LukeFRC

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?

Having owned them both: The Zoom B3n sounds better, esp the amp and cab models. It does this at the cost of having no DI out and having an interface that requires a fair bit of tap dancing sometimes. I wasn't enjoying the tap-dancing, and for me at least I seemed to be hitting the input stage a bit hard sometimes so I just today took delivery of a lovely new secondhand HX stomp which sounds lovely.

The courier dropped off a hx stomp today - well excited as soon as I get the DIY project done!

who plays theoretical cabs though?

Would a tote bag work?

I think it’s the lots of technical reasons that people don’t know enough about (myself included). Eg Gain and volume

No rush

I imagine Stevie went for cheap, available as a short length and nationally easy to buy as the main considerations