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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 

8 hours ago, Andyjr1515 said:

 "Andyjr1515's Nemesis"!

How many nemesis is that now?

Psilos, the first African build, The Three Sim Special?

You just make nemeses look easy to dispatch 

I'm the wrong person to comment  because I like a pointy 80s metal headstock, reverse for that extra mosh look 

Begorrah man, do you never stop? 

Four SimS pickups?

The glued up blank looks splendid. 

What grit did you used to sharpen your brick to?

Asking for a friend. 

A bit out of scope for BC, but to save creating a login for a propeller headed audiophile forum I thought I'd ask our own propeller heads.

Has anyone any experience, advice, or knows of any kits for making speakers for a hifi, a Quad 33/303 setup. I'm looking for BBC Ls or Roberts type of thing I suppose.

Or, something updated that would be compatible. Or possibly it would be cheaper and easier to just buy some?

Look on my project pink torpedo thread, @Andyjr1515 and @SpondonBassed detail it on there somewhere. You'll have to wade through a fair few random posts to find it though

Yeah, but, 

No, but,

TORT!!!! 

3 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Well, theoretically if you turn them all round with the poles facing the back...

...but that would be very silly...

(that'll  be a No) 

I wonder if they'll do a custom order....

You distract @Jus Lukin, you hold @Andyjr1515 down and I'll grab the bass  how does that sound? 

The Sims, will they do P - Reverse P?

It's more a desire to be as hand tooley as possible more than anything else.  Anyway, powered woodwork tools scare the behoozers out of me.  I'm OK with fixed tool lathes and mills, but table saws and hand held routers? *shudder*

@Reggaebass a Stanley 55 has popped up as available, price currently unknown, should I get it?

I really just want to make some grooves to fit drawer bottoms, all the moulding irons would be wasted on me.

Replace the brass doohickeys on the tuners with black?

Glue a headstock on it?

1 hour ago, Jimothey said:

The OP mentions "by your own hands" so if a CNC machine is used then does that make it not a "real" build? 

Or any power tool? If your hands haven't directly controlled the speed and direction of the blade on the wood... Or chewed it from solid with your own teeth.

It's certainly a topic into which far more can be read than should I fear 😉

Being rabidly pedantic for a moment, does that mean I have to seed my own tree, cut it, treat it and shape it. Mine and refine my own metal and plastic, wind my own wire and forge my own frets?

Actually.... Hand forged frets may be an interesting experience 🤔

I do take your meaning, those who commission something and then keep us updated but are just the customer, not the luthier. But at the end of the day it's, to me anyway, all interesting and entertaining and I see no harm in discussing it, or even how hand built is a kit bass.

It's all part of the conversation in this forum and we're all civilised enough to take others view's on board without getting in a tizzy over it.

I need to carry on with my bitsa really. 😉

1 hour ago, Reggaebass said:

The Stanley 50 is a combination plane, do you have a pic si 

Pic of what?

I'm looking for a plough plane at the moment, either of the two seem to suit, but ebay prices are frisky, plus the customs on top for importing the thing and I may see if I can do it with a router plane, or, heavens forbid, an electric router!

32 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Yes!

I did the continuity check as suggested by @Hellzero , I took the 'you can't do any damage' approach as muted by @Rich , plugged it in and tested it and then saw @Jabba_the_gut 's photo link and that is exactly where I'd plugged it

Great team work 

And we have taps, folks 

So I can now fully assemble the body and then just have to wait for the neck bolts to start the set-up process

 

Many thanks, folks, much appreciated

 

 

What's the other side that doesn't have a plug on it?

Apropos whizzing on the electric fence, Mythbusters, IIRC, did just that. Apparently the stream separates into droplets long before it gets to the fence. 

A Stanley small surform is really a block plane with a cheese grater screwed to it?

How chuffing expensive Record or Stanley 44s and 50s are?

Lick it and see which end tingles?