lemmywinks

Decal here if you fellas want to save some money:

Always quite liked the Prosebass designs, would still quite like a 5 at some point if one turns up. Shame he stopped building as they were a bit ahead of their time IMO, he did a lot of headless variants as well IIRC.

OP has just been on the windup for a while now, stop biting.

I keep everything in my gigbag (Gator Pro Go) and spares in my spare bass gigbag (Gator Pro Go X/Transit), get something with ample pockets/storage options and you can do away with the extra accessories bag. I only gig with a single cable and use 9v adapters with removable plugs to cut down on bulk (TC and Dunlop do 'em), no speaker cables either. I do fit my tablet, preamp, IEM pack and IEMs in there though.

My favourite was the old Kay SG body with some random neck bolted on, made even less sense than that crazy bridge one.

Aye sold.

I like it, reminds me of the old Prosebass/Funnbass we used to see on here

I mean if you can't have a little laugh at the ongoing disaster that is brexit then we truly have no hope. Might start ending all my eBay listings with "Now go away" though.

I'm sure there used to be a stickied thread explaining impedance, if not one needs doing!

I think he genuinely believes he's making improvements to instruments which are otherwise serviceable or would take a little work to get up to standard, when he cobbles odd bits together he most likely thinks he's creating something greater than the sum of it's parts. In truth the guitars he buys in would probably be better with just a proper setup, some shielding and a new set of strings. Where I think it crossed the line is when he described his setups as professional and better than you could get from a shop which isn't true. Basically claiming to be the only game in town if you don't want to get ripped off and want an instrument that plays properly.

Don't think anybody disliked him in the first place, his descriptions can be misleading but overall he's a relatively harmless bloke. Plus his creations provide a unique brand of entertainment you just can't get anywhere else.

Might be of interest if you're local: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1002833687400468/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post&tracking=browse_serp%3Ace40f0d0-741c-44de-8f0d-3a974865a6ab

Only really gig a 5 nowadays so unfortunately can't. Yes, that's the reason. Can't think of anything else.

Anybody else received an offer on this? Got one sat there for £311, still trying to decide.

Prices probably gone mental now, suppose that isn't helped by no easily distinguishing features so they'll just be classed as a regular USA bass.

The old Highway One were nitro finishes weren't they?

That's another bonus of a digital desk, you can record your entire gig over USB and the quality is excellent.

Same, my early days of playing in bands with our own PA involved various Peavey cabs like Hisys4 and HP400, a huge pair of bass bins, heavy monitors and three massively heavy amps (usually CS1800) to power them all in a back breaking rack unit. Needed a van to cart all this around, gigs with stairs were a nightmare and we still needed to take substantial backline with us. The limited monitoring options offered by our desk meant hearing vocals was a compromise as was the on stage sound overall. None of this was cheap either. There does seem to be a lot of personal attachment to amps and I get that, it's the way things have always been done at pub/bar level. I still oggle bass rigs in the FS section every day even though I have no desire to use one live again and was reluctant to stop using them myself for a long time. In the end the ability to have full instant control over my own monitor mix and hear everything clearly won out - just being able to turn the snare down would be worth it tbh. Everything else such as pretty much halving our load in and decimating our setup times was purely a bonus.

Are they the Guyker ones? If so that was fast delivery!

I think it had a bad defret when it was originally listed on eBay prior to being MDP'd. EDIT assume you're talking about the Mazeti, dunno about the other one.

Worse still he mentions getting them like that was fiddly because the tuners he used have locating pins, so he's either filed those off of mangled the headstock in some way to accomodate them. Still might be a good puchase if you need a replacement neck on the cheap. Weird how he prices completely worthless tat up at £350+ yet the one thing with some value in it is pretty cheap, I think he prices things up based on the amount of time he's had to spend on them and not what they're actually worth.

THis might be worth a look for parts though, £200 and it seems to have a legit USA Fender neck on it (serial Z9384893) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/193633699976?

He's got feedback for 7 sold instruments in the last year. When it was mainly overpriced old pawn shop tat with sales spiel and the 7 string conversions he used to sell a bit more, ow he's branched out into wacky modifications with biro logos etc it seems to have slowed up. Last time I looked it was around one a month I think. Maybe there's a finite number of people who are going to fall for the car saleaman vibe and they already own one of his creations, maybe people are just more careful with their money now to the point where an Encore body with a Crafter neck bolted on and nothing in the correct place doesn't seem like a worthwhile purchase.