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Actually just had a thought, you could put a wide dovetail under the feet, put the feet back on, and then design an adapter that works on the dovetail bit AND ignores the rubber feet. Best of both worlds and may just require a longer screw. Rob

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No mounting holes? Sides, back, top?

Looked at that as well and that was my second plan until I turned the Gnome over and noticed the mounting holes, then I changed tack. The first plan was a cage that the Gnome slotted into. The rubber feet are quite nice TBH, I didn't want plastic feet as they slip, printing in TPU (flexible plastic) is a PITA, so I decided to keep the rubber feet. They are 5mm thick, so that's enough for the dovetail section to be 4.6mm high. This means that I can leave the dovetails on and I still have the Gnome as before with no slippy feet. The dovetail sections don't need to be too strong, we're not supporting a nice old and heavy tube head, so a few M3 screws or bolts is fine. Also the dovetail outer sections are only 8.5mm high on the back of the cabinet (or they will be once the sodding rain stops) so are unlikely to be damaged as they are quite robust. Really good ideas @Phil Starr you ought to get a printer Rob

Hmm, the TC BAM200 has screw-on feet...

It’s definitely something that’s left a sour taste in my mouth personally. There was a bass on here a while back that was literally my teenage daughter’s dream bass. She’s into classic 80s rock and metal played with black pointy gear and started playing a while back now (With no input from me I should add as that’s super uncool. I’m super proud but trying to remain nonchalant about it as is the teenage way😂). It popped up at a really good price, needing a couple of fairly easy and inexpensive repairs but unfortunately sold pretty much straight away and turned round very quickly for a huge increase. I’m not naive enough to think everything in this world is a bed of roses, and from my limited experience of dealing with buying/selling on Basschat, people have been very nice, with great prices that are almost a ‘mates rates’ kind of deal. Just wish I’d spotted it a bit earlier and got in first. I’m sure some people are pressing refresh on the classifieds pages on a minute by minute basis the way some things get snapped up round here 😂

Snippet from our band chat. 'nuff said?

OK so it's a last minute emergency, why wouldn't I get a set list? I don't often get a call on the day of the gig, but when I do I expect the set list to be part of that call. I've never been told you can't have a set list! IME that doesn't happen. You are obviously associating with the wrong people.

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Rosie, Flip the Elf over and see if there are mounting screw holes on the bottom. The manual may say something about it, another clue is if TC offers a mounting bracket for the Elf. I have a Cioks DC-7 power supply and they offered a mounting bracket so I looked at using those holes. (Didn't work out, but that’s a different story). The holes don't have to be on the bottom, they could be on the sides or the back. They don't need to be very deep or big, M3 is plenty big enough (3mm) and 1-2mm of thread is fine. Rob

I don't think it did!

The dog days of the Covid Lockdown was the best time for Facebook Marketplace guitar and bass bargains down south. Most of the sellers were either broke or thought the time off work was an opportunity to learn to play, and couldn’t. I got my Ibanez and Aria for good prices plus a SansAmp BDDI. It’s mostly rubbish these days.

Lovely Day - Bill Withers

A Leo morphing into a Felix

There's currently a bass I sold on FB Marketplace (that old charity shop Hondo, think you had one) being flipped for double what I listed it for, not only has he used my pictures but also copy/pasted the description, right down to the bits where I detailed the work I'd done on it and the new parts I'd fitted, all recounted in first person. Wouldn't even mind but the pictures I took were awful as my phone at the time had a rubbish camera! It's been on there for ages probably because my original price was the market value and the flipped price is about £100 too much.

Any update on how things are going now its back in their hands?

If I buy something it is mine and I can do what I like with it and that includes selling it for double or burning it in the garden for BBQ fuel - but I am not a hypocrite so that must be the other way as well: if I sell a thing and the next person manages to sell it for double - that is their good fortune and I am pleased for them. I'm an adult and I did a deal I was happy with at the time. Hindsight is a waste of energy. Once I've sold a thing I no longer care about it. Perhaps the next owner will sell it for a loss, or maybe for a profit. Either way it is not mine anymore and it leaves my mind. It's not an "anti-community" stance, it's a really "Why on earth should I get a say when it's not mine?" Stance. What next? Should I be upset if the 3rd owner after me makes a profit? Or only if it's the next owner? Advertising something at a higher price does not mean it will sell, and if it does, good luck to them. There are many reasons for a bass selling for more and for less. Perhaps the market improved / got worse. Perhaps there was a bidding war by people who only just discovered the item was available. Perhaps the model has somehow been associated with a recently exposed nonce and now nobody wants them so the value tanked. Perhaps the original seller really needed money and had made the decision to sell undervalue for a quick sale. Irrespective of the reasons why the buyer bought it they assisted the seller. They cannot be expected to offer a higher sum "just because" and they shouldn't be expected to sell at an undervalue themselves. Even if they bought it with the intention to sell at normal market value (or higher) they still did a deal with another adult who made the decision to sell in a way that suited them at the time. Slagging someone for later selling at a higher price is no more or less silly than slagging the original seller for selling at an undervalue and making others of the same model harder to shift at market value. Inflation and depreciation and simple desirability can change quickly. Several years ago I sold / part-x a very nice bass on here and the person buying it gigged it extensively and then decided to get a new one built with slightly different specs so he put "my" one up for sale. Another member of this "community" sent me multiple messages demanding to know exactly what I had sold it for (with the part-x value etc) and seemed to be demanding that I feel outraged that it was for sale at a price that might have been higher than I got. I pretty much got a lecture that me not caring about something that I no longer owned was a problem and that my refusal to tell him the details of a private transaction was against the community. It was a level of pathetic entitlement unworthy of anything claiming to be a community. Most amusingly that member has advertised many items way above market value / used sales on here and ebay etc. This happened again when I sold a pair of Mark Bass cabs donkeys ago and a different member actually had the balls to ask me for a breakdown including the shipping as I had sent them to mainland europe. He wanted to work out the cab price from the postage included price. I promise: if you buy a £100 pedal from me and manage to sell it for £300 I will be thrilled for you. Me being happy with the sale at £100 will not be affected by you managing to sell for £300.

Resons To Be Cheerful, Part 3 — Iam Dury & The Blockheads

The art of depping is to learn the songs, but be able to deal with key changes or structure differences on the hoof. The first takes discipline, the second is a skill best developed by joining in at jam sessions.

If you can dep, you know how to prep!

In a slightly different direction, my HX Stomp XL does all I want. Plus the various effects available when I want them. To be fair, the smaller HX Stomp does all of the same, but the additional buttons on the XL made it much more usable for me, and I was fortunate enough with buying/selling to upgrade at no cost to me.

On the group buy thing it specifically states "Important note: This product does not qualify for the IK Multimedia Group Buy. You will not be eligible for further free plugins upon purchase." - is that what it said before?

I think I may have missed those stories, and am too young to pick up the pop culture references! Apart from crime watch