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You can purchase such a thing in pedal form. There may be extra sorcery inside this one, but I'd guess it is just expensive packaging around a capacitor, albeit in a high quality metal box. https://www.lehle.com/Lehle-DC-Filter

A 21kg 210 is pretty manageable in the greater scheme of things though. If your big rig was a 810 I would understand.

What you need are my 2 sealed 2x10 500 watt RMS each Kustom cabs. That would do you. Not that I'm looking to downsize or anything. 😉

We all have a habit of eventually coming full circle to what we originally liked and settled with. Very nice example you have there. I see it's through body strung too. Is that an American Standard, or the American Professional?

Interesting point in question - if the grain pattern doesn't actually line up, why do they call it "bookmatched"?!

Finally…… I have got my hands on the one. I was 16, when I first got into bass. A mate played me “Live Xcert” by The Stranglers…. and I was hooked. Jean Jaques Burnel playing a black/maple Fender Precision. Yes mate. 44yrs later, and 100’s of basses…. like all the basses, and finally I have the one I should have had in the first place….. I’ve owned most brands except Fodera , but one bass always eluded me, the one that started it, at least in my head. I have no idea why it took so long tbh… Anyway, there you go, better late than never eh?

What do you think Jon, 150 quid for it with a couple of violins, an acoustic and a keyboard Should I risk it?

What I really need is to not live one floor up with an awkward flight of stairs to navigate with a heavy cab to get to a trolley to put it on!

Definitely not an 'SSG', then?

I used to have a TE head with TE 4x10 and 1x15. It sounded great but after the third time I blew up the head, I got rid of it. Maybe I should look for another oil tanker anchor / TE 4x10

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.