NancyJohnson

I'm undecided at the moment; probably gloss.

Update. Put a dowel in the hole, sanded back, it's lovely and smooth. New batch of Leather Dye arrived about half hour ago, so I've blacked it up and rubbed back any excess. Went on lovely. I'll let this dry up overnight, give it a light sand and reapply. The photo doesn't really do it justice, it's a nice body.

You've not really said the actual scale length of the neck, but let's for the sake of argument assume it's 32" (short scale up to 30", medium 32", long 34"+); if you went with a standard body (again for the sake of argument, a P or J body) and went with the same neck pocket, you would need to bring the bridge forward towards the pickups or it won't intonate properly. Obviously you'd need to measure. You'd run into issue with the pickup(s) not being in the sweet spot(s) as well.

Bass builds aside, Lignum are currently posting videos of an eco-house build they're involved in. Fantastic stuff!

I haven't got a clue... I'll admit I was surprised it got left in.

While I doubt I'm going to be able to retire off the royalties, current band has racked up 1,000 Spotify plays of just one song in the last two weeks. (Old band, hundreds of songs, six plays...which alludes that not even the band are listening.) I keep asking myself how? It seems to have been picked up in Mexico and that spread to Brazil; there's an even spread generally on a global basis. Weird.

I think I'm fortunate that the smallest hole - which used to be for switching the active circuit on - is plumb centre of a piece of the wood grain, so with luck it won't be so visible.

Little update. Body is fully stripped. It's a three-piece, the back gives nothing away but the front is nicely matched. The only worrysome thing is there's a small split in the jointing near the bridge/control cavity, so I'll dribble some superglue over it and rub any excess back. Some other small superficial dings that I'll try and rub back. Electrics? I'd like to put some Delano's in...the ones with the bigger polepieces. There's six holes and a side-jack. I generally play with everything open, so maybe a pickup selector switch > master volume > Darkglass Tone Cap. This will allow me to dowel/lose the smallest hole on the front. Dunlop Straploks. Definitely going with a black stain and clear coat.

Flat TVs are notoriously poor from an audio perspective. Our 'main' TV (although possibly the least used) is a smartish 55" Samsung and it's pretty much just a big monitor; I route the audio into an Onkyo amp via a Toslink cable.

I stripped the hardware off the body last night, stick the bridge in the dishwasher, it's come out super shiny. Started sanding; the finish is very thin, I got most of the front finish off with 60 grit in about five minutes. The top has nice grain and I'm thinking about just going with a few couple of layers of black Feblings leather dye (which should define the grain) and a satin clear coat.

I went to the Focusrite Scarlet after a change of DAW rendered my old interface incompatible. Worked great straight out of the box, I use it for audio in and have a couple of powered monitors plugged into it. All good.

My dear boy, I think it was the chocolate that did him in. I'd have respected him more if his voice had given out after a double bourbon and a piece of pizza.

Not until now, no. I can't afford (or want) to liberate another one!

Not guilty, m'lord. I started Nancy Johnson about ten years ago, perhaps more, we limped along, line-up changes, had a name change and I bailed October 2017. Long story. Not an original member left. Not the first time someone mentioned they'd gigged with me. I think they've had three bassists since I left.

Tell more! What band?

That's an absolute munter.

Garbage. I created a long Garbage playlist yesterday, I really liked the first album and the b-sides from that period, but lost interest after Version 2.0 came out; I've bought the albums, but never really listened to them. I'll admit I hated No Gods, No Masters.

@Wolverinebass Ring any bells, bonny lad? Lol

I wonder, with a bit of fettleing, I could put Spector circuit in there.

How do the knobs function? 2 X Volume/Tone and a pickup selector switch?

I've been looking too. Earlier I was trying to work out whether the differences between the RS824 and RS924 where just purely the active circuit. The knobs on both seem to be in the same places but the 924 has an extra switch on the front for the actives. I've seen these with cream pickup covers and black ones...right now, as I'm thinking about finish colours, a mate of mine has suggest a black/metal flake with matching headstock, it this was the case, I'd go with black covers (or large pole-piece Delanos) and chrome knobs. I'd need to procure a replacement decal and also get a truss rod cover made up.

You know where I live. Just text me a few minutes beforehand to get the kettle on.

No, good lord sir, you get me wrong. This is written in a third party narrative: Look, I do understand the feel-good factor, the smug flaunting of that custom shop logo and the sly knowing that your £750 Jazz bass actually costing you five or six times that (and that you'll reassuringly keep telling yourself it's somehow 'better' than another Jazz bass a guy was playing earlier on the same bill), but if you're desperate for an early '70s Jazz, wait and one will almost definitely show up eventually. Cough, Reverb, cough. I do both angry, irritated and misunderstood extremely well, but smug isn't part of my persona. The point I was trying to convey here is that I've been on bills with plenty of bands where there's this gear snobbery going on and where guys look down on you if you're playing a budget instrument. If you want to play the JAX-T4 card, I had one guy ask me whether I made it myself when he produced a Gibson Thunderbird.