I got a chance to set the height on the stool and my end pin where it feels real comfortable now.
It’s a really well made and absolutely over-built thing. What’s neat about the big pneumatic tires is there is no concern hitting curbs, gravel, and most importantly- stairs.
Downsides are the weight and lack of “transportability” when not being used as a dolly for the bass. When collapsed, its heavy and you gotta lift because the wheel doesn’t make contact with floor. I might add some small wheels at an angle for this purpose.
I’m thinking about aluminum, carbon fiber tubing, and/or recycled bike parts for fabrication of my iteration of this clever design. But, truth be told, I like a thing I can bang around and not worry about it. Steel tubing from the fence guys might be the ideal material, weight and all.
Here are some better pictures from my wife’s phone in case anyone else wants to get together with their iron-worker buddies and try their hand at producing something like this.
I have been on the lookout for a life-long bass stool friend to facilitate developing the optimum practice zazen posture to help combat my spine issues - this thing checks all the boxes and then some!
The ergon pin coupled with the little fold-out adjustable end pin curb catcher attached to the stand lends to a wide variety of playing positions. I really like where I’ve got it set now - I can reach the very tippy top of the axe without having to hunch at all. Similarly, when playing in the lower positions, I am encouraged to lean back ever so slightly causing my spinal alignment/balance to fall into “the sweet spot”.
One unexpected thing I discovered today is that if I remove the rubber endpin stopper and have metal on metal, you really feel the instrument in your body and it sounds a little louder (this 100% might be a perceptual auditory phenomenon, though.)
