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I guess you're referring to the type in gentleman's special interest films?

Orchid DI - simple cheap and works well

I was fortunate enough to pick one of these up in white when they were first released. One of the best basses I’ve ever owned and it cost me about 400 quid. This one here looks lovely!

It's a simple job to add rubber feet to a cab and I note that the one in the pic with the Ashdown has them on the side and not the bottom of the cab. I see the LFSys logo is also mounted sideways so I assume this is a custom job by LFSys? Not all of us would want to use our cabs in the same way and for me protruding feet just catch on other things when I'm loading the car, I'm happy with corners. I hope I don't get into trouble for suggesting this but has anyone tried asking @stevie if he could fit feet for them when ordering their cab? Each cab is hand built so adding feet probably wouldn't add much to the price. Though knowing Stevie he would have to research to find the very best feet and the very best way of fitting them so I've no idea what that would cost. He might curse me for suggesting this but I do know you get Ashdown levels of service from LFSys

Been far too long since I updated this thread. Other things got in the way and it's slowly morphed into something else. Basically the idea of a rail guitar was nice but it had a lot of problems I struggled to get worked out, so I was thinking about testing some other ideas: A simpler outside frame. The top and bottom is about 2/3 of the size. A simple mounting system to mount the outside frame to the centre section. That's the three circular rods top and bottom. Would they be strong enough? Still not sure. A simple control panel. The top and bottom are two distinct parts and don't join at all until ... ... a simple aluminium backbone and floor is put in. The mounting system for fitting the backbone has been simplified. Not sure if it'll work but lets find out. All of this is now printed and is being glued together. Just printing out the drill guides This is how it looks without the backbone, floor, bridge and neck. and in cross section It turns out that putting the rods at an angle makes assembly super difficult as you have to do all three at the same time I had to print some alignment guides to hold everything whilst I was glueing or to suddenly have eight arms. However having the three rods perpendicular looks naff. This will have an Aria Pro neck and a high mass bridge. Probably a cheap set of pickups as well. It is more or less done apart from the metalwork, the finish, which is a new technique but the simpler frame should make the finishing to a high quality easier and to be also setup. I want to get it and the six string done for the SW bass bash, so @neepheid may be working the Friday he turns up here He doesn't know yet. I'll post real photos shortly. Rob

If I was playing metal again I’d look for a super sized cab like a Barefaced 2x12 cab (whatever it’s called). Lightweight, monster sound and lightweight (already said that, but it’s lightweight).

Enter, Sandman - Metallica

I hope not! (And I’ve just ordered some pickups ☹️)

It depends which model of Greco (mostly Fujigen made, but some Matsumoku) you have; some were OK and some were really good. Maybe post a picture? The Grecos tended to have nicer tuners, but some had the wrong pickups and some were bolt-ons.

I am really pleased with the Paisley P-Bass I made recently. Next up is a Jazz Bass. I've decided to just use clear gloss coats on this one, without the tinted ageing i used previously. The body finish will have some lacquer crazing when it's completed.

Let Em In - Wings

These days I just use active pa cabs, but back in the day it was Trace Elliot and a 4 x 10. Once we were playing a gig in the car park of a pub on the edge of a park. We had arrange the gig because we were not invited to play at the small open air gig in the park (nothing petty about it of course!). About half way into the first set someone from the park came over and asked us to turn the bass down as it was cutting across their sound. Ah, those back breaking Trace Elliot days. I always found that the 4x10 was louder than two 2x10. Could've just been the setup though as that was SWR.

I had the Version 1. It was okay I suppose. You could buy an EPROM online for a few quid, that updated it to the V2. That was fun to do.

Ring my Bell - Anita Ward

Mr Hall now resides in the UK and he has HW's phone number. I know this because I have met HW and bought a bass from him very recently

Often someone just went at the top 7 frets with a bit of sandpaper leaving an awful mess. But then even if it was done well, the painted headstock then looks odd.

Rama Lama Ding Dong - Rocky Sharpe and the Replays

How do you think they compare to the 80:s Greco ones? I have one of those and need to know whether I'm still happy with it or not. 🙃

Thank you everyone! Regarding the comment about the pickguard and tuners I'm sure he meant no harm.

Carry on, nothing to see here ... ;-)