Owen

So, my machine heads have arrived from Kala in the US and I have now posted them and a set of Pahahoes down to Toby. He has reached here. Toby is ready to do the neck once the machine heads land because then he can get the headstock right. Exciting times indeed.

It is all good

Yeah pretty shocking on my shouting at you about detail when I cannot even spell my name properly

No mention of colour and/or matching headstock. Poor show.

Perhaps it would be a self inflicted way of forcing me to go down to 3 basses. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/173101248323?ul_noapp=true

Felt is top stuff as well.

How much!? Of course I will play in your party.

I will be bringing a 5 string DB, Felix pre, an F Dedk pre and a Berg IP310 cab. Posibly a tiny DB uke depending on build schedule. I can bring an NS 5 EUB if anyone wants to try one. Will anyone there have a Berg B Amp? I would LOVE to try one.

Anyone coming along with a Bergantino B Amp?

Sorry, no time to trawl through the thread - I am writing reports :(. Reccomomends for moulds for UE900s doobries please. TIA

I inadvertantly picked a 73 Fender P neck and body on here years ago and it had a Jazz width nut on it. It also has the bigliest 70's brass nut on it. I do sometimes wonder about flogging it and getting a Bravewood sunburst to match my Jazz again but then realise that I need to get a grip becaue I don't actually play either of them anyway!

He is building new ones. Approx 1.5K. Resale is solid. Not too much to think about there. I used to own a 63 alike Bravewood P. It scratched exactly the same itch that my 66 Jazz does. I just relised that I do not like P nut widths so it went. It was very lovely though.

Order a Bravewood.

We are have reached discussion about where the "stop" on the neck/body join will be. On a DB it is traditionally either where D is on the G string or where Eb is on the G string. Toby usually has the "stop" on the model this is based on at the octave. As someone who is used to a D stop on a DB that would freak me out completely. I get edgy enough moving away from the dusty end as it is but with no safety net of familiar physical clues I would not shift. The problem here is that this puts the whole proportion out of whack - it all gets a bit of a Picasso vibe. All the bits are there but not quite as you expect to see them. Here is a pic of bridge and F hole placement with the octave stop and here is one with the same placement with a D stop I got a bit concerned here but eventually Toby came up with the superb idea of a stepped heel so that I get my D stop reference and then the actual stop is probably the octave. Happy days!

Bongos sound awesome. There is a refinished (metal flake blue) on TB that I would absolutely love.

Bass kazoo, that must be huge. I will never buy a 6 string bass again. It was the nicest bass guitar I have ever played, but it made my head hurt.