Owen

[quote name='chrisd24' post='1015607' date='Nov 7 2010, 07:48 PM']Neither body is loaded and the neck I already have to put on it is a jap fender one. Both are immaculate and the same price.[/quote] Whichever is the nicest colour then

I guess it depends on the pickups/pre-amp or not. Are you thinking of putting an Allparts together or is it one someone has built?

Fender = resale

[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.