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Ah! The symbol for registered trademark. That's the sort of detail that really helps Thank you for the informative response. Rob

Could you expand on this for the uninitiated please?

This is what I like about Basschat. Never heard of Sunn before. I'm no expert now but I know a lot more than I did about Sunn guitars (which isn't difficult TBH). Will keep an eye out as I'm looking for parts and guitars. Thanks. Rob

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In that case just give the stuff to me and save a fortune on buying post-it notes. Always happy to help Rob

As I've more or less finished the headless bass, I thought I'd go back and look at the very first guitar I printed up. Just looked at it again and I'm going to apply all the lessons I learnt from the headed and headless basses back to the six string. Here's rough sketch of the new version. A lot more open, a lot more rounded, a lot thinner (31mm vs 45mm), probably a little lighter. The colours are there to identify components and are not being printed. It's also not a three string. That's there to check the neck vs bridge height.

Thats funny, I drove past Huddersfield this morning coming back to North Yorkshire. I live near Settle. Pm me and I'll find a method of payment that works. Thanks very much Rob

The condition is not the slightest problem. If the case was too bad, I'd simply design and 3d print a new one, Here's a Wilkinson case I redesigned. The main reason for this one was to change the way it mounted so I could fit it into my 3d printed headless bass. The Wilkinson pickups are on rails rather than mounted to the body.

Happy to take this off you if you wish. Thanks Rob

I'm still thinking through what you've written, not to pick it apart, but to learn from it. Actually now I think about it, I will pick it apart and learn from it. Thanks. This sounds like a bass that Disaster Zone would play Rob

One of the auctions is at Milnthorpe which is very close to me.

I didn't know that site exists, wish I still didn't Perhaps I need to check my bank balance...

@BigRedX It doesn't work on an old Macbook Pro 2013. It will on a new one, but all that method will do, will get you back to a version of OS X that's as old as Noah and the Ark, reliable but ancient. I think it was Snow Leopard or similar. You cannot get to whatever the latest version that is supported on an eleven year old laptop without going through a number of OS X upgrades. You cannot do it from the recovery partition. Apple has made it more difficult to do this, but it's not impossible. I did a similar chain of work when I donated an old Macbook Air to a gent here, so I knew more or less what to do. I had forgotten some of the details but thats just my old age. At the end of the day, I was trying to make it easy for Paul and his son. It's now done, Paul has the laptop, he can do with it whatever he sees fit. Rob

However if your base OS X is something like Snow Leopard as that's what Apple thinks it sold you with, that's what you get when you do a factory network install. Thats a wee bit old these days. There are also issues getting up to the latest version of OS X from Snow Leopard that used to require you to have an Mac App store account and to logon to get the upgrades. That's not for an application upgrade or application install but to install the upgrades to OS X. I didn't want to to have to put my App store account in, and it was a little tricky to get around that as I'd forgotten. However there are genuine Apple websites that have old OS X images on that don't require you to use the App Store, they're not well known to most non-developers but are legitimate. I got those images installed and by the time you get to the latest version, Apple has removed the requirement to have an App Store account, so it comes and goes depending on the version of OS X. I also have basically free and fast bandwidth at home so it made more sense for me to do it. Also the administrator account isn't a dummy account. You need to have a local account to do all of the upgrades. I wasn't sure how experienced @PaulThePlug was in upgrading Mac OS X and I wanted to make it as easy as possible for him and his son. I did not want to leave him stuck on a very old version of OS X. Thanks Rob

Glad its turned up. The password for the administrator is "password". Forgot to tell you that Suggest you change it now Rob

No need to apologise, you've taken nothing from anybody that they weren't happy to give. Rob

If it makes you feel any better, I am a far, far, far worse a musician than you and I know it Don't put yourself down, you're playing in a band which is more than I am, you have some things to sort out, but do what you want to do. Its never worth it to do things you don't want to do, we all go through bad patches in work, relationships and things we like to do, but most of the times we get through them, but unless you're having fun overall OR you're making a ton of money that allows you to do the other things you really want to do, what's the point? All the best and do what you think is best for you is my advice. Regards Rob

After a few hours in the garage, I now have the aluminium backbone no longer looking like a piece of stock metal I brought off the internet which of course it was. Using a combination of a finger grinder, a Dremel, a half round file and an awful lot of wet & dry from 340 down to 1,000, I took off all the sharp edges and feathered the aluminium in so it matched the curves on the bass body. I am rather pleased as it looks great, it doesn't have the precision of a CNC machine doing this, and I think it benefits from it. I've copper lined all the interior now, tidied up all the bits I wanted to, put it all together and then discovered the straplocks on the body end interfere with tuning, so redesigned the bridge to move the straplocks a little wider apart and printed it off. This is one of the advantages of 3d printing, a piece isn't quite right, redesign and print again. 3 hours to print and done. You can see the holes for the plugs to fit in the bridge adapter as they need to be glued in. It's pretty much done now, apart from set up. Its playable but I lowered the bridge by a mm as it was a little too high. I have spent the morning looking for my feeler gauge and the 3/16 Allen key for the truss rod and cannot find them. I did get a Peterson Strobostomp HD for tuning as the ones that clip on a head stock do work on my printed bass, but are a bit slow. Whilst the Peterson isn't cheap, indeed its eye wateringly expensive, its a wonderful tuner and so so fast. I may review it once I've got my head around what it can do.

Can I just ask: 1. Are you being paid £100k per gig? 2. Are you in some sort of modern slavery gang? 3. Do you lose a stag do bet and this is the forfeit? 4. Is any member of your family being held hostage by a mafia type cartel? If anybody in a band I was in behaved like that to the rest of the band, threw stuff they'd been loaned on the ground and walked off, unless there was a compelling reason to stay (see above) I'd walk away or better still, tell aforesaid prat, not to come back. If somebody came to you and told you the above story, what would you say to them? This all sounds a bit like an abusive relationship to me. If you are doubting your own ability, partly because he's gaslighting you, I'd be looking at exit options. This therapy session is worth precisely what you have paid, zilch. All the best Rob

we need more pictures of you in glam gear.... Pictures or it didn't happen 😊

Damm missed all of this by a week. Story of my life

The neck pickup isn't quite as bad as I make out. It needs something like a little Champion 600 or Tweed to make it sound good. Basically anything without any bass at all 😊 I run it into either a Mod Dwarf, Logic Pro or Amplitube. It sounds good in Amplitube as that's a Fender product. I do keep thinking I'll have a look at the neck pickup and do something, though no idea what. I probably have a few pickups that would work and I still have to finish my Guitar Pickup Winder which is languishing on my desk.

No longer on eBay now.

At this moment in time, I'd grab my MIK 89 Telecaster. Butterscotch yellow and just so much fun to play, even if the neck pickup is a black hole of muddy sound

I changed the pickup wire over to check that I was in phase for both the neck and bridge pickups and it made sod-all difference. Still sounded muddy. After looking at it again, I realised that the tone pot which makes a tiny difference when the pickups are in parallel, makes a yuugge difference when the pickups are in series. I'd left the tone pot turned one way as it made so little difference and basically ignored it. Now the bass growls and it's really good. Will play it a bit more to see what sounds I can get out of it. Changed the wires back. Sometimes the simple solution is the one to check first