SpondonBassed

I quite like the look of hammered pine (for want of a better term). You see it on well worn pine dining tables that have been waxed regularly and where the soft wood between the harder, more dense, rings has settled to leave tactile ridges. With such a regular grain as yours I think it would look and feel good. I suppose it's a nod towards relicing but it could be applied as a new finish in the same way that you can hammer copper sheet to achieve a textured surface.

I notice that your top is overlapping the pickup routs. Would that be to allow for the two P pickup halves to be angled, following the fretboard curvature, without leaving a visibly large gap around the pickups? Also the J to be angled to favour the G string's lesser oscillations compared with the E? Or summat...

Joking aside, this is rapidly becoming one of my favourites among your builds. The only thing extra I think I might have asked for would be a bend well, KingBass stylee, as I think the club shaped end would lend itself to one but that's neither here nor there. Nice work as always. Respect to @Jus Lukin for commissioning it. I reckon from now on you will be doing much more than just looking. There's going to be a fair bit of noodling too.

No need to apologise. We find it useful to have someone to distract the mods occasionally... Heeheehee

It looks like you've transferred the bow to the dining table. Mrs 1515 will be displeased.

PM'd

Might take a while...

I agree. They fit with the overall look but I'm an engineer. They don't sit comfortably with me. Are they brass? Do you have them lacquered to slow the tarnishing effect?

I liked that walk through a LOT.

I don't like tort. Apart from that they both look fine.

Edit: As previously mentioned: Are you using the same gauge strings for each pair? Otherwise I don't think that statement is right. You may find the higher frets sound discordant with paired octaves.

I like most of it. What stops me in my tracks is the brass wood screws. I understand that using ten fasteners means you don't need the same tightening torque as you would with fewer of them. Nevertheless, brass screws with plain slot heads are a bit arty-farty, if you will forgive me for saying. Even if they're goldie looking mild steel, they're a poor choice just to keep everything to a colour scheme. You can buy internal wrenching coloured stainless steel screws here for example.

I have to agree as well. The work here is right down to the nitty gritty both in the woodwork and the electronics. It's more usual to see one or other of the two skills in a build thread but this is a real treat for having both aspects of the build so beautifully worked out.

I have to point out that the havoc was already here in the form of the DoI thread. Extra havoc is not necessarily covered by the site's insurers.

Mine's a pint, ta.

If only someone had a surgical truss handy...

Anyway... OT: Some volutes are bigger than others.

Priceless.

As OP, you are entirely within your rights to hold your hands up to the mods and respectfully ask their forgiveness for taking the weewee. I'm quite sure they'll lock it if you ask them nicely.

Dr Mondeaux too I hope. Try not to eviscerate the ophthalmologist before he's done, even if your sight does improve enough to do so.

Not the body... no. Has anyone seen @Raymondo lately?

Shhh! Andy's going to be back any minute and we'll all get lines if he catches us out of our seats mucking about.

Do you reckon Bob's head would look like Ben's if you shaved off the afro?

Lovely. I have some of my Grandad's stuff. One of my favourite things in the workshop is his pocket knife. He always seemed to have it on him. Seemingly on a whim, he would get it out and prune the raspberries, roses or owt else that needed a sharp knife. He'd have it back in his pocket by the time you'd realised what he was up to.