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I think a couple of these creations have been posted here before. I quite like the wonky-looking Westone type one for some reason, it rides that fine line between completely janky and a recognisable bass.

"Custom built" meaning "Mum bought me a saw for Christmas".

Btw (straying into OT) the dep guy has one of the clearest sounding kits I've ever heard, a Mapex jobby but dunno what the snare was. Acoustically it's spot on - each drum has it's own little space in the sonic spectrum and I don't think our sound guy knew what to do with it other than to eq the kick and leave the rest alone. Can see how he gets loads of work! Top drummer too, really adaptive and fluid as well as being a nice bloke. I usually dread dep drummers but he was great.

I wouldn't discount the HD32A that CameronJ uses, that's kinda the RCF equivalent to the QSC K12.2 in terms of size and weight. It's all about that voice coil on the HF unit really, IIRC (going off the MkIV versions) the 745 has a 4" voice coil, the HD32A and the 735 have a 3" one. Either will be great. FWIW I've been using the K10.2 in an increasingly loud live situation recently due to our drummer having hearing loss and our stage sound creeping up rapidly which has resulted in me pumping the little QSC far more than I ever intended to and it's coped with it easily. It's an amazing little thing which just seems to keep on going. Our drummer is currently out of action while his ears are dealt with and the dep we had last Friday was loving the bass sound coming from the K10.2 so make of that what you will. He's a pro player who mainly does musicals/theatre work and deps for some of the top bands in our area. Not a quiet drummer, loudish kit but clean with lots of sonic space (no wallowing) if you know what I mean. TLDR: I have no fear of cranking the volume with the k10.2!

Definitely chase them up about the free bag, they aint cheap. I'm a bit peeved at all you lot getting discounted K series cabs with free bags, I paid more to buy a used cab and seperate bag! The RCF 735 is extremely capable, you can put a full band through a pair of them for small to medium size gigs with no subs so they're possibly a bit overkill for personal monitoring. Seriously you'll barely tickle it even on a pretty loud stage, it will do whatever you need from it with absolute ease and the low end will be thumping but crystal clear. I think the QSCs are more compact and look nicer on stage though, I use the K10.2 and it's a very handy size when it comes to monitor placement, it's much smaller and more wedge-like than our RCF 735 cabs and is much easier to find a place for on a stage. From memory the K12.2 is a similar size to some of the RCF cabs.

[Sings Jurassic Park theme tune...]

I got a Gotoh bridge for my Sire, one of these:

I use the instrument level input on the QSC K10.2 from the amp output on the Fishman, works fine for me.

Seller is a complete idiot for requesting Paypal on a collection item, sooner or later they'll be the target of a scammer who will pick the item up and then start an item not received claim. Seeing as he can't prove they took it (Paypal won't accept videos etc) and the buyer can prove they paid him he will lose every time. Although it's usually a scam associated with phones leaving yourself open like that just on the off chance someone wastes your time is a massive risk.

Yup, I've been waiting patiently for the day those Chinese factories start churning out 5 string headless hardware and it floods AliExpress at bargain prices. Gonna happen one day!

Correct choice - piezo bridge and nylon coated strings is wasted on a fretted bass! Where is the LR Baggs clone preamp from? Fancy one of those for my Sinsonido.

North West Guitars are doing 15% off everything and 20% off if you spend £100 or more until midnight, so for example you could get a Mono M80 sleeve for £97 or the full M80 gigbag for £134: https://www.northwestguitars.co.uk/?setCurrencyId=1

We got our RCF tops off a Facebook group and the matching subs came from eBay, a lot of the stuff on FB seems to be low end DJ gear around here though so you might have to sort through some rubbish.

Definitely consider Sire however £500 is used Lakland Skyline territory. Both of those have great necks which are outstanding for their price tags. Maybe one of the higher end Cort GB series.

That is a crazy bargain.

Don't know really, I haven't done a gig sans PA in over a decade. I usually have the volume on my preamp pedal between 9 and 11 o'clock and it's more than loud enough for any stage I need to play, some are ballroom sized stages and some are pubs.

I replaced a Markbass stack (LMII with two Club 121 cabs) with a QSC K10.2 and there's no shotcomings regarding volume or tone. I use it for personal monitoring only though and go through the PA for FoH every time.

Loving the Milhouse MkIV !!!

That gap in the neck pocket is a handy place to store plectrums and business cards, probably get a couple of cables and a spare pack of strings in there too:

Crikey - £43. I've bought proper basses for that!

Quite a few Warwicks have ash bodies and bolt on necks (the majority of Corvettes have this configuration) and they've done maple fingerboards before. In fact the Fortress Flashback was ash, bolt on and had a 2tek bridge. The original Fortress One and the Masterman were bolt on maple.

Well it's up to £30 with £10 postage so someone out there likes it.

Nice, get some pics up! How does the fingerboard feel with the rolled edges compared to the MkI version or a standard F copy? That's something which is criminally overlooked IMO, particularly on Warwicks with Wenge boards which take an age of playing to become more comfortable.

Also what's with the centre block / lower wing join veering away near the lower horn on the darker bass? Looks really strange and isn't on the other one.