SpondonBassed

Welcome Dawn. Harley Benton has a decent rep around here. A lot of members have upgraded the hardware on theirs and got pleasing results. From what you say, GAS has already got a hold on you. Buckle-up for the ride. You've just taken a turning onto the Gear Addiction Syndrome highway.

Thanks for posting these daily Noirbass. I'd like to thank Mr Sklar but I don't have an account with YT. It's like being in the room with him. Great clips, simple and to the point. Cheers!

Beautiful. Great range of colour.

That's a vibrant green. I like it a lot.

Did I hear you right?

It's a jolly good job that his beard is long enough to cover his parts, I can tell you from experience.

If you are using sand paper you will need a block and even then you can easily end up with rounded edges. Maybe careful use of a plane would get you there but then there is the grain direction to consider even if you are using a Surform type plane.

Without a router it could be difficult. I'd imagine it's possible with careful use of hand tools but I wouldn't like to try it.

Welcome Andy. We call that a bout of GAS (Gear Addiction Syndrome) in these parts. The gear rabbit hole is a whole other euphemism. I'm so glad you didn't say you had been up the gear rabbit hole else we'd have had to shop you to the RSPCA.

Good to see you posting anyway. They're shaping up well. Distinctive lines.

Welcome Seige.

You beauty! The only way you could improve on that would be to have countersunk cup washers in the socket boss as well.

My goodness. It's like an enormous pencil sharpener!

https://alexnld.com/product/6pc-stainless-steel-metal-finger-pick-plectrums-thumb-picks-for-guitar/ The head office address is in Israel... I was wondering if they have extra fingers there.

I'm hoping the dots sparkle a little in bright light. Can't wait for some photos on a fine and sunny Spring day.

Our Jack placed an Internet order for me after I bunged him the seven quid and today I got my tin of 12 heavy Gibbo plecs. Just the right ones too. I had only ever seen them with the name Peavey on them before. Either would have done but Gibson branded ones turned up first with a reasonable price. I had neglected my plectrum technique for a long time but recently I found an new interest in developing it. I had just got into a regular practice routine when I lost my last one. Happy now.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

Good lad. It's for the best in the long run. It'll be all the better if we can all get together after the whole thing's run its course.

Aha. Not that far removed from our own word undercrackers. Much appreciated.

Welcome KE. The Ibanez necks are lovely for an affordable bass aren't they? I've got one myself, the SR605, much the same as yours except for the finish I think. Songs for fivers... I couldn't find a lot but then I only do TAB and then only when it suits me. I found it isn't difficult to find ways of rattling the bowels of most songs with the five. What you might find useful is the reduction in travel along the neck for any given scale. Because of the extra string you can find a more economical use of the fretboard and get fingering arrangements to suit your speed, so to speak.

Er, thanks... I think.

Don't overstretch yourself now will you? Heeheehee. I've enjoyed a lot of @Dad3353's GD links recently. I had been meaning to give the Dead a fair listen to for a while having missed out on them first time around. Good stuff.

Great thread Clarky. It complements the Covid themed thread nicely. I've got some interesting links from this thanks. Let me drop this one by way of a contribution: This is what turned me onto the proggy/fusion trail in the seventies just as I hit puberty.

If that works for the string gauges you have in mind it certainly looks good. The pickup is likely to give you a bit more top end definition to the E string than the G. The G being closer to the sweet spot for the fundamental.