caitlin
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I've not been gigging for a while but I do remember that during a verse I would forget how the chorus goes, but strangely enough just before the chorus turns up the knowledge would seem to *arrive*. Of course I get a bit of a cheat, there's loads of places on a drum kit you can hide some notes about 'how that tricky one goes' -
Nut slotting files are £150 on that guitar shop from the bloke with tattoos on his head so the £3.80 draper files I've just slotted mine with are totally fine, right? The B E A and D strings didn't want to drop into the slots in the nut, so i've mashed them carefully wider whilst trying not to make them any deeper. I still think the action is pretty high on this, but I'll try other things before filing the slots deeper since there's no undoing that. I'm planning to swap the nut out at some point but I may as well learn as much as i can with this one first.
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My zoom b1x thingy ran out of batteries and I can't remember which psu is compatible with it, darn centre positive non centre positive junk.
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I measured it and it looks like a BE2 will fit, ho hum, I wonder if it'd be worth the cash.
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It sounds 'good' and it's fun playing an uppy down the neck song in all one position but the wiring is mince, the tone knobs do NOTHING and it's pretty hissy. So I think sod all that and lets get an active EQ for it, I don't know if the ARTEC BE2 fits or not, so it's time to do some measuring, I guess.
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COME AT ME! Now the infinite job of setting it up, it's sharp at the 12th fret, the arc over the fretboard is lousy, the drop from the B to the E is 100 feet and I've never done a neck relief in my life ever. BUT that it's nominally together and makes a sound out of the sound holes is the biggest squee I've done in a long time. it really is the look I was thinking of as well. super clean, really sharp.
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Zoom pedal on batteries that would be some TERRIBLE induction, were it mains
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I actually punched the electrics in and put the pickup close to my other bass and it MADE BASS NOISE! So I've lemonned the fretboard to celebrate.
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Oh heck, I wonder how stable this will actually turn out to be.
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Bad form, sorry. I didn't realise they were online. https://www.pitbullguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/IB-5.pdf Gonna see if this will work for my junk.
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@SpondonBassed don't suppose you still have the wiring diagram from your pitbull destructions do you? this kit has plug and play wiring and what's been shipped doesn't match what's in my instructions and my instructions look super vague, omitting the bridge earth entirely for example. I'm going to look up some options, they're bog standard basic humbuck pickups with two wires each only.
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Oh yeh, right. Sorry. I originally called it dust because you can buy it as a literal packet of glitter than you stir into a paint mix for a gun. I forgot that I'd described it that way when i switched to a premix can idea. I didn't realise that this appliance white is actually a functional top coat, I guess it's a pigmented top coat itself. It doesn't *require* a lacquer like a metallic or pearl paint would. I don't know how much better I'll get this by cutting back and polishing because I didn't do enough prep at the wood and primer stages because of a lack of clue and a lack of sanding supplies ultimately. But yeh, it does look 'passable' and I'll be happy enough playing it in my music room regardless so who needs to mind? Thanks for saying it looks cool, it's making me happy.
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I don't know what you mean, it's the appliance white out of a rattle can, pre any cut back and polish
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A mockup, of sorts. This paint is still super soft, really will need weeks before i can do anything serious. going to skip the fancy top coat and just get this playing. it looks nice with the black white contrast. I can always get neon strings if i think it's looking weak.
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Well i worried about the string snapping, but I wasn't sure what else i could realistically do, anyway the string snapped and it's got a ding on the horn, but it's on the backside so it's not immediately obvious. I'm filing this under 'learning' and pressing on. I can always refinish this body down the line and i'm keen to push on towards a playing instrument rather than stressing about a knock when it's far from the last knock it's going to get. My straploks turned up, obviously the day after i put paint on it, but since it fell on the floor anyway I just popped it on some bubble wrap and smashed a drill through it. still, I have not *yet* ruined the neck, but there is still time.
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Oops, it'll sand out 🙀
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It's now had the last primer it's getting. I knocked it back till there was a percentage of defects remaining to the point where I don't care any more I've buried as many of them as I can in the last 500ml of spray primer. I've learned my lesson about grain filling and high build primer. I should have used coloured filler primer even though it was coloured and then used white primer over the top of that but I got scared by the white paint insisting non-white primer would suck. Tomorrow I'll put another coat of tru-oil on the neck (how many coats? some forums say 15?! that's over two weeks of waiting), stash that somewhere very safe, and then give the body it's last sand before the 'appliance white' (maybe I should put a fridge or tumble drier logo on it or something) goes on. Still need to source what's going on with the clear. I could get a 2K clear and add the sparkles in and use my cheap as chips compressor and even cheaper spray gun, but that would require making sure I have a lot of other supporting crap like mixing gear, and many cleaning solvents. https://www.stardustcolors.co.uk/pearls-special-effect-paint/781-pearlized-clearcoat-spray.html#/845-colours-multicolored_turquoise_blue_purple is an option, but phew that's not cheap is it?! dunno how many coats I'd get out of 290 ml either.
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In bass news, I've sanded the neck to 1000 grit and applied the first coat of tru-oil. urk. That stuff makes your head swim, doesn't it? and I DID have the window open.
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Nope. It's a B600 I got for a couple of hundred quid, which does (now) start, roll, and stop. It's needed some welding on the brake support and swingarm (luckily I have a TIG qualification and a small welder) I'm in the process of getting the guts up to strip the swingarm bearings whilst it's out of the frame and re-grease them. then a lot of hammerite before reassemble, tyres, and an attempt at an MOT. Oh the indicators also need a stern 'sorting out' since they rusted completely out and there's a small stack of bolts that sheered and need procuring. Y'know the usual crap you need to do to get a rat bike back on the road. Of course the bike garage is sharing space with the bass spray booth and everything so doing it all at once is a challenge.
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I've, uh, already printed out the plans for a telecaster and priced up plywood (just to annoy purists), bwahahahahahahahah. no no no, I have to fix that motorbike.
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Nothing, but INTERMINABLE sanding. Also: out of sandpaper; meh.
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You're not making me like you, you know? lucky you for having it easy
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I'm real bad at drawing
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So because I'm a flap I'm *considering* getting some dust off ebay, the prismatic junk you can put on your lowered and neoned nissan to make it look different colours in different light angles and putting just a BIT of that over in the clear coat. I think that's a terrible idea though because it's mostly likely just going to show up all the flat spots and dings in the underlying wood that i sanded for, oh, i don't know... a hour maybe Otherwise I'm just hoping the hardware base colour contrast will 'do it'. I expect to be wrong and it'll just look 'cheap' but what's learning without trying stuff?
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Hmm masked it: And then gradually emptied a whole can of primer over it I can certainly see all the bits I didn't manage to sand properly, a bunch of end grain and some general lumps and bumps. I'll leave that to dry for a good while and then sand some more and dump the second can of primer over it. It's only going white because @SpondonBassed has functionally *dared* me to do it. There is always the recourse to matt black though. The straploks have not arrived, I will stagger across that bridge when it hoves into view, there's a certain amount of finish damage that will be hidden by the flange of the lok anyway. I still hope against hope that they may arrive in the mail tomorrow.
