dougal

Hello all.

The porn says it all:

Short Scale


Longer...


This one's for sale...


This one's tunes F#,B,E,A,D


This one goes thump thump thump thump (http://www.atelierz.co.jp/cubpassive.htm)


This one goes "Mwah"


And this one's my Baby.....


The wife thinks I have too many....?

Black dyed maple burl top.
For the neck, flamed maple center with wenge stringers and zebrawood outers.
Purpleheart fingerboard.
Lightweight swamp ash for the body.
Wooden pickup covers & knobs.
Figured top covers entire top.
Oil finish.
Wenge accent layer.

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He's American. With the dollar so weak it made sense... until I had to pay the import tax!!!! ^_^

Hey, bassbloke.

I've been having double bass lessons from Ian (http://www.ianbass.co.uk/) who's in Chessington (I'm down the road in Surbiton).

He's a really nice guy & knows his stuff.

I would suggest having a lesson, so you can at least have a crack. He'll point you in the right direction with basses too.

He suggested:
[quote]First of all the best place to get a bass from is Malcolm Healey [url="http://www.healeyviolins.com/index.html"]http://www.healeyviolins.com/index.html[/url]
He's a great bloke and has very fair prices (unlike the Contrabass Shop which is very overpriced!) I'm going to see him on Tuesday so I can see what he's got in stock for you. You should be able to get a reasonable bass for £1-2k, never buy a bass unless you can take it home and try it out for a few days.[/quote]

GW "SC-1" built by Grandon Westlund.

In progress:


In my sweaty mitts:

[quote name='Deep Thought' post='124948' date='Jan 21 2008, 07:28 PM']Westone Concord 1-1983-ish, my first bass and still going strong!

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Man, I had one of them cira about 86! Traded it in for a blue crackle finish Aria MAB of some description.

Nice bass!