Dingwall Owners Club

[The_Owl]

I don't get the joke ... IMO that's a good song, from a good band, and a good bass player.

It's not a joke, it's a meme.

Memes rarely have any reason or meaning.

Ryan is a fantastic player and a nice guy, no doubt. Brr brr deng just happened to become a meme.

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[steve_rolfeca]

I feel like I got a good deal on my AB's (especially ABI) when I bought them new over 10 years ago compared to what they go for now!

Heck, I feel pretty great about buying my amber honey burst/maple ABZ-5 in 2013. Close to half of what it would cost now...

 

[TolerancEJ]

It's not a joke, it's a meme.

Memes rarely have any reason or meaning.

Ryan is a fantastic player and a nice guy, no doubt. Brr brr deng just happened to become a meme.

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Agreed. I just think the meme is funny.

 

[BurningSkies]

That is when you call them up and say 'leave it at the store - I will come get it'

I could do that...and it would mean picking it up today...or they'll most likely get around to dropping it off today without me making the trip. The funny thing is that Mo waited to send it on a Monday so that it wouldn't sit in a truck or facility for a weekend...and now it's been bouncing around in a truck or facility since last Thursday evening.

 

[spiritbass]

I could do that...and it would mean picking it up today...or they'll most likely get around to dropping it off today without me making the trip. The funny thing is that Mo waited to send it on a Monday so that it wouldn't sit in a truck or facility for a weekend...and now it's been bouncing around in a truck or facility since last Thursday evening.

 

[spiritbass]

It's more expensive, of course, but it seems that "2nd Day Air" is the best bet for minimizing truck-time. That's how my instruments were shipped from Saskatoon...

 

[singlemalt]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

 

[IvanBassist]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

Damn. I know the feeling...I've came back home several times only to find an expensive gear in front of my door step because nobody was home =/

 

[TolerancEJ]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

I'm glad you got your bass. Scary situation that could have been a misfortune.

When I received my Fodera, the UPS driver simply placed it on my doorstep, rang the doorbell and walked away, even though my retailer indicated signature was required up on delivery. Luckily, I had been home. While you had the benefit of living in a rural area, this is not a safe option for me. Delivered parcels had been stolen from my doorstep in the past.

A few years ago, my wife bought me a guitar for Christmas from Amazon. I was watching the tracking number. The status suddenly changed to delivered which surprised me. There were 6 people home at the time; the driver put it on the doorstep and left without even ringing the doorbell. It was winter & very cold outside.

By the way, we need pictures of your new bass when the time is convenient.

 

[The_Owl]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

I did the same for both my Dingwalls. Both came from England, both took three working days to arrive in Sweden. Two of very few moments I enjoyed having a part time job.

In other news. I ordered some nickel strings. I'm hoping they'll give me more of the tone I'm looking for. I may still do the swap to FDV or Super Fatties. There is also a high likelihood I'll get a set of Kalium Hybrids in .049-.158 for G#-standard tuning.

 

[Funk]

Is the scale length of the D-Bird 5 string 37"-34"?

If so, I wonder why the D-Bird was built with the 37" scale length while the super series are built with 35" scale length?

 

[singlemalt]

Ah, my story took place years ago. Waltsdog has the Super J now.

But I recently picked up this!

Fed X got it right.

I’m pretty stoked on this one. Just need to order up a couple rods of blue Luminlay.

 

[The_Owl]

Is the scale length of the D-Bird 5 string 37"-34"?

If so, I wonder why the D-Bird was built with the 37" scale length while the super series are built with 35" scale length?

It is indeed 34-37".

IIRC the Super series were supposed to be closer to their iconic counterparts in feeling and tone, while with the D-bird Sheldon wanted to go for something more modern, tone wise.

 

[Funk]

It is indeed 34-37".

IIRC the Super series were supposed to be closer to their iconic counterparts in feeling and tone, while with the D-bird Sheldon wanted to go for something more modern, tone wise.

Got it! Thanks @The_Owl

 

[The_Owl]

Got it! Thanks @The_Owl

No worries. I'm sure the man himself @Sheldon D. will chime in to address the design aspects.

 

[tombowlus]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

Wow! So glad that you actually got your bass!

 

[BurningSkies]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

Reminds me of my original Afterburner 1. I had it 'delivered to my house' signature required, knowing there'd be no one home...and that UPS would hold it and once they made the attempt I'd go in and have it held at the facility for pickup that night.

...I was watching the tracking and refreshing every 5 minutes all day from my office...only to see it go to 'Delivered-Signed'. Funny knowing that my roommate was at work and so was I. I called him and he rushed home (being in the neighborhood and closer to the house). It was on our doorstep, about 10 feet away from a busy urban street and sidewalk.

When I checked on the signature, it was no one that we knew and certainly not one of our neighbors (I'd lived there for a decade or more at that point). UPS forged a signature and left a $1700 bass on the doorstep.

 

[BurningSkies]

Ah, my story took place years ago. Waltsdog has the Super J now.

But I recently picked up this!

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Fed X got it right.

I’m pretty stoked on this one. Just need to order up a couple rods of blue Luminlay.

That's a really really lovely bass!

...shame about one of the strings going missing though.

 

[Scottgun]

I waited around all day for my Super J 5. Nobody else was home to sign for it.

I saw the Brown truck go by and figured any minute now. Brown truck goes by again, and, nothin.

Tracking goes from “out for delivery” to “delivered”!

Rut roh!

So I wander over to my neighbor’s house, just a block over, and there’s my Super J sitting in his carport. Nobody home.

Good thing we live in the sticks.

I get the neighbor’s car parts and drum stuff all the time.

When I ordered my Combustion, it became clear UPS was going to show up when no one home and a sig was required, so I ponied up the $8 for their special delivery window.

 

[BurningSkies]

Speaking of basses arriving. This was oddly like 'new Dingwall day' for a bass I've owned for a year and even played out here and there.

In...safe and sound from shipping. I did sent it in my Gator ATA case, but always a bit nerve wracking. From the outside it won't look too different from stock.

Neck with Luminlay lines, markers and side dots. The last inlay job, the lines were not high enough contrast for my liking in dim lighting situations. This should help. One of my requests from Mo was to get the action as far down as possible. This Combustion even from its earliest days didn't have a really low action (I remember when the original owner got it and he and I did some troubleshooting). Mo worked to get the neck as straight and flat as possible. I'd gotten it down to 'playable but not pleasurable' on the first round. Now its way closer to 'Dingwall-action.'

You can now see here that the neck has been refinished too. The last time it was 'treated' with a C/A job, but this is a full on urethane satin neck finish. Seriously looks so nice and is so smooth and nice feeling. You can see that Mo worked hard at cleaning up where the frets had been removed. Some had been over-heated and discolored a bit, and with any stuff like this you do get some tear-out. Really nice job of minimizing.

Look at these fatties! I've really come to like the dual-contrast luminlay side dots and these are the big honkers...thick black wide diameter. Beautifully installed. I've found within the past few months of Luminlay side dots; they work brilliantly. You can always see just enough to know where you are. They're not LED bright but they don't need to be, and the black/white do a great job in even low light settings.

Forgive the ratty looking pickup shells. I need to sand/polish them a bit more. You can't see the untold hours of work to modify this bridge. The Graphtech saddles needed some alteration to fit correctly. The metal 'sleds' that hold those saddles are drilled out so the piezo wires will pass through, then the actual base pieces are also not only drilled but have oblong openings for the wires to pass but also so you can adjust the intonation and the wiring doesn't pinch or hamper adjustment. Then under each piece, the wood is drilled out to a common 'tunnel' that runs underneath for all the wires to make it to the control cavity. All invisible and seamless. It took a few tries. Turns out there's a high failure rate on Graphtech piezo saddles...and we found out the hard way on the final assembly.

Electronics have the same footprint except for the added switch...It still has a DG-TC installed, the standard volume/4-way and Bass/low-mid/high-mid. The mids are now stacked and the treble is push/pull for the DG bypass switch.

The old 'high mid' knob is now a piezo preamp/bridge volume with a push/pull piezo tone shift.

The two switches...the first is a 3-way that gives you magnetic setup (just like a standard Dingwall) or piezo setup (bridge only with associated preamp); and the middle position is both systems...which with the second volume means you can bring in the piezo underneath the magnetic or bring the magnetic up underneath the piezo. The other switch is a true bypass for both preamps. It allows the bass to go completely passive and not need any battery to function.