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The Bash made £590 clear profit of which I have split £500 between 2 charities and have given the school the balance. I've posted the raffle prizes to Sibob and Billy Apple today. One of our supported charities is Cancer Research https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/ For the other it's the charity that Nik works for - https://www.4sight.org.uk/ Well done all! Col13 points
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Beedster....he's been told to take up instruction on woodwork/guitar repairs on other fora but he hasn't. That much is clear in his handiwork. I can see your point about these recurring threads but they recur for a reason. And until he either goes and learns how to repair guitars in even a semi-professional manner, he deserves to be called out. That, Beeds, is not bullying.5 points
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Nice looking bass. It's made by Leif Jakobsson of Guitar Works in Sweden. They're on facebook as "Sweden Guitarworks" I think this is the same instrument:5 points
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I'm far from certain that I'm doing the right thing here. I had a couple of years off from even looking at a bass, due to band driven stress from all the mucking about with no gigs in sight. Thankfully my bass mojo returned and I'm starting to play with a bunch of like minded old fellas. I'm only playing 4 string basses. I think that's where I'm comfortable and it fills my needs. My best bass by some degree has 5 strings hence my post here. This bass is as it was purchased except for a filter pre amp one Mk up again (it was released as my bass came to fruition). It comes with a Hiscox case too. It has a flat radius board, 18mm spacing and plays like a dream. Complex tones are available with the filter pre and 20 coils of pickup on hand. The bass even has a passive switch and a passive tone (batteries are required to power the pickups). 34" scale with a 7 piece neck that is ultra stable. I modelled the woods from my Warwick Thumb and it has that growl which is great. This bass has presence in spades... It's no lightweight. It was never intended to be but I'm skinny and I find it sits well on a strap and balances perfectly. If it doesn't sell I'm going to be working on my B string use... Original photos from Alan's site until I get some done in the next few days. It's not changed.. Peter Top Wood: Bubinga/Maple/Wenge Body Wood: Wenge Accent Veneer: Maple Body Finish: Oil/Wax Neck Wood: 7 piece Bubinga/Wenge Fingerboard: Wenge Scale: 34″ Head Plate: Bubinga/Maple, Back Plate: Bubinga/Maple and Heel: Bubinga/Maple Neck Finish: Oil/Wax Pickups: ACG MC5 Multi-Coils Hardware details: ACG/Hipshot bridge, Gotoh GB350 Resolite tuners, Dunlop Dual Design Straplocks and DR Dragon Skin strings Pre-amp: ACG EQ04 5K dual filter4 points -
Hi All, I have my lovely Mesa Boogie 400+ up for sale, as you will see from the photo it comes in the Mesa Boogie flight case which will look much better soon as i currently in the middle of refurbishing it. I was told by the original owner that the Valves had all been replaced with matched pairs and this was done around 2 years ago and since has had very little playing. I use it at home manly and it is a dream of a head. I also have a the matching road ready cabs 4x10's and 1x15's so could do a deal on the lot if interested.4 points -
Holiday for two in Crete.4 points
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We had a great night in terms of our playing and the guests, we sounded great according to all the people who came and spoke to us after and probably 90% of the people there were up and on the dance floor at the end with good numbers throughout. All the new songs went down well, Sit Down was crazy popular (one I thought would empty the dance floor). When we finished out second set around 11pm everyone seemed to head home and we were on our own with the bride and groom by 11.30pm which was a bit weird. The organisation however was an utter shambles. We arrived at 6 but weren’t allowed to start setting up until gone 7pm. We had to set up in front of the DJ (Who was brilliant thankfully). We dug our heels in and took an hour to set up, we also decided to sod their PA system and just run how we normally do and just put vocals through their system. The chap running it was friendly but no one seemed to have an idea of how it should work, one of the women there was awful and tried to say she didn’t know there was a band on despite speaking to me the day before! This all made it very stressful indeed but we played well, the bride and groom loved it so a success despite the venues best efforts!4 points
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I recently took possession of this US made Spector Forte 6. The Forte model was introduced in the early 2010's as a no frills version of the US NS basses. Cutting down on options, no fancy woods or inlays therefore making the production streamlined the aim was to offer a straightforward and a bit more affordable version of the NS models. Still made by the team of Stuart Spector (before his retirement) and co, Fortes are essentially the same as the US NS models but in Forte 'versions' Now to the contrary of all above this Forte 6 has more features than some of my US NS-5XL basses and certainly more than normal Fortes. Flamed maple top, ash back are the body woods, ebony (!) is the fingerboard, tuners are the same as the NS custom models, preamp is Aguilar OBP and the pickups are EMG 45DCs. It is a wonderful sounding bass, powerful but not aggressive, clean and very even in all registers and there is a depth and richness to the sound. The no inlay ebony board is a wonder in itself, the neck is comfortable for a sixer and the whole thing is an incredibly well built, ergonomicly designed and sweet sounding bass. I have owned and currently own US made NS-5XL Spectors and this is up there with the best of them. Enjoy the pics!3 points
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There are regular threads about his eBay listings because he consistently lists some of the crudest instruments you will ever see. That is the causal link here, not any sort of "feeding frenzy" as you put it. You're viewing this through a lens that people want to bully him which isn't true, we like laughing at badly bodged basses on eBay and this was the case before MDP picked up his angle grinder and feverently set about a plastic nut. It's done with other sellers too like the mad German guy who's listings get flagged and ripped to shreds due to how terrible they are. I don't see anybody leaping to his defences though, at least be consistent.3 points
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Brewster, you're one of these 'people' who's only interested in their own agenda. The guys a crook and deserves criticism for it.3 points
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How is any of this online bullying? It's people commenting on the woeful standards of workmanship on instruments which are being sold by a guy with a company name, a guy who does this for a living. As I pointed out in reply to your last comment the moment someone did get a bit personal the very same people who criticise his insruments pulled that poster back. Go check it if you don't believe me, you won't (confirmation bias and all that) but it's there. Has it genuinely got to the stage when having a giggle at an incredibly badly put together instrument and the hilarious terms used to promote it is classed as "online bullying"? Are you actually for real here? I think it's also been pointed out to you in a previous thread the last time you white knighted this guy that when people do politely message him he replies in a very arrogant and rude manner. As I see it these threads are totally valid, if MDP doesn't like them then he can always improve his skills. That option was there for him years ago when he first started selling guitars and it's still there now.3 points
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Relisted...... Lovely little amp, lightweight, plenty of power and tone shaping. Frankly sounds great and nothing not too like. I'd don't really use it though hence moving it on... Has the original box for shipping however I've also kept it in an old Panasonic camera kit case which is perfect for the job. You're welcome to this but I'd have to check if it would all fit in the box. Rest of the story is pretty standard but worth noting these amps will drop to 2.67 ohm load if you wanted to use 3 8s or an 8 and a 4....3 points -
My two "new" best friends, but the worst enemies of my back: The Super Bassman with 810 Neo cab, and the 100T with a "Fenderized" Hughes & Kettner QS810L that used to tour with the Swedish hard rock group Europe... The club setup: 100T and 115 Neo (can also be used with the Super Bassman). I bought this cab from knicknack here on BC and had it shipped for a very modest price to Sweden. Sometimes I use the Monique in front, but that is sheer luxury.3 points
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Exactly. He is attempting to charge people who know little good money for his hack work. Why should we not call him out? A lot of beginners are members on here and if we can prevent any of them from being conned by this man and his ilk, I say that's a good thing. I don't care whether he has mental health issues or not. That's no excuse for ripping people off.3 points
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Do they know what they are buying, emporers clothes springs to mind? And what instruments that he has 'improved ' would you be happy to buy? I don't get the mental health angle? He runs a business, it's not a charity. He's not doing us any favours. I think his work should scrutinised in the same way any luthier could be on this forum?3 points
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Excellent result from an excellent day. The very definition of win:win.3 points
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I don’t know but they need to dredge them back down.3 points
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This is a great little acoustic bass with inbuilt pre-amp & tuner. I love it. Mostly I've just played it at home and it's only done a couple of gigs. I wouldn't be selling it except that I need to buy a car and so a few things have to go. It's in great condition. Could probably do with a set up. Depending on how you play there is sometimes the tiniest bit of buzz on the frets but it's never bothered me. Taylor web info here: https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/gs-mini-e-bass GAK info here: https://www.gak.co.uk/en/taylor-gs-mini-e-bass/904810 I don't have box for posting so collect from SE5/Brixton or central-ish London or anywhere in York. Happy to travel reasonable distance for a tenner. I can post more pics if anybody wants to see more detail.2 points -
For me it would be a Modulus Flea in Hot Pink Sparkle with Wal pickups and electronics. The ultimate bass! 😂2 points
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One of my ramps, or Thumb-chum, as it got named as it is also a thumb rest and pick-up cover.2 points
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Essentially, a Precision. Standard BBOT bridge, KioGon vintage circuit, slim, almost Geddy Lee Jazz neck, maple, standard USA pickups, black paint, BWB guard. Oh look, here it is!2 points
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Neck carve progressing. Everyone has their own way of doing it, I start by ignoring the difficult bits (ie the transitions) and getting the straight bit of the neck close to its final shape. I know lots of people start with the transitions, but I find it easier to have the main part of the neck done first, so I can sort of visualise what the transition needs to look like to join up with main. So here, after the pink tape the neck is more or less carved: It's now just a question of hand carving till there is a gentle curve from the pink tape at one end, to the pencil line of the volute at the other. Here I've done the rough carve on right hand side: The left had side is always more difficult (if you're right handed) because I've got to hold the file in my left hand. I don't know if there's also a left/right brain thing going on, but I also find it more difficult to visualise. Anyway, so far so good...2 points
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I'm basically building mine right now! Well, modding at least. Converting my Fender Elite P bass to passive as I never use active and the preamp colours the sound (I finally know what people mean by that now!). So neck and body exactly the same as the Elite, PJ set up with S/P switch on the volume, blend pot for pups and master tone. Maybe a kill switch if I can be bothered. Olympic white, rosewood board with a tort plate (which I am stupidly making with a Dremel, I still haven't learned that it's probably more trouble than it's worth) but other colours might be surf green/daphne blue with anodized gold plate and maple neck (which is basically the regular P bass I made). Also, an orange sparkle or translucent finish which I'm going to attempt on my Jazz bass one day... or mocha... the colours would change every 6 months or so...2 points
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I know, but there might be very good reasons why he's unable to take advice (check out my earlier post). There's been far worse examples of dodgy dealings in this space; luthiers who've taken huge amounts of money for instruments that never materialised or were entirely substandard (and I'm talking 4-figure sums), guys who've deliberately sold fakes, eBay and BC sellers who've done a runner with the money etc. OK, some of them got caught, some of them didn't, and forums like this helped the buyers. fair enough. So, if the genuine intention of this thread is to stop him doing what he does, I would agree. But given how many previous similar threads there have been, it's pretty clearly not going to work. And if that isn't the genuine intention, I just don't see the point, unless it's an expression of some of the less attractive aspects of human nature, hence my post about bullying. As a human being, he might be any of a number of things; a misguided oddity or a cynical exploiter of other people's naivety. I have my suspicions hence my posting to object to the thread. I might be wrong, but a false positive in this context does no harm really.2 points
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Huge Hands!😅😅2 points
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I've reported him several times over the years. Wherw is the 'bullying' taking place? I fail to see it?2 points
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There is something incongruous about the feeback. Perhaps there is some magic going on which we're all missing until we've experienced it for ourselves, but given the shocking visual state of the work, I'm inclinded not to consider it entirely trustworthy. I do wonder how he'd fare against the trade descriptions act, actually. Perhaps it falls in to 'Red Bull gives you wiiings' territory. It's so patently untrue it is clearly humourous hyperbole- no-one would believe that the drink will cause them to sprout fully functioning wings, even though the advert directly states as such. However, I think the fact that he skirts the line of truth and outright lies so closely is also cause to be suspicious. Maybe we should all purchase something from him, and learn just how wrong everything we know has been all this time? Something a little incongrous here, too. You are absolutely correct that all accusations and arguments need to be made from a point of pragmatism and rooted in factual assertions, any assumption or ad hominen attacks aren't really valid here. I appreciate that you are trying to make sure that this thread doesn't descend into a witch hunt or plain old bullying- that's a good thing. That said, you can see as well as anyone that these items are hack-jobs being sold as something they are not, and would advise a friend to steer well clear of being ripped off by him. His transparency as a charlatan and spin doctor make any defense of him and his 'facts' look shaky. Hundreds of satisfied customers of instruments looking objectively worse than a standard budget factory instrument, and costing multiple times more just doesn't add up. Has a whiff of fish and rodents to me.2 points
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@hiram.k.hackenbacker absolutely superb collection and great reviews 👍2 points
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The Bass fairy sprinkling magic on your sound2 points
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Do you not think his listings will automatically filter out anybody who knows about how guitars should be constructed or even those with basic woodworking knowledge? Surely you don't think anybody other than a total novice would browse what he has for sale and do anything other than laugh their b0ll0cks off? We have a guy in my local neighbourhood who sells old laptops at carboot sales, I see him every time I have a stroll around so he's probably there every week. Big table full of old consumer grade Pentium M and Core 2 Duos from XP to Vista eras, nothing you'd pay more than £35 for if you needed a basic laptop and you were skint. His strategy is remarkably similar to MDP's - massively inflated price tag (£140 for an old HP Core 2 Duo and £69 for a Celeron M Compaq last time I looked) and a label attached with sales guff proclaiming the programs he's installed and the effort put into setting it up. His customers seem to be mainly older folk who have no issue paying well over the odds as they trust the local computer expert and his sales patter over a faceless online store front. Literally nobody who knows what they are looking at would even consider buying one and would instantly recognise it as someone trying to gouge money by misrepresenting a product, thus any knowledgeable buyers are instantly filtered out. MDP's listings have the same effect IMO, nobody who has been playing in any sort of semi-serious capacity and has gained even the tiniest bit of knowledge would think those instruments were worth more than 20% of the asking price. The only people clicking BIN are novices.2 points
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That doesn't answer the question really, we aren't talking about general eBay precautions. We're talking about a specific listing which shows some extremely poor workmanship which someone who trusts you is asking for advice on, that's why it's a good way to determine what you actually think about his selling practices rather than what you think you should be thinking. If someone showed you a link to that slapdash Grabber clone/Legacy cut and shut thing would you say "yeah sure, that looks a good bet for just shy of £250 delivered" or would you say "how long a barge pole do you have"? It's actually a really easy question to answer, I would give it the thumbs down just from looking at the first few pictures. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bass-guitar-with-EB3-single-and-Musicman-twin-coil-pickups/193044925422?hash=item2cf25fcbee:g:93wAAOSwMHpdUWhO2 points
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Indeed. And sadly the bad thing about Ebay is sellers can 'fine tune' the feedback that gets left, thus. Couple years ago I spent a tennerish plus postage on a clothing bag/suit protector type thing off Ebay, was from a seller with large product turnover. The product was advertised with all the usual guff we've all come to know and love "Hi quality....super tough....etc etc " It tore as I tried to take it out its plastic bag packaging. A bit miffed, I left them negative feedback and set about trying to find a decent product (Which I haven't to this very day, I don't think they exist) Day or so later I received an email telling me that if I retracted that feedback, they'd refund me in full. Now, how many people would go for that sort of deal? A very large percentage Id wager. I didn't as it goes, coz I was so p*ssed off and I'm generally a very stubborn bugger. I left my feedback there. But I never got a refund.2 points
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Lacklustre? They were on the level of a school band's second rehearsal - sloppy, out-of-time and inept. This sort of stuff can be great when played well, but this lot were pretty much incompetent. What they're "doing right" is having marketing money behind them, which is likely to be a lot more to do with what the singer looks like than anything else.2 points
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:attempts to list kidney on the "Sell Anything" section:2 points -
Oh here we go again...you should know that if I need someone to blame me for stuff that they do, I have a perfectly good Mrs. Mango at home for that. Anyway, Spectors… last night was the first time I've ever had someone come up to me after a gig and ooze enthusiasm over my apparently amazing fretless bass sound... good old Spectorcore fretless 5, another on-point @Dood recommendation!2 points
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Ibanez fretless SR something, natural finish,burr poplar/walnut, black metalwork, flatwound strings, best electrics they do, I'll know it when they build it and get upset cos it'll be out of my price range2 points
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Last wedding I played there was a guy shouting "Rammstein!!! Disturbed!!!" which tickled the singer and I, so you never know!! We stuck to our usual not that heavy set though and he seemed happy enough that we knew who he was talking about.2 points
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*Headphones/decent speakers needed* These are the 760FL on my ‘71 P: These are the 760FS on my Lakland 44-64: Si2 points
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Easy... I’d have three models... Mark 3 Wal four string. Flamed sycamore top with a translucent blue burst finish and matching headstock. Black hardware. Mark 1 Wal four string. Olive ash top in natural finish. Matching headstock. Silver hardware. Mark 3 Wal four string. Beech top. Natural finish. Silver hardware. I’m a man of simple and predictable (if eyewateringly expensive) tastes. And the bad news... Wal don’t do “endorsements” so I’d be paying full whack, just like anyone else. And waiting two years for them.2 points
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Excellent news! Good to hear that, once again, us having fun also helps some good causes.2 points
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I’m glad I’m not the only one who has purchases “created” by too much wine2 points
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In between bl_ody Halloween preparations (I know, I know, and I agree with you, but how do you say that to a 3 year old?) I've made a bit of progress. First up I glued the neck heel in place, and of course added in another pin stripe. Yippee! You may wonder why it's laughably oversized, poking way out of the neck pocket? The reason is that I knew I was going to want to rout it flush with the side of the neck so I needed it large enough to provide at least some stability on the router table. Thus: So, putting the neck in and checking on height at the bridge? Really at this point there shouldn't be any surprises, cos I've measured several thousand times, but it's to within 0.5mm, so happy with that. I then start to shape the neck itself. First of all I do the taper, going from 21mm depth at the 1st fret to 24mm at the 12th. As usual, I use a router to do this. It leaves a lovely flat (but tapered) surface for me to be able to draw on the facets that I use to shape the neck itself. Here's my taper jig. Like most the jigs I have they were prototypes that were supposed to replaced with better ones made out of baltic birch and beautiful machined clamps and stops and such like. The trouble is they work as they are, and I really really hate making jigs. If you are easily offended by crude MDF with router stops that are just taped on rulers, look away now.... Next up, neck carve. I started by doing the curved profile for the volute and the heel on the spindle sander, then started my usual technique of carving flat facets that give the neck it's rough shape, before filing/sanding off the sharp edges to leave what is hopefully a fairly standard C shape. More on the neck carve tomorrow😁2 points
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You lot got nothing better to do than pick on this guy? There's more than one of you posted on BC re mental health problems in the past, need I go further? Go play your basses or find someone else to gang up on, this is just boring and sad, and really does not reflect well on BC as a community.2 points
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this in a blue sparkle...easy2 points
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Hi Chris yes still has the front panel.1 point -
It would be a confusing enigma that just doesn't quite get there. A bit like me playing an improvised bass line. Or just a Fender jazz with Barolinis.1 point
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Nobody is 'picking' on Mark D Phillips. If anyone appears to be 'picking' on Mark D Phillips, it is because he promotes himself as one of that rare cadre of people known as 'we who build guitars', yet he is nothing more than a hack, a bodger who has persisted in spraying his hack-jobs and snake-oil across instrument fora for at least six years. And in that period, Mark D Phillips has learned sweet flip all! Ok, he managed to do some OTT cavity screening and claimed to have invented a coil-split circuit! I will not apologise for ripping MarK D Phillips to shreds, for he deserves every criticism that is levelled against him!1 point
