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@kodiakblair I assume you mean this one https://www.reidtimber.co.uk/ I'll look through and work out what I need. Looks a dangerous place to shop I can see a simple maple order turning into a mega order. There's too many nice things there and whats worse, they're reasonably priced. Must resist... Thanks Rob

I want some Maple to make end grain dowels to plug into a neck I have to make it headless. I wanted it clean and neat. I've seen what @Andyjr1515 does with necks and I've learnt whats good and not so good. £20 for a piece of maple a few inches long is an outrage. Rob

Thanks for this. I now understand. I looked on eBay for some tiny bits of maple (30cm by 2cm by 2cm) for making some end grain dowels and was astonished at how expensive maple was. Certainly wasn't anywhere near the prices that mill was charging. Capitalism in action. Appreciate the comprehensive response. Many thanks Rob

They can be found perhaps not quite yet. Mine is great but as somebody else has said the Tokai might be another option. Don't dismiss the older Squiers. I have an 89 Squier Tele MIK and it's fabulous. Look around and try stuff if you can. Rob

Brought a nice six string neck from John. Exceptionally well packed. A pleasure to deal with in every aspect. Rob

I have a 97 MIJ Jazz in blue and its a great bass. You can find them at around £600 or so.

I have the HA-2 and think it's great. No issues with the usb socket yet. Works well on all guitars. I also have the Nuix but prefer the HA-2. Got the HA-2 for very little off fleaBay so check that out. Rob

So my knowledge of MBF is slightly less than my knowledge of ancient Sanskrit. I looked it up on Google and I'm still clueless, however it appears from what you said that a bass neck could be as little as $1.65 for the raw wood material. I know there are loads of work and other hardware, but that sounds cheap to me. Also I am assuming that a body would be circa 5-6 BFs, which again sounds cheap. Have I got the maths wrong here? Thanks Rob

Just good friends....

@SimonK Some of my release meetings have 20-40 people in as all need to be updated, so very few people put their cameras on. Some people have very low bandwidth so video is a problem, I've not ever done anything with MIDI so will read up about what can be done and how first. I am not printing any green whatsoever However if you are interested in the pedalboard DM me. Thanks Rob

@SimonK The Tri Mixer pedal turned up on Tuesday and I managed to open the box yesterday during a very long and boring MS-Teams call and hook it up. I like it, I like it a lot. Its very quiet, its very easy and it fits. Don;t like the green and my Feng Shui sensai has had to lie down in a faint after seeing it. I have to sell the house now to counter the green colour, but its worth it. My original intention was to have the pedal at the end of the chain of effects and feed it into an iPad to record with. After using it for a whole two hours, that's gone out of the window (well not so much gone, but a better idea has come in). I can now mix different wet amounts of the pedals or have a completely clean signal through to the amp. Use the foot switches on the mixer to bring in the various effects (or not). Need to wire it all up today, but got a few meetings to listen into so that's no problem. The next steps are to work out how to do a midi controller for all of this, so I press one button and it sets up all of the Mod Dwarf and ToneX and iPad up. That needs some thinking about. Thanks for the help Rob

Yep, the issue is now finding another location to put it. It can't be too high otherwise it resonates/vibrates. After opening the Cioks box, all my worries over the cost (not bloody cosy) just faded away. A quality piece of kit indeed. Good advice to buy it.

Now got the Ciorks power supply. Very, very nice. Quite a dense brick, dead easy to use, glanced at the instructions but it's dead simple. Printed out the clamps for the Cioks, took about an hour from thinking about the design to having the power supply fastened in. Using aluminium extrusion means this is really trivial to do. Wired up the various boxes with the shortest cables I could find in the box. Cioks supply an awful lot of cables so no need to buy any. @LukeFRC kinfly sent me a current doubler cable (Thx mate) and I used that to power the Mod Drawf so it's got 12V and 1A. Seems OK to me. Put some Velcro strips on a little 3d printed riser on the mixer. That has little rubber feet and rather than take them off, I printed some 3mm risers and attached them to the back of the mixer with double sided carpet tape and then put velcro on that so I don;t have to take the feet off. The carpet tape is strong but will come off and a little methylated spirits will remove the adhesive if I want to. I need to cable tie stuff down once I've got it wired the way I want it to. The Cioks supply is really, really dull and just works, and I only have one plug for all of the above. Am looking at the iPad mount again and just checking that all of the Tri Mix cables will fit and not interfere with the iPad. Pleased with this to be honest, but also need to try and find a bag for it as well. Rob

I finally got around to doing a simple test for doing multiple colours with a single extruder. This is a white box in a blackbox. I had forgotten how tedious this is. Every layer has to have two colour changes, from one colour to the next and then back again. Doing eight layers took 25 mins. I got bored and gave up This is doable but its hard work. @Owen has suggested a black and white colour scheme and I do like the idea of carrying the Vertoroni shapes through to the pickguard. Its easy to design but it's very, very, very slow to print as there are so many manual colour changes. I think it will take about 8x as long and I have to watch it all the time. Anyway I learnt a lot here Thanks Rob

@Owen I'll look at that as well as @SamIAm's idea Thanks Rob

That might work

That might work. I could redesign the neck heal and the bridge to have more mounting holes for the pickguard. Not sure what that would look like. Could you expand please? Thanks Rob