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Korean Samick, nice basses. Mine were bought and sold for around £100 so you got an absolute steal. Couldn't really fault them - nice hardware, well built, lightweight and sound great.

Bought a tidy little PSU from Al Krow, pleasure to deal with.

I'm going to leave it as is until I can redo the whole thing, I already knew my dimensions were slightly out before I'd finished due to the warping of the metal case which is visible in some pictures. I've got the hang of cutting acrylic now though and the last cut I made was smooth and arrow straight, my jigsaw is only a cheap single speed jobby. I'll have a look at using a blowtorch for next time, realistically I'm only concerned about the front looking smooth. I can get a full set of polished pre-cut pieces for £14 delivered which is another option, albeit a more expensive and less fun one.

Cheers guys! Although it'll never be the greatest amp in the world it's nice to turn junk into something genuinely useful.

I recently sold my bass rig in favour of an FRFR cab and great it is too, however it did leave me in a dilemma as I only owned one amp head (a trusty LMII) and now have nothing to power my little EA cab which I use for home practice which I can leave set up in the front room. I had my eye on a Trace Elf or the little GK amp (MB200 or something?) but they are a bit overkill for plugging in around the house. I did think about a cheap combo but I want the sound quality of the EA cab which is lovely and crystal clear. So what to do? Enter this total POS, a local collection won on eBay for the princely sum of 99p (yes, 99 English pence, excuse my cluttered workbench). It's a cheapo Kinsman 10w kiddie's practice amp, same thing you see rebranded under 100 different names but it's essentially a BB10. As you can see it's had a hard life, it's completely crushed and it sounds terrible. Originally I was going to rehouse it but the little 4" speaker is shot to pieces (or more likely just wasn't any good in the first place) which leaves the amp. No prizes for guessing what happens next! So out comes the screwdriver and we can see what's inside! Here's the details: As we can see the amp was born on the 23rd of July 2011 and is called Jim. Now Jim and I have become firm friends I can see about liberating him from his awful particleboard prison and making him a new home. Time to snip some wires and get the dremel and soldering iron out. Luckily there's already a couple of holes here so both will be widened so I can fit an IEC socket and a Speakon combi jack, the Speakon I already had (bought a pack of two when I fixed an old cab) and the IEC socket was £1.30 on eBay. Originally I was going to fit a 1/4" jack for pure convenience but that would mean actually buying one and not being able to use my short speaker cable so that idea went out the window. I did have some pics of the widened holes but my old phone died, the combi jack hole was incredibly neat and the IEC hole much less so. Any untidy edges were covered with a layer of black vinyl (99p - eBay again) on the outside anyway so my cack-handed metalwork is well hidden. I decided on semi transparent acrylic for the case which was £3.49 for an A4 sheet including delivery, wood would be easier for me to work with (I hate cutting plastic) but I thought the acrylic would look smart and I already had a bag of M2 hex screws to hold it together, unfortunately I misjudged the sizes due to the amp frame being slightly uneven and bulging slightly (probably happened when it got damaged originally) but meh, it will do for now. I used the original feet and screws from the original combo where possible so I didn't have to buy anything else. So here's Jim in his new clothes! So seeing as I had some screws and a Speakon socket lying around to begin with all in all this cost me: Amp - 99p Acrylic - £3.49 IEC socket - £1.30 Black vinyl - 99p Total - £6.77 As you can see there's a few rough edges there along with some poorly cut acrylic, I didn't sand anything down as at some point I'm going to redo the acrylic sleeve entirely - I seemed to have got the hang of cutting it with a jigsaw on the very last cut I had to make and know where I went wrong the first time. It will do for now though, besides another £3.49 sheet of acrylic would push the cost of the build right up and I'm not made of money. So I bet you all think it sounds terrible and has no volume when paired with my EA cab right? Well it actually sounds surprisingly good, more than loud enough for home practice and isn't at all deficient in the tone department either. Sure it looks like a child's lunch box but it makes for a solution a problem with the absolute minimal spend which is ideal for me. Now I can buy another expensive preamp pedal and not feel guilty about it.

Keep an eye out on the used market for RCF cabs, you won't be disappointed.

Yeah that was my advert! You can buy them on Amazon (see link above) if you don't fancy trudging around Ikea.

I used one of these, someone on here linked me to it when I was in a similar situation: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00GMM74T0/ref=asc_df_B00GMM74T051942047/?tag=googshopuk-21&creative=22146&creativeASIN=B00GMM74T0&linkCode=df0&hvadid=214462264766&hvpos=1o3&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17959555060353432343&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046574&hvtargid=pla-421630808123 Cheap and cheerful, does the job admirably and weighs nothing. I no longer have the rig but you can see it in use here:

Tbh with those 7 string conversions I think if he did the alterations on some spare saddles and included the original ones (along with the accompanying tuner and saddle screw) in the sale he wouldn't get as much stick. As it stands he's devalued a perfectly good 7 string that someone could be learning on, mind you perceived worth is an odd thing depending on who you talk to, some of his guitars do sell for those inflated prices so maybe he's adding value...... In my eyes that's a perfectly good Korean Peavey/Saein (I assume any Korean guitar is a Saein, Samick or Cort with the odd exception, anybody know where this was made?) that is hideously overpriced and will take effort and more money to put right.

He's not in the entertainment business, he's a hobbyist guitar seller/bodger/converter with limited skills and some odd ideas, there are worse eBay sellers who set out to deceive, at least MDP takes close up pictures of the ugly bits of the guitars he sells. Almost with a sense of pride in fact! And yeah those converted bridges are pretty standard practice in the world of MDP, I suppose even though they look odd they work to some extent - until the G string slips over the end of the crudely cut saddle anyway. Not sure what the deal is with the electrical tape over half the pickup though:

I think he's mainly a guitar player, perhaps criticising his playing isn't the ideal thing to do. The moment he sticks a single gold machine head on it and swaps the pickup out for a slanty single coil I'll be right here though!

The old Cort Curbow was luthite with an ebanol board, just sounded like a bass to me when I had one. Ibanez made the Ergodyne out of luthite also, although they're probably Corts in disguise. IIRC luthite and ebanol are both resins of some sort. The board on my fretless is ebanol and it's fantastic to play, I sold my old fretlesses with a Pau Ferro and rosewood boards when I got that.

Just sounds like a Jazz to me.

I no longer have an EUB but I use the Fishman Platinum Pro with electric fretted and fretless bass, it's certainly a very clean sounding pedal if that's what you want. Doesn't seem to impart any particular voicing on your bass which is what I was after, sounds excellent with a fretless. Has lots of handy features for upright players like a notch filter, phase invert, high pass filter and brilliance control as well as a great tuner and a quality DI. Not particularly compact though.

We picked up our 735A cabs for £900 the pair in mint condition, that included quality covers and a pair of pricey winch stands (£115 each online), we also got our matching Art subs for just over £500 for the pair, again with quality covers. Surprisingly we found them on a PA selling page rather than a bass forum, they tend to be more popular there! I dare say you'll find quite a few for sale on PA/DJ forums and probably on metal guitar forums too.

For some reason guitarists really do like MarkBass gear, I think the bright colour confuses them.

We have the RCF 735 cabs as tops, however they are full range and before we bought subs they handled a full 5 piece band with bass and keys without breaking a sweat. Serious full range sound at high volumes from two compact speakers, I don't think a band can do any better for £1.5k. I would be happy just using one as a FRFR cab on any stage I play, in fact you would barely get them ticking over. Trust me, most bass cabs won't touch a single 735 for low end at volume. The QSC I use is configurable to cross over at different frequencies (or not at all) as well as having DSP presets for different usage scenarios.

I always liked the sound of my bass through a PA anyway, in fact bass straight into the desk is probably my favourite bass tone! Pros and cons of swapping an amp out for an FRFR (for me anyway) are as follows: Pros - Can carry the entire thing with one hand. - Loads of better placement options on stage especially if you're tall, points at your head and can be put anywhere down to small size. - Sounds similar to what the audience hear, a clear representation of my bass. - Works very well with existing DI/EQ pedals and pedalboards. - Was £100 better off after selling my bass amp. - Takes up much less space in the house. - Set up in a couple of minutes. Cons - Doesn't look as nice as my old Markbass rig. I can't emphasize the placement part enough, I've always struggled with hearing myself due to being tall which was corrected when I got the MarkBass Club cabs as they tilt back. However that posed a new problem as I either had to find space where I could have 3ft of bass cabs on the floor or have one on top of the other in a wedge position. The small size of the QSC completely eliminates this, it fits in between the legs of our lights stand so even on a tiny stage there is always room for it, I can have it at the front of stage pointing back and it doesn't look out of place too. Worth noting that my amp is purely for stage monitoring, we have a decent RCF PA which does all the donkey work and I was using compact DI/EQ boxes like the Fishman and MXR M80 to DI directly without any amp sims. Swapping my amp out for an FRFR was the logical step for me, should have done it years ago.

Although the listing does mention "Easy for brick layer and farmer fingering" so maybe he has a different audience in mind?

I remember a lot of them from the last time I looked, that Washburn bass has been listed for a while. Browsing through those sold listings I see someone has paid over £300 for this: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wide-neck-electric-guitar-for-big-hands-Peavey-PCGC-/192440230917?hash=item2cce54e405%3Ag%3AuC4AAOSwYVlaRShi&nma=true&si=ti6zvM5%2FcFms5S4QvWcmVDLZgN8%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Difficult to say anything without seeming mean spirited (and MDP seems like a nice enough bloke) but I hope the buyer doesn't ever need to resell that at any point.

Dave Pybus wasn't it, not John? You're probably looking at around £200 tops value for it, weird shape and defunct off-brand doesn't help it. A little shop near me had a ton of Maverick stuff in when they came onto the scene, mighty fine instruments but they look very dated now and hold little appeal. Unless you want it yourself or are prepared to hold out for a sale then value it very low in a trade deal, chances are you'll be stuck with it.

Amazing how close Tokai have got to the original Gibson design, the headstock comes broken off as standard! That's attention to detail right there.

Bit disappointed it hasn't had any tuners swapped out for odd coloured ones, no inappropriate pickups wedged into existing routs, no random volume or tone knobs from a different guitar and most imprtantly no strings removed to make it a 2 string bass for men who do manual labour (and obviously all have huge fingers with no hand to eye co-ordination). Missed opportunity there methinks, still it goes without saying that the action will be within the breadth of a gnats hair of a nun's mantlepiece, or something. Rather sadly a lot of the guitars he has up for sale are the same ones he had a year ago.

This annoys me too, surely the cost saving can't be that much? I bought a pack of two for a few quid inc delivery a while ago, they're only marginally more expensive for the end user to buy than a regular Speakon. To the OP I would just use Speakon, it's a much better way of hooking up cabs to amps and can't be pulled out accidentally.