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I've never had anything but great, friendly service from BD. That's all I can say.

I know this is an ancient post but I've just converted a Stagg EUB to 5 strings and thought I'd just add it here rather than start a new post. Luckily it is one of the newer versions, so I didn't need to add anything to the head end. I just plugged the holes on the treble side. Re-drilled three 18mm holes and also routed a little extra space so that I could fit the original two tuners plus one new one. I cut a new nut from a piece of ebony and also plugged the middle two bridge holes and re-drilled 3 holes. It's not perfect but It looks and plays like it was designed to be a 5 string all along.

New wallpaper now stuck to the body. It's a perfect match for the gunmetal colour that is going to be the 'burst'. I'm leaving it to dry for several days before feathering the edges and then doing the 'burst' (I've learnt not to rush things, which is why I screwed up the previous wallpaper effort). Just waiting for the bridge to arrive from China (hoping I've measured properly this time and don't end up with two lots of 'the wrong size' headless bass bridges).

Sorted out the paintwork, but as it's about to be covered with a paper poster I'm not too worried except for the edges. Talking of the paper poster, it arrived this morning. I've already cut it to shape but I'm not doing anything else until I've the time do do it properly. The 5 string headless bass bridge has also arrived. Unfortunately I hadn't measured properly and the string spacing is too wide for the neck (so it will be for sale on here very soon, probably at a great loss to me financially Instead I've ordered individual headless bass tuners that (according the the advert) are 10mm wide each (rather than the 15mm wide ones on my Ibanez 1005SMS). This should work (says he crossing everything he has). Anyway, here's the bass with it's metallic gunmetal finish, and then a mockup of the swirl finish wallpaper that is going to be stuck to both the front and back. OK. Update. Screwed up the poster. I think because it wasn't proper wallpaper and I put too much paste on it the pattern came off when I just touched it, so new 'proper wallpaper' has been ordered.

Thanks for selling it to me

New plan. I wanted to do either a 70's paisley wallpaper finish or an aqua swirl finish. I've just found a poster of aqua swirl, so I've ordered it and will do a wallpaper style finish with that (not only is it roughly what I was thinking of anyway, but once I've sanded out the majority of the imperfections the poster will cover anything left. I was spraying with metallic silver grey gun metal paint, so I'll still have that as the edge burst. Oh, I forgot. Headstock has been hacked off and the first tuner hole that was left, plugged. I've sort of made it the shape of the lower bout of a thunderbird to attempt to keep the design process similar (dahrling).

All primed up and first coat of paint. All the imperfections have now shown up (thought I’d got them all sanded away Got to resand the front of the body and start again (bugger)

Photos of what I said I’d done (above). Don’t look too closely at my routing. It’s the first time I’ve ever done it and I’m sure some veneer can fill any gaps that might show when I’ve fitted the neck.

As I only tend to play short scale 5 stringers nowadays I’m limited in choice unless I want to pay far more than my bank balance and my ability allows. I’ve also got an extremely soft spot for Rickenbacker and Thunderbird shaped basses, so when I saw LouieM had an Epiphone bolt on neck Thunderbird for sale I hatched a plan. Firstly I had to get it without my better half commenting on me getting yet another bass, so Louie and I met up at Reading services on my family’s return from holiday in Cornwall (having an all female family means that pee stops have to be built into every trip). Whilst they all went in, LouieM and I did the dirty deed outside Greggs (he’d very kindly removed the neck and stuck everything in a bin bag so I could shove it in the boot without it being noticed). Today everything got removed and my first task was to sand a forearm chamfer whilst I wait for a ‘63 Thunderbucker pickup to arrive from the USA and a Squier bass V1 neck also to be delivered (which has pretty much the same dimensions as my Ibanez AGB205 short scale). Once these have arrived I can start measuring and can then sort out making it headless. Here’s the very first photos. I hope my woodworking skills are up to the job

Thinking of doing a short scale 5 string headless rickenthingy, so watching with interest.

I should be seeing Queen with Adam Lambert at the O2 this evening (postponed from 2 years ago, bought for my wife's birthday), but I'm still showing Covid positive (been off work for the last week with it), so thats put an end to that. Hoping I'm clear by Wednesday as I've got free tickets to see Roger Daltrey in Brighton and then I'm up to Coventry to see Rammstein next Sunday (once again, postponed from 2 years ago). I will be bloody p*ssed off if I miss two concerts that were postponed due to Covid 2 years ago just because I decided to be late to the party catching it

Nick bought a Ricky truss rod wrench from me. Such an easy transaction,. Great bloke.

I was completely Phil Jones (Suitcase and C8 cab). Part-exed it for Markbass Little Mark 3 and Ninja 122 cab. Much lighter and louder. I wouldn't go back.