eude

@ead is this your old one?

3 hours ago, Baloney Balderdash said:

But surely bigger is better, and makes you more of a real man! 

Bigger is bigger. That's the only certainty with this stuff...

You've missed out 31.5", which is my preference these days.

34 minutes ago, Merton said:

I have to say @tobiewharton I’m very glad that’s going your way. @eude sent me a pic earlier and I thought “oh good god I’m in trouble”

 

🤣🤣

 

 

 

 

Thankfully not 😃

#helping

41 minutes ago, andydye said:

sweeeet

 

aye, I'm torn between 17 and 17.5mm

If you go for the right bridge you'll easily have 5mm adjustment each way, like the Hipshot Type A.

10 minutes ago, andydye said:

thanks for checking that ma dude, I'm talking to Mr Shuker about adding a 6 aye, don't want as wide spacing as my old ACG but wider than my old Thumb 5, I've got between 16.5mm (Thumb 5) and 18mm (ACG) now as my spacing window

Now worries at all dude.

I reckon 17mm is the sweet spot.

If/when I order another 6, I'm going 17mm, my current crop are all 16.5mm but a hair wider might help with sloppy chops 😉

Make sure and share info when you pull the trigger dude!

Yup, definitely 18mm as I thought.

You thinking about commissioning a new 6er?

6 minutes ago, andydye said:

I briefly owned this beautiful bass by Alan a good few years back

 

 

https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0100recurvestype6-2-2-2-2-2/

 

...and I wondered if anyone on here had it?

 

I mostly want to know it has a good home but would also like to double check the string spacing at the bridge...the ACG website suggests 19mm but that sounds nuts to me

I think most earlier 6 string ACGs would've been 18mm as standard.

I will check with the boss  

Lovely bass matey, congratulations!

8 hours ago, ead said:

This landed two weeks ago and due to a bout of ill health I'm just getting around to this post.  My humble apologies bass brethren, I throw myself to the mercy of the court.

 

p.s.  It's a cracker.

 

Rather than re-post Alan's pics please see the web page here:  https://acguitars.co.uk/project/0500slg4-32/

 

I did manage one pic at ead towers though:

 

Good god man!

Have mercy!

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

No, I've never had the pleasure of trying BF 1x10s.

Ah, fair enough dude.

I've got two of them, I'm suffering from that "Grass is always greener" syndrome I think!

On 08/12/2023 at 20:40, stewblack said:

Small but perfectly formed for this evening in Bristol.

Bruce Thomas Profile into Veyron M, two magical 10" Elves pumping into the room.

Hey Stew, nice set up!
Have you been able to comapre the Trace 1x10s with Barefaced One10s?

That's a bit of a peach @AndyTravis

Hope you have a lot of fun with it!

A girl I met in first year of Uni, over from Oregon on an exchange reached out to me a year or so back about a similar bass. She'd had a long long term waster of a boyfriend who she'd managed to get rid of, eventually, and he'd left a bass behind which she'd forgotten about and he claimed at the time he didn't want it back. It had been years, so she asked me what it could be worth. It was exactly the same as your new acquisition and in mint condition. She sold it for a pretty penny.

Anyway, nice aside. Enjoy the bass!

2 hours ago, jimbartlett said:

My latest incarnation. I use IEMs and DI straight to the desk for live.

 

Bit gutted the TU-3 isn’t in the same theme! 😄

The Waza Craft flavour on might get you a littl closer...

8 hours ago, ToLo said:

I’ve seen that one and thought it looked like it might fit the bill! Have you tried one?

I haven't I'm afraid, but I have tried a few pre Gnome Warwick amps and always felt they offered more than they were ever given credit for. Honest solid bits of kit.

What about the Warwick Gnome iPro 600?

By all accounts it's fairly flat response, 600w and can be found for about £350.

I don't think it's any bigger than a MarkBass LittleMark too, likely a bit smaller.

29 minutes ago, binky_bass said:

3 rigs at the moment, albeit temporarily as one will have to move on sadly!

 

Lovely set up(s).

That Peavey head! I used to have a Mark VI with two Black Widow loaded 4x10s. That could knock down walls, so so loud and ballsy. Miss the sound, but my back is very happy with the advent of class D amps and Neo cabs...

18 hours ago, binky_bass said:

Pretty sure I may have already posted this, but here he is again... Binky!

 

I can't quite get enough of this headstock. So very very cool.

Love the way the fingerboard overruns the 1st fret and acts as a string guide, and the knobs are just mad!

Lovely stuff dude.

I'm lucky enough to own a very similar bass, albeit in 6 string flavour.

This is an absolute bargain for an incredible instrument from one of the best.

Good luck with the sale!

Eude

32 minutes ago, LeftyJ said:

Fender Japan built some reissues of it, and a guy called Daiki Tsuneta even had a signature model based on it.

 

OK, this works very nicely...

37 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

I was referencing the colour scheme more than anything else. From one perspective £2k is a helluva lot for what you get (1 one pickup mustang, where you can get a 60s vibe squier for less than a quarter of the price if you don't care about the colour), from another you get some nice aesthetic combos (here's the next hour of your life https://vincent-bassguitars.de/en/produkt/pony-2/), and a lightweight handmade short scale. Some might feel it's worth it, others might not and the market will determine if Vincent keep going with it. Like I said above, I absolutely would if I had the money burning a hole in my pocket (in willow with a mint pickguard, cream pickup, katalox board), but as I don't I'm not going to go into debt for it. Ask me next week and it'll be a different bass altogether 😂 or a pedal.

 

This might be what sways some people.

You know what?

Having played with the configurator, I can see the appeal...

13 minutes ago, bassist_lewis said:

These just arrived at Bass Direct. Obviously inspired by the Mustang, this one by the JMJ in particular (I imagine).

 

https://www.bassdirect.co.uk/product/vincent-pony-marrakesch/

 

£2k still feels like a lot for a Fender copy... but if I had it spare 😅

Given you can get an actual JMJ for about half that, the price is a little crazy, no?

1 hour ago, stewblack said:

Well maybe who knows? All I know is there are few better envelope filter, distortion, synth and preamp sounds on the market right now 

I wonder if the B2 Four keeps up with it?

34 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

 

I've only been to NYC twice a tourist, but the impression I get is that for people who don't live there NYC = Manhattan, and the other boroughs especially those that require crossing water to get to don't really count.

 

I'll stand by my analogy. Croydon is a borough of London and it's over the river from the part people who don't live there associate as the main bit of the city.

London has the additional confusion of London and Greater London too.

2 hours ago, Merton said:

I’ve got one. Albeit quite niche as made for me by a good friend, but it’s epic.

I can confirm that this bass is indeed epic.