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Good question @SumOne. My day job is working as a TA in a primary school, and my take on the matter is that everyone is born an artist. Every little kid I see is an artist as soon as out the paints and paper or drums and ukuleles come out. Only a few of us refuse to stop.

Well I looked at the pictures pretty closely and I’m not sure who it is, just glad I haven’t got anything coming from Europe at the moment

This is when 3d printing can help. My knowledge of flared ports is even less than my knowledge of unflared ports. However it costs very little to print different versions out and try them and see. I've been playing with different ways to construct guitars and testing out options. TBH, they didn't work, but I now know they don't work. I can print up to 220mm in external diameter, the actual port would be somewhat less (190mm+), but I suspect that's a massive port. Thanks Rob

An artist? I’m barely a bassist!

Just taking delivery of a 51 p from Brian came well packed safe and sound also he made sure it arrived on days that I was available very pleased and easy to deal with would recommend so a big thank you deserved

I'm guessing Maruszczyk?

Oh, them. Got it now.

Phil, Get another hobby, what can possibly go wrong The offer is there if you wish to take it up. The design is done, so its easy to change as needed. The printing time is dependent on the size but it's not excessive TBH. I tend to print in terms of 8-14 hours, so a few hours here or there is nothing, so if you want to test out different configurations, very happy to help. e,g, Put a straight chamfer on the inside of the pipe vs a rounded edge (bull nose) or having the output bigger than the pipe (no idea why you'd do that but it can be done). Very happy to help as one day I may manage to find the time to build a speaker Rob

To be honest, I still thought their instruments were much cheaper than that, I remember getting a custom for a great price was kinda the point at the start. Not good.

I do this for my WAV4.

I think they will help, especially the inner chamfer. However of all the black arts in cabinet design, flared ports is the darkest. Whether there would be much improvement in copying say a precision ports design I don’t know. While flare reduce port noise, this really masks the port’s limitations caused by its small diameter. Of course I could be talking complete tosh.

I was initially fooled into thinking it was the work of a small-scale/bespoke luthier but realised who (I think) it is when I saw the pics which immediately conjured other instruments built by the same (I think) maker. Either way, should be ashamed of letting that out in to the wild

I have my suspicions too. Headstocks are often (nearly always) the giveaway. I call Skwire

I've recently bought a Stagg EUB (courtesy of @Burns-bass). Regular readers may know I already have an Ibanez UEB, and this I took to quite quickly, no doubt helped by the 34" scale. The Stagg with it's 3/4 DB scale and no stand, is a different proposition altogether. I took it to rehearsal last night and tbh it's was a struggle. I tried it first with the fake body bits, then took them off for a while, then put just the one I lean on, and this was a bit better. But I'm still not sure how high to have the pin. With the Ibanez I have the nut at roughly forehead height. Should it be the same for the Stagg? I was often thrown by the bigger scale. Any tips appreciated. (Pic from @Burns-bass sale listing)

Thank you again for the advice. I’m pretty sure the switch is Barefaced OEM. I found a video of Alex demonstrating the procedure for opening up a Two10S and the switch assembly looked the same. It was meant to be a demo of installing a switch kit but he used a Two10S and just discussed how to install the kit, rather than actually doing it. I don’t think I would have found that too helpful, if I was about to try to do it. However, he did mention that the coil and magnet assembly tie-wrapped to one of the speaker frames should be removed. It’s still there in my cab, so it’s obviously a conversion that wasn’t executed perfectly. I’ve been searching for written instructions on their website but very few of the technical links seem to work anymore. An email to Alex is in order.

Just discovered my Wordpress website has moved to new faster servers. Damn, it's now usable so I should start posting on it again! I done a gig round-up post, innit https://www.basexperience.co.uk/gig-round-up-time-ladies-and-gentlmen/

Makes me want to go back to Latin now... 🤔🤦🏻😂

And even if you were using the word status instead of the name, it belongs to the fourth declension, so nominative plural is still status and statii still doesn't exist in this declension. 😉

Great, though I have to admit a measure of self interest in this. Without you guys pushing my back, I might abandon ship before we are clear of land 😊

Thanks Rob, it was good to meet you. I've been following your printed bass builds for years and the biggest regret at the bash was not taking time to see one in the flesh. I've had a lot of pleasure from quietly watching your exploits and I'd love to have a go at 3d printing, but I don't need another hobby yet Your thread has already paid back anything I was able to offer you in return. Thanks for the offer but somone has printed me off a similar flange already. The plan was to take it across to @stevie to see if it made a reduction in port noise possible. I haven't got around to using that one yet so it would probbly be wasted on me to print a new one.

It’s Marley Denton !