Pea Turgh

Nice bass, the £5 discount tickled me.

Nice pair!

I’m getting some great tips here!

That’s a brave move! Really glad it went to plan! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Body done! Well, sort of. I still have to fill the ding on the lower edge by the control plate (already present when I bought it), two original scratchplate holes, either edge of the bridge pickup, and some chips I made along the way (yoink). The scratchplate turned out way better than I hoped. Had to sand it as well as scrape as my one blade gave up quite quickly. There is a gap around the control plate, but it’s not that bad. Conductive paint applied - covered all the dodgy woodwork! Copper shielding applied to the back of the plate too. Just waiting for the neck to dry. The face of the headstock is still patchy, so might need another couple of coats. Push comes to shove I can always paint it!

Ha! I am lacking most refinements, but you’ll be glad to know I do drill pilot holes! Cant wait to crack on with this in the morning.

Decent afternoon of progress. Found the scratchplate! Fitted it, measured, cut, fitted, measured, cut, etc. Then sand to make sure the lines flow. Finally I have the curves I wanted! Next up, scrape the edges with a Stanley blade. Genius idea, @Maude - worked a treat! Firstly I marked a 2mm line all the way around so I knew how far to scrape to (using a sharpie taped to a pencil and ramming a screwdriver in to get the correct distance from shaft to tip (shnarff)). I put a bit of copper strip under the bridge, along with some silver hifi speaker cable for the new earth wire. Bridge now on for good. Also had to put another block of wood in the cavity so the control panel can fix to something. Made a nice big hole in it so I can thread the neck pickup wire through it, then realised it could have just run along the side. Doh. My Heath Robinson approach is evident here with the use of spanners to assist the clamp in holding the block in place 😂😂

To maintain the American exclusivity?

Nice!

Third wipe on coat. Still a little patchy, but getting better...

And while I’m waiting for the scratchplate to magically reappear, I stuck all the bits on to see what else I need to do. The cavities need cleaning up and re-shielding, I need a little block under the front of the control plate To fix it in place, but really I should be able to complete this quite soon! Crap night time pic...

That combo on the body is perfect. Would it be bad to suggest it’d look better with a Fender shaped headstock? (runs for cover)

These ones have a P as well as J, whereas previously they had the original Mustang shaped “P” with the modern J. So I think maybe they are new? I prefer just the original Mustang pickup on its own, visually at least.

Been hunting around the house for the scratchplate so I can get things going - can’t find the bloody thing!!!

So last night’s coat looked crap, so I sanded it down, but not fully. I’m hoping the more coats that go on will even out the patchyness. 2nd coat rubbed on with a cloth - man I should have done it this way to start with!

My cloth ears can’t t detect anything other than EQ variations on that first video. Nice bass though!

And there’s a good reason not to drink and Dremel! No idea sorry! Other than someone’s done a right number on it!

I’d love to see a playing vid, @binky_bass!!!

Shows how much I pay attention then 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Back on it after a little break to do absolutely nothing. This lockdown is making me sleepy. So I have sanded down to 600 grit now, and I’m very happy with the silky-feeling results! Which is good, because that’s all I have in the shed. A lot of sanding has revealed some incredibly subtle figuring - you can’t really see it properly on the images, but I’m happy to have found it. Im going for a refinished/roadworn look as opposed to perfection, which is also lucky as I’m not skilled/patient/equipped enough for perfection! I brushed the ever-so-slightly watered down Ronseal on tonight, but I ain’t keen on the visible brush strokes, so I wiped it off gently (with one of Mrs Turgh’s special cloths smuggled out to the shed). Think I’ll do a cloth application for the next coat (so long as I don’t need to sand the first one off again).

Bloody lovely, that! Everything is just right. Very visually balanced.

That bridge would be permanently crying if it were human - look at it! How do you even play something like that? I’m off to find out on YouTube...

Vinteras are lovely too, but I’m a bargain basement sort of a guy!

Thomann appear to have this colour in stock (the cream version has a wait time). They do look ace. I too prefer the P spacing at the nut, but I think that’s only available on the JMJ signature model. Regardless, I think one of these will eventually make its way in to my rack!

I wish I had a tree that grew bass bodies in my garden.