Rich

[quote name='largo' post='760668' date='Mar 1 2010, 01:00 PM']Jon Shuker is a different kettle of fish. He will help design and build a custom bass with any body shape[/quote] I believe the same is true of ACG, RIM, Jim Fleeting, etc. All low-volume one-man-band operations. Gawd bless 'em every one

[quote name='Marvin' post='760786' date='Mar 1 2010, 02:38 PM']my cousin lives in Bridgwater and gets very upset when it's spelt wrong [/quote] Ah, well at least it doesn't have That Smell any more. I still drive through there with the doors locked and windows up though

Candy apple red, matching headstock, white pearly scratchplate, neck ashtray, bound rosewood board with MOP blocks. As a close second, the same as the above only in Lake Placid Blue. Too cool for words.

Cool! I like Yamaha basses a lot, I have an RBX765A which was my main fretted bass for years (and is now fretless). It is still the most comfortable 5-string neck I have ever clamped my left hand around, so much so that I got Jon Shuker to copy the Yam's neck profile for my custom build. I think Yamaha basses offer near-unbeatable value for money, certainly with their lower-budget instruments.

Ahhh, gotcha. I see what you're getting at now.

For comedy value we could also have Chew Magna, Curry Rivel, and Nimlet

I think most of their designs look amazing. I'd love to get my hands on one, just to give it a whirl.

[quote name='E sharp' post='759457' date='Feb 27 2010, 09:42 PM']I wouldn't call Shuker , Status , Fodera , Ritter , Sei , or any of them 'custom builders' , cause they're not . IMO , a custom buider , is a one man operation , in a shed or garage .[/quote] Shuker = one-man operation in a small Derbyshire workshop. Sei = two-man operation in a basement in North London. Fodera = two-man operation in NYC workshop. Jon Shuker built me a bass to the design I wanted, from the woods I selected, with a neck profile I dictated, with the electronics and pickups and hardware I chose and the finshed I desired. How, exactly, is that not a 'custom' build?

I haven't voted for Chepstow as we've already had a South Wales bash (for which, many thanks to Si), and it adds another £5.30 to the travel costs of everyone in the SW unless they fancy a huge detour.

[quote name='BigRedX' post='756267' date='Feb 24 2010, 05:23 PM'][/quote] Ooh look! Stealth saveloys! Cracking set of basses you have there.

I have no problem with Bashes, because a} we're all bassists, b} we're all sober, c} we're all on here, and d} I know where you live and therefore so does my mate Big Jon (remember him??) But seriously... yeah bashes are fine, the more the merrier in fact. But generally, the answer to the question "Can I have a go on your bass, mate?" would be "Do I know you? No? Feck off."

So that'll be mid-June then... I'm looking forward to seeing this almost as much as you are.

I do BVs in my 2nd band. I used to do some lead in a blues/rock trio many years ago, that was fun but I actually prefer singing backup. When I'm in the car, if I start singing along with the radio/CD, more often than not I start harmonizing with the lead vocal rather than going along with it. It's quite fun making up harmony parts as you go along! Good practice too.

Hah! Yes you could be right

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='754492' date='Feb 22 2010, 10:40 PM']if you can afford it and it brings a smile to your face... well, f*** it, why not?[/quote] +[size=3]∞[/size]

An Alesis Quadraverb would do the trick for things like chorus. You can pick them up dead cheap on fleaBay.

[quote name='waynepunkdude' post='753338' date='Feb 21 2010, 10:37 PM']They aren't worth the money[/quote] I assume this statement is based on extensive experience of Fodera basses..?

I can't comment on this as I own a Shuker (and could therefore be accused of bias) and have never played a Fodera (and so cannot make a comparison).

[quote name='Clarky' post='753460' date='Feb 22 2010, 06:23 AM']And I'm afraid I think GUS guitars just look like something you would see being played in the obligatory band-playing-in-a-bar-while-hero-drowns-sorrows scene in a 70s sci-fi film[/quote] Given your three 70s Fenders, I'd be amazed if you [u]did[/u] like it

They're a darned sight more expensive than the OLPs were though.

Ah yes Chris. That'd be a bit like the £200 pre-EB Stingray and the £180 mint Shergold 8-string, both of which I walked straight past many years ago... *kick, kick*

[quote name='velvetkevorkian' post='752159' date='Feb 20 2010, 08:18 PM']If you have the means to fund it, you don't have to justify it.[/quote] And that's pretty much it in a nutshell. The money's yours to spend and you don't have to [i]justify[/i] it to anyone. It doesn't make you an idiot from Middlesex or anywhere else.

Shaftesbury is gert lush for me. But perhaps somewhere further southwest, Tauntonish-Exeterish, would be more suitable? Although the suggested free venue sounds brilliant. Anyway, wherever it is... come on you Bristle massive, I know there's [i]loads[/i] of you on here. Got to be worth a mass turnout..!

Brilliant things, love 'em. Wish I still had mine.

I agree. The VU meter is fairly pointless and the row of LEDs could have been halved in size, but I like the feck-off great big digital readout.