Maude

Flying Without Wings - Westlife (key change, all stand)

Yes, is the short answer. All the other nonsense about wood and fairies will follow. 😉

Stir It Up - Bob Marley

What are we calling streaky? Maybe it's not showing up in the pictures, or maybe I'm being daft, but all I can see is the different laminates of wood taking up the stain differently. If it is this then it's unavoidable as differing woods will absorb the stain differently, resulting in varying shades.

Exactly. Totally appreciate the heads up. I didn't get the £12 ones but £16 is still a bargain. 👍

Simple Man - Skynyrd

Hell Bent For Lather - Judas Priest

Insane from the Methane - Cypress Hill

... to not be so antagonistic and things might not have got so out of hand. 😐

Rumble On - Led Zep

In di an(d) - Linkin Park

Dry Your Rice - The Streets

Up the Danos! ✊ 😁

Mine arrived after a couple of days. Everything looks legit, Players Circle numbers entered on the D'addario site and accepted so I can't see that they're fake.

Tin Soldier - The Small Faces

Crash - The Primitives

We Are The League - Anti-Nowhere League

The Dickies from memory.

Knickerbocker Glory Box - Portishead

Stab Your Back - The Damned

I spent a long time trying to locate a buzzing on an electro acoustic guitar. Turned out to be the wire between the pre amp and the piezo element. It had a plastic square clipped to the wire that was supposed to be double side taped to the inside of the body, it was floating and vibrating against the body on certain frequencies. Worth a look?

Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row

I'm not sure with wood. 240 is probably enough as the oil wants to penetrate a bit and you sand the first couple of coats in and wipe off the excess. As opposed to the paint which just sits on the top and shows every little scratch.

Don't apologise, the best part of these little project threads is that they have plot twists. You start off with a rough idea of how things are going to go and then once work starts it throws up obstacles and inspirations. I always poetically say that the instrument talks to you and tells you what it wants. I'll quite often leave it leant against the chair opposite the sofa so I keep glancing at it, ideas slowly percolate that are sometimes quite different to the original plan, or it just reinforces the plan.

The deko thing was crazy. I bought, and still own, four acoustics for £120, and none of them needed anything drastic doing. I think a lot of the problems with their acoustics was uneven output from the piezo elements. A little fine tuning with some slips of paper/card and all mine are fine. The fretted acoustic had a high 17th fret but I just tapped it down and gave it little filing to level. I nabbed a fretted and fretless uke bass, and 34" fretless and a 32" fretted bass. The 32" is particularly nice and a jump up from the basic acoustic that most of the dekos were.