BassTool

Looks beautiful, love the finish on the front.

Congratulations on your new bass 👌🏼

Absolutely superb, that looks mint! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼

On 09/12/2025 at 20:49, JJMotown said:

Best go to a car garage that does panel painting, it'll be as good, maybe better, and cheaper.

This 👍🏼

Check out my BlazerRay thread in Build diaries - I got the body painted with a grey primer, white top coat plus lacquer (including all flatting and prep) for £100, the finish is superb.

Small body shops love the challenge of something outside the norm, if you have any local to you of course!

Just so happens we have loads up here - and I knew the guy who did mine - but these guys and girls are as good as any luthier job, as body shops are spraying stuff every day 😉

Great work 👏🏼 👏🏼 👌🏼

Do like most of us on here do, ignore the doubters 😉

Nice work!! 👌🏼

On 05/12/2025 at 12:18, SpondonBassed said:

 

As always; possession is nine tenths of the law.

 

They were trying it on.  Unless you can find some fine print that you were shown and that you agreed to they have no right to ask for something you own to be returned.

 

Floggit quick!

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sage hath spoken... 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Fantastic transformation, looks fab - and that old bridge is yours 😜

Brilliant transaction with Pete, I needed the item pronto and it arrived the following morning really well packaged.

Deal with confidence, another top BassChatter 👌🏼

Thanks again Peter 👍🏼

Great stuff Jim!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼

Nice work, looks great 👍🏼 

Don't forget the Build Diaries rule:

Pics or it didn't happen 😜

Fantastic work, they look brilliant 👍🏼 

+1 for Tru Oil, I refurbed the neck on my BlazerRay build on here.

There is a definitive 'How to' here:

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/331219-95-tru-oil-finished-guitar-a-how-to-guide/

Beauty, GLWTS 👍🏼

Sting had some nice tones going on during Police days.

Rutgar Gunnarson the Abba bassist, some tasty tones -  the playing and tone on One of Us is great IMO. 

Duran's John Taylor, Mark King, Paul Webb from TalkTalk just a few.

All subjective and IMO of course, but being my era in my 20's, there was a lot of influential bass stuff going on between the 70's and the 80's, glad I was there  😆

Tasty, great harmonies too! 👌🏼

Some good advice on here 👍🏼 after singing and playing bass for 50 years, when I have a new song to learn it still takes me a LOT of practise time to nail it 😖

Bass line first. Got to have it perfected before moving on.

Lyrics and phrasing next.

Then the tricky bit 😆

I talk my way thru each phrase of a verse - whilst trying to marry the two up - then the same process, gradually working throughout the rest of the song.

But as said many times on here, practise is the key 👍🏼

I had a Paulownia P bass, lightest bass I've ever owned, that looks like a really good lump 👍🏼 

All the best to you Tony, loved your advice and input on here, glad to hear you'll still be sticking around 👍🏼😎

4 hours ago, RonC said:

Are you gonna build a bass or convert the side dots of an existing one?

Convert the side dots.

I'll not do it though @RonC I'll pass it onto a pro 👍🏼

51 minutes ago, Silky999 said:

I ordered mine from here;

 

https://meisterworks.myshopify.com/en-gb/collections/luminlay-products

 

you can change the currency at top right of page to GBP

Ordered, thanks everyone! 🙏🏼

Never fear @Gank Bass as previously said, Titebond wood glue is your friend! 

That is a mere scratch compared to some of the saves made on this esteemed forum, including mine below 😎

You've already shown your skills on here, now I look forward to seeing how you transform this bass into something usable 👍🏼

Oh, and remember Build Diaries golden rule....pics or it didn't happen 😉

Good luck 🤞🏼😀

On 10/10/2025 at 13:40, RonC said:

I’m building a fretless 5 string at the moment and yesterday I placed the luminlay dots on the side. They light up directly in the dark! I bought the original ones from Japan.

never a problem anymore playing fretless on a dark stage!

Much easier and cheaper to install as LEDs!

 

More lovely work Ron 😉👍🏼

Really helpful from some top Basschat experts, thanks 😇

So, if I was to go ahead buying from here in the UK, where is the best source ? I'm thinking they have to come from abroad even if buying from Amazon. Presumably their isn't a UK distributor? 🤔

2 hours ago, BassTool said:

Kudos 👏🏼 

 

Love a well polished boot me 😉

Thread hijack alert! 🤭

Proof 😆 just done some tonight 😜😎