GreeneKing

I was hoping for some sun this morning to take some decent photos but if there's sun out there it's wet! I've had the BB for a while and its not for sale. Mucho Mojo It's been fitted with a Fender 3 band EQ pre powered by 18v. It's string spacing is what you'd expect from a 4 string bass with an extra string squeezed in. This is the original 5 string Yamaha and is well over 20 years old. So there she is.

By far the lightest bass I've ever seen is my Bass collection 4 string. Seriously underrated basses. I did have a 5 string for a while and that too was very light.

I won't use roundwounds on a fretless solely due to the wear issue although they can sound really good. I've had good experience with both La Bella Deep Talkin' and TI Jazz flats. I find string height/setup is vital, especially with flats. Deep talkin are probably my faves Quite Low/Midsy, not zingy.

That's a brilliant review there daf. I'm pretty excited as my ACG isn't far away from being ready. Hmm... you've got me thinking, my Warwick fretless already has 4 holes in it

[quote]we played really well[/quote] That to me says it all Alan. You played well despite difficult conditions. What more can you do except be chuffed with that. A lot of people don't actually like ANY music. I can't imagine that myself. Peter

My Harlot's in the booth, no, no the spray booth. I really do believe that it's the most sumptious bass Alan has ever built. It's going to be everything I wanted and, ... well here it is:> Big Peter

As several have said, sometimes we have to accept that we've lost out and move on. If it were me I'd probably get a good quality repair done and keep the beast. You are obviously beyond reproach and that's a credit to you as so many aren't nowadays.

If you get a chance do Great man is Alan and Moffat's well worth a visit, even if you don't like shortbread, Pringle sweaters etc.

I'm sure it's going to be a great bass. Did you notice mine while you were there? Peter

In product reliability study there's a thing called a 'bath tub' curve, shaped a bit like, er, a bathtub It has probability of failure on the vertical axis and time on t'other. What this means, broadly speaking is that when something is new it's likelyhood of failure is relatively high. When it settles in it generally gets more reliable and when it reaches it's planned obsolescence it again becomes more and more unreliable as time progresses. Of course some gear is 'badly designed' and lasts forever, which is no good for the manufacturer if they run out of customers. My Little Mark II was an immediate failure as an example although I appreciate that Mark Bass failure is rare.

I've asked the seller whether it's BO or NT. You can see it's a BO and she confirmed this. I then politely pointed out that she was quoting prices for a NT, no reply

I sold my AGB200 recently but only because I had far too many basses and I'm moving to a flat. It's short scale whereas I believe the 140 is fullscale. A really nice bass.

Nice one Steve. Looking forward to seeing that finished and finding out how it sounds.

Hiya £9.50 an hour, thats very good. I'm an old guy albeit a graduate and working part time in school I earn less than £5 an hour! Everything is a positive here and we are all different. My advice would be to get the job and learn to fit the practice in when you can as that will be a valuable skill to develop later in life when theses things happen all the time. Work will be another valuable experience too. Working to enable yourself to buy gear, yet again, at the risk of sounding boring, a satisfying and valuable experience. Oh and sod the Fender, get a Lakland Skyline. All the best whatever way it goes Peter

Just a note to say that when I got home on Sunday the LM II was waiting for me. It was the original repaired unit. It's been about 2 months since the faulty unit was returned at my own expense. The Bass Centre tried to repair it and then passed it back to the importer. I would have been much happier if a new one had of been winging its way to me while they sorted it out. A choke (resistor) on the input wasn't soldered into place.

I thought I'd take the opportunity to show the progress of my new bass being built by Alan in Moffat: [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Specs/"]http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Specs/[/url] I spent over 3 hours in Alan's workshop choosing body and headstock shapes and then going through his large selection of beautiful woods and choosing what I wanted, several times The bass is a single cut design. It was Alan's previous work that caused me to fall for the single cut design, having never been a fan before. I initially chose a type R design with the top 'horn' cutting back towards the bridge. After some thought and just in time I changed my mind and went for the type S shown below. The body is Hondo Mahogany faced back and front with Black Heart Sassafras. The 5 string fretted set neck is a 7 piece Macasser Ebony and Flame Sycamore laminate with a Macasser Ebony fretboard, headstock rear and cavity cover. 1st some wood: Here's the body laminated and shaped out: And here is the neck pocket routed: The pickups and going to be Aaron Armstrong's MM and humbucker, with Alan's own frequency based pre-amp built by John East. There will be coil tap switches for both. This picture shows the pickup formers and Hipshot bridge in place. I love this photo: Stunning isn't it Ebony wafer will produce the contrast strip. The finish is going to be 60% gloss for the body and 20% for the neck. I'm considering myself one very lucky customer.

Glad Lakland have been so good Shaun, don't apologise, no need, interesting stuff. Jon, really enjoyed last night. You have some quite stunning basses. Really awesome Peter

Shaun My BG for info is very different. As you can see from my photo the string seems to go right through the middle of the pole pieces. This is pretty much right, in fact if anything the G string lies about a mm the other way i.e. away from the edge of the fretboard. Just so you know it isn't the angle of the photo or anything like that.

Stunning isn't it Shaun, your one drove me to it actually! I don't have a problem with rollong the G off the board edge, although I do it very occasionally on other basses. Peter

Hiya all I'm in sunny Plymouth being attacked by two Burmese kittens! Yes it's a Bob Glaub bought from Thomann and it's filled a 'P' curiosity that was causing some GAS. I'm not a Fender expert but I'd say that these passive Laklands consistently sound like a 'good' Fender or even better. Those with greater experience may like to comment. The BG has all the P bass tone that I had imagined. As for looking sexy, well I have this fantasy around the bass 'player' from the 'Addicted to Love' video and this bass Both scratchplates came from Roger at Jeannie's Pickguards in the US. His service is exceptional and the prices are amazingly cheap. The fretboard on the BG is nicely figured too. My tutor has a black/maple Ray and I suppose I've been lusting after something that looks similar too. I had a look at Steve Tayste_2000's gear on Friday and was blown away by the detail on his Overwater neck. The Valenti P he's selling seems quite awesome too

Not being that keen on mint green: that's white pearloid btw. and most sexy of all IMHO: That's me away for a bit more than a week w/o a computer