The Last Bass Outpost

I think this is one of the most beautiful things.

Quote from: uwe on April 01, 2025, 04:49:37 PMAccess to education is a key driver to development and progress in any society and economy. I always thought the West had agreed on that long ago. As our societies and economies develop, not having a proper education will push you into fringe jobs with precarious job security and pressure for low wages. You will spend a good deal of your life fighting off to be redundant and never quite make it.

I don't want elites, I want well-educated masses. That is one of the things that makes a country strong and resilient.

I understand that people long for the 50s, 60s and early 70s when an unskilled auto worker in Detroit could pay off a house, have a small boat on Lake Michigan, cars for himself, the wife and his kids plus send them all to Ann Arbor for college, but that time won't come back. Established Western countries are doomed to develop into information and knowledge-based societies.

The problem here in the US now is that the people in power don't want people educated.  That way the masses can't question or understand what they're doing.  Classic dictatorship.

That's nice and catchy!

Access to education is a key driver to development and progress in any society and economy. I always thought the West had agreed on that long ago. As our societies and economies develop, not having a proper education will push you into fringe jobs with precarious job security and pressure for low wages. You will spend a good deal of your life fighting off to be redundant and never quite make it.

I don't want elites, I want well-educated masses. That is one of the things that makes a country strong and resilient.

I understand that people long for the 50s, 60s and early 70s when an unskilled auto worker in Detroit could pay off a house, have a small boat on Lake Michigan, cars for himself, the wife and his kids plus send them all to Ann Arbor for college, but that time won't come back. Established Western countries are doomed to develop into information and knowledge-based societies.

Thank you so much! I feel like I'm really hitting my stride as a designer and builder and certain products in the portfolio are doing really well. Turning a profit on complete builds has always been a challenge, but I feel like I may have finally cracked the code.

 Finest kind of bombast............

Quote from: Grog on April 01, 2025, 07:31:54 AMI agree! I question the need for a selector switch if you have two separate output jacks. I'm guessing it was added or moved seeing it is mounted in the pickguard. I tried to find it again last night, I was going to try to contact the owner, I never ran into it again. I wish we had more pics of it, possibly back photo.

I do think the selector switch has a valid function. It helps to keep the other output quiet when the other is in use. If you play a double neck you get all sorts of unwanted sympathetic resonance if you don't switch that off.
And if you do want to play them together at the same time you just set the switch in the middle position.

Quote from: Basvarken on April 01, 2025, 12:07:34 AMIt does make sense to have two outputs though. One to a guitar amp and the other to a bass amp.
It certainly wouldn't work for me if it had only one.

I agree! I question the need for a selector switch if you have two separate output jacks. I'm guessing it was added or moved seeing it is mounted in the pickguard. I tried to find it again last night, I was going to try to contact the owner, I never ran into it again. I wish we had more pics of it, possibly back photo.

Education has much to do with current trends. When I started in college, I think it cost $255 a quarter. Anyone who wanted an education could get one. Within limits, you could be whatever you wanted to be. Sky was the limit, as long as you worked hard and had talent.

The same education is now pretty expensive, resulting in sky high student loan amounts for the working class.

Added to that is a general disdain for education in many areas.

The whole "elitist" bullshit...

... that's a lot of work. One thing I learned to love about Danos was how they were designed to be cheap , and yet were very playable , but you had to accept the cheap tuners , wonky bridges and other eccentricities.
I started a project bass after buying a cheap Talman. Changed the pickup , but haven't yet changed the other pickup , pots and tuners I had planned to do. I'll never break even with it as it is.