Silvia Bluejay

Thanks Sivia.

After I tagged you I remembered where the Report function is 🤦‍♂️

Good stuff !,  miserable outside,  I'll give this a look at.

Great job as always Silvia. x

Thanks Gary!

Great read...must get round to watching the videos.

I hope you guys have Ad Blockers on your browsers - mine has just blocked no fewer than 15 ads just on the blog's home page. That's awful.

Those Universum instruments are amazing.

They seem to like their Ashdown rigs.  Thanks for sharing.

Nice. Would be a very dangerous shop for me to enter. 

Great entry, thank you both.

Nicely done Silvia.

It's good to see what goes on in the capital.  It shows us country bumpkins the way forward.  Keep up the good work.

Thank you!

Excellent,  i can't get to this show, looking forward to more of the same.

'Bass effects for farmers and like-minded'??!! 

I noticed that too, and meant to ask him about it, but in the end I didn't manage! Must check if he had the same wording at last year's LBGS, or if it was a US special.

Thanks Steve! It was great fun to be at the stand with you guys, and seeing how much interest the basses were creating.

Thanks Silvia, it's great to see the show from another perspective. Except for Chowny, I barely even looked at any of the other booths you featured in Part 3. You are looking for lefties, I am only really interested in unlined fretless ones, which are surprising uncommon IME.

Our SWB Fretless is now unlined and unmarked ;-) Just saying.

Very cool to experience the show through a first timer's eyes and ears. It would have been nice to put a face to your blog, but as usual I was pretty much just completely overwhelmed, between various demands for my time and the need to just chill out from time to time. I did manage to connect with Sibob for a couple of minutes though, at least.

Looking forward to part 3.

Yeah it was a very intense experience! I met a few Basschatters but I knew there would be more in the crowd. I didn't spot Sibob, though. What booth were you working at, @Passinwind?

Silvia, I has a few things on exhibit at Marco Bass Guitars, Hall E, booth 4211. We were next to Marleaux, Fibenare, and Ken Smith, and right across the aisle from AC Guitars and the rest of the boutique builder's collective. We had a crazy busy booth for all of the three + days I was there, and as I was leaving on Sunday morning one of our endorsers was playing on the big outdoor Plaza Stage, rocking a bass with one of my new prototype preamps in it. For me it seems to get more intense every year, and I think a lot of that is related to more and more people knowing me by face.

Thanks Mick! I think we'll hold on with the birthday present for the moment, because my main problem with any bass that's not a Corvette or a Bass Collection is the size. That Dingwall is slightly bigger than Jack's 5-string Mike Lull (35" scale) and I find that uncomfortable to play too. Maybe when I grow up...

This is what I just needed being a chap of a small stature. I think I'll struggle the same way as you do. But I'm still willing to give it a try.

Absolutely - do try it. You may surprise yourself!

@ead according to FB and Instagram Alan's instruments have arrived safe and sound

Be sure to check out the Dingwall booth (#3044), and give the new lefty NG-2 a try!

@LeftyJ I did try the bass, but I'm afraid I soon realised that it's not a good choice for me. My tiny right hand felt really uncomfortable on the lowest frets - which are the ones I prefer to use, especially on a 5er. The 37 inch scale on the low B was not a problem, and it sounded majestic, but the fanned frets on the other strings were just too much hard work. The string spacing on that particular bass was wider than I'm used to, and the position of the pickup, slanted and much closer to the bridge than to the neck, felt weird when I placed my left thumb on it. I'll write a slightly more detailed review in my forthcoming blog, and will keep an eye on any other lefty models Sheldon may start producing, but for the moment I'll go back to my Warwicks. Pity

Incidentally, I hope you guys have some sort of ad blocker installed - not for Basschat, but for Wordpress, who seem to be going overboard with ads on blogs, at least judging by how many blocked 'items' my own Adblock counts every time I'm on that page.

Thanks for putting that up (that was my stringless aluminium Tele! - I took it along as another member gave me a bit for it, but we didn't quite link up on the day...).

Thanks for the excellent write-up and pictures! I was thwarted by a family engagement at the last minute, looked like it was terrific fun for all.