Merton

@ybotyawnoc May be able to provide some insight on it since he’s doing the hard work

No idea, I don’t build these things, I just post the pictures 🤓

Love Alan’s (ACG) work, and I’m the one currently having a Zoot built so soon I can offer a useful comparison. With the budget you have whichever way you go you’ll have a sublime bass but as @EBS_freak said, going too wild could result in perhaps not the results you were aiming for. @thebassist has a good point. Alan at ACG has built me three basses so far and is about to start a fourth. The first one was utterly sublime but the second made me realise things I didn’t consider with the first which started to make me wonder... the third was totally off the wall but again I’d learnt what I wanted and needed and the fourth will take everything I’ve learnt from the first three and become my go-to five string I suspect

The black limba is amazing, not sure where Phil sources his timbers but he struck gold with that! Today he’s routed and fitted the truss rod and carbon rods into the neck:

Two of those old Compacts will be enough to move mountains. Great cabs, bet that rig sounds amazing!

Lovely! Did I happen upon a photo of it on Instagram recently....? 🙂

I have a double cut Finn 4, 32” scale which is basically the same woods. And I may have possibly commissioned a 5 string sister for her... 😇

Sorry that was aimed at @ead - bit of a thread derail!

Just seen your avatar @Grantd - is that this rather scrummy Finn I see? https://www.instagram.com/p/BqozLUJnzSh/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=4lgpcsxtqa4b

Is it Finn-shaped?

Do it - and let us know how you get on

Very fair. The cab is realistically about £100-£150 depending on condition and the amp £150-£200. Go for it, or link me so I can 😂

Gorgeous!

I believe @AndyTravis has this exact set up

My new Zoot Funkmeister (currently being built by Mike Walsh) isn’t far off the black one in terms of styling. And not a million miles off the price either - given mine is custom built to my spec and has Nordstrand pickups and a Hipshot KickAss bridge that’s saying a lot about Fender’s pricing 😁

Definitely easier but still I’m far too lazy to lift it into my car 😂

Also I think I'd have to - shock! horror! - put the seats down to fit it into my car. Bollocks to that 😂

No, I'm just a wuss and have become too used to the ridiculously light Barefaced cabs

Ditto. Almost went a preordered one then realised it'd fosters me off!

And also Jerry Cantrell has a song Angel Eyes on his second solo album How about “Animal”? I can think of Pearl Jam and Def Leppard immediately, sure there are plenty more

Neck laminated now glued up. Black limba/ flamed maple / cooba/ maple / limba with black and white contrast veneers. Uber sexy.

The binding and side dots are now done Next up is fingerboard radiusing and fretwork.

That’s the beauty of watching other people’s builds come to life, more ideas!! Do it