Jimothey

Still waiting for my pickups to arrive hopefully should be here in a few days but in the meanwhile I decided to put the block inlay decals on ‘Ole Smokey’ not sure whether to do it on ‘The Bulleit’ as well??.........🤔

Nice!! Good luck with the learning.......😀

Hi Spoofa Welcome to the forum!! Congrats on taking the first step to learn to play the Bass, What have you bought? My personal favourites for learning on YouTube are BassBuzz and Become a Bassist but I’m sure you’ll get lots more suggestions.........👍

Looks like it might be a nice little project for someone............😀 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303433543573

Yeah most of the time they have tattoos instead of brains!!

I can play the spoons a bit can I join your band?

Thanks @rubis the scaffold boards are either Pine or Douglas Fir but they are nice and light I do like the idea of using reclaimed wood as it is more eco friendly (and generally a lot cheaper!!) and like a couple of the builds on here that used an old piano as it does have a story to tell I would love to be able to say that the scaffold board was used when they renovated Big Ben or something along those lines but alas the only story I can tell is it was stood on by some hairy arsed brickies in a North Wales holiday park...........😂

Thanks, No I’m probably going to leave them natural........😀

That’s just all kinds of wrong but I suppose It could work if you have a boost pedal in front of it called ‘FingerBang’

Now your just being silly you can’t call an Overdrive pedal Barry.........Everyone knows that the name of a octave pedal!!......🙄(tsk)

Not everything I do is yellow I might just keep them all brushed Alu with black writing but you never know what terrible colour combo I might choose!?!.....😄

I did think of Screaming Blue Murder but when I did a mock up it was a bit too big to fit on the pedal........👍

I was kinda joking but because pedals have such random names now I’m surprised someone hasn’t called one that before!!.........😀

I think there are too many sub genres of Rock to be able to clearly say that’s “Blah Blah Rock” It’s like everything it is very subjective I might think something belongs in a certain category but other people might think it belongs in a different one IMHO I couldn’t give a flying F*** what it’s classed as if I like it and it fits into a set and the punters like it then that is more important than its label!!.........😀

I like your thinking!! I think we’ve got a winner!!

I agree some of the names are just over the top especially Metasonix pedals are named things like Butt Probe, Foreskin Soup and Scrotum Smasher and some are just plain weird and have nothing to do with the pedal at all like Swollen Pickle, Fat Sandwich, Aqua-Puss, Pork Loin and Pork and Pickle?? I just want a quite normal sounding name but I can’t come up with anything that sounds good?? And preferably something that hasn’t been used before just incase I decide sell it down the line (no copyright infringement)??.........🙁

I’ve just built a DIY pedal which sounds a bit like a cross between a Tube Screamer and an Overdrive pedal (very Blues sounding) and all the names I’ve come up with are a bit pony........Blues Overdrive, Blues Screamer, Dirty Blues Driver, Dirty Blues Box See what I mean!! Please post any ideas for names that you don’t mind if I use............👍

The box is all drilled out now The top of the pedal will look a bit like this except I might change the name on it to Blues Screamer instead but I haven’t decided as yet......... Where it’s white will actually be bare Alu with chrome knobs I’m going to try and do an image transfer again then spray a clear coat over the top...........😀

And here’s ‘Ole Smokey’.............😀 The seller I bought the P90 pickups from sent out the wrong item he sent 4 sets of silver block inlay decals (The pickups are on their way now) so I’m tempted to see how they would look on this build............🤔

Back at work now so these builds can continue, Here’s a quick mock up of how ‘The Bulleit’ might look............ I’m not sure if I’m going to relic the hardware now because I kinda like the look of fresh chrome against old wood??...........😀

I agree black with gold saddles and with gold knobs........👍

I got started on the pedal this afternoon..........😬 I didn’t have anything to hold the pcb so I nicked a photo holder off my daughter!! I finished doing the board, tested it and bugger me it worked first time just got to do the switch now and get it in the enclosure I’ve decided against the wooden and gone with Alu instead.........👍

My 2 necks turned up today and I’m really impressed by the quality of them especially as they only cost £20 each! there’s no sharp fret ends and I checked it for high/low frets but I couldn’t find any!.............😀

I got this......... And the missus paid for one of the tele style necks for my builds which should be here next week......🤞

Mine are: 1. Practice, Practice, Practice 2. Try and build my confidence and hopefully try out for a band 3. Practice some more after being laughed at and turned down by the band in number 2...............😬