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Have now found the time to look at my Mod Dwarf in a bit more detail. Have been rather distracted for the last few months. Had a hum that came from nowhere and it turns out I'd used a 5V 4A PSU rather than the right 12V 4A PSU. They looked the same and the plugs fitted. Yes I am an idiot. Also downloaded Aida-X to have a play, I plugged a guitar in first, an 89 Korean Squier Telecaster, which I have to say I love as it plays a like a dream.Heresy I know but I ony have one life.... Worked out that you have to refresh the browser after uploading an IR <doh> and had a play. The patches sound great. The AMP Blues Deluxe is fantastic on my Tele. So I thought I'd download some bass amps and have struggled to find many at all, any suggestions as I can't really find any. Perhaps they're hidden in a secret location known only to proper bass players, hence I'm excluded. I also made the simple change to put the mod dwarf on my desk, and run a long USB cable to my Mac Mini to keep it permanently live. No more leaning over to try and fiddle with things. on the floor. Simple change, big impact. Also has anybody tried driving it from a Raspberry Pi? If the USB to Ethernet works then it should work. I'll try that out later. Might be an interesting option or yet another rabbit hole to dive down. The reason fpr the Pi is that I'll move the guitar winder development to a Pi 5 and it's slightly easier cable management and its not much slower than my elderly Macbook Pro 2013 I still use. My kids have 2021 Macbook Air's for school, I have an 11 year old Macbook for sentimental reasons.

Found the problem with the hum on the Mod Dwarf. It was, errr...., due to somebody breaking into the house in the middle of the night and replacing the 12V 4A PSU with a 5V 4A PSU in the case. I have no idea who did it, but after checking an awful lot of websites, tweaking everything under the sun, playing about with earth loops, looking on Amazon for groundless plugs, pulling the bench 30V 10A PSU up and about to plug it in, I glanced at the PSU and noticed that some deviant had changed it over. A quick look through the spares box, and I located what might have been the correct PSU. Plugged it in and no f£$%^&*$%^&* hum. <sigh> If I ever find the prat who did this.... I have also downloaded AIDA-X Plugin for the Mod Dwarf. Wow... just wow.... I have a soft spot for small amps so downloaded a few neural models and they are brilliant. I have no idea if they are accurate but the Champ G9 and AC-30 sound great. Not found many bass amp models so if anybody knows of any, please point me in the right direction. Had a good play with it during boring meetings today. One ear in the headphones and one listening to something from somebody on Teams So thats one more of the list of things to do. I have also started seriously looking at better finishing on the bass. Have moved both printers back to PLA+ filament and recalibrated for the different steel plates. PLA+ is very strong, I've not used PLA for two years and had stuck with PETG, but PLA+ looks good. It also sands a whole lot better, so if Mr Amazon could actually deliver the orbital sander I brought I'd be grateful, so far, two attempts and two wrong sanders. The Post Office will be surprised tomorrow morning when I send them back. This will be my focus for a week or more. I really want to get the looks to match the sound. I will be asking for advice on a single pickup to use for the next version Thanks Rob

There are some nice guitars though 😊 Best not to look

Forgot that, long time since I brought anything at a "proper" auction.

I've just assumed that if I was prepared to pay £800 for something then my bid limit is £600 (ish). It's a bit like eBay sellers flogging something for £1 and then charging £10 P&p. Total price is £11. The people who lose out are the sellers here. But everyone has to make a living. No one is forcing us to buy anything here.

Those additional fees are steep 😩

Oh no, these do look nice. I might be able to afford the Squier but probably not

Thats great, as you didn't want to buy it, I'm happy to take it off your hands for £40....

Any update on this please? yes I am impatient

That hits all the right buttons for me Nice looking guitar. Simple (in a nice non-aggresive way) and honest.

Now updated with all names and handles.

I prefer Saturdays as it leaves Sunday free.

<Sigh> I thought Jet was some sort of reference to speed or noise, not for Whitby based Goths. I live and learn

Any idea if the black was a standard colour?

And now I've built it, I'm going to change it again Based on feedback from the weekend at the North West and Scotland Bass Bash The body shape will be more curved to avoid the high edge that presses against the wrist. I'll try and cut the weight down a bit. Making it more curvy will actually help. The target is less than 4Kg. Countersink the neck screws rather than them sitting proud with flanges Replace the electrics with something nicer. Possibly active, this means changing the control panel pocket to allow a battery. Mmmm...... Simplify some of the pickup mounting holes and add some more in different places. Perhaps a single high quality pickup? Redesign the back to allow more access to the headless bridge. Redesign how to channel the pickup wiring so it's neater and not just laying there. Might be as simple as a velcro strap, cable tie and a loop hole or similar. Look at better finishes. There were some gorgeous basses at the weekend, I need to step my game up Sat down on Sunday and worked out how to get both sides of the frame to be sculptered. Really tricky to print. Rob

Odd, was just looking at those for exactly the same reason. Let us know how it goes please.

Cumbrian....that explains it....

And after drinking with @neepheid on Friday, that's where I went wrong as well

Only just noticed @ossyrocks has a cup of tea in hand, I have a memory that he only ever put a cup down to pick a bass up The moment the bass went down, a cup of tea magically appeared in his hand.

The owls and hedgehogs won't mind

I dont know anything about this bass but i have an 89 Korean Telecaster guitar which is superbly made. If the bass is made to the same standard, I wouldn't hesitate to buy it if I was in the market for one. As I understand it, the Korean factories inthe mid to late 80s made some great stuff. Quality started dropping off early 90s

@LukeFRC yeah already tried Lidl for owl and hedgehog food. They were out of that, they did have a special offer on scorpions for mongoose owners, as well as 300kg of fish for sea lions, but nothing on owls. On the upside, I did get a great deal from Lidl on a portable crane for taking car engines out and a concrete mixer.

My daughter asked me to say "Thanks for the generous donations to Craven Wildlife Rescue". You kindly donated £51 and Thebe is very happy. The money will go on rescuing owls and hedgehogs. Owls apparently are quite expensive to feed 😊 Booths don't sell dead mice and other stuff like that. Peter Can you sort this out please?

Thanks to everyone who came today. Thoroughly enjoyed it