LukeFRC

You won’t need too - they make two dark greens

So I’m getting excited seeing @funkles build and been planning my own. One of the provisos that my other half put on me having another “box” was it had to look as nice as my Mesa walkabout- that’s a green tolex, brown leather corners and handle and tan basket grill. While I could have just copied it I decided to go for another colour, like Stevie I’m going to mix my own Tuff Cab - combining turbo blue and black to get a dark blue (coincidentally not far from my bathroom wall colour in the background of the pics) for the grill I’ve got a tan coloured fly screen. Over 50% open and hopefully opaque enough not to look stupid - if it does I’ll pick up some black stuff and try that- it’s proper tough stuff so will be able to get it quite taught. For the leather corners there is a shop in our village called scrap, that sells erm scrap stuff for craft type projects. There is a bit of an ever changing range of leather offcuts from a local leather producer or user. I managed to pick up a couple of options for a brown - and also a light teal blue which might be quite fun. (Though crying out for a matching colour aluminium grill)

isn't that so it works if mounted to the rear of a baffle? That's what I had always imagined

I'm planning a fabric grill. The main consideration you have with fabric is how open it is - Unlike Barefaced with their slot port or equivalent, the port sits behind the grill - and is sized to move a fair amount of air. I've ended up buying some beige insect mesh which is 54% or so open and will let me get it taught. The downside is that it may not be opaque enough to look good! The aluminium grill Stevie has looks the dogs do-dahs and it would be only a little more ££ to paint it... the spray bike needs a top coat but does come in nice colours!

Technically I think it's a rich black erring towards blue as I was trying to get as much pigment into the sublimation process as possible to be dark enough, but not have the risk of it going odd colours browns or something under stage lights. It will er towards a blue but in a way that won't look odd on stage, and contact the red.

2 is my favourite number.

It was designed to sit top right - I think an inch from each edge of baffle gave enough clearance of the port that @stevie was happy. Obv adjust to taste based on what you think and what looks good! Talking of which - I kept my sticker rather than post it to you Stevie to post it back - you will have to let me know my number

Did you end up doing a top coat on top? Looks interesting!

That looks well good! Almost tempted to go for the aluminium grill

Hmm sometimes these days I often start posts with something like "I'm not sure it's a good idea to sell this..." - and sometimes it's not hyperbole to amp up a sale thread, it's genuine uncertainty. BUT in any coms with perspective buyers I would repeat my uncertainty and if I changed my mind about selling something it's not because the selling isn't really really aware that I'm conflicted about selling item X. The other reason I might withdraw something is that if there's a chain going on... like with house sales. I was thinking of selling my G&L L1000 this week to fund a PreEB Stingray... say I put the L1000 on sale, someone enquired, I would have made them aware of the chain and then if the 'ray sold before the L1000 sale went through they would have known I might pull out of the whole thing. Kinda annoying, I get that, but the key I think is communication and letting the other party know the circumstances where you might pull out. To my mind it's my item, and until money has changed hands there's nothing forcing me to sell it. In a way, if I get this with something I'm buying it's sometimes not the worst thing, if the bass is any good then probably the owner doesn't really want to sell it! I get it's annoying, but unless it's some kind of unobtanium its just a bass guitar, and usually from a maker who still makes things

You’ve got enough basses under the bed without making more!

I think the guy on talkbass put a base coat down, and then brushed the top coat and then dropped the scrunched plastic down and pushed it in a bit then took it off. I wonder if you roll it on you don’t get enough thickness to make the effect work?

draw it all out at 1:1 scale in plan and section. Everything is possible but you can fix all the problems in advance of picking up any wood.

it looks friggin amazing.

“1st I did a coat of black duratex. When dry I put down a coat of Oxblood duratex. Then took a thin plastic drop cloth they sale at hardware stores. After the Oxblood paint goes down you crinkle up the plastic cloth and stick it to the paint. Let it dry a bit then pull it up. I ordered the duratex base from manufacturer and had it tinted at Home Depot.” i take it to be something like this https://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Polythene-Dust-Sheet---3-65-x-3-65m/p/154959

Yeah have already asked him. Bottom coat black, top coat the ox blood colour. Leland Crooks apparently worked out the technique and there’s a thread I haven’t found on @Bill Fitzmaurice‘s rather good forum

I’m intrigued by posts number 11 and 13 of this thread where he gets a leather kinda effect with duratex which is the US equivalent to tuff cab https://www.talkbass.com/threads/eden-410xst-vs-fearful-12-6-1.1080738/

How are the batons fastened in?

Agreed.

So I’ve got my Stomp - this thing is leagues ahead of my old B3n- sounds, functionality everything. The amp models are good, with the cabs the sound is dramatically different depending on the mic you use - any tips on what are good starting places for getting to grips with this? i also googled some free IRs - that’s a whole other rabbit hole there!

Cool - eBay find?

I always gravitate to playing the same bass out, whatever either sounds best, or is simplist to get sounding good in the mix. Every few months I sit and wonder why I have 4 basses I only ever play one.

Price point maybe? Who knows. The B3 is a “better” unit in most ways but the sound quality. Go and have a play on the helix in a shop etc - the big ones sound the same as the stomp - see if you can hear the difference and if the price difference is enough for you... it all depends what you use it for.

Should I not ask?

Would you recommend this over using a round-over bit on a router?