Bigwan

Different strokes for different folks. If Doug released the Vintage Ultra with the tone control from the Darkglass amp I MIGHT be interested...

Meh, we've heard that before...

Reasonable deal I think... https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ashdown-ABM-BP1510-Bass-Guitar-Speaker-Cabinet-1x15-2x10-HF-Horn/223000003312?hash=item33ebd602f0%3Ag%3AblAAAOSw1nRbEFNG&_sacat=0&_nkw=ashdown&_from=R40&rt=nc&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313.TR12.TRC2.A0.H0.Xashdown.TRS0

You'll pick up an Ashdown ABM combo for not much more than that if you look around. A vastly superior amp in every way, IMHO.

Pure guess 1971 is 2, Lakland is 1...

Da hotness!

Thomann has the full fat variety in stock. Don't see anything but the custom variety online in the UK at the minute...

Tempted... But her indoors would be a little upset I think...

I used to have a Laney DB300H head. Only Laney product I've ever owned. It wasn't bad, just big and heavy, although that impression may be tainted by the other half of the rig - a Peavey TX810... Traded both against my Ashdown 1x10 ABM combo about 16 0r 17 years ago and haven't looked back! My only subsequent contact with Laney gear was a 1x15 combo a guy brought along to rehearsals for the band I was in the process of leaving. It looked pretty nice, like a trimmed down version of the head I'd owned, but it sounded totally gutless! I had my rig in the corner of the room (Orange Terror bass, Tecamp 412) and the Laney was shuffled back into the guy's car in favour of mine which was louder ticking over than his was giving it full welly... Current Nexus micro head looks very interesting, but I imagine the subsequent resale value would put a lot of potential buyers right off.

Yes, and it's sods law that there will ALWAYS be screw-uppage at some point... usually at the most inconvenient moment possible!

Your mate drums for Tesseract doesn't he? From about 15 or 16 minutes in with the rather awesome Amos....

Cool! I owned one of these briefly - the heavily modded one that did the rounds here a number of years back with the funky Villex pickup and tone controls. Wasn't for me at the time. EDIT: GAS has struck... bloody hell, that's P GAS twice this week!!! First the Fender American Original 50's, now this!

You'll regret selling the combo. Mine is one of the only pieces of gear I've ever owned that I would NEVER sell.

Ocean turquoise with matching headstock... Parchment pickguard...

I like the thunderbird pickup idea! It's one I've been thinking about myself for some time. Need no excuse to post this pic again! If it were me I'd put the pickups in the classic T-bird locations though (as per Pino's T-bird/Fender for The Who that @rubis mentioned).

Nice! What's the nut width on these Si? I owned the 5 string version for a while and it was lovely...

Been tempted by a double 'bucker P myself, although more along the lines demonstrated by this fine looking Lull:

As mentioned before, meths. I just half fill a suitably sized plastic sweety tub (mine is an old Haribo box - 2 liter ice cream tub would probably work), coil the strings up and drop them in. Leave them overnight, hang them up until dry and refit.

One of the best scenes in all of comedy!

My Kala as it came from the factory had an issue with the pickup not picking up the E string. The piezo pickup is glued (actually looks like black epoxy) to the bottom of the saddle instead of lying on the bottom of the saddle channel. Kala's "fix" was to loosen the strings and tilt the bridge saddle towards the tail of the bass, which made the already shitty intonation even shittier. To actually play this thing anywhere near in tune I've had to experiment with changing strings - 4th set were best, the ones that came off the HB Uke. Other than sharp fret ends (it's an HB Deko after all) the HB was perfect out of the box. Adding Pyramid tape wounds was the icing on the cake.

There can't be much money in it or somebody would have done it by now...

Economy of scale has to play a part I would imagine... You can get a 5w all valve guitar amp for under a ton because guitarists are, as we all know, ten a penny... Something I'd like to explore beyond the initial 5 minutes I've given it, is my Harley Benton 5 watt combo (the one that looks suspiciously like the Epiphone Valve Jr). I bet it'd sound better than OK into a bass extension cab like my barefaced Two10 with the combo's internal speaker bypassed. It's a sweet sounding little amp for guitar, especially with a nice strat.

Ah yes. So it was. Don't remember Decimax at all then!