LukeFRC

I used to use the Ashdown mini cabs (both of them) as the house rig at church for years. Er... go for them if you want but... IMO they arn't very good, and not very light - but are compact. I used to turn up when I could be bothered with a dinky little techsoundsystem 2x12, which was about the width of your amp and only 12 inches high and it could blow both of the ashdown cabs away for clarity and distribution around the room. As a reference- I sold that cab for £150.

- depends what kinda lacquer it is. If it's poly - hard. prob easier to change your playing technique!

So you have some basses.... and the dialema is get rid of the one that would be about £6-700 secondhand or the one that would be about £475-600 secondhand? Depending on condition the difference in price won't be as much as you think. so I think you're asking the wrong question- I don't think it's about value at all..... say you're not going to play that much at the moment, just little bits (and maybe a bit more later in life, who knows) which bass of the 3 makes you want to pick it up and play it the most?

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1353925370' post='1879679'] Lose the EMGs. [/quote] +1

if it's a keeper.... do what you want to it!

a keyboard synth?

sounds great- really great...but, really really reliced? why?

voted... I won't say who for (though it may tell you) but it pushed a really nice entry from Stephen Houghton down to second place in my estimation

my old band the guitarist used to use this big old heavy fender amp, right pain in the arse to move around - always mic'ed up of course cos that the best way to do it for the larger venues we used to play. One day we were helping a headline band we got on with with their load in, similar sound - we'ld heard them and they had a similar set of guitar sounds going on as us. Well I reach into the van and pull out their fender blues jr amp thing, hold it with one arm and the guitarist and me look at each other and he goes "bugger, when I was 15 I thought a big amp would be cooler"

[quote name='GarethFlatlands' timestamp='1353774747' post='1878377'] Board oiled, I left it for 20 minutes or so to dry and grabbed a coffee..... [/quote] what brand coffee do you use for your rebuilds?

there are folk who buy and sell their gear more than I do, so something becomes fashionable then folk will buy it - a few years back everyone wanted Lakland, then Sadowsky and so on... give it a couple of years and maybe they are looking for something different and put it up for sale. Thing is all it takes is one person to do it and there is a price point that people can work around so people are more likely to list. Thats what I think anyway. I mean at the moment, even with my half withdrawn ad there are abotu 6 or so JV squiers on offer. A while back there were none (mind you none have sold yet!)

can i get one with a swamp ash body for the slightly scooped mid tones?

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1353675648' post='1877254'] Aah, interesting. Yea, the less people i have to rely on the better and I do enjoy those pickup winding days (today) in a dust free zone with some cool tunes. Bliss. So that's 3 generations of Armstrongs making guitar stuff! Awesome! I hope I can get my kids interested eventually. Is 6 too early for sanding duties? [/quote] dunno, depends on what it's sanding and dust masks... maybe buffing a finish would be more appropiate. "no dinner till you can see your face in it" ....

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1353624755' post='1876835'] Subjective. I like it. Plus we need more instruments that don't keep regurgitating the designs of the 50s. [/quote] agreed, but I don't think it balances with itself the back half it too curvy or the front half is too pointy, I would go more pointy - I would move the apex of the bottom rear curve back a bit and make the angle sharper

[quote name='ped' timestamp='1353423972' post='1874793'] Nah it's not connected, thankfully!! Cheers [/quote] Ped, et al question.... the old sales forums had some nice terms and condition which you had to abide by - where are they on the new one? Reason I ask is there currently is an item up with a price of £0.00 and asking for offers. Naturally I offered him the £0.00 he had stated but wondered what the rules were in the new sales forum - has it changed at all?

Build a stingray preamp clone in the OLP - you'll unlock a load of different tones and find a reason to have more than one. Also they (should) sit in different places in the mix. I used to pickup whatever of my 2 basses fitted better in the mix.

stick one of the musicman preamp clones in it and you are away!

I don't think heavy wood = heavy tone works in real life. I've played ash basses that weigh nout and they have been really fat sounding and heavy basses with a flat thin tone. Even if it did make a massive difference then you could make up for it with how you designed your pickups. My guess is that if you go and play a Lull or something, for the price they sell for, I think they will have built a light bass that sounds good so you don't need to worry!

[quote name='lettsguitars' timestamp='1353611786' post='1876638'] Kent's son? The kent armstrong custom pups are very very reasonably priced. [/quote] Yeah, he makes ACG and i think Overwater's pickups. I thought he made yours too but I must be wrong! Don't you make your own pups now?

I never actually went ahead with an order but I asked Aaron Armstrong about some custom pickups and he was way more than helpful if you want a UK alternative to Wizard

also looks/spec quite similar to the old Hamer USA Cruise basses

the designer in me would redraw that body shape slightly. It's ugly at the mo, not far off but get someone with a visual eye to look at it.

good name for a band that. If you come up with a logo go lowercase (that's the designer in me there!)

woo! that is a big bundle of stuff for not that much!