Absolutely @johnnierox-boo! I think I now get as much satisfaction from fixing the problems that invariably arise as I do from completing a buil...

@robin The joys of retirement?

@marcel If there is one thing you don't need at all on a fretless bass with a trem, it's strings. 😆

@johnnierox-boo Yup - he wasn't the tallest bassist ever!

HI @Seth I'd echo what the guys above have said. That looks like a really nicely patterned piece of timber. Should look really good when carved a...

@robin We've all been there, done that! It's a great tool and incredibly versatile, but it's also very easy to do something that you didn't quit...

Mark did one of his live sessions on making a drop top ... I don't recall there being a lot of special tools required. But if it's still not possibl...

Ahhhhh - that's what pigeons are for!!

@johnnierox-boo I was sat in the kitchen one lunchtime, and "Dad" appeared around the end of reeds around the pond. Don't often see him so close...

I've got one of those ... but that's for another discussion, another day!! IIRC, Alan Lancaster - Quo's original bassist back in the early 70's ...

Take it easy Bill ... you don't want to do too much twingeing in a Motorhome.

So, not a friend this time?? 😉 Serious Question (I know, unusual). What's the benefit of having a short-scale bass? Apart from the headsto...

Can't match that ... but we've got some of these guys living in the garden ... ... we leave chunks of it "untamed" as wildlife havens.

@robin It's very stop-start for me too. I'd presumed that was due to my (poor) internet connection. You'll be causing Mark to upgrade his serve...

@frocesterbill Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Or, in our case, the ear of the player ... 😉

That must have been a sight @robin - congratulations on seeing that! We've got a family of buzzards, nesting in the adjoining field/copse, and a kes...

@robin That's a very blue sky for Scotland ... Photoshop??? 😆

@johnnierox-boo I stumbled across them once, at the end of a dark forum alley and thought that they were hidden away a bit. Not sure I could fi...

@darrenking @johnnierox-boo Mark explained - briefly - in one of his live sessions that there are TWO types of points. The points that we award e...