Beautiful work as ever Marcel. That maple top looks superb. What was pear wood like to work with? Thanks, the pear wood was actually quite easy to work with.

I sold this one. But @deej would have been your friend ? Beautiful work as ever Marcel. That maple top looks superb. What was pear wood like to work with?

After making a number of basses of my own design I decided to make some basses of a more classical design. The first one was this Jazz bass. But I wanted to give it a personal twist. So instead of a c...

Back in the old days, we all used to stay at M&Cs. But then C got a bit stroppy because we used to eat all the lentils. So last time it was B&B in the town. Which actually works really well (...

What do you do for accommodation? "Accomodation"?? Its a 24/7 course @johnnierox-boo. But only for a week, so you'll survive. 😉

Ah-hahhhh @deej now? That's going to be a lot easier!!

Seriously @david-johnson09 - that's how I've looked at the courses too. It's a week's holiday - doing something far more enjoyable than laying on a busy beach. Spent with a bunch of friendly people wh...

So, conclusions .. 1. It'd work. 2. I just used standard pickup mounting ring screws (because that's what I had). Really, they'd need to be about half the length of standard ones so that the head o...

Off to the workshop to mock something up .... Back from the workshop ... here's the results.

Step3, fix pickup to alu bar ... First option uses a bit of foam under the pickup, to add a little height adjustment Attachment : 20200912_111652.jpg That didn't really give a lot of height adj...

Rather than derailing the other thread any further, I thought I might be more "polite" to start a dedicated topic for the discussion. How to fix pickups directly to the guitar body. Why? 1. Pickup ri...

did I mention it’s my birthday in a couple of weeks... I can’t believe as I type this but I may get into playing basses after seeing the recent posts of your work. Well, start playing the bass and ...

One of the most fun things when I want to make a guitar or bass is thinking of the woods I want to use. A couple of years ago when I was at my wood supplier's place (Masave woods in Zwolle, Netherlan...

@darrenking, @david-johnson09 Thanks guys. I will call my neighbor to cut them next week. Have to figure out somewhere to keep them for the winter...

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@tv1010101 the workshop and the recording / rehearsals room are next to each other. Plus I am talking to a neighbor who's father is too old to run the carpenter workshop. @clinton the wood was just cu...

@darrenking One of the great losses to my working practices now that I wear glasses most of the time is that I have lost the ability to stick a pencil behind my ear! Maybe I need to patent a magnetic...

One of the great losses to my working practices now that I wear glasses most of the time is that I have lost the ability to stick a pencil behind my ear! Maybe I need to patent a magnetic pencil holdi...

@markbailey always check behind the ear it's the most likely place

@frocesterbill there is an easy way and I think Mark mentioned it in one of the live videos. French curves are a set of 3 plastic templates which have just about every curve and oval that you would ne...