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[quote name='bartelby' post='1063542' date='Dec 19 2010, 02:20 PM']I'm planning to get a custom bass in a year or two, one of my ideas was black with a maple fretboard. But seeing that ebony with sycamore has given me other ideas! Great looking bass obbm![/quote] Thanks. Black with maple was where I started. Alan guided me through the choice of materials to this result.

[quote name='Dread Bass' post='1063533' date='Dec 19 2010, 02:14 PM']Seeing the top on your bass almost made me go for an ebony top for my 7 string. The simple look of the wood is very elegant.[/quote] almost but you didn''t ?

[quote name='Johnston' post='1063499' date='Dec 19 2010, 01:37 PM']Sorry for any offence it wasn't meant that way.[/quote] None taken. Alan's photos are excellent but knowing the disbelievers on this Forum I had to post some pix of my own. BTW it sounds better than it looks.

[quote name='Johnston' post='1063414' date='Dec 19 2010, 12:05 PM']Is this the same one from Jamsession skelf?? If it is OBBMs pictures don't do it justice.[/quote] Thanks for the critique. I am not a photgrapher and have no interest in photgraphy. I just point and click. Perhaps you would like to pop round and take some better pictures using your superior skills.

The very top unit is a Sony graphic equaliser, probably an SRP-E100 or E110. The next two rack units hold the 4 x Sony WRR Wireless Receivers.

[quote name='BassBod' post='1062247' date='Dec 18 2010, 09:05 AM']Great to see its arrived safely! Hope you have a nice snowed-in weekend to play it.....[/quote] Cold and snowed in as it's settling well and the CH decided to die last night. Oh how I love the winter - NOT.

[quote name='walbassist' post='1061933' date='Dec 17 2010, 07:19 PM']Wow, that is lovely. About as far from your usual OBBM bass as you could get, but I bet it's ergonomically perfect to play.[/quote] I liked the ergonomics of the Status Stealth but not the tone, string spacing or the neck profile. This fixes all of those problems. Just been playing it for the last hour and it feels like I've been playing it for years.

[quote name='LawrenceH' post='1061924' date='Dec 17 2010, 07:09 PM']Does that mean you can swap the LED and change the dot colour? Sweet! (Is that how they normally do it?). Not normally a big fan of strange custom shapes but this looks very sleek and functional. Looks like a proper player.[/quote] I suppose it does. I've not looked inside the cavity yet. Normally necks have individual LEDS inserted in them. The body shape is ACG's standard Harlot profile.

I was originally considering an MM Sterling 5 but then decided that for the same money I could have a completely custom bass. The original spec was 5-string with MM SR5 spacing, HS pickups and headless so it would easily fit in the Smart. Body is Asian Ebony on Swap Ash Neck is Maple/Wenge with a Flame Sycamore fretboard It doesn't appear to have suffered from it's travels. Here a few quick pics. Alan has some much nicer shots which should appear on his web site. Neck side dots are illuminated blue through fibre-optics from a single LED in the control cavity. First impressions are that it oozes quality. The neck feels very comfortable and easy to play - this was one of my concerns as I have short fingers. Basic tone is excellent - I now have to master the pre-amp.

[quote name='Hamster' post='1061825' date='Dec 17 2010, 05:32 PM']I've used Interparcel before - they're just a shipping agent with little control over the couriers they use. Big UPS fail on this. Anyway - I ordered a giant box of Bass from a fishmongers in Moffat for our Boxing day kedgeree and the idiots from UPS have just delivered me a new bass guitar - are you sure you don't want to check what's in your box, because if it's full of rotting fish there just aren't enough emoticons on the forum for you to use!!! [/quote] Nope. Wasn't your fish.

[quote name='JMT3781' post='1061700' date='Dec 17 2010, 03:39 PM']Are you far from the depot mate? not really sure of the distance between surrey and crawley.. it would drive me mad knowing it was just sat there. i had a simialr situaion with a shuker in the summer, when the delivery man failed to find my house on 2 occasions..[/quote] I had a long chat with Interparcel this morning and told them I was prepared to drive the 50 miles each way to go and get it but they told me that UPS have such a huge backlog that they were not allowing personal collection. They also told me that they had been chasing it with UPS. Anyway half way through lunch today a UPS van rolls up and lo and behold it's the bass. I know the driver as he is always delivering to me and he said that despite the weather problems last week UPS only drafted in additional manpower on Monday, after the situation had got out of control. The box was extremely cold so I am having to curb my impatience and allow it to come up to temperature before opening it. Photos up later this evening after I've had a play.

Well some can get it right. Last Friday I ordered a Freeview HD set-top box directly from Humax. I was offered a choice of delivery dates and selected today. Last night I got an email confirming delivery today, and at 09:50 this morning I got another email specifying that the delivery would be between 09:59 and 10:59. At about 10:10 it was delivered. Top marks to them. The bass is still listed in the UPS warehouse. Interparcel are singularly unhelpful taking 2 days to respond to emails and then blaming UPS for having a huge backlog. In fact they should rename their Customer Service to Customer Dissatisfaction.

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='1059804' date='Dec 15 2010, 06:00 PM']Have they told you it will be with you dreckley? Sorry Dave ... couldn't resist.[/quote] I would appreciate it if they had, but silence is golden where Interparcel are concerned.

[quote name='walbassist' post='1059711' date='Dec 15 2010, 04:38 PM']And just where is this warehouse? Might be quicker to go and pick it up![/quote] Somewhere in Crawley.

[quote name='Rich' post='1059726' date='Dec 15 2010, 04:55 PM']Will this one do? [/quote] Yup. That'll do nicely.

Well it's now week since my bass was despatched on a 24hr service from Moffat. Interparcel are saying that it's down to UPS and their tracking shows it's been sitting in a UPS warehouse for 6 days. Alan and I keep trying to get answers from Interparcel but they just refuse to answer any emails so I don't know what is happening or when it will be delivered. Because they used UPS as the carrier Interparcel think they can absolve themselves of all responsibility. We are housebound just in case it comes as the last thing I want is for it to go back to the warehouse again. All I can do is look at the pictures that Alan sent me and imagine what it will like to play. I will never ever use Interparcel for any of my shipments. as there isn't an emoticon for "bloody furious".

[quote name='JTUK' post='1057681' date='Dec 13 2010, 07:16 PM']The bass in the pics is not my cup of tea shape-wise and I have indeed gone back to Fender type configs myself for this reason but it looks very well crafted and the orange colour was the rich red type of thing I was going for with my bubinga and maple Sei. In good light the colour of mine is very nice but yours photographs very well indeed.[/quote] The bass in the picture is not mine. Although I have some pictures from Alan I will post my own as and when it arrives.

[quote name='skelf' post='1057628' date='Dec 13 2010, 06:33 PM']The bass is stuck in an UPS warehouse while they clear the back log of deliveries. If only they had pointed this out before taking the booking and the money. So went out on Wednesday for next day delivery and has not moved from Crawley since Thursday.[/quote] Hence seriously concerned and bl**dy annoyed with Interparcel and UPS.

I hope you are luckier with Courriers than I have been. My new ACG was shipped last Wednesday on a 24hr service and it's still not here. It's stuck in a cold damp warehouse somewhere and still no confirmation as to when it will come. Apparently all the carriers are trying to clear the backlog created by the snow and are dealing with that first. I would add however that I sent the Pleasure Board to Nottingham last week on 48-hour ParcelFarce and it turned up exactly on time. I hope your Shuker makes it through the mire. Enjoy it.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1054457' date='Dec 10 2010, 08:02 PM']Buttkicker? [url="http://www.thebuttkicker.com/"]http://www.thebuttkicker.com/[/url] They make attachments for office chairs to allow for silent bass gaming, but would also allow for silent bass listening. I actually got the Buttkicker Concert from Walman about this time last year if you're interested (or if anyone else is interested, as it is now superfluous).[/quote] pm me a price please.

My cunning plan is to build something similar but a lot smaller or perhaps a pleasure stool.

[quote name='mcgraham' post='1054411' date='Dec 10 2010, 07:22 PM']The Pleasure Board and Pump arrived today. Plugged it in after work. In short? This thing is amazing. To the point I just had to share on the forum. It feels exactly like standing on a stage with masses of bass pulsing through the floor. You can get so much groundshaking action it's ridiculous. You can basically finetune the amount of bass you normally like to [i]feel[/i] from an amp/rig together with in-ears to create your own 'onstage' environment - it really is something else. I cannot wait to use it on a gig (Saturday and Sunday). Anyone interested feel free to get in touch. Mark[/quote] Glad you like it.

[quote name='fryer' post='1052163' date='Dec 8 2010, 09:59 PM']Sorry, but what's an ACG ?[/quote] [url="http://www.acguitars.co.uk/Specs/"]A C Guitars[/url]