LukeFRC

[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1439031985' post='2839502'] Just make the rig as modular as possible by having stackable self contained units that can be added as your stage size increases. A load of Bergantino IP112ER cabs would be the simplest solution. [/quote] good luck finding a load of them!

yes like most rigs either head could blow either cab if you were daft so use your ears/brain

serial numbers are often better ways to work out the age of a jazz bass....

When a bass has had highly figured top wood added to figured fretboard with a few other aaaaaaaa grade woods thrown in the mix... with zero consideration to how the combination works. And us all for being suckers who buy them

[quote name='spiltmilk_2000' timestamp='1439234440' post='2841166'] Think candy apple red might have been added to the list... I thought choosing a custom colour was going to be fun but it's starting to give me sleepless nights! :-) [/quote] you haven't even started to consider sparkle/glitter, or candy finishes yet!

so... this is progressing - and I'm taking lots of photos - but think I might sit and upload them all later as the lacquer is curing rather than now. Just one thing in the update.... I have no idea how good the wood bits of this are - we could be looking at a dog or something better.... so my aim has to be to make this as cheaply as possible... with the exception of tuners where a nice set of schallers are worth investing in.... £50 Body, neck, pickup £9 Paint £30 tuners and a pot (thanks Jimryan) £15 bridge £3 Screws, Bolts and inserts £3 control plate and knobs £5 ish -2x pcb £7 electronic bits and pots £15 scratchplate so the whole thing will come in at around £150. One of the downsides of doing it on a budget is that I'm not buying tools to do things.... so while a sensible person would have got a router for the control cavity, or at least visited my mate Graham-with-the-tools, muggins here hand chiseled out the cavity.... anyway info to follow...

Love the amps. I wouldn't want one of their cabs again.

I switched pups on my SS1 to barts - for me, much nicer. What were you thinking of sticking in? [quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1438495668' post='2834857'] Next, what's wrong with the jack? Have you tried cleaner spray? If you need a new jack, you can get one from Warwick; to be sure of having the right one. [/quote] Warwick jacks are notorious for getting a bit rubbish by the time the bass is 20 years old. Any stereo barral jack will work and a nice Nutrick will be as good/better and probably cheaper than anything Warwick will sell you.

[quote name='Bill Fitzmaurice' timestamp='1438288515' post='2833359'] The only commercial cabs that I'm aware of that have reasonably flat response are Baer and Barefaced. If you want to be able to tell if a cab may have something close to flat response see if it has a midrange driver. If it doesn't, it doesn't. Even if it has a tweeter it won't be flat, there will be a response hole between the woofer and tweeter, if not on axis definitely off-axis. OTOH a tweeter isn't necessary, a good midrange driver goes as high as at least 90% of bass players really need. [/quote] Would you class your simplexx range as a "commercial cab" option?

ACME B2 is pretty flat. (and goes low) Also tried the Barefaced Big baby. Not as low and has a wee spike in the mids which works really well for electric bass. The whole thing is a bit weird though, as the moment you stick it in a room it's no longer flat response is it? So then you'd need some some active DSP to flatten it to the room.... The old Bergantino IP series had DSP to help protect the driver on the low end and flatten it out... but from what I understand they didn't go for a "flat" response, more a "sounds good" response. I had a Hellborg preamp into a power amp into a ACME B2 - and that was clean and flat and sounded good. I now have a Mesa Walkabout scout which is about as far from that setup as you can get.... ACME would be my recommendation though for cabs

So... I've got a project on the go- and been thinking of shell pink finishes... then glitter finishes... and then was showing the wife some of Jens Ritter's masterpieces and had a thought - anyone got/seen any good examples of illustrated basses at all? I can think of say Flea's modulus with all the stickers... and can find things like the guitar below - but anyone got anything sh*ethot cool to show me? Plotting things...

[quote name='zawinul' timestamp='1438040018' post='2831199'] 1990 [/quote] how's that new? If it's been sat in a shop for the last 25 years then you would expect some ageing of the wood.

how old a warwick is it?

Where are you Dood?

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]part 2 - Luke gets some bits randomly off gumtree and instantly regrets [/font][/color] [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]So you know when you see something on gumtree for like £50 and you kinda go for it as it's a small enough amount of money that you're not weighing it up massively.... well I cycled up to this guys to see this bass was undecided.... and then went home he rang me and I went for it....[/color][/font] [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Now the sensible thing would have been to buy a OLP for about £150 or so. Or even a USA made Musicman Sub bass cost £300-400 secondhand. [/color][/font] [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"]Why sensible? Cos you get a playable bass... what i picked up was defiantly a project....[/color][/font] So what is it.... It's a solid ash body painted with some black stuff... it's sunk into the grain too. Home made pickguard maple neck with... odd dot markers, very flat radius and lifting frets a jack socket and a pot that's some kind of tone control a black bridge of some kind a bone nut he cut himself and tuners scavenged off another bass - made for a smaller hole... oh and the good thing is there's a Bartolini MMC pickup in there. You can see where I've taken the thing apart. Oh and I forgot to meantion... the fella made it all himself, leeds school of music (college of music ? the one which churns out brilliant musicians anyway) used to do a instrument building course. He was a drummer and had done it and made a guitar and a bass. This is the bass. So I got this, and with dead strings it didn't sound awful and after a day wondered why I had bought it. It's been made by this fella - I could rebuild it and it be amazing.... or I could spend ages on it and realise he hadn't paid any attention in his classes and all I've bought is firewood (and Bart pickup) who knows... Coming up in part 3 - the one where luke improvises to strip the body.... [font="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][color="#282828"][/color][/font]

PART 1 So a build thread - and more a bolt parts together than a carving wood type build thread... So I've got a few really really nice basses and pretty much no GAS. A few months back I did a trade with mark_ir, and while at his studio I got to play his old Stingray bass, it was a 1977 pre-eb thing, in root beer or whatever the brown colour is. And it was amazing - such a "musical" instrument. I loved it. And a stingray is one of the few classic types of basses that I've never really tried... Had P basses, Had Jazzes, and sold them as they sound great but never my bass tone live Tried a rick long enough to know it wasn't for me. But a stingray's always that other bass that someone else has but I've never had the chance to play with. Well I built a fretless once with a musicman pup in the right position on an old Vox standard body... but I also used ronseal diamond hard to coat the fretboard and it went hard enough I couldn't sand the radius back in so it wasn't very playable. So lets make a stingray! (coming up in part 2 - Luke gets some bits randomly off gumtree and instantly regrets it.)

[quote name='mark_ir' timestamp='1332343358' post='1586981'] work is just an excuse to acquire more bass toys than should be allowed, [/quote] so a while back (and on gumtree not basschat) I had an GK combo that I wanted to sell as it was a bit heavy and wide for my 3rd floor flat. Mark got in contact and I took the amp and a couple of basses for him to play with... he let me have a shot on a load of his gear too... Great times and while I went wanting to sell him an amp I ended up giving him money and trading for a walkabout scout. Anyway - Mark is a great guy so trade/sell/buy with confidence - he also has a stingray which is one of the nicest basses I've ever tried ever - if you do a deal with him see if he'll let you have a shot.