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It's really simple, my surname is Orchard and I live in Aukrug, which is in Germany. The line design I suspect I've seen on a London road name somewhere, or it may be some art deco thing.

Told you mine wouldn't be nearly as interesting or cool. It needs a smidge more tweaking, the text isn't exactly central. Obvs, any comments welcome

But it all breaks down at the first rehearsal... Looks a spiffing piece of work.

The weekends pottering. A pocket for the sharpening board, a little moveable tool tray that hangs on the side of the bench and a rather wobbly drawer. The drawer is an "it'll do" rather than done properly. It really needs a proper four square frame building around it and then that fixing rather than screwing bits of wood together and crossing my fingers.

A thin veneer on it? If you've not already seen it @Andyjr1515 has a genius how-to on veneering.

I saw them at Wembley Arena in 2002. Motörhead, Anthrax, Hawkwind with Arthur Brown and Skew Siskin, who we missed. Lemmy came on to do Silver Machine with them.

Nice, yours? TBH I don't know why it's called a shooting board, but much to my surprise it's accurate! Though my wedges need to be thicker, anything above 15mm has nothing to support the top corner.

This is one of those things where those who know will nod sagely and approve (hopefully), and those who don't will nod sagely and go 'Er, WTF?' in their heads. From the design/tutorial by Paul Sellers:

Mr. DeVille has had quotes ranging from $80 to $230 for posting a lump of wood halfway around the world. However, I believe that it's now in the grimy hands of the USPS and assorted international couriers. It does mean that I may be second in the Slowest Build Ever competition. However, unlike@SpondonBassed, I haven't lost 😉. Mr. DeVille is a sterling chap of excellent character and an all round good egg.

What's the inlay made of? Or did I miss that in the depths of a thread?

The paint's all falling off already. I think that you should give it to @AndyTravis. Looks a properly nice bass that. May it give you years of plunking pleasure.

Chaps and chapesses, The body for my entry into the slowest build is on it's way to the kind gentleman in New Mexico. Do you collectively have any recommendations for companies to send it from there to Germany?

Mmm, custard. It's a recorded fact that sunburst and tort are the emanations of the devil's backside.

Said nobody with any taste ever.

I think you've been out too long, or at least it's time to turn over.

Old style egg beater drill for fiddly fine work?

Congrats on the baby squeeze out 😉 Looking a nice bass, my friend made a telecaster that he sprayed Ford purple. My superstrat bitsa is Vauxhall green!

WTF are you using as strings if you need 22 mm string height All joking aside, what's the height range with the barrel screwed all the way in? 😉

Do the walls white while you can, it makes a huge difference to the reflected light in a room.

Or get a standard three hole one and cut my own power outlet hole. If only the three hole ones at the holes grouped at the end rather than in the middle.

Does anyone have an inkling where I might get a custom cut out 1U panel? I want 3 XLR holes at one end and a C13/14 dual in/out at the other.

My chainsaw scares the bejeebers out of me.

Has anyone told you that you look just like that @SpondonBassed off of Basschat? His beard is a bit longer though I think.

I've read various threads on Pistonheads and the like and the consensus is that if you're parking a car in it then you need to use 2 pack epoxy, because the normal paint type stuff sticks to warm tyres and gets lifted off. For a workshop where it's just a decorative and dust suppression coat then I wouldn't spend any more than the absolute minimum 🤠

If you're going to paint it, do it all at once. I meant to paint our garage white inside by moving stuff around to give me room. We moved out with one wall still unpainted. So do it proper like 😉