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[quote name='doctor_of_the_bass' post='495710' date='May 23 2009, 01:16 AM']Hang on fellas!

Kiwi's quote was:

Odd body shape too, looks like its a 5 string body with a 4 string neck! The lower horn is a bit whacky

If I were the original poster, I would see that as a bit of harmless banter! The most upsetting thing about this bass is that I was going to buy it and due to a lack of money, I can't!!!!

Many thanks![/quote]

Having corresponded with the orginal poster the most upsetting thing about this bass is that it's been withdrawn because he believes CK's comments have laid it dead in the water.

Banter need a new definition then.

I've got a Warmoth for sale at the moment. Ask him to steer clear of the thread.

[quote name='Kev' post='495403' date='May 22 2009, 05:29 PM']big difference between degrading a bass and a bit of banter, especially considering your accusing the site owner [/quote]

What would you describe this as? A bit of banter?

Bang out of order on CK's part if you ask me, site owner or not.

Oh, is that me now on the potential ban-list? Gosh!

I can get it couriered to London for about £16 but this only has insurance to £150. If you can do better, dannybuoy I'll be happy to have it collected from me.

[quote name='dannybuoy' post='494795' date='May 21 2009, 11:59 PM']That's a beauty - I wonder how much a train fare to Liverpool is... Let me know if courier is an option![/quote]

Could be. I'll get prices.

[quote name='umph' post='494787' date='May 21 2009, 11:43 PM']do want[/quote]

do buy

[b]Warmoth SG - 2 x darkstars - Audere preamp[/b]

I bought this last year, here...

[url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=21906&hl=warmoth+audere"]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=...=warmoth+audere[/url]

It's a lovely bass, very well put together and sounds fabulous - as you would expect from the electrics but I have one or two too many basses and with another two ACGs on order it's time to thin the herd.

I carefully removed the Gibson decal shown in the link above and replaced it with a metallic "Warmoth" decal.

The bass comes with a hard case. I'm based in Liverpool and collection is preferable or will deliver for petrol money within 50 miles.

I've enjoyed having it but haven't gigged this one. Asking what I paid for it, £500. The electrics alone are worth close to that.

Solid walnut body, rosewood neck, ziricote fretboard.

Slight update.

The neck laminates have been joined up and planed. Next steps are, presumably, affixing the fretboard and then neck shaping.

Neck laminates are maple, bubinga, wenge, bubinga, maple.

[quote name='thedontcarebear' post='446333' date='Mar 26 2009, 07:15 PM'][/quote]

That's a handsome looking bass!

some progress...

The redwood top and back are now secure on the spanish cedar core and the body has been shaped and edges rounded and smoothed. It's beginning to look like a bass now and I'm really really pleased with the results.

In order to do a depping gig on Saturday I had to learn Whitesnake's Blindman and Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era)'s Need Your Love So Bad, neither of which I'd ever touched before.

Also been working, purely for fun, on Tom Petty's American Girl and Pink Floyd's Dogs.

[quote name='KevB' post='427504' date='Mar 6 2009, 07:44 PM']Nope, I mean 'Blindman' on Ready an Willing, it's also on either Whitesnake or Northwinds, can't remember which. Any way as far as I can tell the main verse seems to be based around F# and E going back and forth, then goes through a run of F#-G#-A to get to the chorus and then the chorus is mainly A-B-F#. Will update if I have time to listen more thoroughly.[/quote]

KEVB

Cheers for this mate. Still stuck in work. I'll be here til about 10.30 the way things are shaping up. Much appreciated.

Does anyone here now this song well enough to post up a basic chord chart that I can work out a bassline from?

It has to be at least 18 years since I heard this and I have a late -call dep for a band that play this taking place tomorrow night. There are a couple of other tracks that I don't know too well but I found some Guitar-Pro dots/tab which will get me through - but there's nothing on this one.

Facebook has been pretty handy coz I contacted Neil Murray direct and he's promised to get something done for me but... I'm not holding my breath.

I'd YouTube it and work from that but I'm in work til probably about 11 tonight and YT is disabled on the office 'puters. Tomorrow daytime I'm fecked for getting stuff done but I have a bass here in the office and can sort it out no probs today.
Apparently we're in F# which I believe is the original key.

All help gratefully received.

[quote name='silddx' post='427056' date='Mar 6 2009, 11:53 AM']Congratulations, CK!!

Would you kindly tell us what the Big Beef Chief paid for it?[/quote]

LOL!!! Cracking comment.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='427008' date='Mar 6 2009, 11:00 AM']Fine, I have more dots under my name so made an erroneous assumption. You wouldn't know anything about erroneous assumptions would you?

EDIT: Didn't mean that to sound as bitchy as it does, sorry! [/quote]

No offense taken whatsoever. I'm sufficiently thick skinned to be more internet proof than many around here including, it would seem, the OP.

I'm not looking to fall out with [i]anyone[/i] over this. I just saw a mod breaking the previously moderated conventions of his own site and knew he wouldn't be taken to task on it. I decided to step in and say something. I felt someone ought to.

His initial response to me kind of proved my point.

That's all I have to say. The point's been made, the thread's assumed a life of its own and I will go back to minding my own business.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='426998' date='Mar 6 2009, 10:50 AM']The lingerie would still be good, though ...[/quote]

Hehehe.

My fishnets still actually smell of fish. It doesn't get better than that.

[quote name='cheddatom' post='426993' date='Mar 6 2009, 10:43 AM'](I've never seen anything and [b]been on here longer[/b]) it looks like you're talking BS. If you're OK with that, fine.[/quote]

Just check that again, mate. Beat you by 9 days.

If I honestly thought I was talking bullshit, I'd own to it. I'm not.

And I agree, tBBC will be sorely missed.

[quote name='silddx' post='426949' date='Mar 6 2009, 09:44 AM']I think this provocative post is where it started.[/quote]

It's interesting, isn't it, that when I posted my straightforwad question alluded to in the quote above that the OP was elusive, evasive and dismissive. We have all seen "auctions" moderated in the past and I suspect that the OP knew this and that tempered his response.

Now if you think that I'm going to go back and read every single post in the For Sale threads finding an example, an example that may have been "accidently deleted" or "lost due to hackers" in the not too distant past, then you're sadly mistaken.

I simply can't be arsed.

The fact that there's nothing to be found in the guidelines is immaterial - it has been moderated on in the past.

As for it being "provocative". Nonsense.

You should see me in lingerie if you want provocative.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='426829' date='Mar 6 2009, 12:51 AM']If you aren't sure, why are you even contributing to this thread?[/quote]

How to win friends and influence people...

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='426797' date='Mar 5 2009, 11:46 PM']Hmmm, maybe. But why is the bother being created in the first place?[/quote]

there's one reason - and from my persepective ONLY ONE REASON. You as Root Admin and "master of the Universe" or whatever, set the rules regarding the running of this site and the rules regarding sales.

Then you appear to flout them. Other people might do it to, but your job is to take them to task. It was obvious that the mods wouldn't pull you about it so I did. Your reply was that you didn't have time to split hairs with me. What? I'm too bloody inconsequential to be bothered with?

That's all it is. I'm taking you to task for inconsistancy. tBBC? I can't and won't and don't speak for him, he does his own thing. Me? I think you're inconsistant. You set the rules. Stick to them.

That's why the bother was created in the first place, by me. That's the sole reason.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='422934' date='Mar 2 2009, 10:02 AM']No I'm not.[/quote]

Sorry. Should have mentioned earlier that I'm very sorry to hear your news and I hope that it all works out for you.

However, I'm perplexed. When I've put basses up for sale here in the past I've quoted a selling price as a starting point. I had no idea that one could say "I've had an offer of £[i]n[/i] but I'm seeing if there's other interest" because that seems to me to be inviting offers with the highest bidder getting the nod so long as it achives the seller's notion of a "reserve" price.

By every definition I know, that qualifies as an auction and I thought that they were frowned upon here. Well, well. You live and learn. It's good info to know when next I need to part with a bass.

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='421213' date='Feb 27 2009, 06:38 PM']Now two offers at £1500.[/quote]

Really?

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='422578' date='Mar 1 2009, 07:35 PM']thanks again chaps.

It might even be worth putting this on Ebay I guess...

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=250370149881"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...em=250370149881[/url][/quote]

Are you Auctioning this? Here? I thought that was against the rules.

[quote name='7string' post='365884' date='Dec 29 2008, 11:32 PM']Definately going to be a stunning bass and the sound will match the looks.[/quote]

The MM and the piezo should sort that out. I'm really buzzing about the piezo pup tbh.


How's the 12string coming along, Mark?

[quote name='charic' post='365284' date='Dec 29 2008, 07:22 AM']You buying a 3rd one makes me so much surer that I'm going to love mine when it arrives! Really can't wait!. Beautiful wood there! Especially for the neck. So whats on the board for your 4th acg then? Do you get loyalty points when buying your 2nd or 3rd bass out of interest [/quote]

No, no loyalty points but you do get a book of vouchers giving up to 30% off selected items at Woolworths. While stocks last...

I've recently worked out the build specification on my third ACG.

This one will be a Finn 4 with a Spanish Cedar core, redwood front and back, five piece sycamore, bubinga and wenge neck with an acrylicised redwood fretboard.

The fretboard is probably a World's first (to my and Alan Cringean of ACG's knowledge) in using acryilicised redwood for a fretboard.

I've specified just one magnetic pickup, a MM sized version of ACG's own, together with a piezo bridge and ACG's own filtering pre-amp.

Alan has sent some pics of the woods...

The back.


The top.


The fretboard.


And put together.


I already own two ACGs and this is, without doubt, the most beautiful I've asked him to build. Can't wait...