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That would ensure he gets a very large personal space around him. Solves two problems in one. I applaud your ingenuity

Any suggestions for the matt finish, brands that work please? I didn't know that 2000 grade wet and dry would matt a shiny surface down. That's good to know I'll not spray outside now 😊

I wonder why.... I've taken basses on trains both long distance (Oxenholme to London) and local (Leeds to Lancaster), both in soft cases and hard cases. Nobody has ever batted an eyelid. As a previous poster has said, some people have enormous suitcases and people take those on the trains all the time. Try taking the Gatwick to East Croydon train and you can't move for massive suitcases, some of which I suspect could easily take an 8x 10 bass cab and the amplifier and leave space for a Marshall stack I think the key is being sensible. Doing this at rush hour might get a raised eyebrow in London., but offer to move for more needy people and/or go off-peak and you'll be fine. Not sure what the biggest package I've ever seen. I know my cousin, fresh from the USA, brought a Marshall 2 x 12 combo in Nottingham and took it on the train to Chesterfield. He may have actually put wheels on it and made it a new carriage. It took two of us to lift it off the train in Chesterfield as I recall. Rob

I couldn't work out what was wrong with it. I'm looking over the body thinking its fine. I looked at the headstock and thought that looked fine. I read the description and thought that's the normal bollocks that eBay puts on. Standard boilerplate. I couldn't see what the issue was at all. I never looked at the neck at all. I need more coffee, a lot more. I do like the comments as well Rob

Damm, I even read the linked page. I checked for humour or any sign it was fake Oh well, I got caught out. Rob

Nooooooooooooo... .

Just seen this https://www.breezysports.co.uk/2025/06/16/new-era-led-zeppelin-announces-2026-farewell-tour-one-last-ride-marks-the-end-of-a-rock-legends-era-dates-and-cities-revealed/ Apparently hell has frozen over (apologies to The Eagles) Anybody want to buy a kidney or lung from me so I can afford to go.... One not very careful owner but I've never smoked [Updated: This is a hoax and I fell for it ]

I missed one point out in my post. Many people stated that their matt finish became shiny after use so some.parts looked matt and some didn't. I was trying to avoid the shine. Also any particular brands of matt finish recommended? Thanks Rob

Hi I'm just finishing off my Jazz parts, Fender Jazz neck, Hipshot tuners, Bareknuckle pickups, John East Preamp and a lovely body from a luthier. Some of these bits came from @sifi2112, a true gent. Si painted the body in matt black and I really like the non gloss finish. It's really great contrasted with a white pickguard and chrome preamp. However I want to protect that matt finish. Looked up satin finishes on guitars and after wasting my time with ****'s on Reddit, I thought I'll come back and ask some sensible people here. Any suggestions what I can finish the body with but keep a subtle matt finish. Thanks Rob

That's the way it goes in bankruptcy proceedings. I'm not defending it but that's what happens. HMRC tend to be the first creditor and Joe Public is at the bottom of the pile. Any outstanding purchase orders will be lost and if you haven't paid for it in a credit card, it's likely you've lost some or all of your money. The suppliers have also lost money which is why they tried to get their stock back when they knew. A builder in my local village went bust doing my sister in laws house and the local builders merchants who supplied the builder came round tried to shovel up the sand he'd put down and take the bricks he'd started building with back. Bankruptcies aren't nice, some people use them fraudulently and seem to come out OK, but most are pretty bad. I lost circa £2K 15 months ago when a plumber just closed up, not a bankruptcy but he said he'd sold the buisiness on to another company but no one could find out who the new business was and he wouldn't say who it was. The work that he started was left and I got another plumber in to finish. Police said it was a civil mater and wouldn't get involved. Other people lost over £30k. We didn't chase it further as it would cost more than £2k for us to do it. Rob

@JohnH89 I don;t have a neck plate, so am using a ferule so I'm losing quite a lot of thread and that worries me. I can try it and see what happens but I am slightly nervous Rob

All the dowels are now sanded down and flush with the heal. I had to slightly tile away some of the varnish to get it flat. I did as little as I could but it is is what it is. I made a little drill centering tool that fitted through the body and made small pilot holes for the proper holes to be put in. You will note the holes are about 2.5mm out from the originals, so close but so far. Looking through my spares box, I have a number of screws I can use, these are 45mm long, thought the screw body is really 43mm as the head can't be counted. The heal in the body is 27mm thick, which leaves 16mm of thread into the neck. However there is no ferrule in this measurement or plate (not that I have a plate the fits). If I put a ferrule on the back, then the screw left to go into the neck is 12mm which really doesn't look a lot to me. Should I try and find longer screws or is it OK to use the screw without as plate or ferrule? Looking through Basschat @PaulThePlug seems to have had the same issue. I think I'll find some nice 50mm ones and use a ferrule unless somebody has a clever idea. Rob

So I've made a tool to hold everything safe, secure and flat. It's now adjustable and is designed for 9.25" radius necks. Its easy enough to make it for flatter or rounder necks. I can move and adust the position of everything to keep it balanced. I've made it so it fits a guitar neck as well, so there's two clamps on the drill. This is a broken Squier neck from something. It appears that somebody drilled through the neck and out through the fretboard (wasn't me). Using this as a test to learn from. This is the 5mm drill and the laser guidance. I know the depth is 18mm as I already tested it. First 5mm dowel And all four done The lesson to learn here is don;t make the dowels too short First drills done. Drill, glued and inserted. Now we leave it for 24 hours to dry. I'll probably cut the dowels with a Dremel and then file down the tops by hand (carefully). Rob

Solved

Assuming Sod All = F-ck All There are two solutions, when sod-all = 0 or sod-all = 4 assuming the above. We would need to define f-ck all more accurately here in terms of sod-all to get the right answer. Rob

Grotty services everytime....

@neepheid You are welcome to break the journey up at Chez Clapham whether I go to this bash or not, on either or both journey legs. Rob

I will and the 3d printed six string. Work has become all consuming so I've done square root of sod-all on a number of printing projects that I want to see through. I might see if I can use October to get some momentum. Rob

I might see if t'other half will let me out for the weekend for this. Rob

Meths is very good. You can also use it to remove gunk left over from Velcro. Rob