Maude

Sade. Your love is king, never need to part. You kiss his ring. Makes no sense at all. You'd have to part them to kiss that!

I fear I may have already taken that step in pink glittery shoes anyway. 🤣

It has a white binding but it's now very thin in a couple of areas due to the amount of sanding required to completely remove the blue stain. I'll be reinstating the binding. The original plan, well the one I'd ended up with after a few things didn't go to plan stripping it, was sparkle top, white and bronze binding and a dark stained wood back and sides. The construction is a two piece centre block with two 'wings', so viewed from the bottom there are four different end grains visible. I'd have to do the same as Yamaha which is to paint the sides in a solid colour that sunbursts into the matching transparent colour on the rear. I'd planned on using calligraphy ink for the sides and rear as it's easy to apply to the needed colour and doesn't react to poly lacquer. The problem with this is the ink will never hide the four end grains, I'll need to mix a matching solid colour and try to fade it into the ink. If I went with solid colour vintage white back and sides then it's just a case of whacking it on, it'll obviously cover the end grains. Just thinking out loud really. I'll mull it over and probably come up with something totally different. 😁 I've kind of got an idea brewing but it might be a step too far.

It's less pink when not in full sun. As with all sparkle finishes, you really can't appreciate the effect in a photo. It's really sparkly in real life. The back and sides were going to be dark wood but looking at this photo I think it would look good in vintage white, plus headstock. Would sparkle headstock be too much? A chrome bridge would suit white back and sides better than the dark wood one, so it may have to be dark wood. Hmm decisions decisions.

From reading other sites (ahem TB) it seems that they're all like it. There's mention of the PUs being wired in series. Does the six way chicken head have a series position, and do the tones only do this when in that position?

Absolutely rediculous! 😂 It needs lots of lacquer yet to bury the flake, but, well I don't know what to say. 🙈

Jenny Don't Be Hastings - Paulo Nutini

Till The End Of The Day - The Kinks

Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday

Dreams Never End - New Order

It must be time to roll out this old gem again. This is my nearest music shop. I still can't work out if it's a clever parody or he's just a bit of a knob. Well I tell a lie, I've been in there... I shop online now. 😁

If Only Tonight We Could Sleep - The Cure

I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow

I love the look of that! I would've put the J pickup a bit closer to the bridge though 😁.

Me and a Gun - Tori Amos

Well it turns out that, "Aren't you supposed to be getting ready?", can't be heard over the noise of a compressor! 😂 I got the Shell Pink on yesterday before we went to the wedding. The rear of the bass will (hopefully) be a similar colour to the wood of the deckchair, with a slight burst to hide the edges. Part of the reason for the delay was that I was experimenting a bit. Traditionally, in the hotrod/custom world, metalflake is applied over a black basecoat. Even what looks like a full flake job is usually about 95% coverage so the black base makes the flake 'pop' as the 'mericans like to say. Or you use a very similar coloured metallic base and dust a coat of flake on top to get that medium sparkle look. There's no rules but sometimes things just don't look right. Shell Pink isn't metallic and the rose gold flake I'm using doesn't match, why make life easy. 😁 I wanted a pink base to soften the look but wasn't sure if it would look like right, but I'm happy (ish) that it'll work.

I'm showing my Jaco ignorance here, but why is it called 'The Bass of Doom'? Wouldn't 'The Bass of Bibbidy BipBip Burp, Ber Diddle Diddle Dup' be a better name?

'Fraid not! Nothing has happened, bleedin' life's been getting in the way. It's ready for some colour, but every weekend that's had suitable weather I've been too busy with other stuff. Today would be perfect but I've got a wedding to go to in a bit. Tomorrow will be OK, but I'll have been to a wedding yesterday and might not feel up to it, if you know what I mean. 😉 As it's essentially four different paint stages now it's not a five minute job, well not at home anyway. There's the pink front to do, then the dyed back plus clear, then the flake coats, then clearcoat the whole body, each being thoroughly air dried in between or the masking will mark it. I have got these waterslide decals though so at least something has happened. I'll keep you all posted as and when there's progress. 🙂👍

Grinding Halt - The Cure

Too complicated! 😐

Offshore Banking Business - The Members

Cranked Up Really High - Slaughter and the Dogs

The (Ford) Zephyr Song - RHCP

Fields of Fire - Big Country

Out in the Fields - Phil Lynott & Gary Moore