Recent content by idale

"Awesome" would suffice, I'd think! ;) Looks like a nice redwood top, and I'm glad Barry suggested going for the contrast inlay on mine, it really does looks like great (and is super-flamed, too, by the look of it). Seems like we've got some similar flaming pattern on the top going on, with it...

Thanks! There's a few others out there from what I'd seen on the gallery, but it's definitely not common to have a passive AB2. I figure it keeps the complexity of the bass itself down (fewer knobs to worry about) and lets all that go on the pedalboard if necessary. We got it as both a...

My passive 3X is normally in the bridge+middle setting. I guess I must have hidden MM leanings I didn't know about!

Don't believe so, figured most here trolled the FB and everything anyway. Let me rectify that...

So many things you can get, just a matter of what works with your budget (or more likely what you can stretch your budget to accommodate). :D Gets dangerous having the order sheet around too long, though, I went from starting off looking at an ABZ to ending up with an X-top AB2 3X. Definitely...

Pretty much why I wanted to share what happened on mine, since other than if there's any changes to your build then much of the time it's just waiting for your turn in line, so not hearing anything's perfectly normal (based on my very scientific sample size of 1, at least ;)). You'd probably...

For reference, here's the main milestones from my recent build (which went direct because there's no dealer in range). I like knowing status but didn't want to be bugging them all the time, especially after Barry left and Sheldon was having to field the sales emails. So for the most part I tried...