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#43,621
JarodGrieco said:
I moved from a 5 string Combustion to a 5 string ABZ. The difference in the neck was quite noticeable. Definitely thinner but mostly there is a better shape to the ABZ neck. I’m guessing you are looking at the pink one that just became available. No idea what that guy is after, given I’ve followed him for a year or something and I’ve seen him buy and sell 4 Dingwalls in that time. I thought Dingwall sent him that one in exchange for the old green AB. Anyway, I just find it odd.

Slightly wider neck for the additional string but I bet you would enjoy the neck on the AB.
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Wait… the pink one with the maple neck is for sale? I see it on john fox as sold.

What caught my eye was ferarri yellow with wenge neck. But i may do custom light gold to match my car. I think i shared earlier. Flat six car needs six strings.
 
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shade_1313 said:
Nice. If I might ask, is there anything in particular that’s not doing it for you, or is it just one of those “it’s a good bass, but just doesn’t click with me,” intangible kind of things?
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There's certainly nothing wrong with it, but it just hasn't been speaking to me. When I want to play fretless, I just gravitate to the Combustion fretless. As you can tell, when I got it a few months back I did do a thorough cleaning and go-through (tightened loose pots, new battery, etc.

I've tried a few sets of strings (came with Labella black tapes, have 3 sets of rounds that I've tried) and it's just not really clicked for me. I'm a fickle beast. Not a bad experience but with a bunch of other basses on hand it'll really just sit on the rack and get dusty, so I might as well move it to someone who wants it and recoup the pesos I spent.
 
#43,625
TTA said:
Wait… the pink one with the maple neck is for sale? I see it on john fox as sold.

What caught my eye was ferarri yellow with wenge neck. But i may do custom light gold to match my car. I think i shared earlier. Flat six car needs six strings.
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No, it was a frosty metallic pink AB 6. I just pulled up the FB Dingwall for Sale group and I don't see it listed, so either he decided to keep or someone scooped it up really fast.
 
#43,627
BurningSkies said:
There's certainly nothing wrong with it, but it just hasn't been speaking to me. When I want to play fretless, I just gravitate to the Combustion fretless. As you can tell, when I got it a few months back I did do a thorough cleaning and go-through (tightened loose pots, new battery, etc.

I've tried a few sets of strings (came with Labella black tapes, have 3 sets of rounds that I've tried) and it's just not really clicked for me. I'm a fickle beast. Not a bad experience but with a bunch of other basses on hand it'll really just sit on the rack and get dusty, so I might as well move it to someone who wants it and recoup the pesos I spent.
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Makes sense. One day, I’ll get a Combustion and have it defretted, but I’ve been jonesing for a fretless BTB 6 since I came off of my decade away from playing. I only just missed the brief window where they were making the 846F.
 
#43,630
BurningSkies said:
I did recently pick up another hobby too and every time you pick up a hobby there's a cost to get on board...Last years hobby to pick up was bee keeping, and that was a few grand of hardware; long before that it was brewing, that was a bunch of cash, etc. It'll come back to basses sometime soon. I also should probably sell that BTB fretless 6 I bought...It's never really spoken to me.
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hobbies and balance are a good thing. Over doing it on one aspect is often no good. Being spread too thin, also no good. I find being spread too thin is often where I find things.
An older passion/hobby came back into my world recently and it’s quickly become obsession level like bass. Mountain biking. Other then going over the handle bars a few times it also seems to be doing my health good, so that’s a bonus. Hehe.
Bee keeping sounds really cool. Do you have your own hives?

…. Mead….. mmmm.
 
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AB Nate said:
hobbies and balance are a good thing. Over doing it on one aspect is often no good. Being spread too thin, also no good. I find being spread too thin is often where I find things.
An older passion/hobby came back into my world recently and it’s quickly become obsession level like bass. Mountain biking. Other then going over the handle bars a few times it also seems to be doing my health good, so that’s a bonus. Hehe.
Bee keeping sounds really cool. Do you have your own hives?

…. Mead….. mmmm.
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Music has always been more than a hobby; as the LLC for my band proves. We moved to formalize once the income became too much to write off with expenses and the taxes started getting hefty. That was back in 2015-2016. Its been a second profession for me though one that never paid quite as well as my other work. But just the same, I maintain about 50-75K worth of music gear, so spending more just to do it isn't necessarily all that needed.

Yeah, the hives are going well; have about 100,000 little livestock in my yard. Just harvested about 60lbs of honey with probably 60-100lbs coming at actual harvest time at the end of September. As happens with music and brewing...the minute an item has a special use attached the price goes up. ;) So a plastic bucket that's a modified 3$ 5-gallon for brewing is 30$...and such is beekeeping too, etc. Though bee keeping costs have been reasonable, probably around $2k across a couple years for hardware (hive bodies, frames, tools, etc.) and that number goes down in the future since I'm not really looking to expand much more than a few hives.

Me harvesting last fall:
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Me vaporizing oxalic acid in the hives last spring:
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I've been investing a whole lot of time in our property this year too. Not huge, but I've been installing lots of 'useable' plants, bushes and trees along the perimeter (raspberries, blackberries, elderberries & mulberry trees I've planted across the past 5 years from root stock), I've also planted a fair number of bush and climbing roses, expanded our vegetable garden, etc. I always do vegetables & herbs from seed as well as many flowers, including recently the 8 month process of germinating roses from seed. I've also just stepped up my indoor seeding/germinating/seedling setup as well to get that a bit more functional for the future.

...and I still have a pretty full home brew setup including grain mill and lauter tun that I need to get back to. I'd like to find a use for my honey with that as well as some other honey based projects I'm working towards.

...also maintaining an hour to three a day playing bass.

...oh and also still baking weekly, I've been doing that for the past decade off and on though. Everything from English muffins and bagels to baguettes & fermented breads (sourdoughs).
 
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BurningSkies said:
Music has always been more than a hobby; as the LLC for my band proves. We moved to formalize once the income became too much to write off with expenses and the taxes started getting hefty. That was back in 2015-2016. Its been a second profession for me though one that never paid quite as well as my other work. But just the same, I maintain about 50-75K worth of music gear, so spending more just to do it isn't necessarily all that needed.

Yeah, the hives are going well; have about 100,000 little livestock in my yard. Just harvested about 60lbs of honey with probably 60-100lbs coming at actual harvest time at the end of September. As happens with music and brewing...the minute an item has a special use attached the price goes up. ;) So a plastic bucket that's a modified 3$ 5-gallon for brewing is 30$...and such is beekeeping too, etc. Though bee keeping costs have been reasonable, probably around $2k across a couple years for hardware (hive bodies, frames, tools, etc.) and that number goes down in the future since I'm not really looking to expand much more than a few hives.

Me harvesting last fall:
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Me vaporizing oxalic acid in the hives last spring:
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I've been investing a whole lot of time in our property this year too. Not huge, but I've been installing lots of 'useable' plants, bushes and trees along the perimeter (raspberries, blackberries, elderberries & mulberry trees I've planted across the past 5 years from root stock), I've also planted a fair number of bush and climbing roses, expanded our vegetable garden, etc. I always do vegetables & herbs from seed as well as many flowers, including recently the 8 month process of germinating roses from seed. I've also just stepped up my indoor seeding/germinating/seedling setup as well to get that a bit more functional for the future.

...and I still have a pretty full home brew setup including grain mill and lauter tun that I need to get back to. I'd like to find a use for my honey with that as well as some other honey based projects I'm working towards.

...also maintaining an hour to three a day playing bass.
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Busy guy Bill!!!

sounds incredible. I’m envious of your set up. We have a garden but very limited space. Fortunately lots of wild berries around the hood! Hehe. Just raided the neighbors Saskatoon berries. Hmmmm. Being Saskatoon berries does that make this relevant to the thread??? Hahaha.

I’m sure you could make some Mead combining your brew skills and honey.

we frequent some local Meaderys and it’s the best thing going IMO.

Heck, I’ve brought some of the good stuff down south of the border once upon a time for a hangout with my bass bro @whirledpeas

For some ideas:
Canadian Crafted Mead (Honey Wine) - Fallentimber Meadery
[URL]https://www.spirithillswinery.com/
Grey Owl Meadery |[/URL]
https://fallentimbermeadery.ca/
 
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AB Nate said:
Busy guy Bill!!!

sounds incredible. I’m envious of your set up. We have a garden but very limited space. Fortunately lots of wild berries around the hood! Hehe. Just raided the neighbors Saskatoon berries. Hmmmm. Being Saskatoon berries does that make this relevant to the thread??? Hahaha.

I’m sure you could make some Mead combining your brew skills and honey.

we frequent some local Meaderys and it’s the best thing going IMO.

Heck, I’ve brought some of the good stuff down south of the border once upon a time for a hangout with my bass bro @whirledpeas

For some ideas:
Canadian Crafted Mead (Honey Wine) - Fallentimber Meadery
Spirit Hills – One of a Kind
Grey Owl Meadery |
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We may get to mead eventually. I have the honey to do it. Given the going rate for honey is 8$ per pound this year the hives will be north of 800$ honey value. With the meagre 30lbs last year that gets me about half way to break even. ;)

We have a TON of wild black raspberries growing in the yard, but I'm trying to add some cultivated varieties as well (I make jam, etc. too). My idea is to fill the 'weedy rough' of the property's perimeter with plants that are edible or useful so the whole property acts as a 'garden' for us.

On topic... Dingwall flame-top that's Honey-to-Saskatoon-berry-burst in the same vibe as the classic mid 00's Afterburner 1 Honey Amberburst finish would be excellent.

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BurningSkies said:
We may get to mead eventually. I have the honey to do it. Given the going rate for honey is 8$ per pound this year the hives will be north of 800$ honey value. With the meagre 30lbs last year that gets me about half way to break even. ;)

We have a TON of wild black raspberries growing in the yard, but I'm trying to add some cultivated varieties as well (I make jam, etc. too). My idea is to fill the 'weedy rough' of the property's perimeter with plants that are edible or useful so the whole property acts as a 'garden' for us.

On topic... Dingwall flame-top that's Honey-to-Saskatoon-berry-burst in the same vibe as the classic mid 00's Afterburner 1 Honey Amberburst finish would be excellent.

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I like it. Sounds like a great usage of your space.

This Z3 has always been one of my favs. It just looks tasty. I can’t remember who it’s happily married to they are around here.

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and my old SJ had a similar vibe.
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