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Finished with the colour, now setting correct neck alignment before letting it dry for a few weeks and then it's Nitro time!!! [attachment=110684:P1060848.JPG][attachment=110685:P1060850.JPG]

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1339851057' post='1695388'] I can't see why it matters - isn't is all about the music? [/quote] +1 Totally agree, I originally used a pick then converted to fingers and recently tried a pick again to get a certain sound for a song and I was totally useless so I can appreciate the technique.

Have now added a couple of coats of paint, slightly darker that I wanted, but still looks good (well to me anyway). There are a few patches where when I was sanding down after removing the old paint I'd gone through the wood primer and thought that the white primer and paint would cover it, well it doesn't, however, you can only see it if you are really close and at a certain angle, but as most of it will be hidden by the scratch plate I'm not overly worried, it's something else I've learn't for when I do the next build. I've wet sanded a bit and will apply another 2 coats and then let it dry for a couple of weeks before lacquering. [attachment=110522:P1060833.JPG]

Looks really nice at £50 you really can't complain!!

Looks nice, love the colour, is that a metallic blue?

Welcome Bass Thing - Herbie Flowers legend. Love the fact you have names for your Basses Think I'll call mine Vinny!!

I went for Fender flats and absolutely love them and at £15 a set I love them even more Might save up for some Roto Flats to compare to the Fenders but at nearly twice the price I really need convincing that they are that much better.

Nice one Rotosound, excellent customer service (seems to be a rare thing these days).

Like everything in life it's practice, practice, be patient and yet more practice........... Watch other players, listen to lots of different stuff...... Youtube is a good source and of course you have BassChat

Thanks for the advice, much appreciated.

I was almost as excited as you waiting for it to arrive where's the pictures????

I would love to have a go at building a body one day, but unfortunately, I don't have the big boy tools, but do have a sawmill at the bottom of my road though, so could use them to do the cutting. There is a company that supplies 51 Precision bodies in different woods [url="http://www.guitarbuild.co.uk/product.php?prodId=76&category=&secondary=&keywords="]http://www.guitarbuild.co.uk/product.php?prodId=76&category=&secondary=&keywords= [/url]and quite reasonable prices (from £75) maybe worth checking out? Good luck, look forward to seeing the progress in build diaries

[quote name='Al Heeley' timestamp='1339363194' post='1687577'] congrats - you've finished all the nasty stuff, now it starts to get more fun [/quote] Thanks Al, I really have learnt a lot so far (and thanks for your input as well). Next time I will leave the paint stripper on for longer until it's completely evaporated, as I found the longer I left it on the deeper it penetrated (ooerr ) Also, a wallpaper stripper (thin metal blade) it a top tool for removing paint from the body. I'm really looking forward to putting the first coat of colour on this week. Cheers

Welcome Mr Fretbuzz, Hope you have fun in your journey of learning the Bass, as advice I would say listen to as many different musical styles as possible listening to their rhythms and the bass technique used. I'm also a great believer in learning initially without amplification as I believe (right or wrong) it helps build stronger hands and wrists (as you have to player harder to hear anything :-)) and also helps with your finger placement on the fretboard. I looked at those Rock School books for my 9 year old son and I think they're quite good, have you taken any of the tests? Cheers

Have now added about 3 coats of Primer sanding gently with 600 gt paper between coats. It will probably need another 1 or 2 coats in certain areas where you can see the the wood grain/wood filler a little. Will give it a good day after the final primer coat and sand before applying the first colour coat (Yellow). [attachment=110098:P1060831.JPG]

Stunning build, well done!

Well almost finished bar some patches of wood sealer I've now stripped the paint/lacquer off and boy that's hard work!! There's a few dings to fill in with some wood filler and a little find sanding to do here and there and I'll be ready with the white primer. Off to Disneyland Paris with the kids for a few days from tomorrow so I'll wait until my return. [attachment=109311:P1060605.JPG]

[quote name='karlfer' timestamp='1338198055' post='1670561'] I learn a bloody site quicker at 54 than I did at 16 . [/quote] Never a truer word spoken, I was only thinking about this a few days ago, I seem to learn a lot quicker than I use to, probably an age thing

Have now got the red primer off and parts of the wood sealer. Realised that when the instructions say "apply a liberal coat" It really does mean a liberal coat . Found that I got more off by leaving the remover on for 60-90 mins and then using a wallaper scraper to get the paint off. That final Wood sealer coat is proving really tuff so may have to sand to get the final patches of it off. Decided to go the car primer/paint root with a nitro lacquer finish, which will take a bit longer to allow the paint to harden properly.

Yeah good read, especially as i'm doing something similar, how long did it take to strip the original paint off? Enjoy your hols.

Started to strip the paint off today, have looked around the net for the best process and after reading this article [url="http://www.manchesterguitartech.co.uk/shop/lacquer-faqs/#strip"]http://www.mancheste...uer-faqs/#strip[/url] I've decided on the paint stripper, I'm using [b]Barrettine Paint Panther[/b] Paint Stripper as it seemed to get good reviews. The top Blue coat seemed to come off reasonably easy (with a bit of pre-sanding). Now the Red (which I'm assuming is the primer coat) is proving VERY stubborn to get off and only seem to get it off where the paint has either chipped to the wood or around any drill holes. It almost looks like the Bass was originally RED? Here's the current progress.

Welcome Playing Bass is a lot of fun and so is this site

Welcome Ash "[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif][i] I feel the gap where I never got myself a decent teacher and trained in theory much more deeply[/i]" I know exactly where your coming from there, you're still young enough to correct that, don't leave it too late![/font][/color] [color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Have fun [/font][/color][color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif] [/font][/color] Cheers Tony

Welcome Stu I lived in Lincoln for 15 years and was in a rock there in the 70s, lots of bands going on at the time, loved every minute up there.

As Al suggested I put a small shim in the neck and put the bridge back in its orignal postion. The pickups are now alighned although the neck is still slightly out on the G, so possibly need to shim in the E to push it back down? It plays okay and the harmonics are in the correct locations etc, needs to be setup now as there is a bit of fret buzz which I expected anyway. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn138/yepmop1898/P1060597.jpg May leave further neck adjustments until after the body re-spray.