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Yes I am late to this. Yes that is very, very, nice. Where did you get the blue covering from please?

I also am looking for exactly what the OP wanted. Something small and not headphone based, I have a NUX headphone amp which is OK but sometimes I don't want to wear headphones. I won't derail this thread though and will lurk. Interested in what @Phil Starr recommends for an amp for his self build as well. Thanks Rob

Just to let you know I tried the Positive Grid Spark with bass and then send the unit back. I brought it on pre-order and it was pointless for bass. Not so bad for guitar but useless for bass. I even made a video for Positive Grid as they were being difficult even though their website said it could be returned. No bass, no power at all. Just my 2c Rob

@SamIAm You're going through the same process I did for my headless bass. My thoughts are/were: 1. Taking the head off and the tuners will dramatically change the balance back to the body. My headless bass has zero dive. Your balance point will move back a fair way when the head and machine heads are gone. One way to check is to use a thin piece of picture framing wire between the two strap points and a tiny skateboard bearing to see where the balance is and how it changes. I have a <ahem> larger body mass due to good living, plenty of fresh air, lots of rugby and significant amounts of alcohol and chocolate, so that helps me stop neck dive. You may not be so lucky as me 2. The Nova kit is very good, and the bridge is quite light. So that won't adversely change your balance point. 3. You need to think carefully about how the Nova string clamp is going to fit. @JohnH89 modified the neck he kindly gave to me. He put a backplate on the neck where the Nova string clamp which is a very good idea. You need to think about filling the large holes left by the tuners, the backplate and front plate hide a lot. Cleverer people than myself (a disjoint union of 1 person and everybody but one person on Basschat) advise people to fill the holes with cross grain plugs which I struggled to find anyway and is one of the reasons my Aria Pro II neck is still in one piece. 4. My headless bass is slightly longer than standard to accommodate the bass tuners. I decided to make the body the right length so they didn't stick out. However other people did suggest that they did stick out and add some design features to protect them. Horses for courses and both ideas are in production by proper guitar makers. I decided to keep them inboard as I'm clumsy and would break anything not significantly protected. I just sketched out the scale and bridge positions in Fusion 360 to see what it looked like. 5. Your new body and choice of material will make the biggest difference. Fusion 360 is supposed to be able to make the calculations for balance points or centre of gravity. I don't have that version though My headless bass is now 3.99Kg, the neck is circa 1.8Kg (https://shop.rall-online.net/Fender-Standard-Series-Jazz-Bass-Neck-Maple) so this means the body is around 2.2Kg with everything connected up. The aluminium backbone is probably 1.3 to 1.4Kg from memory. The printed body paret is very light. Don't know how you want to do the body, but if its small, it may need to be dense. At the end of the day, you have a long lever attached to a smallish body so "you canna change the laws of physics cap'n" whatever you do. I'd test, test and test again. Duct tape may be your friend here. I'll happily weigh and measure things for you, but I'm in Italy on holiday with family until Weds. Rob

Pictures please.... I can imagine something like Grizzly Adams with a bass that Lurch would play in the Adams family

But the very slight upside for you is that if I ever have the cash for a good bass, I’ll know exactly where to come to for a sensible deal.

The current exchange rate £:$ is around 1.25 (ish). So £349 is approx $436. Take off VAT at 20% and we're back to $363. That's approx a 75% uplift. A bit more than a little extra profit. There are other costs as well but not a bad increase (for the seller) Rob

Relatively speaking

Now that is a great picture, small, medium and large (relatively speaking) I like the way each Musicman has its own stack.

I can also assure you that Microsoft will still dump your email even when you have SPF/CNAME/DMARC setup correctly, have checked every sodding blacklist under the sun, have jumped through every known hoop to please them and still have no idea why they reject my emails to hotmail.co.uk. I’m old enough to have configured sendmail by hand so i figured i knew what i was doing. Anyway unless your business is IT or you get a kick out of reading large amounts of online manuals, find an onsite presence and buy it in. The only system I'd avoid is WordPress unless you like living on the edge about what the next exciting critical vulnerability will be and how quick you can patch the system. Friends don't let friends use WordPress. Rob

How the hell do you lose something that big and heavy? Given the weight of it, perhaps it just collapsed into a black hole and is now orbiting Jupiter...

Tremblap donated a rather nice EMG active pickup for my 3d printed bass guitar. Very nice and generous. Thanks Rob

Wow that's a great rabbit hole to go down. Be back in about six months 😊 Thanks. I'll dig down in there and learn. All the best Rob

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

Malicious Compliance

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...