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So, I might be wrong - but I fell that get the reason for the angled pickups, they basically follow the same angles as where the frets would be if they went all the way fron nut to bridge. e.g. if the pickups were all the way to the bridge they'd end up being the similar angle to the bridge, if they were up by the 12th fret they would nearly be horizontal, if they were at the 1st fret they would be angled leaning the same way as the nut. This is to make the position of the pickup is the same proportion along each string e.g. 1/8th of the way along the B and 1/8 along the 35" G. What it seems to me though is that following that theory means you also therefore need to pluck at that angle of the pickup/frets in order to be picking in relatively that same position on each string - if you pluck strings in a horizontal motion e.g. the green line on my picture then you are not plucking the strings at relatively the same proportion of their length, the G is being plucked perhaps 1/16th of the way along the string whereas the B is being plucked closer to 1/8th of the way along its total length, split coil and the P bass type thing of having the G side pickup further back at least means if you pluck horizontally through the strings you are plucking relatively the same position in front of the pickup for the B and G (the yellow line) - but still unless you follow the (virtual) fret angle you are not plucking at the same proportion along the string length, surely that leads to a change in tone? I'm probably over-thinking and being picky! But it always struck me that multiscale works well in most ways, but you need to make that (for me, unnatural) adjustment to picking along the angle of the pickups/a virtual fret if you want an even tone by picking each string at the same proportion along.

A nice honest piece of wood there. I like it.

Sounds like at least another month before 3.2.

Always fancied one but have never actually played one. Anyone ever owned one and what were your thoughts on how they play and sound? I just missed out on one on Ebay last week that went for £475, is that about the right price these days, as I've seen them priced higher but they never seem to sell.

We will be making a new order with Lakland shortly, drop us/me an email and I can tell you some availability

Inevitably, there's more going on than the two 1970s Rickenfakers featured here. That would be too simple. Watch this space ...

Oh that's interesting! What do you feel they are lacking? Consensus seems to be they are comparably good to RCF speakers and, I guess from what's been said, the FBTs also.

Bass Gallery have a 55-02 in stock, none of the UK dealers seem to have any 5 strings in stock

From the same family, I can confirm that the 802 also sounds tremendous with the Barefaced cabinets. So, I knew the minute I started reading your post it was going to have a happy outcome. Congrats! The only odd thing I found recently was that the rubber feet on my 802 actually got stuck to the BT3's finish lol.. something reacted and they became "temporarily inseparable" - is that an oxymoron? ha ha! (My other amps have been fine).

Ouch - The Rutles

by mistake... yeah right

Rosegarden Funeral of Sores - Bauhaus

Weeds aren't really squishy hippy prog! They were a precursor band for future goth, dance, Madchester and punk bands, though they've always been more of a dance-cum-rock (that's a new genre...)

It wasn't outrageously heavy, but it most certainly wasn't 'very lightweight' as someone mentioned earlier in the thread.

I loved having those three pickups on my (sadly gone) AB1 to play across as @SumOne says. I'd have gone one step further and had all three pickups made as a giant ramp, with a radiused top to suit the neck. Sheldon and I chatted about radiused pickup shells way back, but life got in the way of making that a reality.

I haven't tried enough amps to be certain there is a difference, but my main gigging amps are old school solid state affairs. If I carried on I would have to use the "H" word, so I won't. I'd like to try one of those some day. Rob

As @Beedster said, I wouldn’t be in a hurry to sell across the Atlantic again after my most recent experience with UPS. I was contacted just last week by a potential buyer for my Spector and after a lot of homework I concluded that it was far too much hassle. Funny enough, I spent about an hour wading through all the terms on the DHL site and even spoke to them directly. If you are going ahead, the advise I had was to obtain a manufacturers material data safety spec to negate much of the nonsense that US Customs will present you with.

Whilst true, the harmonics/timbre of the hand position are relative to the string scale, which is compensated for by the angled pickups. One thing to note about the previous Dingwall models (Combustion/NG/D-Roc), is that the pickups inside the case are split coils, so the 'playing line' is additionally compensated for:

doom woods - whitechapel

Pretty much a bunch of older blokes with acoustic guitars and a flautist. So it was a pretty interesting sound scape although some of the lyrical themes are a bit dark (not too many bands out there doing songs about ageing and cognitive decline). I had a good time, plus I only needed to take minimal gear (one bass and a small combo), practice venue only 20mins form home. Musically it was interesting as they were very much into juxtaposing bright and dark tonalities. So I have a bunch of tunes to learn for next week and was very much encourage to bring along my own ideas as well. all in all it feels like a result to me.