(2 String Bass Diddley Bow)Scale: Fender Medium Bass 812.8mm (32 inch)Strings : Medium Bass : .070 / .085Tuning: ADTimber Level: $0.00Threaded Steel Nut : $0.00Plumb Bob Bridge : $0.00Machine Heads : $3.602 Bass Strings: $4.00White Bass Humbucker Pickups : $9.99Gilly’s Timber Wax $0.50TOTAL: $18.09This level was handed down to me from my father ''Neville'', a bricklayer by trade, it has his initials and name stamped & chiselled into it, but I think it may have originally belonged to his father.The timber is Queensland Red Cedar, I guesstimate! the age of its life as a level to be approximately 75 to 100 yrs old, it was probably sourced from a demolished house?.The plumb bob bridge was my contribution, also being a retired brickie, it was very tempting to sand and expose this beautiful timber to its full beauty, but at the risk of spoiling the "Patina" and age of this tool, I opted for giving it a bit of a wash with soapy water to remove some of the ''crud'', and applied a coat of Gilly's Timber Wax to enhance a little of the colour.
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Ahh... there it is! Only took me 10 min. of looking through your photos. I forgot how many cool and wonderful builds you have! Thanks for inspiring my "Half a Bubble Shy" build.
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Thanks Jim Morris, I originally got the inspiration for a level build from bemuzic/Belinda, who from memory has built a couple of them.
Ahh... there it is! Only took me 10 min. of looking through your photos. I forgot how many cool and wonderful builds you have! Thanks for inspiring my "Half a Bubble Shy" build.
nice brickie special .hey were did you get the pickups from they look good and a good price to