tauzero

I played violin (very badly) before I played guitar or bass, and with the Ashbory I find fingering violin-fashion with my fingers going up the neck rather than bass-fashion with them going across is far preferable and helps me get the intonation right.

Let me explain: "as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did." Europe includes the UK. Europeans including the UK population generally went on the left. The UK didn't change, so it is doing it the way it always did. Other European countries did change to the right.

Allegedly so, and it's also the reason that we mount horses and motorcycles from the left hand side, as a right-hander would wear his sword on the left and it would get in the way if mounting from the right. I have seen it often repeated (and thought it was true) that Napoleon enforced a transition from riding/driving on the left to riding on the right, as a symbolic gesture against left-hand riders because the aristocracy would swing swords at peasants as they passed them by, facilitated by riding on the left. The Wikipedia article that @Hellzero cites says that isn't so, however.

I used the term "Europe" to mean Europe, not the EEC, EC, EU, or any other subset of Europe. Sorry if you couldn't understand my plain simple English but it should have been quite obvious from the context that I meant Europe as Europe.

Wouldn't it have been more appropriate to ask why Belgians drive on the right, then, as historically Europeans generally went on the left so the UK is doing it the way it always did.

I don't think cars or motorcycles have been positive ground for about 50 years. However, I have both Seis and Warwicks, and they are all reverse truss-rod. It's just the way things are.

Ah, found it. Ken Follett, eh? I've got some of his books.

I'd forgotten about the Esh Poseidon, which is distinctly pointy, but can't find a picture of anyone playing one live. Still, here's someone playing it in the lounge.

You could try AliExpress: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32909965717.html - might not be available https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005856491540.html The search function on AliExpress is even worse than Amazon's.

Well, the Bass Centre has (theoretically) the very latest incarnation of the Ashbory bass, with a 23" scale, but it's been sold out for months, if not years. https://www.basscentre.com/bass-centre-ashbory-bass/bass-centre-ashbory-bass-natural.html There was a previous Bass Centre Ashbory available in 2017 which was available in four finishes. Translucent Blue, Amber & Sunburst models • Scale Length : 21" • Weight : 2.5kg (5.5lb) Translucent Red model • Scale Length : 24" • Weight : 3.0kg (6.6lb) https://web.archive.org/web/20170624164506/http://www.basscentre.com/bass-centre-ashbory-bass.html I asked them about 5-strings at the time, and they said they wouldn't be doing them.

Last one for me was LED 'PAR' lights, ordered 13th June, August delivery, arrived just before we went on holiday - 23rd June.

The headless Bongo was lovely (but needed finishing), but there's always the even lovelier handmade one of mine (handmade by someone else, I emphasise).

The string gauges on the bass uke are quite a bit bigger than those on the baritone. That would mean differences for the tuners and the bridge, and the string spacing might be greater (hence wider neck).

They say the shipping is due in September, in fact it gets here a lot quicker than that. Normally get here in around a fortnight. Currently still stuck in customs.

I'm no PA expert but I think you have a good start. As for monitors, we're using Alto TS308s (8") and they're capable of blowing your head off. Because nobody else wanted to store the RCF ART710s that I had and I wanted something smaller and lighter, they've gone and have been replaced by another pair of Alto 8" speakers (TS408) for FOH. We'll see how those go at the next gig. Currently putting vocals and one of the guitars through that.

Early Tecamp Pumas didn't have fans, later ones did but they're very quiet.

The first two will boost or cut a band of frequencies, the first centred on just over 2kHz and the second between 3 and 4kHz, while the third and fourth will boost or cut all treble starting at 200Hz (3) or 100Hz (4). So applying treble boost with 1 or 2 won't push the higher frequencies up as much as the frequencies at the centre of the band.

I had a couple of 250 Superdreams and a 400 Dream. The 400 was definitely better. A friend of mine has recently been restoring a CB400A (the automatic version), making one good engine from two. One of the two had apparently been used as a boat anchor and that wonderful cylinder head bolt system really came into its own on that.

The OBP2 wiring diagram is at http://www.aguilaramp.com/wp-content/uploads/wiring-diagram-obp-2-v2.pdf - he wants page 4.

Do you only want the tone control to operate in passive mode?

I think the selection of 5-string ukes is pretty small. Kala had a Chinese-made range which included a fretted 5-string (which I have) but that's been discontinued, and there was no fretless - I feel more and more tempted to defret mine. Their eye-wateringly expensive California range had a 5-string fretless, like what @Smanth has, but that range is currently being revamped. The broadest selection is 4-string electroacoustics - at the not-quite-bottom end of the financial scale, there's https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363555959883 which several of us on BC bought. Also worth trying an Ashbory dogbone - the De Armond version with proper tuners rather than the banjo tuners on the original Guild ones.

Budget? Solid or electro-acoustic? Number of strings? Fretted or fretless?

I've got a Creality CR-6 SE which I have yet to recalibrate after changing the extruder and nozzle assembly following various issues. Nice feature - it has auto-levelling which seems to work well.

GR Bass AT800 Cube combo Tecamp Puma 900 head because I didn't want to part with it - I'm still building a BC112Mk3 which I may or may not use with it at gigs

Tamworth Arts Centre was a good venue, but eventually got converted into a registry office. After having played a few gigs there from the early 80s on, the last time I was in there was marrying Mrs Zero in 2008. You always knew Bricko was doing the disco when he closed with "We are the Ovalteenies".