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I'll share my experiences buying my two custom basses, a Serek and a Wilcock, and briefly owning an off the shelf Alpher. Granted, neither does goes as far down the custom route as Alpher when it comes to woods, pickups, pickup placement etc., but you may find the process and reflections useful (or not!) The Serek and the Alpher I bought on reputation, having never played either before I ordered one. The Serek I asked for a couple of things he didn't normally do: an unpainted roasted maple neck (he normally uses mahogany and paints the whole instrument), and moving the neck pickup back into the 'sweet spot', rather than typical jazz spacing (precision bass is my preferred sound). Before buying the Wilcock, I played one in the Gallery in London and loved the sound and neck. Viv only gives you a few things you can choose: neck and body material, and colour (you can get binding and different colour hardware as well), I chose roasted maple, alder and shell pink. The Alpher was one of their first Mini Mako short scale basses, no custom options, just bought as is from the website. Good fortune meant I loved the Serek as soon as I played it. Neck profile felt great, it sounded how I wanted it to, and is my workhorse Do Any Gig bass. The Wilcock was as great as I expected and is my main originals bass. The Alpher has amazing fit and finish, great features, incredible craftmanship... but it wasn't Mine, if you get what I mean. It was probably the neck profile, but I ended up selling it because it just didn't feel right. The lesson I learned is you don't really know the bass until you've played it. You can spec it out to the tiniest detail, but in the end you've just got to play it.

Turn, Turn, Turn - The Byrds

Has anyone any experience upgrading the speakers in the Harley Benton BB210T cab ? I’ve read a great thread on Talkbass (see below) about upgrading to a 4 Ohm cab (Oberton speakers) but I really need an 8 Ohm cab as both my power amps don’t go lower (bridged) .. https://www.talkbass.com/threads/harley-benton-bb210t-driver-upgrade.1163109/

Well there you go , the massive hath spoken 😁 well done Upsy , a well deserved victor to start the year, post me a pic and I’ll get February under way , it’s a short month, with a few days away for half term, so I for one, will need to get started a bit pronto 😂

The magnets don't "see" the wood, or your fingers, very well at all. The idea was to block out the air gap so no way fingers could be put into danger. You would still want sub pinkie sized gaps to maintain the air guitar schtick.

The magnets don't "see" the wood, or your fingers, very well at all. The idea was to block out the air gap so no way fingers could be put into danger. You would still want sub pinkie sized gaps to maintain the air guitar schtick.

The magnets don't "see" the wood, or your fingers, very well at all. The idea was to block out the air gap so no way fingers could be put into danger. You would still want sub pinkie sized gaps to maintain the air guitar schtick.

The magnets don't "see" the wood, or your fingers, very well at all. The idea was to block out the air gap so no way fingers could be put into danger. You would still want sub pinkie sized gaps to maintain the air guitar schtick.

northwest stuff is great, I have a bitsa P bass all made from their stuff I've bought a couple (3 actually) jazz necks from ebay, two fitted up well, needed levelling and the third is unused as of yet

yep looking good, well done for a tidy job confidence boosting isn't it

Hey John apparently the Harley Benton flats are very good

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

Stingray Sunday here a decent 6 hours in the music room today - luxury

At least we're not using cubits, though they did manage to build the pyramids with them.

Pop it on the bathroom scales when you're passing. I'd like to see if my theory is correct!