PatrickJ

Feb 28th, you're playing my home town!! Whoop! @Al Krowwe still thinking of a BC get together March 12th? @King Tut my old Eden Cab going on tour with you?

I cut mine, but always bend the string and cut just after the bend. I seem to remember watching some video on YT that advised to do it this way to avoid the string going dead - something to do with stopping the core from slipping IIRC.

If you figure that out let me know, I had the same experience with mine.

It's a lovely instrument, very well balanced, light and super comfy to play. Jon has done a great job and he's a really nice guy. Specifications of the bass: - Alder body with English Elm Burr drop top - Birdseye Maple fingerboard on a maple neck - 40mm neck width at nut, 19mm string spacing at bridge - ABM single string bridge pieces - Schaller Light Weight Tuners - Aaron Armstrong Handwound J pickups - Norstrand 2B Pre-Amp - Luminlay Side Dots I may try a few different pickups to see what I like best, I'm tempted by some Nordstrand J Blades. However, I'm also wondering whether I should have just gone for Soapbar pickups. I mentioned it to Jon today when I collected the bass and he said it would be no problem to re-route the pickups if I wanted to.

And I finally have it ...

Just read this thread, did you ever figure out who produced the bass?

And it's a P Bass and thus against the principle of this thread.

Pachyderm (Les Claypool designed)

Nice to see the Shukers and ACG's being put forward.

I always thought this Fodera was stunning. Single cuts are not normally my thing but the Kestrel inlay is beautiful.

Very pretty

The Rebel Bass 😁

Love these

Inspired by the ongoing debate in the Ashdown Basses thread on what does not make an original or pleasing design of Bass Guitar I'm keen to hear the opinion of the Basschat collective on what our favourite unique bass guitar designs actually are. Pictures and reasons please, only rule is it can't be a Jazz or Precision based.

AAF were rhe first band I saw live when I moved to London , dont remember if Tye was playing his sig bass or not, I wasnt a bass player back then so wouldnt have cared. Some of those Master built Fenders aren't bad at all! I like the body shapes and wood finishes on 1 and 2. But again, that's my personal preference and wouldnt appeal to the many I'm sure. Not keen on the control layouts though but again that's only my preference.

I assume Tye was heavily involved in the design of it, so it was probably quite personal to him. +1 to this, but I have no problem with other companies making their own versions, I love my Sandberg P basses (Type II's) and my custom is a tweaked J bass design. It's just what I like. Bringing this thread back to Ashdown, I can't see a compelling reason to buy one of their basses when they are near identical clones and more expensive than an official Mexican model (even the deluxe ones). In the video posted earlier even Mark himself didn't seem very excited by the P and J's and the other two designs didn't really seem that special.

They did for Tye Zamora and his custom 6 string bass.

Pictures are needed

Typically portrait unless there is a platform around waist height I can rest it on in landscape mode. The only thing I want to do is pull off the ridiculously large Markbass Logo which looks even weirder on it's side. Re: EQ I bought it at Andertons and I tried along side the original NY121, A Genzler Array and an Aguilar cab. It sounded much better than the NY121 but with flat EQ it was a bit muddy in the mids and lacked some high end clarity. I found that a cut to the low mids and a slight bump to the treble got me pretty close to the others (especially given it was half the price of the other cabs). I actually used the rig last night for a jam night doing more rocky music and again found my self setting Low mids at around 10 o'clock and upper mids around 1130 and treble around 1300. Your trace head will have it's own character and I of course have my own preference on tone but I'd encourage you to experiment with a bit of EQ to get the best out of the cab.

How about a reissue of the original Fender Dimension IV.

I have that cabinet, it's super light weight and a really small profile. With my Markbass head I do find I have to apply a bit of EQ to get sounding really sweet where as other cabs sounded better flat when I A/B'd them.