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Machining a compound radius tapered fretboard would be incredibly tricky, and very interesting to set up. Probably on the wrong side of expensive as well. I'd try @SpondonBassed metal veneer idea first.

I play with my fingers in the gaps, not on the frets, no-one has told me to play otherwise, maybe I'm doing it wrong? I didn't think it was arsey 😉

I always have played so that the strings touch the fretboard 😲

How resilient are decals on a fingerboard? I would expect the strings to cut through them fairly quickly.

Can I quickly hijack this to ask the difference between Aria and Aria Pro, with or without the II? I've got an Aria Pro II Magna Series 5er that I know pretty much nothing about, with replaced hardware that's definitely worth more individually than as a bass.

Thank you 🙂

If you have a drill press you can mount a bit of hexagon bar the correct size for the hex in the insert in the chuck and screw it in by hand whilst keeping pressure on the insert by the spindle feed. Before anyone gets the wrong idea, the motor is most definitely off when doing this!

Can I drop a Facebook link on here? Then if so... Our guitarist/singer bought a little Canon video recorder and this was a bit of a play to see what it does. I gather that he's since turned the fisheye setting off!

Erm, why isn't it yellow? What have you done to @Jimothey and where have you hidden the body? Is that you @Raymondo? 🤔

Tubedrive or Scroverdrive both sound just wrong 😉

Please.

I'm confused Which is it then? Shall I just get you to delete the post in How was your gig last night and rewrite it in Lozz's thread about leaving his band?

Can a post be moved from one thread to another?

Wot he sed ^ 🙂

Have some perspective Young Teebs, you can't kill them all. Imagine a band just comprising of basissts because anyone who tried to play another instrument is murdered! We'd all be in Royal Blood tribute bands...

"Try and avoid religion, politics and anything sexy please." IBTL 😜

Along with the Biros?

Martin Freeman on 6Music. Fortunately light on the Beatles so far.

On the basis that I am definitely stealing that look when I refin my Tele (probably never, but I can plan to) how did you do it? My thoughts are to paint the sides black and then sand off the top without going around the edge contour, or would that create a fuzzy edge rather than a sharp edge on the paint?

I disagree 😉 my experience is really only on one bass as well. I've got an Aria Pro II P/J, but that's got EMGs in it, the original pickups were terrible at finding the B string. Maybe it's a pickup design rather than a P pickup not being capable of the job?🤔

To mildly derail this thread slightly and move from building basses (take note of the B word in Basschat Mr @Jimothey 😜) and move on to building walls, no-one said I can't do a build diary on that did they? If I want to clean some mortar off bricks that I had to put back after the insulation was replaced, if I scrub it off with a wire brush presumably I should use a non ferrous one to avoid leaving black metal marks on the bricks?

Are these pictures of a Rickenfaker falling foul of the whole reason behind this thread? Just asking before the balloon really goes up. IBTL? 😉

Half and half black and white swifts covering the headstock like an Escher drawing.

Deserves being in the thread twice then 🙂 What happened to the purple bass that did the rounds for charity, it came to the Midlands Bass Bash one year.

Must read before posting 😉