Daz39

12 minutes ago, honza992 said:

Sides are nearly finished.  The final kerfing was glued in this afternoon....

 

Now that’s what I call a hollow-bodied guitar!

I'm of the '76 vintage. Wonder what would be available that was decent from that year?

@stewblack - you have a marvellous mega-thang a bit like this don't you. Bonkers. 

The artwork is cool, but I'd forget what each knob does...

Top tune!

1 hour ago, prowla said:

Darn - if only I hadn't bought one just over a year ago!

@Daz39 I bought mine over the standard one for the colour, plus it's got an extra button that does something!

No - they reissued the MP40 in the same branding as the YYZ - so mine includes the Boost switch and Shapeshifter button.

Gah - if I didn't already have the standard branding version of this.... *shakes fist*

You're right - they didn't make many of these and they're hard to find at a sensible price.

There was a huge thread on the Becos comps (in addition to the review thread above) -  (think it started with the CompIQ and covered the mini and whatever the biggest version is called eventually). Very highly specced pieces of kit and seem to do the business.

On 14/03/2024 at 17:25, honza992 said:

Phew!  I'm running as my 7 year old is due back from dance class in 14 minutes at which point she purloins the laptop😟 I've tried explaining to her that Basschat is WAAYYYY cooler than The Worst Witch, but her powers of negotiation a lightyears beyond mine🙄

 

So, I've started work on the top. My design is largely based on Benedetto's published shapes.  I've stretched and squeezed it somewhat to fit my needs, but that was it's origin.  I want to rout contours into the top to help with the carving.  I'm not good enough to do freehand carving so I want as much help as possible.  So....the incredible, the wonderful, the extraordinarily good looking @Wookiebass did some CAD jiggery to do a contour map for me.  I've added a few more contours to it so it looks like this:

 

 

I then cut out each of the contours and stuck them to 4mm MDF, cut them out and sanded them to shape.  I now have a stack of contour templates, ready for the real fun to start!

 

 

Or maybe I'll just stick a bridge onto the top of that and call it done. 🙂

Ooh - looks like a hill feature for a gaming table. Quick - someone roll for initiative.

Max Webster - The Party (basically a compilation of their 6 studio albums,  live album and assorted extra tracks that span their recording career 1976-81.) They were on the Anthem label with Rush, opened for the former for many years on Canadian tours, and I suppose are what Rush might have been if Rutsey had stayed in the band. 

Quite enjoying some of this - so much music that makes it in one place and nowhere else (5 Gold and 1 Platinum album in Canada).

On 01/03/2024 at 23:33, agedhorse said:

As I showed in the earlier calculations, the cost in the UK and EU are exactly the same as the cost in the US, when adjusted for exchange rate and VAT versus our sales tax. As it turns out, it appears that Gibson is picking up all of the additional costs of shipping, import duty, import processing fees, etc. 

 

The authorized dealers are in fact beginning to advertise, the earlier posts about Andertons is one. We will have authorized service centers in the UK and EU as well. In the UK, I believe Surrey Amps is one, Stan Lawrence is a very good, qualified tech and has worked on Mesa (and other brands I have been involved with over the years) for a long time. You can go to our website and search for dealers and service centers by international region. We may also set up our own in-house factory service center as well, but I don't know the details or which country at this time.

 

If you don't like the thought of buying Mesa products, for whatever reason, that's fine but it would be helpful to everyone on BassChat if you kept your comments factual and accurate.

 

Your concept of "regular, down to earth American" is extremely skewed. No little league game I have ever been to (when my kids were in Little League) has played our national anthem, nor does anyone that I have ever seen have a flag hanging from their porch or elsewhere. There may be small pockets of such behavior which gets blown WAY out of proportion by the media, but that's just sensationalism. It's no different than the inaccurate portrayal of Europeans (and others) by the media. 

 

There's a difference between acknowledging a country's past bad behaviors and national pride. I can think of plenty of examples of poor national behavior in the past by all countries, why shouldn't those countries that acknowledge and correct these behaviors be allowed to express national pride? If not, the entire world would remain in perpetual shame.

Yeah - I'm on your side here. I was trying to point out the reason that 'Made in the USA' is a bigger thing to your country than 'Made in *insert X nation*' is to many other countries - especially ours.

4 hours ago, Minininjarob said:

I am bewildered as to why someone would pay extra for something made in the USA. It’s hardly a guarantee of quality. 

it's a (mis)perception of quality (in some cases - I'm not for a second doubting Mesa are quality-kit) - but mainly a statement of patriotism. The US is a very patriotic sort of place. The 'regular, down-to-earth' citizen stands for the Anthem before ball games at their kids' little league, and probably has a modest-sized US flag hanging from their porch. They don't have attacks of existential dread about St Georges Day and whether we ought to encourage or discourage patriotism (just not too much, and especially not at football matches). They can be embarrassed about all sorts of things their Nation has done in the past (or present) yet still remain proud to be American and the not be afraid to show it. We're just more reserved and think it's weird

14 minutes ago, admiralchew said:

If there was any doubt whether I am a pedal obsessive it's been dispelled since I suffered a shoulder injury. I've played less bass so I found a different bass-related outlet: building boards! I recently put together a European board using excellent versions of each type of pedal I play using only European manufacturers, and using each manufacturer no more than once. The board, power supplies and cables are European too. I think only the velcro isn't (I went for American dual lock instead of Swiss velcro).

 

 

 

I've been meaning to put this together the European board since August but was waiting on a particular pedal. Ultimately I gave up (and it shipped today!!). In the meantime I put together other themed boards by manufacturer (Broughton, Iron Ether, Caveman, Noble and Cali76 (it may as well be one brand!), EAE and 3 Leaf):

 

 

Here's a photo of all of the assembled boards (save that the BC1 is being used on the European board so that Caveman board has disappeared):

 

My word!

1 hour ago, Combed20 said:

Thanks for all the replies. I previously looked at sumup, but the band don't have a business account, so sumup wouldn't work for us. I do a lot if the 'office' stuff for the band, and loathe the thought of setting us up as a business in my name and add more 'work' - but I don't think it'd improve sales.

 

Doesn’t need to be a ‘Business account’ just a named account. My Wife started with just using her current account with it, before opening one for the business and transferring the connection.

We use Sumups in my wife's business. One older machine that needs the phone app to connect, another one is Solo and can do that or uses it's own 4G to connect. I think they charge 1.69% fees.

On a busy market you can have signal problems if everyone's hammering the nearest mast, and occasionally the actual app will go down, but from speaking to other traders who use all of the available products: Square, iZettle etc. they're all about as reliable as each other. We have so many customers who pay with card or phone contactless and don't carry cash - especially at festivals or fairs. More regular markets or events in town centres ted to be a mix of cash and card.

40 minutes ago, Lfalex v1.1 said:

^^

Yep.

 

Ænima or Lateralus to start with

Agree - Aenima has some great songs, (although separately I am not a big fan of the general lyrical crudeness of their earlier work). Lateralus is mind-bendingly immense. If all their albums were like that I'd understand why they take so long between them!

Ooh

ooh you're a funky liquid. Dancing Juice!

He's a busy chap! 

59 minutes ago, lidl e said:

Just received today.

 

Theyre big mothers...

 

@GisserD does 3D printed smaller enclosures for the FI.

(routine PSA)

21 minutes ago, asingardenof said:

I think he acquired a copy of their most recent set list rather than the entire back catalogue.

They'd only done 3 albums by then - pretty much the same thing!

10 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

 

I'd want to see the condition report first. If the neck has been repaired, that might diminish the value.

His fingers are pretty worn too... 

Just now, wateroftyne said:

You guess correctly.

Wait, not that I’m decreeing that anyone has to do such a thing, but Mark has a few bob and is a good sort, I just couldn’t see any info on that link, just a few rusty guitars and battered acoustics, meh…

It doesn’t say, but I guess some

proceeds will go to good causes?

Crikey there’s some expensively purchased Tele’s!!

4 hours ago, Supernaut said:

Mastodon went downhill after Crack The Skye. Nothing good since then. 

I like their ambition, but it's too 'noisy' to listen to without 100% focus - I can't commute to it and know which song is currently playing, for instance. It doesn't help that the drummer seems to play fills 75% of the time. He is very good at it though.

Is that Remco Hendrix? He’s a funky piece of something on a fretless. First saw his videos a few years ago. Almost made me give up!