Recent content by BuddhaFingas

Slots on the end are the lefty section...

Anyone here ever run across a Harpy bass? Any intel? Reason I ask, stopped by a semi-local GC last night on the way home from dinner and found a used LH Harpy Starling short-scale - only lefty axe in the store - for not much money. Was there with friends so no time to try out, trying to decide...

1440 being the number of minutes in a day, but otherwise I agree.

Thanks all, for the thoughful and well-considered opinions. End of the day, I want it to look "good as I can manage, and band-box fresh" when I declare it done, and hopefully to stay that way long enough to get some nice photos. Then I plan on playing it, hopefully a lot. At which point it...

It's a modified 8-bar... so yeah, I guess its 3 chords formally, though you'd never know it from the bass line. 4:25 long, total of 8 notes used, all first position. You'd never know it from the lead either, as I think there's maybe 3 notes on the fretboard Moore DIDNT use... Fun to play and...

Beats a convention center 6 ways from Sunday.

Gibson Authenticity Test #24

Left to myself, it's a raging contest between my desire for "push my personal envelope" and the hard fact of "1440 is all you get." So opinions of knowledgeable others give me valuable context, even if they aren't the decisive factor.

Yep. That's why I'm fishing for external "sanity checks." Ultimately, it's not being built for sale or for others, will likely be rarely even seen by others much less handled or played. I find it helpful to track whether my tendency to OCD on projects is still reasonably normal, within my...

You echo my situation entirely... On the neck grit progression was driven by the instructions on the StewMac polishing compounds - first time using them. On previous projects I used car-finishing supplies I already had. So progression this time, all by hand, was: 800 grit to level 1000 2000...

Need honest opinions here: After fine compound single manual pass, finish looks like this: From 6 inches - looks sweet and deep From 0.5" under magnification - quite a few early 1000-grit sanding scratches remain when caught in the light; not really naked-eye visible at least with my used up...

Does Gary Moore's "Oh Pretty Woman" fit the bill?

I prefer a quiet evening in a comfy chair, rubbin' one out... Going from 2000-grit (right) to first (medium) compound (left) Nothing but a rag for tools. Digging on the texture starting to appear.

Definition of tedium... Wet level sanding the orange peel out of the 'step' on the headstock, using 1000-grit superglued to a coffee stirrer.

JetStar II?