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Still not managed to get into the garage to finish off Scratch Built Bass #2 so started this one instead. Got a few bits of wood to make a couple more basses - cut one body from a piece of elm I got off Basschat. Making it the same shape as bass #2 (in the foreground) but will be 4 string with jazz pickups [attachment=127595:DSC03980.JPG]

[quote name='gelfin' timestamp='1360660818' post='1974012'] It seems there are no hard and fast rules. Just a nice social time. People can bring as much kit as they like and turn up when they like. My practise room is at the Church so pretty much all my kit is there already. Ideally you bring your bass rig with you. Plug in wherever is convenient and make some deep sounds. Meet the people behind the avatars. Try out some other basses & amps etc. [/quote] Cheers for the details. I'll see if I'm free and try to come along. Thanks

I've not been to one of these type of events before - sounds like a nice social event. Just curious really but what's the kind of set-up for the day? What sorts of stuff do folk bring with them and how many folk turn up? Cheers

My copy of Bass Guitar Magazine arrived in the post today and I was wondering if anything would be mentioned regarding last month's edition. Last months magazine had a number of errors in with the main one being a missing review of a Mike Lull bass that was replaced by a duplicate review of a Fender acoustic bass. I suppose I was kind of expecting some form of 'Whoops! Bit of an error....here's the review this month as well as the usual stuff' but ther isn't. There's an apology for an error to do with details on an Aphex pedal (which I hadn't noticed!) but no mention of the Mike Lull review. I'll drop them a mail to see if they will be publishing the review at some point. Was anyone else half expecting the review to turn up this month?

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Spraying not gone so well - oops!! Not sure what went wrong, could have a number of things:[list] [*]bit over eager and tried doing this when it was too cold [*]hadn't cleaned all of the dust from the surrounding area down enough [*]slightly clogged airbrush [/list] What ever it was, I ended up with a bit of a rough finish that I a going to have to take back down and try again. I'm going to have a look at cheapish, fine spray gun and try that on a few samples fiirst to see if I get a better finish before I try this again. Think I'll also wait for it to properly warm up before I try this again, in the mean time I've started preparing some wood and started trying to source some parts for the next project.

Cheers for that. I`ll give it a go.

Cheers. I've got a tin of wax that comes with Warwick basses, lemon oil, tung oil and a bar of Vonax. I'm guessing any of those would be okay wouldn't they?

Hi Steve, Nope - this one is using a slab of [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/176477-scratch-built-bass-2/page__hl__scratch%20built"]swamp ash[/url] . I'm saving the elm for another project as it has a really nice grain. When I do start that I'll drop you details so you can see how it progresses. Cheers again Jez

It's an interesting thread this regarding the quality we expect from a magazine but also the content of it. Might be worth Joe asking for opinion on here as to what folk would like to see as I guess we will all have different ideas. I've suggested in the past that review of more affordable basses should be included as other folk have stated, we don't all have 3 grand for a bass. I quite liked the 'Woodshed' articles because I'm interested in building basses as well as playing them. Thought there was some good stuff in the past with Zon and the likes. I see they have an article running at the moment about restoring a Ricky 4001. It's interesting enough but some costs against the work would make it more useful to anyone thinking of doing something similar. As far as interviews go, I do find the ones in 'Bassically Speaking' a little tedious at times as there so often seems to be the 'a bass only needs four strings' and 'I do/don't like slap because' as standard responses. So what else would anyone like to see? Maybe articles on how to record basses, recording kit - though that is probably starting to creep into an area covered by other mags, decent links to sound files for the tutorials, sound files for the basses reviewed, history of bass companies, I think there's all sorts of stuff. I still quite like it despite its flaws but I don't think it takes as long to read as it used to!!

Posted to Kevin today. Cheers

Will send it to Kevin in the next couple of days who will pass it on to someone else when he's done. Cheers Jez

Got a copy of Alex James Bit of a Blur if anyone would like it. Cheers Jez

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