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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...

@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