Si600

I had a bit of white wood for the heels of the planes to sit in, until I realised it was too small and used the oak. When working it, it smelt of machine oil, or at least, engineering machine shops if that makes any sense. Does anyone have any ideas what it might be? It was lovely to work, and smell

It's a B3n. Looking at the questions I may be after rocking horse poop! Phat, presence, heft whatever Just something to fill out a trio. If a smidge of warble from the octaver or a smidge of dirt is enough but subtle then I'll try that.

Do any of you fine fellows have a suggestion of what to add to a patch to get more presence to a tone? A bit more plump of heft just to fill out a three piece, especially when the guitar goes off on a solo and we lose the chords? It was in here, or maybe in the forum linked where there was the suggestion of an octaves, but that adds a growl to my clean sound that I don't want.

Dun stuff.

Sounds exactly like jazz.

You weren't soft enough, the monkey escaped

Make one out of metal then... It'll only be good for jazz mind, and you'll need a stand to play it on.

I've just been to their website to have a look, they aren't reasonably cheap, they are cheap! €116 for a strat with all the hardware and scratchpad is a steal. Fair enough for ignoring the slight flaws. I was expecting a kit to be somewhere in the £300 range. Or I've been looking at Warmouth custom options too often

I'm not sure I'd bother. Hole in the fretboard, bad nut and the neck doesn't fit the pocket properly? Once it's been sent from Australia you're a bit knacked sending it back but I'd be certainly writing a very stern email to get onto the QC bod.

Something new in the 'shop yesterday. Clamp storage. Saw till next to display my new purchases... I was thinking as I was sweeping up that all this storage making is just playing, not making real things, but then I thought, no, it's learning. It's making shelves and boxes, trying new things and if it ends up a bit wonky then no-one's going to see it apart from me and the "real" things will be hopefully better for it. Pics once it's been varnished.

No PG made from a licence plate hand beaten in a state penitentiary? You are dead to me.

Me again. After facing the vice with a square of 12mm ply and taking the opportunity to make the top of the chop wider I now need to put an apron on the bench. It's never bloody ending this tinkering. Anyway... A big sheet of ply or something solid wood?

Front, rear and fretboard bound Westone Quantum in natural it is then?

Do it. I'll never speak to you again if you don't.

All manner of things then, from weird noise effects to total silence?

Do valves fail slowly or just stop working? What sort of things happen if they're on their way out?

Actually, I want to know how much a set of pickups would be and whether they come in 5er versions.

I'll offer a full bag of vintage Wotsits in a genuinely roadworn packet, a bag of Minstrels and a mystery box* *no guarantee the mystery box is even a box.

It's kind of double voluted as well, with the neck to body carve.

I've always liked a Thunderbird body, but despised the headstock design. My Peavybird will be starting soon, promise. Maybe.

*#$k off you 🤪 What is it? There's a Lewin combination plane on it's way in the next week or so, I need no more tools.

I've been arsing about in the cellar again. French cleat "wall" and plane till. Saws next, or possibly clamps.

Something by Rob Zombie? Xanadu by Rush?

Have you got your neck angle correct? The bridge and bridge pickup look awfully tall.

Gunmetal deffo, but you'll need to show a mockup with the two 'guard colours before I can decide which looks better