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I'll take the 75 and you can have my 97 Jazz. It's a really nice bass in blue with matching headstock. Seems fair to me.

Just remind me again where you live and which day is bin day please?

Absolutely no danger of that.... 😊

Ooohhh, that is a nice Jazz. Gosh, oh my gosh and what appears to be a good price as well. I have a gorgeous telescope that is worth close to that. I would use this more than the scope as well. Anybody interested in a mint TMB 4" refractor? Possibly the finest 4" in the world. Rob

Sadly I'm not left handed. I also don't have a 61 Fender of any description. Wish I did. I can 3d print you a left handed bass. Technically its a trivial maths operation, you take a right handed design and reflect it. About 10 secs of work. This is an early Fender Jazz copy I made at the beginning of the year. I put an older Fender Jazz neck on that somebody kindly donated. Plays well and sounds great. So if you have an older L/H 61 neck, I can get you part of the way there. Same guitar but now left handed. However, no matter what I do, it's still not a genuine 61 Fender though. Sorry Rob

Great repair job. Ive looked all over the back and I can't see anything that looks like that.

Everybody has more brass than me so it's not that. It is an expensive bass though to me. I wonder if the string alignment is a perspective issue though The upside to @Piers_Williamson that we share a birthday, though I am a year younger So if you have any Dec 62 basses, that are just too young for you (and are cheap), please bear me in mind and I will of course pass any 61 basses your way. Thanks Rob

Its been quite some time since I updated this thread. Its certainly not been forgotten. I'm gone back to my first 3d printed guitar and am applying what I learnt from the bass guitars, both headed and headless, back to the very first one. This means: 1. An aluminium backbone with an appropriate thickness. In this case 8mm is fine. This means that the overall guitar thickness is now 34mm, down from 44mm. Thats a pretty big depth reduction which should make it easier to play and be a little lighter. 2. A very open and lightweight body. I know that people have endless debates about ash vs mahogany vs swamp oak or whatever and the effect on the tone. It doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to me (oh heresy!) as the signal is going through pedals and amps. I also avoid the discussion about whether cellulose allows the dead wood to breathe <rolls eyes> debate. Mine are plastic and seem to sound very nice. I have an 83 Westone Thunder, an 89 Telecaster, a 2024 Vintage Les Paul Clone and my printed ones sound different , not worse, just different. If Jimmy Page or John Bonomossa wish to compare and contrast with their legendary guitars (and skill) I'll be delighted to swap for a few years with them 3. The body hangs off a central backbone. It's a glued body that has a number of stiffening points in it. If the body gets damaged, it's relatively easy and cheap to replace the whole body. I've currently got two bodies ready, a black with glitter which sounds blingy but isn't and a Firehouse Red which I would class as a dark red. I've tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and then tweaked again to make it easy to print with zero manual interventions. This means I can print a whole body in around 40 hours at very high resolution, so a day across two printers. Using very high resolution, e.g. 0.1mm layers, means the curves are smooth. Post processing for the parts is now pretty simple and consists of a tiny chisel to remove supports and some steel wool to take any burrs off. 4. All the wiring now is hidden in the Voronoi struts. This has meant a custom solderless wiring harness needed to be done as there's no space to pass connectors through. However it looks so much neater without any chunky wiring channels. 5. I've also designed a custom laser tester to check that the neck positioning is spot on. This mounts on the bridge area and shines a very low power laser down to the a 3d printed target. The target has a small internal V to redirect the laster. As its plastic it defuses the beam safely, though I only point it away and keep the kids and pets away, especially the sodding cats who love this sort of thing. I don't trust myself taking measurements but I do trust my designs as that's proper maths This is the whole thing, you can see the slight green reflection on the neck target. Thats probably only 1 degree out, so I'm pretty happy with that. There;s a 'safety' screw that needs to be turned for the unit to work. Not quite a deadmans handle but not too shabby. The reflection is pretty much in the centre of the target but a tiny bit is off centre. The design is supposed to "amplify" the relfection so tiny changes in the neck makes a bit change at the end. So far, its fitted together quite well and I'm almost pleased. Still things to update. 1. Remove countersinking from the aluminium backbone as it's horrible to do. 2. Adapt the laster pointer to check horizontal accuracy. Not sure how to do this one yet, but I'll have a think. I want to get the guitar set up as well as I can using tools rather than me using feeler gauges. Thats the very, very last thing. Need to get the height sorted out andI can see a pleasant evening of maths ahead of me. 3. Work out how to mount the P90's. The rail system I decided for the bass was OK but way overkill. I'll move back to suspending them. 4. Electrics are done, basically it's a Les Paul type system but specific for this guitar. I've two wiring looms ready, so there will be two of these I might sell one if any interest, but I'm not expecting any. I'm a lot more fussy now about how it works and looks, so if it isn't 'right' I'll redesign it until it is. Thanks Rob

I'd love to be there, bit far, but I know you'll knock it out the park (to use a North Americanism :)) Good luck Rob

They just work for me. Very, very nice indeed.

I'd be interested in this as well Looked on the internet and it seems about as clear as Mother Shiptons forecasts and prophesies Thx Rob

Pink Panther theme at The Proms

This custom very solid English oak table 4-string bass guitar is a nightmare dream come true for anybody careless enough to gaze up on it music enthusiast. Crafted by a Custom Workshop that specialises in restoring Soviet WWII era tanks, this electric bass guitar features a rosewood fretboard and a neck made of both rosewood and maple. It has a unique, so unique that nobody has ever thought of doing this and my god there have been some weird, wonderful and crap ideas over the last 70 or so years, body shape, and should be played with a strap as it doesn't sit on your knee easily! It also doesn't sit on your shoulder much better as it weighs something close to a small Honda Civic. Best played using a crane to hold it in place unless you have 96" chest and pick full beer barrels up for fun. The 4/4 (beats, ft, inches, tonnes, miles?) size and light (as in colour as opposed to mass) Oak body colour make this bass guitar a stunning (this depends on your definition of the word stunning, I would assume that anybody seeing this would be stunned that anybody would pay for this) addition to any collection. The guitar is strung with 4 strings and has a solid (when we say solid, we mean solid) body material of oak. Whether you're a beginner (run away) or a sozzled seasoned player (run even further) , this bass guitar is perfect (for some definition of perfect I struggled to find in any online dictionary) for you. It can also be used to open 6ft tall beer bottles. It can be collected from Norbiton (this explains a very great deal) and, Southwest London for free, if you choose the every Evri delivery, it will be dismantled (do you possess 50mm spanners for the reassembly?) before dispatch as they only allow 1.2 meters long parcel ! (There's a reason for this and we've just found it) However if you choose Evri there is a very good , indeed excellent, chance that you will never receive it, which in this case is probably a very good thing indeed. Fixed the description. Rob

Ooohhhhh. That sounds like a recipe for madness. Wonder if there is/was a bug/glitch in Elk OS to do with handshaking. I have seen that happen before but not with Putty. Those sort of issues tend to get resolved PDQ as they get found quickly. Rob

If Putty doesn't work I would seriously question Elk OS and what it is doing. I've never seen Putty fail like this. We use it on thousands of projects. Kitty does appear to be a.good fork of Putty but deep down it should handle the same protocols and handshaking. Rob

@LukeFRC Currently feeling like sh1te as I appear to have had a severe allergic reaction to being nettled. Been in bed all day with temperature at 39.3C, now feeling better but still feel like a whipped puppy. Slightly nervous about the reaction as I live in the country. Nettles are dead common here. Not familiar with Elk OS but had a look around for it. If you make mistake with the wifi password and can't login it's normally easier to just rebuild it from scratch. Surprised that Putty is struggling with the protocols. Putty is as good as you get TBH and I've used it for years. I have a KVM and keep a port spare for just this type of problem, but that doesn't help @tauzero. I also know he's not stupid so something is up with Elk OS here. My pi 5 is now dedicated to development for the, ahem, exceptionally long delayed pick up winder, but I'll pull a PI 4 out and have a try. I don't have any of the boards that people are using. Is it this one https://www.hifiberry.com/dacs/ Thanks Rob

Not sure if beta blockers are classed as performance enhancing drugs, but an awful lot of snooker players in the 80's and 90's seemed to have heart conditions and needed beta blockers. I have no idea what effect they would do on bass players, possibly make them even more laid back? Might get rid of nerves. I know that when I worked in the newspaper business (IT not journalism), a number of people used Bolivian Marching Powder™ to get through the late shifts, the IT staff were strictly (and I mean strictly) banned from anything past caffeine, no alcohol, certainly no BMP. The financial journalists could not function with alcohol, that's not a joke, they would go to a press conference at 12:00, get utterly wasted afterwards, roll back to The Independent around 15:00, manage to find the lift and work out how to press the floor they were on (3rd floor) and lean against the lift burping 90% alcohol, they'd then write 600 words on a share issue with no mistakes. As the IT dept was 7th floor and production ground floor, I'd be constantly in the lift watching these titans of journalism burping away, but they never missed a story. Rob

Seen that. My brother lives Potters Bar so may put a bid in and pick it up at Xmas. Might be a Xmas present from him.😊

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Not seen that site before. I do like it even with the broken links. There used to be some Denon interconnect cables for sale on Amazon at circa £500 for something like 30cm. The reviews were getting wilder and wilder as well as funnier and funnier but sadly Mr Bezos seems to have had a sense of humour failure and the whole list have gone I struggle with some of the audio fanatics talking about optical cables and breaking them in, directionality of them etc. I've build large data centres, both from a design PoV as well as physically. I have never once 'conditioned' an optical cable so it works better after say 48 hours, nor have I worked out which way to plug it in for better data throughput. We reach down into the basket of cables, we get the right label on it (now correctly labelling a cable is really, really, really important), we plug it into the right socket and move onto the next one. The bloke behind me would then do the cable ties so that the cables are properly labelled and neat and tidy. A tidy cable run is a joy to behold (well it is to me). Once that cable is connected in, its staying there for a quite a long time unless the damn thing is broken, rare, but does happen. Thankfully the labels we use as well as the ability to make the data socket blink makes it easy to change cables. One day when I'm retired, I'll probably have to own up to taking a major UK banks data centre down by cocking something up, but not yet. Rob

I can guarantee that your playing wil be unrecognisable after my treatment.