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    How is the underside of Cleethorpes Pier? Draughty I trust?
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    Teebses would.
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    Looking fab this build
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    I wish I could do fretboard inlays I'd change the dots for TeebsEyes
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    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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    That's nice Nope - he's a twerp!
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    Thanks BRX I had thought of painting the back of the neck and headstock, but I quite like the contrast of the green/blue with the maple. If I build another (a Jazz maybe) - I'll do the back of then neck.
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    The build took about 3 weeks, I made a lot of pink torpedo-ups, learned a lot, but thoroughly enjoyed building this bass, and it sounds like a 'proper' P-bass - the supplied strings are a bit crap, but functional (I'm going to replace them with Roto 66s). As mentioned by others, I might change the hardware at some point, but not just yet. The kit cost £85 plus £15 delivery from Thomann; the paint cost cost around £40 (it might have been less if I hadn't been so cack-handed!), transfer paper £5, copper tape £7, finishing compound £10. I already had the lemon oil for the fretbord and carnuba wax for polishing, and the Schaller strap lock pins, so that saved about 50 pence! One tip that I think I picked up from the Build Diaries threads was to coat the screws in candle wax to make it easier to screw them in - it works! Some of the reviews of this kit said that people were snapping screws - I managed to not break any - so thanks for the tip BCers So, the finished item: @Bridgehouse - the Aria on the left was the one I stripped the poly (dark brown tint) and polished with beeswax and carnuba. It has a lovely tactile satin finish Thank you for reading my build thread
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    Nice!
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    Yes, I've used that on garden furniture - but it's a bit 'sticky' - I'd be unsure about using it on a bass Does it polish up well?
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    Thanks BH I have learned valuable lessons about spray-painting! Regarding Tru oil, I finished an Aria Pro II bass a while back, but decided on a beeswax finish, thinned out with carnuba, rather than tru oil, which worked a treat. Tru oil might be for another project...
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    And then the Woolworths Bass was finished! ~ THE END ~
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    After a few days, I sanded back the body with 1500 grade, then polished with my newly-acquired buffing kit and Farécla G10 finishing compound, then polished with carnuba wax polish:
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    Patience, patience...
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    I sanded back the body (again! ), and resprayed (again), let the paint dry for a few days. Added the headstock transfers and clear sprayed:
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    @Reggaebass predicted (above) what happened when I rushed into assembling the bass to test the fit & the electronics... ... dented & marked the body finish all over So sanding back; respraying etc. was the order of the day. I took the opportunity while the bass was disassembled to shiled the control cavity and back of the scratchplate: Not my neatest work, but functional And then print the headstock transfers: Some random test-build pics: The good thing about doing a test-assembly was that the sound was okay through the amp, and that it showed that the neck needed a shim.
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    Yes! That was one of the pink torpedo-ups! I found that out the hard way - I put the bass together to test the electronics & dented the finish all over! Back to sanding... (It's finished now - safely un-dinged! )
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    But the neck & headstock came up a treat You can't really tell from the photos, but the colour-match headstock face has a sparkle spray under the clear coat:
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    I am not a patient man Trying to rush the paintwork meant that I had to sand back some of the spray coats, as I'd been too heavy-handed.
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    The build took 3 weeks, but that is because of the painting - spray; leave for 24hrs; light sand with 800 grade; spray, repeat. There were some pink torpedo-ups along the way, which added time... I have already built the glider in the loft, but the 'wehrmacht' caught me, resulting in 2 weeks in the cooler
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    It DID work out If you do, I'll drill a hole in the bottom of your dinghy!
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    Pair of Gonks!
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    It is my first spray, but I'd read up on how to do itt for ages. That photo is the first coat of the blue/green - I ended up doing 3 coats, flatting back and respraying, before 3 coats of clear PU, flatting back, then polishing & buffing. It took bloody ages!!! Thanks both, butI've only just finished it (literally today) - but I had thought of swapping the pickups for some of the ones mentioned on the p-bass pickups cheap thread. And maybe a Wilkinson bridge - a beefed-up BBOT. The tuners are solid enough - but weigh a ton! I may end up swapping those in due course
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    I've wanted to build a bass for quite some time - I had a go about 20 years ago, but it did not go well. Mrs Teebs had decided that under lockdown, what I needed was 'structure', so she resolved to keep me busy with DIY tasks around the house and garden. I realised that what was required was a distraction; something that would keep me busy doing something that I would enjoy, whilst keeping me free from Mrs Teebs' evil and onerous chores. I stumbled across an old email from Thomann, and followed a link to their website, where I noticed their DIY kits - thinking that this might be a good introduction to building a bass, I bought their Harley Benton P-Bass kit (was a tricky choice between the P or the J). Despite the lockdown issues, it was delivered from Germany within a week - excellent service! Thank you Thomann. I had already found a headstock template, and slimmed it down to save a bit of weight - I'd read that these kits have a bit of neck dive. THe first thing that I did when the kit arrived was to shape the headstock using a fret saw and sanded 'til I was happy with the shape. The kit: Headstock shaped: I rough sanded the body and masked body & neck: Despite having a Fender headstock, I wasn't intending to make a replica, so I designed a logo that looks stylistically like the Fender logo, but wasn't. (Il Pavone is Italian for 'peacock' ) The name comes from the colour that I was going to paint the body and matching headstock - a darker version of Fender's surf green, but more bluish. @Ricky 4000 said it was Woolworth's green - but he's just a lout! Even @Bridgehouse stuck his oar in! *sotto voice* I hope his dinghy sinks! I think that it's a lovely colour! (Used a yellow primer x 3 coats under the blue/green) More to follow...
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