R&K Nitro, thinned with 30% R&K cellulose thinners, probaly about 10 coats. 5. Curse myself repeatedly for failing to grain fill properly. I've made enough guitars to know that preparation is everything, and if you want a smooth finish grain fill is critical. Impatience though sometimes clouds my already pretty poor judgement 5. Wet sand with Wet/Dry paper (water with a drop of Murphy's oil soap) with 600 grit. 6. Another unknown number of coats. It felt like hundreds, but was probably another 5 or so. 7. Wet sand 1000 grit 8. 'wet' sand with Gerlitz Carnauba wax on a piece of Mirka Abralon 1000 grit. This left exactly the satin sheen I was after. I found the key was to brush the nitro on in one stroke, never go back over somewhere you've just painted. Because the nitro dissolves the layer before, I found the brush would start 'sticking' as it got caught in the previous layer. My approach was to do lots and lots of layers, knowing that I would have to go back and wet sand quite a lot of it off to get it completely flat. In reality, because my grain fill was....well, shite.....I had to do many many more layers than I otherwise would have had to have done. If I ever do this again, I'm hoping that 10 layers in total would be enough, assuming a flat surface to begin with. I lay the guitar flat on a 'lazy susan' turntable, did the top and the sides at the start of the day then turned it over and did the back and sides. Would I do it again? Ummm....yes, and no. Yes, if the wood was crying out for nitro, as this piece was. I'd be a bit reluctant to do it again on an entire guitar body though. Even though it was brushed rather than sprayed, the fumes were still pretty bad, and I wore a proper mask with organic filters at all times. On a guitar with a binding like this one, next time I'd probably brush the top with nitro, as above, but do the rest of the body with something else, tru oil probably. The binding would provide a natural break between the two finishes, so the two finishes wouldn't ever touch. And on a flat surface like a guitar top (rather than the fiddly curved inner horns) you could whizz through the process in no time. It's worth mentioning that the Rothko & Frost nitro specifically says it is not suitable for brushing, though I'm not quite sure why, as far as I could tell it went on perfectly nicely. The process also used much less nitro than you would get through if spraying (I think). With a proper grain fill I'm pretty sure I could do a whole body with one 250ml bottle. An aerosol contains about 150ml of nitro, so I used probably the equivalent of two aerosols worth. I've never finished a guitar with rattlecans, but I'm pretty sure it would be many more than that. So all in all I'm pleased with the result (but the next one is going to be Danish Oil, which I can do on the kitchen table😂😁). And some photos.....

I know these seem to be coming thick and fast lol, but I'm on catch-up. This is the third and most up-to-date episode in my bass vlog series (published yesterday). It's a hotly debated subject but in this video I give my thoughts on it. Let me know your thoughts... Enjoy, Scott.

Yes it's oak. Most pianos are poplar with various veneers, I had a panel from one that was oak with veneer , it will make about 8 fretboards. Bryan May used oak so I'm in good company.

Maybe M10 bolts then?

I tried all different options from metal, gut, weed whackers, pretend guts, rs4000 (which felt like two different sets of strings), bumping stings and anything in between. All had merits and downfalls. A lot of money spent but I would often pick up used sets, which do appear on this site. This will save a bundle and you get back what you pay it you don’t like them. I also tried a few options from the Innovation range and settled with the Silver Slaps as my preference. There’s a fair sustain from the Innovations and not too harsh on the slap. They lasted and absolute age as well. Innovation may have other sets available now as this was a couple of years ago and I now just play bass guitar. The above was my journey and my preference - others may have differing opinions.