@russ Lucky you I’ve never seen him or the ISB live. Think he lives in the Borders somewhere near Selkirk.

I can't ever blame the volute for my playing being so bad.... The volute on my Firebird build is quite big but doesn't get in the way for some reason.... The neck is also quite big - a couple of mm d...

@cheesewhisk The volute

@cheesewhisk The volume looks ok to me it’s far enough away from the 1st fret not to interfere with playing.

More work this weekend. Not sure about the valute, something to pay more attention to next time I think. Attachment : EA749CDD-FDFF-4335-9D16-8D2AAD2AAE05.jpeg Attachment : AB5CC0F6-973C-4...

@mattbeels You’ve been very quiet recently thought you had fallen off the planet

@rocknroller912 Trust you to lower the tone of the conversation Baaaaaahahahahahahaha!!!

@jamesbisset You’ve certainly stirred the pot with this topic, all you have to do now is compose a rag time tune and call it the Oily Rag.

And turns out that an oily rag means different things to different people (including @mattbeels). Who knew! He’s Germerican. 😏

An Oily Rag in my workshop is one that was used to apply finishing oil. Thanks Mark, and thanks to everyone else. All really useful info. And turns out that an oily rag means different things to diff...

@rocknroller912 salmon, trout, makrel? In @JamesBisset's case, duck oil will be more appropriate than fish oil.

@boo Most of their music is like that

@boo I forgot to say that I did look for a pot in my spores box but don’t have one sorry I've got some used B500k pots that I got as a job lot, I'll send you one of these, or a pair of A&B, or a...

Great choice @rocknroller912. 👍😁 🙏🎶🙂🎸

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment....... 🎸🙂🎶🙏

This one came into my head tonight when I was discussing the demise of live music in the pub due to Covid and wondering if it’s ever going to return. For anyone that is too young it sings about what l...

Excellenté @boo. 👍😁 🙏🎸🙂🎶

This is My Favourite Song For This Moment.......put on your dancing shoes. 🕺 🎶🙂🎸🙏

Thanks Cheesewhisk, it's on its way! Cheers Darren

I’m toying with the idea of painting the pickup covers white pearl to match the racing stripes. @boo I think that could work. Black pickups might not give enough contrast ( perhaps depending on the b...