Introducing - Alder & Ash Bespoke Custom. Fully custom backline

richalderandash · March 2017

Good evening ladies and (no doubt predominantly) gentleman.

I'd like to welcome you all to Alder & Ash Bespoke Custom. As some already know, we build hardwood pedalboards from a large range of woods, all with dovetail joinery built to the highest standards. But what many do not know is we have expanded our range to custom hardwood and tolex cabinets, and head and amp rehousing.

We have a range of stock sizes for our boards, with several boards available to buy immediately. All boards are available with either a flightcase or tweed-wrapped hard case. All boards come with a built-in IEC (that can be modded for different PSUs like Ciock), your choice of 18" in / out Lava Cable Tightrope jacks, and the top board covered in Velcro, so you can simple drop your pedals on and go.

Please do stop by the website - www.alderandashpedalboards.com - and message me here or through the site with any queries. More boards are currently being built, and photos are regularly updated.

Thank you. Any questions; please do message me.

richalderandash · March 2017

Here are a few photos. For love nor money could I figure out how to use the URL link last night!

Image: https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16836410_1896060234014279_7933160516881401628_o.jpg?oh=1252d7b9e0cec2733e58737892f72c79&oe=596FD19F

Image: https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/16715869_1896055757348060_2231794670709366137_o.jpg?oh=ee6d20e8088ae894c8c5e5a52ee93698&oe=5969AFB6

I'll have photos of the cabs coming soon.

Thanks all.

Sham61 · March 2017

They look lovely

dindude · March 2017

Your speaker cabinets look very reasonably priced, do you have any pictures of completed tolex jobbies, couldn't find any on your website.

Kebabkid · March 2017

Nicely done

richalderandash · March 2017

Thanks @sham61 and @Kebabkid.

@dindude - unfortunately not. I've made a few, but they went out the door the day I made them, and escaped the camera! However, here's a combo I built for rehousing a Kelly 50 Watt T&B head

richalderandash · March 2017

https://m.facebook.com/alderandashpedalboards/photos/a.1876949572592012.1073741832.1628415750778730/1876949655925337/?type=3&source=54

the URL link won't work off my phone

Jimbro66 · March 2017

No pedalboards showing on your web site on my mobile

but the cabs do show and are good value for that standard of construction. Do their prices include Tolex and grille cloth?

richalderandash · March 2017

The Special Reserve boards are coming soon. Only a few people have had them so far, as with some species of the standard ranges.

And yes; all prices are inclusive of all hardware except speakers for the cabs, and cases for the boards. But we can supply and break in the speakers for you; just email us and we'll get everything sorted.

revsorg · March 2017

I am curious to know the significance of those particular woods - alder and ash?

richalderandash · March 2017

revsorg said:

I am curious to know the significance of those particular woods - alder and ash?

No significance. It's a name I've always liked. Had it as a band name a long time ago, and always wanted to reuse it. There's something pleasing about the alliteration.

Jimbro66 · March 2017

In that case the cabs are excellent value. A very welcome service on this forum. All those members who have previously said they wished they could separate their heavy combos into head & cab if only they knew some-one to do it.......... Salvation for bad backs

richalderandash · March 2017

I'll be happy to help anyway I can. It'll be nice to make a combo into separate units.

Gassage · March 2017

Should call it Balderdash.

richalderandash · March 2017

Gassage said:

Should call it Balderdash.

Not quite the impression I'm aiming for....! :-)

Gassage · March 2017

richalderandash said:

Gassage said:

Should call it Balderdash.

Not quite the impression I'm aiming for....! :-)

Memorable though.

richalderandash · March 2017

Can't argue that!

Teyeplayer · March 2017

richalderandash said:
There's something pleasing about the alliteration.

Repeated 'a' sounds would be assonance not alliteration, alliteration is repeated consonant sounds ...sorry can't escape the day job.

Great looking work by the way, never lusted after a pedal board before.

richalderandash · March 2017

Thanks @Teyeplayer :-) Learn something new everyday. You're an English teacher I assume?

Teyeplayer · March 2017

I think that was a given.

I believe there might be a few of us about...still.

richalderandash · March 2017

New stock added:

https://www.alderandashpedalboards.com/product-page/custom-mahogany-oak-gentleman

SteveRobinson · March 2017

Teyeplayer said:

richalderandash said:
There's something pleasing about the alliteration.

Repeated 'a' sounds would be assonance not alliteration, alliteration is repeated consonant sounds ...sorry can't escape the day job.

Pretty sure it's alliteration. Assonance is repeated vowel sounds within words.

Teyeplayer · March 2017

SteveRobinson said:

Teyeplayer said:

richalderandash said:
There's something pleasing about the alliteration.

Repeated 'a' sounds would be assonance not alliteration, alliteration is repeated consonant sounds ...sorry can't escape the day job.

Pretty sure it's alliteration. Assonance is repeated vowel sounds within words.

Strictly speaking @SteveRobinson ;;alliteration refers to repeated consonants at the starts of words, repeated consonants mid-word (or close sequence of words) is consonance (although this is increasingly being dropped in favour of merely recognising alliterated sounds regardless of position). Whilst repeated s-based sounds are sibilance rather than alliteration (this includes s, c, sh, ch, and sometimes even x and z) and assonance relates to repeated vowel sounds within phrases or sentences rather than being specific to just the opening of the word (to add to the confusion it can include 'y' for its phonetic use). So as such the a's in alder and ash is assonance. However, alliteration does exactly the same for repeated sounds as a metaphor does for all manor of metaphors including personification and anthropomorphism -as such it is often taught as a blanket term for each of these although not being completely accurate.

Anyway enough of this! Lesson over

this is supposed to be my down time.

SteveRobinson · March 2017

Every definition I've seen of alliteration is that it's the same sound (consonant or vowel) at the start of adjacent or close words in a sentence.

Strictly speaking I suppose, ash and alder, even though both begin with the letter "a", do not start with the same vowel _sound_.

mudslide73 · March 2017

Teyeplayer said:

SteveRobinson said:

Teyeplayer said:

richalderandash said:
There's something pleasing about the alliteration.

Repeated 'a' sounds would be assonance not alliteration, alliteration is repeated consonant sounds ...sorry can't escape the day job.

Pretty sure it's alliteration. Assonance is repeated vowel sounds within words.

Strictly speaking @SteveRobinson ;;alliteration refers to repeated consonants at the starts of words, repeated consonants mid-word (or close sequence of words) is consonance (although this is increasingly being dropped in favour of merely recognising alliterated sounds regardless of position). Whilst repeated s-based sounds are sibilance rather than alliteration (this includes s, c, sh, ch, and sometimes even x and z) and assonance relates to repeated vowel sounds within phrases or sentences rather than being specific to just the opening of the word (to add to the confusion it can include 'y' for its phonetic use). So as such the a's in alder and ash is assonance. However, alliteration does exactly the same for repeated sounds as a metaphor does for all manor of metaphors including personification and anthropomorphism -as such it is often taught as a blanket term for each of these although not being completely accurate.

Anyway enough of this! Lesson over this is supposed to be my down time.

Don't worry you've got another fortnight off soon

Teyeplayer · March 2017

SteveRobinson said:

Every definition I've seen of alliteration is that it's the same sound (consonant or vowel) at the start of adjacent or close words in a sentence.

Strictly speaking I suppose, ash and alder, even though both begin with the letter "a", do not start with the same vowel _sound_.

You are right @SteveRobinson in the sense that assonance is a form of alliteration, just as personification is a form of metaphor. Certainly if you were to google it, you would have a host of ks2/3 explanations that are in line with the definitions you've offered, but these are ks2/3 definitions of their use. There is just that bit more to both these terms than this.

In terms of the vowel sounds, your explanation reminds me of the scene in 'Educating Rita' where she spots that it is indeed flawed in exactly the way you have and cleverly describes it as 'rhyme for poets who can't rhyme' or something to very similar effect. Frank responds, that that's as may be but 'it is one of those things that just is'. I always did like that scene.

Teyeplayer · March 2017

mudslide73 said:

Don't worry you've got another fortnight off soon

Hehe... don't you just know it!

Teyeplayer · March 2017

Anyway poor @richalderandash wanted to tell us about his rather gorgeous bespoke wooden back line, we should really leave him to it and stop hijacking his thread. Pub quiz moment over.

mudslide73 · March 2017

Teyeplayer said:

mudslide73 said:

Don't worry you've got another fortnight off soon

Hehe... don't you just know it!

Sorry that was an in joke because I too work in a school

The pedalboards do indeed look very lovely @richalderandash ;

SteveRobinson · March 2017

Teyeplayer said:
You are right @SteveRobinson in the sense that assonance is a form of alliteration,

This contradicts what you said above, that it *wasn't* alliteration.

Certainly if you were to google it, you would have a host of ks2/3 explanations that are in line with the definitions you've offered, but these are ks2/3 definitions of their use.

Perhaps you'd point me at some grown-up definitions?

In terms of the vowel sounds, your explanation reminds me of the scene in 'Educating Rita' where she spots that it is indeed flawed in exactly the way you have and cleverly describes it as 'rhyme for poets who can't rhyme' or something to very similar effect. Frank responds, that that's as may be but 'it is one of those things that just is'. I always did like that scene.

What Frank in Educating Rita uses as an example of assonance in the Yeats poem is actually consonance. So neatly illustrating that teachers can sometimes get things wrong.

Teyeplayer · March 2017

SteveRobinson said:

Teyeplayer said:
You are right @SteveRobinson in the sense that assonance is a form of alliteration,

This contradicts what you said above, that it *wasn't* alliteration.

Certainly if you were to google it, you would have a host of ks2/3 explanations that are in line with the definitions you've offered, but these are ks2/3 definitions of their use.

Perhaps you'd point me at some grown-up definitions?

In terms of the vowel sounds, your explanation reminds me of the scene in 'Educating Rita' where she spots that it is indeed flawed in exactly the way you have and cleverly describes it as 'rhyme for poets who can't rhyme' or something to very similar effect. Frank responds, that that's as may be but 'it is one of those things that just is'. I always did like that scene.

What Frank in Educating Rita uses as an example of assonance in the Yeats poem is actually consonance. So neatly illustrating that teachers can sometimes get things wrong.

I was trying to be nice @SteveRobinson and let the contradiction go because I couldn't be bothered to persue this as it seems totally unfair on poor Rich and his thread.

All 'adult' definitions are above and will stand at a-level and degree level. I'm presuming from your response that you too have some level of extended literature study, as you wouldn't have got involved with this discussion, it's too pedantic (certainly feels like a day at work)? Either that or you are argumentative of course.

However if you do want to cross check, grab yourself a copy of the Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms -I always recommend it to my students and you will find that I am neither trying to misinform or being unnecessarily argumentative, but that I do speak the truth.

Clearly my memory was off on Ed R, (although I will grab a copy and cross check it tomorrow) which absolutely proves that we all get things wrong sometimes, but that surely is the beauty of learning and why so many of us (especially teachers) spend time arguing on and off forums!

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