skelf

Very pleased to hear the website does it's job. I am sure we have missed out some info so we are constantly revising it.

Feel free to get in touch any time.

Alan

All the details are on the specification page in the Graft section.

http://www.acguitars.co.uk/acg_admin/wordpress/graft-specification/

Time Lapse of the stage area until the iPad ran out of memory,managed to get most of the day.
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As I said the end of a perfect friendship.

Rather tired today so not a lot getting done.

Thanks to my partner in crime Dave for helping out throughout and organising the stage. Thanks to Shaun as always even though he was under the weather from the party on the Friday night. Sandy for stepping up at short notice.
Good to catch up with all the regulars,you know who you are.

Thanks to Manchester Bass Lounge, Overwater, Alpher and Haydn from Williams Guitars all for bring gear along,very much appreciated.

All in all an excellent weekend.

I think we are now where we want to be with regard to numbers. The hotels where pretty much full,the curry house was full and the venue equally so. Since neither myself or Dave wish to grow the event any further which would require moving to a bigger venue outside Moffat this will be what we regard as the optimum setup and what we will be trying to maintain from here on in.




There will be a Facebook page set up for pics to be shared,link will be posted once it is up and running.

Are you sure you are in Moffat. I have lived here for ages and have missed all these exciting things.

Matt is now back on board.

I have used a bandsaw that size and found it next to useless for cutting anything above 10mm in hardwoods. You cannot get enough tension in the blade to cut a body out the blade will wonder all over the place. I now have a good makita jigsaw and would use it for cutting out a body before a bandsaw that size. If the board you have is swamp ash the jigsaw will go through it fairly easily using a coarse blade with deep gullets to remove the sawdust.
With bandsaws the bigger the better. They can put more tension on the blade which makes cutting much easier. Small cheap saws have frames that just can't generate the tension needed to produce a consistent cut.
I use a 6mm blade on the bandsaw for bodies you need a narrow blade to cut a tight radius the width of the blade dictates the minimum radius it can cut. Try to force a wide blade to do a small radius cut puts all kinds of tension into the blade and guides.

I did several bodies with a jigsaw and a not very good one at that. If you buy a good saw and take your time it should be no problem.

Hi
Sure no gear needed but please get yourself a ticket.


The weekend tickets are now all sold.

Bump. Still all available.

Anyone thinking about a ticket has until Friday night to sort it out. We shut up shop on Friday night and has been previously stated there is no pay on the door so if you want to come along you need to get a ticket.

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Yep I'll get me arse down to the next een. I'm fairly sure that Osprey Guitars is being represented there this year though.
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Will that be the purple one.

Hi

I will go over the protocol such as it is at the curry on the Saturday night.

Banned Matt to many Gibson basses he had to go.













Family commitments, he will make a triumphant return next year. At least he had better or words will be had.

Two weekend tickets left.

The room lists will be up on the website in the next couple of days.

Alan

Will do.

Thanks. That would be a long drive for me to bring two basses.

Is there a restriction on the amount of gear I can bring I seem to remember something about that but now can't find it.

It would be good to see you back at the bash. I will tell Dave next time I talk to him.

Rich.
Have a look at this thread on the very subject.

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I was thinking more along the lines of Fender and Ashdown which were both at the bass show last year.

I still want one of those 5-string ACG Krells though - Alan, I'll be in touch.

Any time you want to talk Krell it is good for me.


The organisers don't allocate the spaces. You are basically given first refusal on the stand you had the previous year which took fairly early on and I am sure Martin did the same. With hindsight having five builders all in the same place maybe was not the best way but I did not know GB would be there until I arrived so it is hard to plan out in advance to avoid the collection all in one place. You book your stand and have no control over who will be around you.


There was a bit of a volume war in our corner but 90% of the people that tried anything on my stand used the headphones so I don't think we contributed to much in that respect. I still did not find the volume to bad I suspect I am getting immune to it. As far as slap goes if you slap a bass well on a stand people stop and listen if you play groove type stuff as the two players I had on the saturday did you get very little attention. So if you want audience you slap so it is encouraged by the people there so I am not sure why everyone seems to hate it but are happy to form a crowd when it is done.


Myself John East and Haydn Williams might be doing a small gallery show later in the year down in London with a view to having a much more controlled environment in which to try out instruments.

Were the exhibitors that were not there up in Birmingham instead.

Every bass I have made has an East pre-amp in it. Either one of the East ones or my own filter pre-amps designed and built by John. Even the passive basses have his work in them,he makes up my passive set up as well. So it is fair to say I am a fan of his work.