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[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392426765' post='2368784'] Well OK, but my solution is actually possible. Thhhpp! Thp! Thhpp! [/quote] possible shmossible... dare to imagine, man!

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392400061' post='2368321'] Black plastic is nasty stuff to laser cut as it burns and melts. The only option for black is to either anodise the alu ones, or I can CNC from acrylic plate. I should have quoted costs for the alu ones on Monday and will look at costs for plastic. I don't want to make a load of different versions or I end up either making 1 by 1, which is not worth it at £20 each, or a load of stock I would not know where to shift. Will report back with prices then, people can let me know how many they want, and we can go from there. Cheers, Rich [/quote] Cool, thanks for taking care of this! (and when I said black plastic I meant black acrylic... it's all "plastic" to me )

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1392406813' post='2368472'] A stock LMIII and a mini headstock tuner..? [/quote] No. A LMIII with a tuner. And a mute button.

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1392386547' post='2368026'] BTW what news on the control plate? Ever get that finished? [/quote] erm... ... not yet. I've been too busy taking other basses apart and finding room for all the bits (don't say anything, please )

[quote name='apa' timestamp='1392379135' post='2367900'] It looks like your all sorted but if your really stuck let me know and I could get them made again for you A [/quote] ah, here's the man who copied my original one in aluminium... (again, thank you! ) I've had lots of people asking me about the thumbrests. I'm alright with the ones you made for me, they should last me for a lifetime (unless I get a bigger place so that I can store more bases ) even after I gave a few away. But I'd love a handful of black plastic ones.... Hopefully Diablo will sort this out and we don't need to bother you again... but if that fails and you're willing...

[quote name='lemmywinks' timestamp='1392331985' post='2367626'] A Markbass with the Compressore, a tuner and a mute switch would get a sale from me straight away. [/quote]# Yes, the MUTE switch... I forgot that

Same here, stick on only... And black acrylic, please If they're shaped like the model I sent you, 5mm thick, and black acrylic... I'll get some! At £2ish I would happily get 6 of them!

[quote name='la bam' timestamp='1392322035' post='2367467'] I think a lot of bassists are going for the all in one small powerful package. As Lozz says Markbass with a tuner would be fantastic. I had an Ashdown Superfly and loved the size, but the compression which you couldnt turn off used to drive me mad! So any additions on an amp must be turn off-able for me. [/quote] Yes!!! Please, a Markbass LMIII with a tuner, indeed! If compression is included, it must have the ability to be turned OFF...

[quote name='Skol303' timestamp='1392221900' post='2366141'] We have a 3 year-old in the house, so I'm currently considering wall hangers until he's a little older and his fingers are less sticky. [/quote] Years ago, when I was much much younger, I moved to a new city to do a year gaining experience in industry, before I finished my degree. I had little money and until I got to know the city and where I'd like to live, I stayed in a house with another two students and a landlady who would cook dinner for us. We got along really well (but that's another story ) and she often had her daughter visiting, who was my age and had a 3 year old boy. One day I got home and I had the feeling that someone had been in my room. That was not unusual, as my landlady would sometimes take clothes we left drying outside and bring them in etc... but this wasn't it. It was something else... but I could not put my finger on it. I didn't give it more importance, until after dinner when I went to get my guitar (on a stand in a corner of my room)... and found a lollipop stuck on the back of it!!! I was a bit annoyed but it soon passed when I realised it was just the lollipop and a couple of sticky fingerprints... and decided to ask my landlady if anything unusual had happened that day. She was mortified! Apparently the child had seen my guitar before and was mesmerised by it... this day I had left the door open, and one minute he was not being watched he got there. They thought they got to him before he touched anything, but... he left his mark We laughed. I wonder if he became a guitarist after all.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392314374' post='2367274'] Just send me the sketch or CAD data, I PM'ed my personal email to you. I'm placing an order for around £500 of stuff early next week and can just add this order into that. I need to send them a drawing or DXF to quote against first though. Even a photo of your existing one with a rule beside it and a note on the thickness would be enough, it is 2 mins worth of CAD to draw it up. Cheers, Rich [/quote] Hi Rich, I didn't get your PM with email address, but I PM'd you links to the original scan (TIFF), the AI file, and the DXF and DWG format files (exported from AI)... did you get those ok? The thickness is 5mm. J.

OK, some news... So minimum order is £150... +VAT! So that's £180 (not sure what delivery would be like, but it can't add a lot) They say they can make me 50, in black acrylic, so that would work at £3.60 each, which I'm happy to pay... but that's 50 of the things! I could buy 5-6 of them, so who wants the remaining 44? Probably best to see what Rich can do.

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1392303872' post='2367027'] lol, sorry dude, was meant more teasing than impatient [/quote] it's fine, don't worry, you got me before coffee as well

The company I meant to use seems to have upped their minimum order to £150!!! (how many do we want? ) The good news is I managed to produce the files needed. I asked for an exact quote etc, but with that min order I doubt it'll be worth it. However, Rich "Diablo" might be able to sort something out...

[quote name='iconic' timestamp='1392290597' post='2366786'] I liked mine although I no longer have the bass [/quote] Heretic!!! I'm going to start a J&D forum myself, just so that I can ban you from it.

am I the only one who liked the stock strings???

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1392233952' post='2366336'] It was the very one - I kept on looking, and then it was gone.......... [/quote] It didn't last. A couple of hours after I posted someone PM'd me, and then a few others. I didn't realise it was in such high demand! It was a nice amp, and loved the extra features... tuner, presets... But I'm liking the GB Shuttle 9.2 better. The GB Streamliner 900 is £499 new, and the 600 is £399 (about the same as a RH450 used)... so if you're looking for "old school" sound, that may be a cool option.

[quote name='Diablo' timestamp='1392239468' post='2366432'] If people want these laser cutting (me to...) I can sort it for a lot less than an £85 order. I will be at my laser profilers Thursday morning as I'm just about to place an order for several hundred quids worth of bearing and clutch plates that they cut for me. I can add a batch of these into one of my other orders and get them cut at cost, I'm thinking a couple of quid each sort of price including material. For deburring after cutting I have a tumbler that I chuck the parts in with abrasive stones and water or petrol and let it wear all the edges off. Or people can spend 5 mins with a file and wet/dry and finish as you wish. For tape I would use car body trim double sided adhesive tape. It is made for sticking plastic and metal to paint and survive jet washing! If any of you are interested let me know. I can also create a CAD / DXF file as I have 3D CAD software. Cheers, Rich [/quote] I can send you a real size scan to base the design on, if you want to try making it the same shape (I personally love it, find it very comfy!). I have not yet produced the vector graphics version of it. If not, no worries. I hope to sort this out soon, before people get too impatient and start rolling their eyes at me

[quote name='Les' timestamp='1392238254' post='2366420'] Any news mate ? [/quote] sorry mate, I have not got around to sort this out yet. It's in my "to do" list, but work, bands, girlfriend etc take time too. The "eye rolling" icon, I could do without, you know?

[quote name='Lozz196' timestamp='1392230395' post='2366269'] Thanks guys, confirmed what I was thinking, but always nice to hear it confirmed. Missed out on the last RH, rats! [/quote] ah, I just sold my RH450... If I knew you were after one!

[quote name='thebigyin' timestamp='1392136994' post='2365193'] Hello, We're individully all experienced musicians.....but our Guitarist can't seem to play a full gig without making several mistakes......be it bum chords or forgetting song arrangement ect, upto now we've turned a blind eye but after a year together it's beggining to get a bit much.....would you bring it up? He's fully aware he's made the errors and thinks nothing of it, saying he's sorry but eh never mind.....bare in mind he's a very good friend but has quite a volatile temper lol.....at times his playing his very good but we've never got thro' a gig without some sort of Howler. [/quote] more practice? anybody can make the odd mistake, but if happens frequently and he even forgets arrangements it suggests he does not put much time in learning the songs and in keeping up. He needs to practice, by himself.

[quote name='Beer of the Bass' timestamp='1392117896' post='2364791'] The size and weight do seem really handy too. Have you tried it with the Shuttle yet? That could be a very cool mini-rig for rehearsals etc. [/quote] That's how I first tried it. I was playing the Shuttle with various BF cabs, both lone cabs and in combination. The BF BB2 was a revelation: it had nearly as much bottom end as my Compact, but it was just clearer and better defined. The BB2 plus Supermidget was also very nice. The Supermidget alone sounded really good too, but was a mit too "harsh"... and right after that I tried the Schroeder by itself, which made me smile straight away. It does not have as much bottom end as the Supermidget, but it can sound deep enough if you place it by a wall etc, much like it happens with my little Markbass combo, which can sound wimpy if you have it on a chair in the middle of a big room, but it can fill a smaller room (think City Cafe, in Edinburgh) if you place it carefully. It had more pleasing sound that the Supermidget, to me, with the Stingray. I think the Shuttle and the Schroeder alone will work very nicely, but I'm not sure there is a big advantage over using the small Markbass alone, in terms of weight and bulk. One thing is that at home I was not using the Markbass, because I feel at low volumes it sounds a bit "dead", and the piezo tweeter is a bit annoying in its harshness. The Shuttle plus Shroeder sound great! Although it seems a bit funny to say I use a 900W amp for practice Fortunately it has a very effective volume control What I really liked about using the Schroeder as an extension for the Markbass was that it sounded a lot "bigger" than the combo alone would, and I was pushing the amp less (well, maybe not, what I mean is that the volume knob was set much lower than I normally would, yet it sounded bigger). The tweeter in the Schroeder was turned down/halfway, I have to try turning it up more... I don't like tweeters, but this one was very smooth sounding, when I tested it on Sunday. It's rated at 350W, so you should be able to make enough noise through it.

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry, I just needed to share that... what an awesome little cab! Just by chance, I ended up trying several cabs, including the Schroeder, which happened to be for sale, and I fell in love with it. I have used it tonight as an extension cab for my Markbass CMB121P combo, and it's incredible! I was barely pushing the amp, and it sounded really nice, big, defined... combo plus cab fit in the boot of my VW Golf with LOTS of space to spare. What a fantastic combination! That's all. As you were

I had the opportunity to have a play with a BB2 yesterday, thanks to a very kind local musician who let me try my Compact (2nd generation, not the newer ones) with his BB2 and his supermidget, my Shuttle 9.2 and various other things. He demoed the BB2 with double bass first. It sounded huge. Very nice bottom end... but unlike the Compact, its top end was also really good. I like my Compact, but the BB2 is probably the cab I would have gone for over it, had I known about it at the time (well, it was not available at the time ). The horn can be attenuated but I did not notice a huge effect, as the main driver can take care of the top end reasonably well (I have a hairy chest, so I'm not looking for extremely trebly sounds ) BB2 by itself was really nice. I'm glad I have one ordered and I can't wait to get my hands on it. BB2 + Compact was extremely sweet. It sounded really big. We played it loud but I did not push it very hard because I did not have earplugs and it was starting to scare me. I suspect I will personally prefer 2x BB2, because it can handle lows very well. Perhaps not as well as the Compact, and the Compact may be louder but the BB2 is a more "balanced" cab, I felt. Supermidget was... a revelation. What a great little cab! Small, ultra light... and what a sound. NOt as much bottom end as the others, of course, but it was not shy. On the floor by a wall it produced a lot of deep bass. BB2+supermidget was probably the nicest sounding combination, for my taste. Deep lows, loud and good definition. Compact + supermidget was also nice, but the BB2 worked better, for me. So... I'm really looking forward to getting my BB2, and I think I may just get a second one to replace my Compact, and they're just a tiny bit smaller in a way that will probably allow me to fit both in the boot of my car (the compact is a fraction too wide to fit perfectly, as it pushes the backseat tray up - VW Golf). One thing: the new handle. When I arrived to see the cabs, this man told me he loved the BB2 but there was an annoying rattle he could not track down. It rattled noticeably when playing a D, mostly. He said he tested all screws and everything he could think off, but it continued to rattle. It was a little annoying. He said he was about to call Alex to get the cab looked at. Then I plugged in my Stingray. It rattled more, the D... and the G too for some reason (no particular G rattling from his double bass or Status bass guitar). How puzzling. So I kept playing while he started putting his hands in various parts of the cab to see whether he could find where it really came from. And we found it! It was the metal handle rattling! He put a tea towel under it and that was it, no rattling, beautiful. So, if you notice a rattle... before returning it, check the handle! It should be easy to use some rubber, or something else better looking than a tea towel to cure the problem, if you do have the problem.

[quote name='Lee Carter' timestamp='1392024245' post='2363588'] OK, to add my t'penneth worth, I took a drive down to Romford on Saturday to take a look at this fabled beast. DV have a very nice shop, but as per most establishments many, many guitars....a few basses. Tried the display model of the J&D, and for the money I was frankly amazed. Looks the business, very hard to see any issues unless you look very hard (SP fit around the neck a little off, match to control panel not quite spot on), the display model had some white marks on the binding that didn't wipe off (spit and finger). To play, the neck felt as fast as my highway one, I'm not a fan of high gloss necks but this plays fine. Nice sounds from both pickups, with a very nice jazz grunt when you roll the body pick-up right off. Both up full gives a very pleasing thud. The long and short is I bought one, a boxed one from the warehouse. Inspected it for the marks mentioned above and all was well. Check out the intonation and action when I got home, and bar a couple of tweaks it was spot on. I bought this as a 'Jam'/experimentation bass, which it will be perfectly good for. Saves me lending my pricier (I won't say better just yet) basses to the great unwashed. Once I've had her out for proper play I'll report back, but if you are after a cheapy then you can't go far wrong with one of these. [/quote] It's nice, isn't it? I find myself gravitating towards it more than any other of my basses at the moment. Yes it's a cheapie and it may not be "wonderful", but I'm finding it very pleasing.

[quote name='krispn' timestamp='1391909336' post='2362645'] McNash I'll PM ya! [/quote] PM'd back. McNach