What's in the mailbox? 📬 📦
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darwin999
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I gotta add to @jimilee's earlier comments, StompBoxParts has also been an excellent supplier for my pedals.
Great parts, good prices, quick shipping, and generous service.
I have done something like ~30 orders from them in the last several years, and have never had a single problem.
Two thumbs way up!
The photo below doesn't show ~8-10 additional knobs, which I stupidly put away before taking the photo.
Incredibly generous, what else can I say.
Great parts, good prices, quick shipping, and generous service.
I have done something like ~30 orders from them in the last several years, and have never had a single problem.
Two thumbs way up!
The photo below doesn't show ~8-10 additional knobs, which I stupidly put away before taking the photo.
Incredibly generous, what else can I say.
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Robert
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swelchy
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Same.... They are always solid
KR Sound
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Bricksnbeatles
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That’s so dope! I think I gotta kit Stevie up with an idea I’ve had kicking for a while now
KR Sound
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Do it! He rocks.
Mentaltossflycoon
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Hal Harvey
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All the parts came in for the Bass VI. First off the parts from Obscura.
I'm not totally happy with the Obscura parts, one thing is my fault the other is theirs. First, the hardtail, don't buy this one if you are doing something similar. I got this one because I thought it would help with the break angle on the bridge which is notoriously shallow on the offsets. I forgot what an absolute bitch strings are for the Bass VI. It's not a bass, not a guitar. The low E has too much on the end to be threaded into the tuner. Also the holes seem like they are sized for bass ball ends, not guitar size so it looked like it would pull out under tension. Traditional Bass VI strings have guitar size ends. They do make another that would work.
Next up is the knobs. The knobs themselves are beautiful, but they were packed loose in a baggie. Let's be real, these are $10 a piece knobs, they need to be properly packed. Two are have obvious damage down to bare metal. Also they didn't provide set screws?!
I will use the plates, and two of the knobs are pretty much intact. Anyway.
I picked up a couple of Tokyo Cosmos pots. I love them!!! And a suitably overspec fancy Sozo cap. Using a Lumberg for the jack.
My custom Seattle '93 spec'd pickup set came too
La Bella flat wound Bass VI strings
I got some conductive paint from Ebay but I think I'll just use copper tape. Also I got some shims at 0.25/0.5/1 degree angles just in case. With the stock bridge I don't need these ...
Last but not least, after the hardtail debacle I decided to try the stock trem. I didn't hate it. I knew I was going to get a new bridge so I ended up deciding to lean in hard on the offset thing and go with a Mastery bridge and trem set. These are made in my town Minneapolis! We have some cool stuff here - Zvex, Chase Bliss, etc
Anyway this thing looks and feels fantastic!!
I'm going to but this thing together this weekend
I'm not totally happy with the Obscura parts, one thing is my fault the other is theirs. First, the hardtail, don't buy this one if you are doing something similar. I got this one because I thought it would help with the break angle on the bridge which is notoriously shallow on the offsets. I forgot what an absolute bitch strings are for the Bass VI. It's not a bass, not a guitar. The low E has too much on the end to be threaded into the tuner. Also the holes seem like they are sized for bass ball ends, not guitar size so it looked like it would pull out under tension. Traditional Bass VI strings have guitar size ends. They do make another that would work.
Next up is the knobs. The knobs themselves are beautiful, but they were packed loose in a baggie. Let's be real, these are $10 a piece knobs, they need to be properly packed. Two are have obvious damage down to bare metal. Also they didn't provide set screws?!
I will use the plates, and two of the knobs are pretty much intact. Anyway.
I picked up a couple of Tokyo Cosmos pots. I love them!!! And a suitably overspec fancy Sozo cap. Using a Lumberg for the jack.
My custom Seattle '93 spec'd pickup set came too
La Bella flat wound Bass VI strings
I got some conductive paint from Ebay but I think I'll just use copper tape. Also I got some shims at 0.25/0.5/1 degree angles just in case. With the stock bridge I don't need these ...
Last but not least, after the hardtail debacle I decided to try the stock trem. I didn't hate it. I knew I was going to get a new bridge so I ended up deciding to lean in hard on the offset thing and go with a Mastery bridge and trem set. These are made in my town Minneapolis! We have some cool stuff here - Zvex, Chase Bliss, etc
Anyway this thing looks and feels fantastic!!
I'm going to but this thing together this weekend
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vigilante398
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Backed this on Kickstarter last spring and it just showed up today, but they found a problem with one of their ink batches that took them a little bit to solve so I'm still waiting for ink. Stoked to get this up and running.
Nostradoomus
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so will you be able to print a cock and balls on an enclosure that we can all feel?
Vicious C
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Interested in seeing the results!
giovanni
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Prioritiesso will you be able to print a cock and balls on an enclosure that we can all feel?
steviejr92
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Im waiting for mine to come in! I wasnt one of the backers so it should be here by next month! Have you got to use it yet? How is it?
vigilante398
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Still waiting on the ink (they're saying probably February) so I haven't fired it up yet, but I've poked around at the software a little, and that was one of the main reasons I decided to back it. I bought my first UV printer in 2020 and the hardware was solid, but the software was absolute garbage.
I will say the hardware seems incredibly well-designed and well-built. It's smaller and lighter than my old printer, but you can tell a lot more thought went into making it streamlined. I'm especially stoked that this is self-cleaning, as cleaning the printhead regularly was the #2 thing I hated about the old printer (which died after 3-ish years of use/abuse).
vigilante398
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That's the main use case I had in mind, yup.so will you be able to print a cock and balls on an enclosure that we can all feel?
dan.schumaker
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Interesting... I've wanted to dip my toes in the UV print world.. I'll be interested in seeing how this works out for you.
vigilante398
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The UV print world definitely seems scary and even the cheapest printer is a big investment, but it seems like their goal was to make it easier for beginners to get into UV printing, as the Chinese A4/A3 units have a bit of a learning curve both for operation and maintenance. My old A4 is in a landfill somewhere because I got tired of spending time and money keeping it going.
As I mentioned I'm still waiting for the ink to show up as they had an issue with contamination in their magenta ink that pushed back production, but if there's interest I could certainly make a thread with my experience with the printer. I still plan to use Tayda for most stuff going forward, but I have a few special projects I'm working on that Tayda isn't set up to handle, and stuff like that is one of the reasons I wanted to pick this thing up.
Robert
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Following. I'm tired of doing it by hand.
