Si600

23 hours ago, spacecowboy said:

Aww, you've made a pair of Nessies

I do have more space than just a bench you know. Obvs I put the tools somewhere else until they had a home to go to.

Still the Once and Future Twerp.

8 hours ago, Teebs said:

I'm confused

Let me see if I've got this right:

So you bought tools so that you could make a storage thingy for the tools that you'd just bought?

Crazy German!

 

No....

I bought tools to use but had to use them to make the storage thingy for the tools I'd bought because there's so much other clutter on the bench that the tools took up the rest of the available working space.

Ich bin kein deutscher.

Twerp 

1 hour ago, Stub Mandrel said:

Oak is notorious for making steel tools rust.

It's varnished, does that help?

24 minutes ago, Richard R said:

How does it work?

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

3 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Fyi I use the term "presence" to mirror the usage by a number of amp and pedal manufacturers i.e. a boost to the high mids and treble, so the Presence patch in the OP library is doing exactly that.

For what you're after, I think you're looking for something a bit more "Royal Blood". Which Zoom model do you have? If you have a B1-4, you could try the Atreides patch from the patch library.

If you have a different model, you can put one together using the following individual effects: [Start of chain] Comp --> Ocatve down --> RAT (Squeak) --> Stereo chorus --> Zoom noise reduction (ZNR) [End of chain].

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.

3 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

murder some nasty chords for a short time, then wander off again to continue hammering the bass.... Wasn't really Jazz tho

Sounds exactly like jazz.

You weren't soft enough, the monkey escaped

10 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said:

I don't think the "lutherie" thing is my game really..I'm happier welding bits of metal tbh ! 

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?

5 hours ago, kodiakblair said:

I do like that natural grain finish, might try this again. "Again" of course means no binding and it'll still have a peghead 😃 

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

2 hours ago, Jimothey said:

I didnt know if I should go all out barncaster and have a number plate pickguard? 

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.

4 hours ago, binky_bass said:

I'll start the bidding process for @mhoss32 next build...

My bid is half a packet of Wotsits and a 'mystery box'*. Let's see someone beat THAT cunning offer! 

 

 

 

 

 

*no guarantee the mystery box contains anything.

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.

28 minutes ago, BassTool said:

There's a volute!

There's a volute!

 

Does he of this BC parish  what doth love a volute know?!

🤭

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.

9 minutes ago, Reggaebass said:

Nice little Stanley 90J here to add to your collection Si, cheap at the moment , https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Stanley-9OJ-plane-/373545116028?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286

*#$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.