Recent content by Phil Howe

Correct, you have expressed it far better than I did! It's the ethanol that is denatured by the addition of perhaps... 15% methanol. rendering it undrinkable. (or at least very, very unpleasant...) I suppose this has geographic peculiarities... Here in northern Canada, it is common to use...

Look closely at the peghead... there are 4 shafts, even though you can't see the tuning machines proper. The bridge and nut are cut for four strings, so it's probably just missing a string, and strung up as a three string.... A situation not unheard of with old, unplayed basses... Get a...

More misinformation! Of course methanol is absorbed through the skin... I would hazard a guess that every known solvent (including water) is absorbed through and into the skin. The rate of absorption is so low, however, that denatured methanol has been used as a basis for pimple medicine...

If there's one thing I have learned over the years, it's that musicians LOVE to carry on at length over oils, cleaners, polishes, and the like... (Witness the length of this thread...) I've been a cabinetmaker all my life, seen more wood than most people, and I am continually amazed by the...

By co-incidence, I'm looking for a bag for a 1950 Kay S-51 "Chubby Jackson" 5 string model. The measurement of mine from bottom of body to end of scroll is only 71 1/2" and the endpin adds another 3 inches. I have feelers out right now for different recommendations, but everyone I've talked to...

Eminence EUBs have inlaid side position markers as an available factory option. They are inlaid at the first, third, fifth, seventh, tenth, and octave positions.They are inlaid into the side/face of the fingerboard as a sawcut, and would readily survive a planing, although one would want to take...

Hello all... Brand new member here, but I've been playing bass all my life. I play a lot of bluegrass and jazz, but fill in in a lot of country-flavoured bands too. I am a multi-instrumentalist, my first instrument being the dobro, but I play banjo, mandolin, and lots of guitar, both acoustic...