Maude

Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be - AC⚡DC

Phenomenal basses. The coffee burst is amazing in the flesh (wood?). Same satin black neck and headstock as the black ones. I've considered stripping and oiling the neck and lacquering the face of the headstock. Old picture of mine with a BB pin badge that our guitarist bought me.

I've just realised it's December, on the home stretch now. Well done to all those still in.

Grinding Halt - The Cure

I'm hoping he'll do a three part series featuring Peter Hook, Melissa Auf der Maur and Nate Mendel. Then we'll really have something to grumble about 😁

I'm a Peter Hook, Joy Division, New Order, The Light fan. The program was aimed squarely at me and I thoroughly enjoyed it. If anything there were too many bassists that weren't Hooky involved. There was always Gogglebox on the other side if you didn't like it. 😋

I Ham Legend - White Zombie

Bang Bang (my baby shot me down) - Nancy sinatra

Black Lung - Rancid

Either serious concentration creating beautiful music, or trying to let one slip mid song without anyone noticing. You decide.

I'll Be Your Dog - Kia-Ora advert

Bleed The Freak - Alice in Chains

I feel so sorry for his children. How terrible to lose a nan and both parents so early in life.

Mmm gherkinburst over congealed salad cream. 😁

Sick Things - The Meteors

You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff Too slow, ignore me 😁

Gimme Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Liar - Sex Pistols

Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row

Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

Jesus Loves You, But I Don't - The Almighty

All Cats Are Grey - The Cure

On the back of the headstock, stamped into the wood.

Look Away - Big Country

There's crossed wires here I think, or I've got mine crossed 😁. If the centre block/neck is shimmed then the bridge mounting area at the rear of the centre block will need to be shaved down flush with the body to lower the strings. I feel this is probably easier than routing the bridge area down to achieve the same, as the routed area will need to be the centre block and the actual body. The bridge mounts solely on the centre block but also sits on the body. The only 'issue' I see with shimming and shaving is the the centre block won't sit flush with the body anymore (a slight taper to however high the bridge area is before it's shaved down). The entire centre block could be shaved down but that's quite a lot of work. There's probably no right or wrong way, just whatever you'd prefer to do, including chopping the neck off to make it more conventional and shimming that. Either routing the bridge or shimming and shaving the centre block will work, but the will both have their set backs, like possibly needing to route the pickups lower, which being mounted to both the centre block and body give their own problems. Personally, as long as I felt competent in doing so I'd just pick a way I felt comfortable with and go for it. Work out the wrinkles along the way, as the bass isn't valuable enough to warrant paying for the work to be done. Whichever way I went I'd put extra fixings in the heel to stop the neck pulling up again. Whatever you choose to do please keep posting as I'm intrigued to see the solution.