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For sure, especially since they are made here using a diligent and adept workforce. I've enjoyed reading ALL of the responses. Sorry if I've digressed/rambled. Tech and production engineering is always fascinating

Thanks for replies. I like to think that I'm not trolling gr bass or the enthusiastic users of their gear. It looks lovely but .... Next , does tonewood have to be expensive and if its not pretty but IS cheap is it still tonewood. Answers on a postcard via Ped at Basschat HQ . You also have a chance to purchase a guild x500 semi acoustic advertised on here for a respectful offer compared to B.i.N price folks or I've wasted 20quid upgrading my membership

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Irrelevant with all due respect cos the statement does not refer to my question, other than indirectly.

So if you want to gig a GR you'll need a high grade flight case made utilising similar material which means how light is your GR plus a REALLY expensive flight case. And you'll realise GR should/could be finished with fancy faced and finished ply wood or Tuffcab ....I'm sort of kidding btw

There was a dude called Carl Douglas no not that one who built laminated moulded "ply" racing sculling boats and would do a final finish of any fancy wood you chose. If you decided to pay for a finish you'd potentially slaughter when you'd run your boat aground 2 days post delivery. Still probably easier than doing a structural repair of a carbon boat. Not as expensive as a high end acoustic but only certain artists ought to be encouraged to chuck their prized heirloom into a river

A friend of my father's had two concrete sewer pipes with a rudimentary dispersal arrangement on top and a pair of wharfedale Gilbert Briggs (8" i think) that my dad persuaded him to use after telling him the enclosures would still sound like shit. Now we have audiophile people who think your turntable has to look like a gasometer designed by HR freakin Geiger.

OK you can turn out extremely high quality baffles elsewhere (ask an f1 team to lend you a modest autoclave ha ha) with adequate means to attach some high strength (simpleish plywood monocoques maybe) to interface with a slightly thinner ply shell plus a gentle coat of tuffcab or similar, then carry on from there. I've kept it short and you were polite as I might possibly know about some stuff. Thank you I'll read more later folks.mostly Bill Fitzmaurice

FWIW agreed as a dilettante/layman type person. I used to 'row crew' when tech became a thing in late 70s and wood tonewood or otherwise was on the way out. An Olympic crew got a silver medal in 8s in 'the carbon tiger' which didn't live for long as a functioning boat. Various German Chinese US Canadians now make long lived products at a cost. I know about current pre pregs and earlier honeycombs and stuff. I've even done a tidy repair on a boat called a janousek. So I excised damaged aluminium honeycomb and interior wall OK. Borrowed a pair of very expensive metal cutting shears and cut a bit. Used car glass fibre tape and ensured it would adhere. Skim what u call bondo and poorly matched aerosol. You and others might think I've gone on too long but I hoped you might be first respondent (cringe alert) cos you would know that I had to do a sensible repair in an emergency. I leave things with hefty capacitors to people with excellent expertise no names no packdrill... Last analogy coming up.... It's just that someone said something years ago about a light car called a rocket. A teeny thing with a big motorbike engine designed by a still famous ha ha ha F1 designer. It had carefully made free floating carbon fibre front mudguards, saved several grammes per side. This journalist said that as they would very likely get broken you should use aluminium Crikey hot topic but I'm not going to debate with anyone who pisses me off in their interactions with me if I bother to answer anyone else. Don't tell me I have all the gear and no idea either or I'll get v v tetchy and still not reply..ha ha

How light is really absolutely required / necessary ??

1) Does anyone know whether polished carbon finish on a gr bass cab is structural or decorative. No implied criticism. 2) barefaced are pricey because their workforce produces clever intricacy out of (mostly??? ) plywood.? 3) a carbon / kevlar / nomex / aluminium honeycomb , whatever baffle, incorporating the main internal framework of a conventional plywood enclosure . Is this a more appropriate use of modern composites ?

Yup. Greeny blue left handed count ? Picture to follow.

This. Even modest variants on an H series Zoom or similar give you a cheap easy convenient resource for 4 tracks or better..

Necro thread alert , is some 16 years l8r a record. Only unusual latter-day Geddy tech is the prosthetic nostril port injection for helium vocals (integral with his in ear monitoring?)

Sub-divisions - Rush

Used to footle on a really nice Rhodes plus a Bösendorfer while doing a holiday job at Olympic in Barnes 79 and 80 summers . I freaking loved it, studying bassoon at time so could work some stuff out , film composer Elmer Bernstein was working there one spring and said I was learning some 'shapes' and then sat down and did terrifying pianistics. Truly amazing. Luckily he never guessed it was me when I fkd up a side studio set up

Got a synth a while ago. Busily learning keys / theory plus grappling with the Synth aspect. No band currently strictly a dilettante