LukeFRC

I think the problem with a thread like this is it's so based on your income/experience.... if you live in the south east in a house now worth over £2M, work in a well paying job in the city and like your friends at the golf club drive a high spec BMW, compared to your brother who's a senior nurse working in the rural north east in a house worth £140,000 and drive a second hand fiesta to meet your friends at park run..... then the money you might put towards a bass will be different, purely as money has a different value to you. (BTW the fact that these differences exist is kinda here nor there, and it's fairly pointless and divisive to argue over them on a music forum) Also the person with the large income might value spending a little on a Harley Benton and have a low budget for a musical instrument, while the lower wage earner in the north east may value the trip locally to get Overwater to build the bass of dreams. Maybe people are into vintage Fenders and then the price brackets change again. Mental for some, not for others. There will be several differences though... what you pay for is the skill of the builder, in testing and selecting wood and parts, and making it so it all fits together and is set up right and then giving it a pro level finish. If you have those skills - great. But if the parts are £1100, a pro finish equivalent to Lull or Sadowsky would be £300-500 and you're going to spend a few hours on it... if your skilled time is £40ph it's not going to be long before we are in the same price bracket. I have some of the skills, but I am good enough at setting up a instrument to recognise when people who are really really good do it, and I've finished enough instruments to know that the Sadowsky in the shop is in another league. Of course if you have the skills and don't put a price on your time it's cheaper to do it yourself - but that's true of most things.

bass soul food is the Klon cuircuit isn’t it?

I think if you have never really wanted a Fodera, now is not the time to start a longing

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/strangest-peg-head-layout-ive-ever-seen-fodera.312057/

It’s been great when planning my first board - and having seen some of @jimbobothy board builds I went and bought a board that has enough space for I need, space for two extra for what I want and then, crucially, no akward gaps

watched that and was like "I know that bass player" ... he did some stuff with a friend of mine that I helped a tiny tiny amount with the visuals ... it's very 2020

Was just about to post this but @Risk101 got there first https://www.worshiptogether.com/songs/hosanna-united/

Did you polish or sand the enclosures at all @Alfie? They look good

Gives a great rock sound though?

I had a 1905 model Cimar that many years ago @Bassassinhelped me so up. Cheap bass - but also on of the most fun instruments I’ve ever played i did it up for a mate and sold it to him. Our relationship is now based around my biannual questions if he wants to sell it. He does not.

Their first advice was to deal with warrentee repair via wherever you buy it from

It’s alright @scrumpymike, I’ve got your back and will do the link thing

one rough rule of thumb of how high a model number it is is that the lower ones had the three screw tuners, and the higher ones the four. Of course if in the last 40 years the tuners have been changed all bets are off! I had a JV with Sen body and loved it.

it's not that bad, and it's a learning experience.

Looks nice - that one doesn’t come with the laser … and I know the lasers for metal aren’t the same as for wood etc my fave line in the description… “Portable experience. This two-in-one laser CNC engraving machine has the functions of engraving, engraving and milling. This engraving machine can engrave;”

Ah - clarification … etching thr enclosures! (I looked at etching pcb and it was cheaper and easier to learn kicad and get them produced by a Chinese company )

Question for the room… how much of a learning curve is etching? the way I see it there are two things I would need to learn - the toner transfer bit and the etch the alternative is a printed/subliminated aluminium plate, like origin use - this would look different but for me be easy (graphic designer by day)

3x4=12 that’s a lot!

I’ve a daisy chain flex in the box of the dc7 that has at least three!

But borrow one, or use one I. Your computer to test it out - if you’ve never needed a compressor pedal before, a space on your board doesn’t necceraly mean you need one now

@dmc79 - some compression I love, other stuff I hate. I tried the much loved Cali76 … and for me I hated it. same with that xotic one, didn’t care much for the optical one either… optical compressor I like though and spent far too much on a fancy broughton one that sounds nice - I like the spectracomp too as a multiband one compressor and @Owen is right - I should have saved the money and bought that instead. source audio atlas is probably worth adding to your list, but spectracomp is good

What age and model is the Tokai?

the irony is - the pedal board I got didn't need a power supply as thin as the DC7, and having sold the HX stomp I don't need the power ... but oh well! If anyone needs the yellow cable for the stomp or HX effects let me know!

I have no idea if this is the best place to post this... This year I did possibly the worst internet trade deal I've done, on another forum with a guy who sat on my money for a long time and couldn't decide what he was going to do, or if he knew how the postal system worked... anyway by the end it turned out ok and I got a pedalboard that he had managed to thread a screw holding a Cioks DC7 on. I removed the screw - with a little scratching of the DC7 The DC7 is a wonderful unit, with lots of power options, could power my HX stomp, and a power hungry valve preamp I had build with ease. But... a fault, it didn't turn on if it was cold. Which was odd. And a bit odd, getting your gig bag out of the car, into the venue and then hugging your power supply to heat it up.... So I had a half broken second-hand power supply, the guy who purchased it originally not replying to me (and being an idiot when he did) and no hope. Sad times. I asked Cioks, explained the situation and the response was "that doesn't sound right, send it back to us In Poland and we will repair it". Which they did. That in my book is phenomenal service - taking care of a product, even to secondhand users and so quickly and efficiently. So recommended. Here's a stock image for those of you who are visual readers!

TLDR version: - some gear that people love, other people hate. - somethings have settings that people might move from hate to love with. Depending on their experience these people might need help - If trying to help people tone of voice is important - this is the internet, at least nobody has mentioned Hitler yet.