Christine

Happy new year everyone

Back on a diet again tomorrow, ahem

15 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

Sorry to pick up on this Marco but I have to ask @Christine; is that your fretting or plucking hand?  I can't work out which or even if all four fingers in that image are from the same hand.  It looks like the index and ring fingers from both hands to me.

Thanks for the warning both.

It's both my index fingers in the picture., I'm not that badly deformed The badly cut finger is the index on my left/fretting hand, I use a plastic fingertip made from Polymorph and leather to play with

Just be aware, it only takes one little bit of carelessness. The day after I did that we looked inside the planer and found 11 slices of fingernail, we calculated the whole event took about 1/20th of a second. 14 years later it still hurts, machines have no conscience!

13 hours ago, Marcoelwray said:

Ah yes ; I knew it but reminder:

DON'T USE YOUR DRESSER AS A PLANER BARE HANDS ! I'm an idiot.

 

Hopefully you have no real harm done, mine have had a hard time over the years as can be seen

2 hours ago, Marcoelwray said:

I don't like the fact of bending the string hard like on some Ritter's ...

This way makes more sense to me, but hard to get a perfect finish on that..

That is just drilled perpendicular to the body top and the slots milled in but you could do that with needle files too

How about a bone tailpiece or as a rounded deflector to send it through the body more gently? Assuming a bone nut?

Just now, Marcoelwray said:

I need to make a stoptail now 😥

Though body?

I have interchangeable brass and stainless saddles on a Hipshot bridge I have on my Fender, they really do make a difference to the sound, the stainless is much brighter, I use the brass as I love a darker sound, I have to try wooden saddles now

I'd never heard of Amaranth  before, had to look it up, purpleheart. The brown is fairly typical in newly worked and will develop the familiar purple within a week or so.

I'm very curious to hear how this bridge sounds when it's done, I imagine very dark sounding transmitting little information between the strings and the body like metals do. Just a guess I've never come across a wooden bridge on an electric bass before, are there any others?

Very impressive work, that looks like a very difficult task but I won't be that impressed until I see those matching wooden machines 😛

OK I'm suitably embarrassed, let me get new year out of the way and get rid of the inevitable hangover, then I'll get them finished off straight away

14 hours ago, honza992 said:

Hurray!  Can't wait. 

You're so impatient, really!!

9 minutes ago, honza992 said:

Christine, was there an update on these, or am I being blind and missed the grand finale?

I've not had time but I will get on with them first thing into the new year, I had them out yesterday for the first time in ages and they're rock hard so all they need is a rub down and a polish a couple of blobs of solder and they will be done

Merry Christmas Andy

Absolutely nothing done with the triplets since, the weather has been too damp and horrible. Fingers crossed we will get a nice spell in the new year to let me get the last few coats on.

Well Christmas is finally upon us and I shall be mostly cooking as well as drinking as much wine as I can in the process

Merry Christmas everybody!

Clever lad as I remember, his English wasn't very good and could only describe the colour of his modified white as "orgasm" !! Which if anyone remembers my embarrassing introduction thread here I referenced mistaking @Dad3353  for the young French lad Below

In Denbigh? The land of cloud and rain, more chance of the colour being washed out

I''d worry about direct sunlight, there's some heat in it and it can do some nasty things to wood. Poly finishes are quite UV resistant. The lamps do work, there was a French guy on Talkbass who used a UV lamp for reptile keeping on a white body to age it, it worked very well too. I like yours as it is, if it were me I'd leave it and enjoy it

Tango? What have you put on it? You could take it down to the tanning shop and put it on a sunbed for an hour to help age it, more seriously a UV lamp at a couple of feet distance could work wonders on colour

Been using Rotosound RS66s since 1976, tried one or two others from time to time but I've always gone back with the exception of a set of EB cobalt flats on a Tbird but that isn't a bass I play often

It has a good vintage look to it, crying out for some ashtrays 🤐

6 hours ago, Jus Lukin said:

Where's the 'quickly', and why repeat it?

Jeez, you make a simple request and waddaya get?!

There's no pleasing some people!!

This is a shock, I'm lost for words for once. 63 is no age to go

What lies beneath our painted basses?

Give it a few thick coats of thinned (white spirit)  Linseed oil over a few days. Let it dry for a good week, then do the same with thinned boiled Linseed oil before topping with Danish oil, tat will make the wood really come out

7 hours ago, Jimothey said:

I've flipped the pic so you don't get confused anymore.......... 😁

It's not difficult to confuse me, you may now know this

How big is the gap? Will you be painting the body?

If it's small and yes another option would be to wrap the neck in clingfilm, wax it, screw it down in the correct position and fill the gap with epoxy. Dead easy and your guaranteed a perfect fit

6 hours ago, Jimothey said:

@SpondonBassed on answer to your question about how it hangs on a strap, for me it hangs perfectly

I think if the top horn was shorter it might suffer a bit from neck dive?.......... 

 

You derrière!! I've just been going up and down the page looking at this and the photo above wondering is it right or left handed

Finally noticed the Tee shirt Is there any hope?