Jump to content
Why become a member? ×

Kev

Moderator
  • Posts

    10,477
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Everything posted by Kev

  1. Beautiful, best example of his work I think I've seen. What are the body wings made from?
  2. Honestly the coolest basses, would absolutely love one of these!
  3. Oh just watched the videos, its much more gloss than the promo shots make out! That's a shame, I thought the matte look really set it off...
  4. Really like the aesthetics of the purple, how much are these coming in at?
  5. Can I hire out the wall for bass photoshoots please? But in all seriousness, this bass looks like such a cracking bit of kit for tiny money these days. I'd have had it weeks ago if didn't have to pay for bread and stuff. Someone snap this up!
  6. I've used Drop B tuning (BF#BE) on 4 stringers for 4 years to great effect. I always avoid using a G string wherever possible as I hate the timbre of the note so I don't miss it at all. In Drop B tuning, I also have every note a 5 string 21 fret bass would have available. Much prefer to playing a fiver, don't enjoy having to buy custom string sets to suit the tuning properly...
  7. Congrats, what a beast!
  8. Realise it's on hold now, but this is a screenshot of the Ad (price redacted) The Google translate isn't great but, assuming this must be the same bass, can you expand on the preamp issue and whether this has been repaired?
  9. So cool! Love the finish, always fancied an old Vigier! The black area covering the neck pickup mod, can't make out what it is? Some kind of vinyl sticker or routed plastic/wood? Also, I think on Google I found a recent Ad for this, in Spanish but I think it suggests the preamp may have a fault??
  10. Lovely instrument! Appreciate it's just for trade but we do need you to include a trade value/guide price for the bass in the thread title or post, assuming it isn't £12,345? Cheers, and best of luck with the trade!
  11. When I looked at it I just figured it was a launch day offer for ones he's already built, and custom orders wouldn't work that way?
  12. Yeah in fairness, that's only 6 basses worth in many cases now. Not a huge investment if you're building enough, which one assumes you would be if you're considering CNC.
  13. I can't believe they charge that much for CNC. Sickening.
  14. At least they added the handbuilt feel with the neck bolt arrangement...
  15. Bluetooth isn't usable in a live music environment, latency is too high sadly.
  16. There is absolutely nothing wrong with using CNC, gear snobbery beyond any kind of sense. What if a luthier used a drill to screw parts in and instead of using a screwdriver? Time for a boycott? I think people do get this mixed up with mass produced production line, which of course use CNC but its not the CNC bit that cheapens or otherwise reduces quality of the final product.
  17. The John Taylor model was a significant markup from a regular NG/Combustion, whereas the Status doesn't seem to be any markup at all. Must be somewhere in the region of £1,500 for a 2 pickup 4 string model. In the current market its not a bad pricing model for UK built basses, but I just don't recall the graphite models being much more?
  18. 0db should be unity so I'd check its set to that and compare levels cables and wireless. Guess it depends what preamp you're running it into but I've never experienced it causing anything to clip.
  19. I can't unsee this unfortunately, even the finishes in these pictures don't look spectacular (though they aren't great pictures). It just looks all a little budget, yet not budget priced.
  20. How so? Uninformed as I am, I would have assumed woodworking would be more a risk to health, inhaling sawdust etc.
  21. Nice to see you on the forum Cici It's not all grumpy old men on here, we promise!
  22. Only had the one wooden necked status and I wasn't a fan, though these painted neck jobbies seem a different kettle of fish. It's an odd move, and the prices seem to have stayed high (the wooden models were always the more budget ones?), but it's nice to see they're still being made. Hope it works out for them!
  23. I did wince a little at it, and hope Mark green flagged it before posting
  24. I only suggested that as it seemed he bought on the old website and a new site went live, so the first thing I would have thought is that its been lost somewhere in the middle and emails may have been affected, potential change of hosting etc, emails can absolutely be affected by that depending on how and where they're hosted. Absolutely shouldn't have to do it, and I cannot stand phone call interactions, but may have been a route to a quicker answer. Still having no reply by this time though, presume emails are working fine so that's pretty poor all round in the end.
  25. Have you tried calling them? Given the website transition id probably think emails of all things may be a bit off.
×
×
  • Create New...