Peelings. Wo-oh-oh-ooo peelings... (BaCH NR and a stripper)

[Dave W]

Haha - yeah I did strip it.  It seemed like the conductive paint was impeding the natural resonance of the wood.   

Not if you use old style conductive paint made from lac beetle poop. It lets the electrons flow freely.

[SKATE RAT]

i always thought that sheilding paint was made from nickle dust. beetle poop? really?

[Dave W]

i always thought that sheilding paint was made from nickle dust. beetle poop? really?

Guess I should have used a smiley.

But seriously, shellac (not conductive paint) really is made from lac beetle excretions.

[exiledarchangel]

I always use copper foil on the cavities, conductive paint isn't always effective and I don't like to use chemicals if I can avoid it.

[Highlander]

Anyone want to know what E120 - Cochineal food dye is made of - totally natural... 

[the mojo hobo]

Anyone want to know what E120 - Cochineal food dye is made of - totally natural... 

And  primarily used as a food colouring and for cosmetics.

[Pilgrim]

Anyone want to know what E120 - Cochineal food dye is made of - totally natural... 

Mangled baby ducks?  With a component like that, it would HAVE to be better!

[Denis]

Someone would have to be a quack to do something like that. Heh.

[the mojo hobo]

It's not ducks.

Google is your friend:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cochineal+food+dye

[Lightyear]

Yep, this what made the redcoats coats that bright red color.  If you read the USDA  guideline there are very small amounts of all kinds of disgusting things that are allowed in food products - in very small amounts.

[Pilgrim]

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75qjam.phtml

For those whose classic Saturday Night Live education is lacking...

And there are lots more disgusting things in food.  Like sausage, it's best to enjoy, not watch as it's made.

[Freuds_Cat]

Wiki version of cochineal in Australia funny and typical:


The host cactus Opuntia (also known as "Prickly pear") was first taken to Australia in an attempt to start a cochineal dye industry in 1787, when Captain Arthur Phillip collected a number of cochineal-infested plants from Brazil on his way to establish the first European settlement at Botany Bay (part of which is now Sydney, New South Wales). At that time, Spain and Portugal had a worldwide monopoly (via their New World colonial sources) on the cochineal dye industry, and the British desired a source under their own control, as the dye was important to their clothing and garment industries (it was used to colour the British soldiers' red coats, for example). The attempt was a failure in two ways: the Brazilian cochineal insects soon died off, but the cactus thrived, eventually overrunning about 100,000 square miles of eastern Australia. The cacti were eventually brought under control in the 1920s by the deliberate introduction of a South American moth, Cactoblastis cactorum, whose larvae fed on the cactus.

[Pilgrim]

It's the Henny Youngman solution:  "Take my cactus, please..."

[Highlander]

If you read the USDA guideline there are very small amounts of all kinds of disgusting things that are allowed in food products - in very small amounts.

Safer not to read it, Buzz... if anyone thinks too deeply they'll end up a "SAD-B" like me...

[Saf]

damn, I haven't been op here for a while now, this bass looks absolutly fabulous.