Merton

It's absolutely perfect. No neck dive at all. No idea how Alan managed it!

Hamer Scarab:

Feel the need to show off my latest in here. It’s exceptional.

Strictly speaking this arrived yesterday, but I spent all day either in (virtual) meetings or annoying the neighbours with badly played Faith No More. So here it is. ACG TKO Classic - a non-standard model with a new finish Alan’s not done before - I think we can all agree he has done a bloody marvellous job. This was commissioned with a little inheritance I received following my final grandparent dying last year, and arrived two days after a good friend from Univeristy - who was a sometime-luthier - took his own life. He would have loved what Alan has created here and I will cherish it for both the memory of all my grandparents and Kieran. Not to mention cherish it because it is so damn good to look at and sounds exactly as I wanted - big, ballsy and huge but with a nice soft politeness if you wish. Limba body with an ash top, ash neck, rocklite board. 30.5” scale. Passive electronics volume/tone/pickup select including series and parallel options. Single coil in bridge, reverse P in neck. Immense. (Photos courtesy of @skelf)

Happy (belated/early) birthday! Lovely bass

It’s fecking marvellous. Impeccably put together, the grain is lovely and subtle but stand-out at the same time, if that makes sense?. Massive sounding, but also got that sweetness of the PJ set up in parallel mode. Plays beautifully, as you’d expect of an ACG. Just a shame about the bloke wot’s playing it really 😀

Soon to be with me, this gorgeous ACG TKO Classic:

Single coil in bridge and P-type in the neck. So a standard PJ really it’s just with Alan’s bespoke pickups it’s not so obvious I think this is going to blow my socks off when it arrives

‘Tis almost ready. Alan has played an absolute blinder here. Cannot wait.

Close. Or not 🧐😆

Name the band and song: Everybody's here Puke stinks like beer This could be a city This could be a graveyard You stole my idea You stole my idea Everybody's anxious For the coming of the crisis The collapse of the justice I can smell your armpits You stole my idea You stole my idea You stole my idea! This puke stinks like beer Come on come on come on Let's lay waste to this century

ACG Skelf and Zoot Funkmeister

Black with black pickguard

Here you go 😁

Well, I’ve got gigs coming out of my ears and talent for days, so why not commission another bass... 🧐 I’ve fancied a black/maple Fender P for ages but just don’t get on with 34” scales anymore. So following some egging on from @eude I started talking to @Cosmicrain about a mad idea for a 32” P-alike and he didn’t tell me to bog off... 😄 The main inspiration for this is the 70s Fender P played by Rick Savage up to around the Pyromania-era tour but of course Roger Waters has his famous signature P which is very similar. No pictures yet because we only hit the go button a couple of weeks ago, but we’ll keep this thread updated as progress occurs Full specs: 32” Zoot Precision with 10% smaller body to suit the shorter scale Ash body Maple neck fitted with titanium rods, 40mm nut width, P-alike neck profile Maple board with black dots Lightly aged/roadworn black finish Neck and board finished with a vintage tint Black/white/black scratchplate Lindy Fralin 5% overwound P pickup Passive electronics Vol / Tone Chrome Hipshot hardware with their Vintage bridge Schaller straplock buttons Of course Mike is renowned for using some of the sexiest maple you can find for necks (see my Funkmeister for example) but I’ve specifically told him not to worry about that here because (in my head at least) 70s Fenders didn’t go for highly figured lumps of wood. He’s also known for his stunning finishes (see the recent Funky 5 he built for @MattW here https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/429761-5-string-zoot-bass-build/?do=findComment&comment=4374720) but again, I’m making him deviate from that for the mildly aged look. It’s a wonder he still talks to me really 🤪

Nice! Watching with interest

Switch Mode Power Supply. It’s the main component in bringing weight down as you don’t use a big transformer for the voltage drop from 230VAC. Basically does what it says on the tin, switches at a very high frequency. This can lead to the artefacts you’re experiencing on the headphone output. @nilebodgers has raised a very good point - I suspect it is the same headphone amp design as it’s the same ICEPower module so I don’t know if there’s much flexibility on that. But yes the RM heads have a Line In...

I found the same, apparently the SMPS causes the interference and the suggestion is to use lesser headphones!

Not far from me then! (Right by Gatwick Airport, give or take)

Not sure where you’re based but there’s this in the classifieds here which could be a nice cost effective solution :

Another idea is perhaps the new One10T to get a bit more highs?

I wouldn't bother replacing the driver in the One10, it's designed for that box and other drivers may not work so well. If you want a more "FRFR" type cab you'll be wiser to sell that and buy something else. Note also the One10 is designed specifically to be a more coloured tone vs the 12" Barefaced cabs. I'd look out for a Super Midget or Big Baby II, or similar sorts of cabs from other manufacturers

#helping: 😎

Of course, I’ll get a diary going and let you know

I have just set @Cosmicrain the task of building a black/maple P-alike to resolve exactly that issue with my collection 😎