Owen

[quote name='7string' post='1010235' date='Nov 3 2010, 12:15 AM']Cocobolo's not my favourite wood (personal thing!!!), but I love the shape of the instrument. [/quote] He will be building 2 of them and using another wood for the 2nd, so you will see it in something else as well

I went to see Pete last week to look at some cocobolo he had sourced. He has sourced some nice bookmatched pieces [attachment=62923:Cocobolo.jpg] The picture is a bit blanched, but the ends are more representative of colour.. I have also changed the headstock shape to more of a LP shape because the body is LP-esque. Here is a pic of someone else's smaller instrument just for proportion. [attachment=62924:IMG_0744.jpg] Finally here is some cocobolo he will use for headstock facing [attachment=62925:IMG_0742.jpg] It's all coming along nicely

Tasty

Of course, the question is, who on here will do it for me (for £ obv)?

I am totally having one of those.

Timing is all (like a bass line really) but I am interested.

I would like to register my interest

You will need all of those basses. Don't fight it.

I had a Bongo with Piezos which was really disappointing. I had always wanted to hear what they would be like, having believed that they would be a new and useful tone. They were not. I then bought a Bolin NS5 which has piezos. Now THAT is how piezos should sound. I can only guess that MM did not put a decent pre-amp in the Bongo. I do not know if they would use the same pre in a 'ray.

Frankly, for the money, it looks pretty tempting. I glad that I am on a bass buying moratorium. Why am I still checking here then?

My experience has been totally different to this (yes I know I sound like a scratched record). I have used mine in Jazz settings ( [url="http://www.myspace.com/huwwarrenmusic)"]http://www.myspace.com/huwwarrenmusic)[/url] as well as the National Folk Orchestra of Wales and numerous other smaller settings. It has been greeted with nothing less than rabid enthusiasm by very experienced musicians who certainly would not just say nice things to my face to humour me. Kiwi, the one you played might well have been a duff one, but I have played duff P basses and would not choose to tar the whole of P bass world by that one dodgy one I played. "The intonation was shocking, absolutely impossible to tune up on open strings and play a note in tune." Again my experience is the polar opposite. The intonation at the 12th fret on mine is not bang on but shocking is not a word I would use. I can quite happily tune mine on open strings and both my Polytune and iStrobosoft apps are more than happy to tune it acoustically. If it was a new one then yes the strings need time to settle, like any strings, but definitely non metal ones. "The E string was a non event". Dead string? Certainly not an issue on mine. I am not looking for any sort of conflict here, each to their own and it would be pretty tedious if we all played Gibson EBO basses and nothing else but to diss a whole model line so publicly as you did on the initial post is I think slightly unfair. Your experience, while quite possibly true for the one you played was presented as a factual analysis of the whole line.

I just did a gig with these guys (as a dep) [url="http://www.clera.org/saesneg/clerorfa.php"]http://www.clera.org/saesneg/clerorfa.php[/url] playing the ubass. These are HARDCORE folk players. They could not get enough of the ubass. It is a totally valid instrument.

For about 1 minute max. Clear lines are then drawn. I am too old to be fighting with other people for my space.

[quote name='Beedster' post='986691' date='Oct 13 2010, 10:33 AM']Through the AI however it sings[/quote] I am not a betting man, but would put money on the fact that it sounds good because the AI pre-amp is buffering the piezo properly.

[quote name='MB1' post='984206' date='Oct 11 2010, 11:08 AM']Even got a chance to ask Victor Bailey about his time with Omar Hakim on the Madonna Australia Tour.[/quote] What did he say?

I ventured down from North Wales for this. It was a superb evening with quality all the way. The interplay and musical communication within the band was obvious and real. They have been touring for a lot of the year so it would be very easy to just pump out the tunes and get out of there, but from where I was standing they were all totally engaged and delivering - supporting someone who was singing from her heart who was performing songs which obviously meant something to her. There were no tedious solo moments delivering gratuitous chops, everything served the song - and THAT is where it is at. The older I get, the less interest I have in being in the same room as someone giving me the benefit of their practice regime, I want to see musicians communicate and create something beautiful. If you do too, then get along to see any of the gigs on the rest of this tour. Proper players playing proper songs. Kenny was great, just laying it down The only bit I did not enjoy was the fact that I was in the audience and not playing the songs - that must be a great gig to have.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='980645' date='Oct 7 2010, 04:05 PM']What exactly is a bass ukelele?[/quote] Good times, that's what a Bass Uke is. [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168&hl="]http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=93168&hl=[/url] Get with the now

[quote name='7string' post='979530' date='Oct 6 2010, 03:59 PM']Great project. I got in touch with Road Toad as well about a bass uke, but after 1 reply didn't get anything else! If you don't want an order then so be it! Do you know if Pete builds a bass uke anyway as I can't see anything on his site?[/quote] This is his first, but having spent some time with him I have no reason to believe it will be anything but stonking. He was going to build a full acoustic one (with pick up obv) for me but I fell in love with the Uklectic concept. He does "build a Uke in 3 days" weekends so I might well find myself there for one of those and build a "normal" bass uke one day. My experience with Road Toad was exactly the same. Strange, because my money is good, but I am happy because I am getting it done by a bloke down the road:)

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