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When milling it's when you feed the workpiece in the same direction as the rotation of the cutter. The teeth of the cutter drag the material rather than cutting into it. It can be useful if you're only taking light cuts as it means you can cut both ways, but there's the risk that the cutter with catch, pull your half finished part out of the vice and fling it across the workshop. I'm assuming that the same thing can happen with wood if you cut in the same direction as the router rotates.

Downhill, known to @SpondonBassed and others as climb milling 😉. Can make a horrible mess if it goes wrong.

We are indeed. On your other point, mass produced instruments have economies of scale behind them, as nice as Alpher basses are, and I'm sure they're lovely people to boot, I can't afford over £2k for a bass, but I can afford to buy a Fender. Admittedly mine was second hand, but I could have bought new if I'd had to. Having said that, a bespoke bass isn't completely out of the picture forever

I've been told I bear a passing resemblance to Ronan O'Gara. I don't know whether he plays bass or not, but he's a tidy fly-half.

Always seems to happen that way, despite our best intentions 😉

I wonder if it'll be like holy relics. Allegedly if all the bits that are supposed to be from the One True Cross were ever brought together there would be enough left over to make another four.

I am so nicking that for a song/album/band name* *Delete as applicable 😂

I'm going to start this here because it involves wood, but feel free to move it. It may become a diary, who knows 😉 I'm going to be building a window seat and whilst the bulk of my bad carpentry will be hidden there will be two sides that will have to have exposed endgrain. Now, the question I have is how do I ensure that it's nice and neat without the little flakey bits that come off every time I cut a length of wood nor look like the surface of a sponge. Most of my experience has been working with B&Q pine boards so I suspect I may need a different timber for the public bits. Suggestions on a epostcard 😉

I emigrated. I did hope that they would find a new bassist and carry on, but they called it a day. I was BL, kitten herder and general organiser so I'm not surprised, but it would have been nice if they'd stuck it out. Ho hum as they say.

Naughty bump to try and get any pointers before I hack away with a soldering iron... 😉

That's him. He's unnecessarily tall

My cousin's brother in law is Mark Mynett from Kill II This. He played the Bridal Chorus at their wedding, my mum put her hands over her ears. 😂

Nope, I can't either. I tried it with my eyes closed as well in case I was influenced by the pictures but no. Sorry.

It may because I'm listening to it on a phone but they sound pretty the same to me.

See, witchcraft! JFET is one of the little black squares in the PCB? If I find a circuit diagram on the net with the specs can I just unsolder it and replace it? Edit: looked up a circuit diagram: Q4 and Q5 in here https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/s/ge7b-bass-equalizer.php No, a JFET is one of the little black round things with a flat side. So I should be able to pop a pair of new ones in with careful application of a soldering iron? Edit 2: If I'm taking a soldering iron to my poor pedal anyway, are there any mod kits that are worth doing once I'm in there? Should this be in Effects rather than Repairs and Technical?

I have an elderly and much loved GE-7B which I don't really want to replace as it was the third thing I bought after a bass and amp. The outward failure is that the LED doesn't illuminate when it's in use, neither on battery or power supply. Yes I'm aware of the 9v/12v LED anomaly that Boss pedals of this vintage have. The pedal works as normal otherwise. If you test the LED in isolation it's actually working so the failure is in part of the circuit that supplies said LED, or possibly tells it when to light up. Electronics is mostly witchcraft to me, so can anyone give me any pointers or tips on how to resolve it? There's nothing obviously crispy on the PCB.

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I imagine that it stops you sticking your fingers too far into the strings by accident so that you just clip them with the fingertips. I should learn fingerstyle at some point for that inevitable moment when drop the pick mid song 😂

If you made a big enough one out of lead, or gold of course, would it counter neck dive? 🤔 Now, where would you measure the turning moment from, with it on the strap on a peg on the wall, but that would have a different radius and co-efficient of friction than a shoulder. Hmm, I may actually think about this properly. 🤔🤪

Is this the part where we make snide comments about research and forum searches and then rubbing our superiority in by posting a link to the thread in question? 😜🙂

What an experience to have had, I hope that it continues for you. I have a question about the tour poster, you are billed as special guests. When I see that I assume it's because the headliner either knows the band personally or knows of them and has requested them. Is that true or am I being too fluffy and it doesn't mean anything apart from it looks good on the poster?

Does that make a D major scale re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do-re? I have written a song that is the first four notes of G major so I assumed it was in G. Apparently it's in D. *shrug* I should really learn why, it may help with a lot of my writing.

All the best for the relocation. We abandoned ship this February for Germany, Mrs O. being of that ilk and wanted to go home. Regardless of luthiers and not being particularly adventurous it's the best thing that I've done for a long time. 🙂

New Strap Day 😉 I had this made for me by a friend of mine who does leather work under the name of Broadarrow Jack. He can be found here, on Facebook should you wish to avail yourselves of his services. https://www.facebook.com/shadescostumiers/ The straplocks are mine before you all get carried away 😉

Looking at again, I'm wondering whether I should cut a little window for the channel selector.