songofthewind

I have an old classical guitar, a Vicente Tatay Tomas, that my mum and dad brought back from Spain, about 1972. It's been in the loft too long, and is now in several pieces. Apart from that, my Ovation Balladeer, model 111-4, that I bought in 1975 from McCormack's in Glasgow for £150, a whole term's grant. I thought it sounded lush. I have snapped the headstock off twice. The second time I repaired it with carbon rods, and it has never held its tuning better. I will not be parted from it.

Interesting headstock splice. Would you be willing to post more pix of that?

Boss.

Wow that's a handsome bass!

I sometimes use a high stool to sit on because I am lazy and old, but also because I use a looper and pedals. That's my excuse. I have a guitar hanger screwed to the stool so I can use it as a stand when not playing. It looks kinda cool with that. Functional.

My Yamaha BBG4 fretless. So nice to play.

Just clicked on the link. Now £52.

I got my decal paper from eBay. I only needed one sheet. I had painted the bass above using good quality auto rattle cans, and used the same brand clear coat to finish. Homebase, B&Q etc have similar products.

You can buy decal paper online. I have made two-colour logos for a bass, and it is very easy. You will need to sand off the existing logo, and apply a coat of clear to seal in the new logo. It sounds daunting but it is not.

It is not a veneer. It looks like a very thin film layer. On YouTube there is a video by a guy who repaired the cracked photo flame layer on the headstock of a BBG. He removed the aged and cracked film, and replaced it with real veneer. Very clever. There was also one on eBay, in Italy I think, with very obvious age cracking of the film on the lower bout of the body. It is correct that the film does not show the chatoyance of a real veneer, which is a dead giveaway. I think they are beautiful and very playable basses, photo or no.

Here ya go:

If you take the neck off, or the pickups, you will see that there is no maple slab top, just a film layer.

Not another one. I am so sorry to hear this.

I've just had moulds made for my hearing aids. The audiologist put tiny sponges on strings into my ears before applying the two part silicon glop. No drills involved. I am looking forward to getting them next week.

I've got an M80. Bomb proof. You can get an amazing amount of stuff into it, until it becomes very difficult to wrangle in and out of cars, etc.