Si600

Tobacco sunburst and tort. You know it makes sense. 🤮

I clamp my backsaws in mine for sharpening. How much do you use your block plane? I've got one but prefer a bench plane.

Mine is a 4 1/4" Fortis Engineering Co one.

I'm always clamping boards on edge, which is probably why the corner popped off.

Ply I have, 12mm from memory. Would you cut the break out and square it off, or just leave it as is?

Oh lackaday! Woe! Lamentations! This has just happened. It's the insert which I had to fit after knocking the wrong corner of the chop off. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it's the top edge of long grain and taking all the force of clamping boards on the edges. However, what to do about it. I've got some oak, mahogany or ash to go in there, but it will be long grain again but bigger, or I can go pine again. Or... say nuts to it and fit a whole new face to the vice with the grain running vertically. Then I lose the massive flat clamping surface. Or a short length of vertical grain inset into the chop.

Given that they are not identical but very similar, how do you choose one? I'd go for the one on the left. The knot in No. 2 looks like a belly button and the tiger stripes on No. 3 are a bit regular to my eye.

Some peepul... I'll just crack off a jag bass whilst I wait for the paint to dry on one of my other five bass builds

You need a roofer before an electrician

Too much glue squeeze out between the halves. It's there forever now.

Cracking job Gromit 👍 I think you've colour matched the pickup surround really well, I had to look twice to see the pickup was even there.

Do what? You're going to make an even fancier one?

I'm throwing all my tools away.

Double ball strings and hook the head end over a peg inserted into the headstock shape?

How TF do you make it semi headless? Three tuners at one end and two at the other?

All these people who wouldn't have dreamt of coming to one of my bashes are all clamouring to join in now I've passed the baton on. Which reminds me, @jebroad, I've got the box of lanyard cards i had printed for the mids bash if you want them. PM me the address of your cardboard box and I'll send them.

So..... providing you never needed the bit between 17th snd 18th fret, and it didn't protrude above the top of the fret to either side, you could hold the neck on with a jubilee clip... I may try that one day, but it would need to be a proper rat bass style over the rest of it.

I think you've said that before now you've explained it again

#1 You're going to explain how you get BG from Jim though...

Shiny and purple. Like it. Though I must add, that if that's you in the background of a couple of the pictures, your bass is bigger than you are

Go all the way under the bridge to the end? Might need a smidge of a recess for the bridge to sit in.

Out of interest, how do you mark .382 of a mm to cut it?

Jesu, no 7 or 8's are frisky on ebay, £130