skelf

I will see if I can sort that out.

No problem.

http://www.acguitars.co.uk

Glad to see it arrived the tracking was not working. I usually know when stuff has landed but not with this one. 

When I saw Rikkers I thought Ferdinand had joined the forum.

Think those might be my pics of the website. 

Hi
For the last few years I have donated an instrument to my local cricket club and this year it is a guitar.
The sale is up on E-Bay all proceeds go directly to the club.
Please drop by the auction and check it out.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132593933196?ul_noapp=true

Done it many times works just fine.

13 hours ago, CameronJ said:

So presumably he hasn’t discontinued them, despite the website showing as “out of stock”

As far as I know they are still on the roster but John would be the man to talk to. 

I have a few P-Retros but I use a modified version not the standard one which John does for me. 

Hi

I have worked with John East since I started building basses and we worked together on all the  ACG filter pre-amps. I sell the EQ01 as does John which is just a continuation of our on going working relationship. The EQ01 is not old hat it has been upgraded as the pre-amps have been developed. I still use it on basses myself but I mainly use the DFM which is only available in my own instruments where the EQ01 is also available to buy. There are no issues with any pickups and the EQ01 that I am aware of so your Deloanos should be fine. The EQ01 will work with 9v or 18v.

Cheers

Alan

Very true on both counts.

4 hours ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

Nit-picking.

And a pat on the back to @skelf too, who was there all weekend.

Would that be a left handed pat.

23 minutes ago, charic said:

Maybe I'm not articulating myself all that well.  Budget line isn't what I'm trying to get at, more "this is the basic model which starts at £XXXX, then you start adding options"

It gives you something to start at, makes things more accessible and tempts people in at a "lower price" before they start adding in fancy woods and expensive electronics

 

That is the case with most builders as it is.

With regard to a hand built budget line. I have tried this twice the Graft Series and the Standard Series. My thinking was that it would open up the possibility of a hand built instrument at a price point that would allow players to have this option and dip a toe in the hand built world. They were dropped because no one was interested in them. On top of that I think I damaged my brand by doing them in that there is a section of the market that assumes a lower priced hand built bass has something wrong with it or is cheap because it is crap. This I feel has done me no good in trying to get where I want to be.

Hi

If anyone going to the show is in need of a room I have one available in the Travelodge on the Fulham Road. It is avilable for 3 nights. Normally this would be £156 but available for £100. Contact me if you are interested. 

1 hour ago, TheGreek said:

I had a similar experience last year with the Herts Bash - very demoralising when you put in loads of work to organise something that eventually doesn't go ahead.

Not sure if people appreciate that arranging the Herts Bash always costs me and Chris money.

We had a good run for 10 years but the last one was hard work trying to get people to buy the tickets in advance.We had a good solid core of people but they were not enough to keep it going. We need the casual attenders to make up the numbers and support from within Scotland was pretty poor most years which did not help. With the hotels and venue booked it was not going to work for me having people only book a ticket two days before the event. I had to give everyone enough notice that I was cancelling so they would be able to book rooms if they could. I live here so I don't want to fall out with various people because I left them in the lurch.

We had Dave Swift just to break with the Steve theme.

However the Moffat Bash is no more it died last year when we could not sell enough tickets to cover the costs.

So there wont be anymore.

Hi

You can buy the EQ01 directly from me or John East. 

The preamp amp I use in my own basses is the DFM the EQ02 was discontinued a while back. This along with the MC Series pickups are not available outside of the basses. The DFM is the fourth version of the pre-amp and will probably be the last having got it where I want it. The EQ01 was the first version made but has had the spec updated as we have moved through the different versions. 

9 minutes ago, Silvia Bluejay said:

Congrats, Alan! It was a pleasure, and highly GAS-inducing, to speak to you at the LBGS.  I hear you're going to be at NAMM too? We'll see you there for a catch-up and more GAS!

Many thanks. Look forward to meeting in what I hope will be sunny LA. 

Thanks Peter.

Thanks to everyone else who posted much appreciated.

It is flat sawn which is why you get the pattern like that.

To be honest I posted it in relation to why  instruments cost what they cost not as an argument for or against globalisation which seems to be the only thing the majority seem to take from it. 

5 minutes ago, ivansc said:

I have a question: Who decides when someone is officially a "master luthier"?

 

In various countries like Austria and Germany you  have to pass certain levels of competence in order to be called a luthier they then get the title Master not sure if that is the case in Finland but having seen Juhas work I would say he certainly qualifies.

I certainly want happy customers so to a degree I suppose that is the goal. 

Just out of curiosity did you all watch it to the end. 

The later  half of the video is why I posted it on a bass forum not so much the globalisation aspect at the beginning.