Grand Wazoo

[quote name='Raggy' timestamp='1362322918' post='1998330'] It was over in the far corner next to John East. [/quote] I must have missed it then.

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1362309760' post='1998105'] I don't suppose I could ask a favour of anyone at the show today with a camera? Would it be possible to take some photos of the [url="http://www.squareoneguitars.com"]Square One Bass[/url] particularly details of the neck joint and the pickup assembly? And then post them here? Thanks! [/quote] I have been up and down the show and that bass is not on display anywhere. Perhaps the owner didn't want people to see it or copy the design?

For those of you on facebook here are more pics of today's show: [url="https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.512577835451567.1073741825.446213212088030&type=1"]https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.512577835451567.1073741825.446213212088030&type=1[/url]

Yes I've managed to struggle in on one leg, and totally tired myself out, soon as I got back home I had to rest, and it has taken me 2 hours to regain some energy again. Pheeew!

Two shots from today. [IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/5D3_5917_zps4df94d15.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/5D3_5918_zps3917e5a6.jpg[/IMG]

[quote name='swanbrook' timestamp='1362011687' post='1994609'] Infairness that's pretty hard to argue with and makes a lot of sense !! I have the abII and I so badly want to try the lee model ...... Better for me that I don't otherwise my left kidney is up for sale. Funny I was over at my mates house grand wazoo playing the Dingwall that made me fall in love .... Abz 5 natural , what a bass. Also his super j/p is too due for Gas is a bastard [/quote] yeah and I've got a pic to prove it! [IMG]http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r200/xt660/5D3_5889_zpsbba625e7.jpg[/IMG]

It goes to show that there will always be the 1 out of 20 people that will not get on with a Dingwall but you can't really nag about the prices when Ashborygirl rightly pointed out that most other basses are also highly priceds and I am talking about bog standard Sandberg for example, or Lakland that can be as expensive if not more than a Dingwall. But hey, we can't all like them so it' ok. But I assure you that playing them is not by any means more difficult than parallel frets and more often than not, that concept is all in your head.

This was me 3 years ago: 1 x EBMM Bongo 5HHp 1 x EBMM Stingray 5 1 x EBMM Big Al 5 s/s/s/ 1 x EBMM 25th Anniversary 5 then one day... I went to the Bass Gallery in Camden to try a pedal and saw a Dingwall ABZ 5, I tried it and...... took it off them there and then. I went home compared it to my afore mentioned basses and within 2 months I was shot of all 4 of them, selling them here there and anywhere to finance....... As the others above me have mentioned, the fanned fret feature is not there to make your life more complicated but au contraire, it is a comfort feature, it makes playing bass more natural as the way your fingers fall on the fretboard makes it more natural to the hand as opposed to parallel frets. It will take any unsuspecting bassists all of five seconds to feel immediately at home with a Dingwall bass and I feel I need to add something that all the others above me have failed to mention, and that is the even sound you get across all the strings, the thundering yet very precise low B in the 5 strings models and the fact that your band and your audience, including yourself will be able to hear every note you play in a way you had never experienced before. I have no brand loyalty to be honest, if I like something that bad I'll buy it and I would only stick with it if it works for me, and in the last 8-10 years I have been burning a hole in my pockets buying several different basses that have all been sold back again. To me sticking with the Dingwalls was a no brainer as like the others have mentioned, once you own one you are in a place where it is difficult to find something better and so you have reached nirvana and you won't go back. Of course I own other quality "normal" basses as you can see in my signature picture, but whereas a few years back I would be constantly buying and selling this new bass and that new bass, only to be disappointed by it, for me, these last 3 Dingwall wonderful machines have settled themselves nicely and will be near impossible to replace.

Well you all talk about the Pino and yes it is a nice bass but they want too much money for it, whereas you can get a Steve Harris model for half the price. And Ed Friedland loves it too! [url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72TYFcqk4E"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A72TYFcqk4E[/url]

As you can see on this link, your serial number place that bass between 2007-2008 [url="http://www.fender.com/en-GB/support/articles/mexican-instruments-product-dating/"]http://www.fender.com/en-GB/support/articles/mexican-instruments-product-dating/[/url]

[quote name='Sean' timestamp='1359128589' post='1950346'] Is that a set (glue-in) neck design? [/quote] That is a good question, the original Gary Granger model had a bolt on and the bolts were located at the end of the freboard from the top of the body so that the back of the body showed no screw holes, and the top part of the body at the end of the fretboard was covered by something like a pickup ramp made out of rosewood. These new ones don't have that same system so unless the screws are on the back of the body, then they might be set necks.

I dread to think at the retail price of them, looks like they've cut no corners on quality and material so they will be pretty expensive.

errr this is "nuts"

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errr why don't you phone him and enquire politely? It'll go a longer way than this thread since we are not Mark Stickley and we don't work for Bass Direct the only man that can give you that 100% correct answer is none other than Mark Stickley of Bass Direct[b] Tel: 01926 886433[/b]

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1355744520' post='1901995'] Yet another from the massed ranks of the deluded and ineducable. [/quote] You back? Let me bring you up to speed, you've missed.......er... .uh.... [email="f"]f'@%[/email] all!

Sometimes telling someone to just * * * [b]F U C K O F F * * *[/b] is the easiest way out, pal, you've should have told him.... uh... 3 songs ago!

I've just learnt that I will be having an operation in mid Jan on my right foot and the surgeon told me after the op I will be 12 weeks home bound non weight bearing on my leg therefore, 12 weeks from mid of Jan means that in March when the show is on I still won't be able to attend. Oh well