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[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1328976352' post='1535559'] This has stuck in my mind! Do you still have the Antoniotsai? Just curious! Did the quality seem good? I mean Andrews gigged it so i'd assume it's definately solid (i'd assume or he's a trooper!) and I'd REALLY fancy a fretless 6 string HK as a summer learning project! [/quote] I still have the Tsai 7-string - it's rather more Ritter-looking than the HK one. The HK seems good quality from a brief inspection. You're a little limited on 6-string options with them though. If you're looking for a 6-string fretless, it might also be worth looking at the project ones on ebay for under £200 - through-neck, screw them together yourself. Just search for "fretless project". I'd be tempted, except that I'm more a five-string man.

I'd like to see this too.

[quote name='AttitudeCastle' timestamp='1328562413' post='1529240'] Opions of the 7 string HK? SO tempted to pull the trigger on one! (even though i'm saving, and it could be balls (apprently consistancy isn't 100% even though i'm 100% sure rich could turn it into something stunning!) ) And Mr Zeros inlay dragon bass is AWESOME. Love Inlays like that! [/quote] The 7-string HK has a very similar neck to my 7-string Antoniotsai - very shallow, hence very playable. I couldn't actually play it as my hands work the right way round, but if I was looking for another 7-string, I'd certainly look at an HK. In fact, I'm vaguely tempted to get one of their five-string fretleseeseseses. I bought that bass on something of a whim, to be honest. Then, when I got it, I found it was the best neck (for me) I'd encountered on a five-string. Since then, the only neck which have played and think could be better than it is the Wood&Tronics - one of Heath's Ruach basses might also fit the bill but didn't have strings on it when I encountered it.

[quote name='bigjohn' timestamp='1328811289' post='1533108'] [size=4]I think 16 Ohm would be quite nice. Easy on my amp. Still ponderin'... a ruminatin', comtemplatin' and generally ditherin' and hestitatin' on taking the idea to it's logical conclusionin'[/size] [/quote] Get one of the Ashdown digital amps with a dual power amp (eg. the LG1000) and connect the speakers up as two 4x10 8ohm speakers, with separate speaker jacks.

[quote name='Mr. Foxen' timestamp='1328796005' post='1532757'] Maltese cross has 8 points: This sort of cross is a cross pattée, as per the Queen's headgear and such. [/quote] Yes, that's why I said it was a sort of cross with the Iron Cross, which is blunt-ended but curvy-sided. In fact [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_patt%C3%A9e"]the Wikipedia entry[/url] shows this cross and refers to it as a variant of the Maltese Cross.

It's a sort of, er, cross between a Maltese and an Iron Cross, innit?

Terrible. Bolt-on necks are so last millennium. The only way is through.

[quote name='bigjohn' timestamp='1328648804' post='1530748'] I'm supposing these could be rewired to be 8[size=4][font=arial, sans-serif]Ω[/font] [font=arial, sans-serif]Am I right?[/font][/size] [/quote] Ye canna change the laws of physics. An 8x10 at 4 ohms will be 8 8 ohm speakers wired up so that there are in effect two sets of four speakers. Each set will be four speakers in parallel and the two sets will be in series (or the equivalent). It would be possible to wire them so you could get one ohm, 4 ohms, or 16 ohms, with each speaker equally loaded. You could wire it up to give you about 9.5 ohms (two sets of three in parallel, one set of two in parallel, all in series) but you'd be loading the speakers a bit unevenly.

In fully working order too, unlike half the Ampegs in the local rehearsal studio.

[quote name='pumkinkin' timestamp='1328373821' post='1526178'] to me it appears to be still available?!? (unless you called the seller and were told it's gone, that is) [/quote] I emailed him, by which time it was gone.

I've had a play on a couple (at last year's Moffat bash, in the presence of Mr May) and I was impressed.

Unfortunately it's gone. Was going to take a slight detour on the way to Moffat to have a look.

From the "Room places" page: [size="4"]The B&B's will have a copy of this plan so just turn up and give them your name... [/size] [size="4"]This page will be updated nearer the time with the room plan[/size] I hate to seem churlish, but I think it would be difficult to get much nearer the time than this... Or do we just get the details from the bald bloke in the Balmoral?

fenders are so dreadfully boring, it would have to be a Fodera. Although they're a bit boring too, so it would have to be a custom special witha great big top horn (Flamboyant/Marseer/Roya). And spikes. And one of those scratchboards with a Mexican bandit on.

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1327480314' post='1511806'] Crying about something like an 'overpriced' guitar is pointless and self-indulgent unless there is an alternative. [/quote] Don't you mean "unless there is [b]no[/b] alternative"? We're not forced to buy Foderas [i]et [W]al[/i], the market is brimming over with basses at all price points. We do have the option to point at people with fretless Foderas and laught because they've paid an extra $500 for Fodera not to put any frets in, or ask whether a Ritter bass has a secure enough neck joint. And if we want a luthier built bass, as the OP says, we can go to a luthier and get one made for a fair bit less than a Fodera would cost.

A bit like the word "Squier" being on the headstock of every [s]Squire[/s] Squier.

Hi Heath, glad to see you on here. You might want to post in the Affiliates Market, that would be the best place. And you make jolly nice basses (for those as don't look in the ebay links, I've played one of Heath's Ruachs and it is a high quality instrument).

[quote name='woodyratm' timestamp='1327023714' post='1505477'] Oh? Whats that tuned? [/quote] With patience. Might bring my 7-string up too seeing as there appears to be a lot of 7-string love going on.

Having contacted the seller (after missing seeing the auction in the first place) and going and having a play on it, this is a very high quality bass. Nice sound, with lots of control (vol, blend, treble, bass boost, mid with sweep, coil-tap switch) but the neck was just a bit too chunk for me. I think it's a similar sort of chunkiness to a Spector (but I haven't played one of them for a little while).

Even that JB is still there.

[quote name='Earbrass' timestamp='1326285916' post='1494890'] How about basschat+1, so we can join in with particularly heated exchanges we just missed out on? [/quote] Bah, ibtl.co.uk has gone.

[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1326415240' post='1497101'] Somebody needs to play that bass. Because, looking at the lack of wear and tear, it hasn't been played for a very long time. [/quote] Alternatively, it's been properly looked after rather than being carried around in a bin-bag and used to hammer tent pegs in. The blowtorch-and-sander "professional" relickers should be forced to take a good hard look at what a 50 year old bass can look like.

Just realised, it's very local to me. Can't think of any local bassists who own it though.

Nine days to go and the R-word in the auction title? That's a gonner...

Currently at £1-50, that would be a bargain.