SpondonBassed

It must be nice to have your nuts numerically controlled and machined by computers.

Licencing is one of the reasons for me not subscribing to the Internet for anything crucial in my life. Ts and Cs are another aspect of this. I am not physically capable of reading all of them, much less understanding them clearly. It might be "the way of things" but none of those sort of things are welcome in my life. I manage fine doing things in the time proven manner that I was brought up with. I still love analogue but then I don't have to deal with "The Industry". If I was gigging, I'd have to get someone else to manage the fine print just to use social media. BC is all the social media I need for now ta. I've already spent enough of my life working with I.T. hardware and software to realise that it was not the best career move for me. I understand the technicalities of digital media better than most but I find most of it shrouded in hyperbole and feature bloat. I also have serious objections to having a well used piece of software made useless by its own updates as has happened on occasion. Now that a great deal of Internet content is commercial, I spend little time on it. Apart from this site there is only one other that I visit regularly and that's a search engine. I've done with endless registrations, subscriptions (free or otherwise), third party scripts and ruddy COOKIES. Thank you, good night. On the other hand, I love my PC best when it is offline as I like to write and draw for my own pleasure.

Please be aware that it sometimes works faultlessly. Quite often I paste a YT link that does not embed on submission to the BC website. I've found that by editing the post and pasting the link again (deleting the first instance in the process) it then embeds. Funny innit?

That's a great subject for debate around these parts. I'm sure a search will reveal some of the more rational debates on the subject of Genuine vs Copy as well as the, er, passionate ones.

Even if you aren't buying one of their kits I can recommend you look at PitBull Guitars' clips. They have a number of useful short videos using methods and tooling that are easy to pick-up. My own kit build is linked from my signature file (below, unless you're on a mobile thingy).

Welcome Day262.

Welcome Z.

Welcome TN.

Welcome Grace. Excellent choice of forum to start you off, if I may say.

Welcome Russ.

I especially like that headstock. It's got an organic look to it as if it grew there. The whole bass is impressive even at this stage.

Looking at the grain that you revealed in the floor of the neck pocket; I wonder if it might be prudent to bond some sort of reinforcing layer to the neck pocket. This would be like a shim except that it is bonded to the parent body to prevent microfractures from joining up and causing problems down the line. When you hear musicians talk about breaking in a new stringed instrument they sometimes speak of the wood grain "opening up". This is said to add to the instrument's characteristic tone and possibly to its individuality of tone. While I don't fully understand what goes on, I'd guess that vibrations in the wood (from the strings) act over time to resolve stresses within the wood by causing microfractures. I'd expect all wooden instruments to be subject to this phenomenon (if it exists) but some might be more prone to suffer damage from it. Then again, I may just be making it all up...

Welcome SP.

Welcome Jeff. I hope you enjoy your time over here.

Welcome Giffro.

Stunning metalflake. I love the frets.

I hear Alex James is highly interested, both as a bassist and as a cheese manufacturer.

Congrats! It's lovely.

That video was a real teat.

Tell him. It's spelt "M W U A H" not "M O O".

Welcome Ian. I hope you like your SR605 as much as I like mine.

Well done.

Is this keeping the headstock?

Welcome Yakman.

We used to enjoy the Stop Making Sense film at the Ambassador cinema in Dublin as if it were a live gig. EVERYONE was up out of their seats before the end of the first number.