alittlebitrobot

Great to see more progress. I'm definitely struggling with tool maintenance. I can't seem to get my plane crazy sharp no matter how many educational youtube videos I watch. All I can do with mine is make dust, never a lovely curly shaving. I need somebody who knows their stuff to just come to my house and show me.

I've got a Vintage V940 fretless with the original active circuitry replaced with a passive circuit by BCs very own KiOgon, and it's perfect. It feels great, gives me the EXACT tone I want from a fretless and it looks lovely. I've also got an Ibanez sr506. I bought it about a year and a half ago at great expense (by my standards) and, although I love the tone, I'm finding it very difficult to admit to myself that I'm not getting used to that super thin neck. I knew when I got it that it felt a bit too thin but I assumed I would get used to it. If that was going to happen, it would've happened by now. It makes me sad that I might have to sell it, after all the fuss of trying to get it in the first place, but ergonomics is no small matter with guitars. edit: I voted for [b]#3[/b], by the way

drool-worthy stuff

Holy heckmachines, that's a classy headstock, front and back. Excellent. edit: woah, good timing! Finished pics just as I commented. This is a bizarre, fascinating, brilliant thread. Thanks for posting.

Mine was coming along, probably got to about half-way, and then work reared its ugly head unexpectedly. Ah well. What I had would sound pretty boring next to some of these

ahhh, brilliant! This is really coming along. This is infectious, though. I'm not even finished my current build and I'm designing my next one.

flippin' heck, I can't wait to see how this thing ended up.

This is fantastically entertaining madness.

I've finished the work that kept me too busy to submit on the previous two months, I've got the house to myself and, coincidentally, some beer to myself.. Let's music.

Minor price drop on the Alembic, and he just added a Status Stealth fretless 5 for €2100 (1530 GBP) http://www.adverts.ie/electric-basses/status-stealth-5-string-lined-fretless-bass/7958151

Not exactly eBay but this just popped up on a classifieds site in Ireland and I thought someone here might at least be interesting in looking at photos Alembic Elan 1989 http://www.adverts.ie/electric-basses/alembic-elan-1989-figured-walnut-on-maple-body/7957723 That'll be 1770 GBP

such a lovely joint

Well, actually, my legal team are currently busy suing [i]me [/i]for forgetting to pay them, so I'd say you're safe enough to just go ahead. Incidentally, I see your SG has a Warwick cavity cover. Did you buy that or what? I'm not sure how to approach covering the cavity of my build. I might buy one (but they seem expensive) or make one out of mdf with a body-wood veneer.

I'll pass this under the nose of my legal team, but it all seems good to me. I just ordered a router and spent a few days making templates so I'm less concerned with imposing myself on other peoples builds now

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1430135743' post='2758222'] ... this will continue to take the 'do bits when I can' priority.[/quote] Booooo! Focus on this instead. My progress is so glacial, I depend on living vicariously through you as a luthier.

speaking of temptation; it's getting harder and harder to resist flying to Germany and personally destroying that mini Thumb.

Salut! Welcome to BassChat Those are amazing basses. I love the Leduc fretless.

uh-oh. Well, happy NBD anyway Me and my long-term robo-partner have completely independent finances so there's no permission needed from either party, but I wonder.. couldn't you just open a separate savings account for eBay/BC impulse purchases?

Wow, that's crazy. Are these made of newspaper or is somebody not getting paid? How can it be profitable at that price?

Wenge has such an open grain, I don't think I'd use it as a fretless board without a bit of grain filling and fairly tough finish. Mind you, Wishnevsky did it http://www.talkbass.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi420.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fpp285%2F49sfine%2FWishbass%2520Fantasy%2520951%2FFantasy951032.jpg&hash=0117310e01cb7216b24f999861efa5b6

It's still there and, using the previously described method, it still says there's five of them. I doubt that. I'd say that's just an automatic thing.

Great stuff. I just received a packet of black hardware too. No fancy pickups or nut, sadly.

I like where this is heading..

ooh, so classy http://www.inlaystickers.com/products/girls-in-block-fret-markers-for-guitar

Great but, actually, I insist that I be given due credit in the form of my name scorched into both the front and back of the bass.... and really big too.