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I had a play on a 2003 4003 yesterday. What a great bass. Played like a dream, looked in great condition. Black, just looked classy. Thankfully I couldn't afford it, but it was very nice. I can see why people like them, Rob

Thanks for the information. Seems like there is a wide variety of necks on the various Teles.

Every time I see a Rickenbacker , I always think of Lemmy. Fabulous looking bass. Very envious.

Let me have a look and think

Somewhat surprisingly there are metal coloured filaments for 3d printing. Never looked for them before. eSUN Silk Metal PLA Filament 1.75mm, Silky Metallic 3D Printer Filament PLA, Dimensional Accuracy +/- 0.05mm, 1KG Spool (2.2 LBS) 3D Printing Filament for 3D Printers, Silk Silver https://amzn.eu/d/1VDIFWd The design is easy. Need accurate measurements down to 0.5mm and the best guess for the curves in the corners. The filament is PLA which should be easy to print. Let me investigate a bit further. I suspect it will be a dull silver rather than chrome.

I can do a number of colours. Chrome might be difficult but let me check.

Too Far Gone/Metallica/Planet Rock. I never understand why Metallica are so big, but clearly what do I know Rob

Thank you, always good to learn something new.

It's a million to one chance.....

Thats a great way to handle FB, an even better way would be a bot to do everything for you. That bot responds to other bots and you do nothing at all. The only issue is of the bots suddenly become sentient and you've created SkyNet, but I'm fairly sure that won't happen.

Normally when people use two guitars for inspiration, they take the best bits of each guitar and meld them together. They appear to have done exactly the opposite here.... The bloke thinks it's a wonderful player, but that narrow wasted design jars the eye. Also was the three pin output socket common or even used then? Looks very odd to me, why would you do that because youd need expensive and unique cables. Oh well at £640, I'll never get to know the answers to this. Rob

Websites and press releases have a habit of catching up with you. I used to play in a pub rugby team called Old StreetOnions. The team was based around Old Street in London. I played with them as I worked at The Independent which was just down from Old St. The club is still there and far more professional now. We weren't very good to be honest. What we were very good at, was writing press releases to the Highbury and Islington Gazette. For those of you before social media, we used to have local newspapers. Rather quaint in hindsight. Anyway, I'd dutifully write up the game, double space it, double line it on Monday morning and send it to the Gazette and they'd print it verbatim. After a while, I got bored so I'd make stuff up, little white lies, I suspect its a bit like a drug addiction, I thought I could handle it and just make it a bit more interesting. Whatever I write the Gazette kept printing it verbatim. For them, this was 1/4 or 1/8 of a page free words, so they were happy. I was still bored so we started getting more and more outrageous in our 'little white lies'. We looked at lottery funding, we were going to try and get planning permission for our Stadium of Light on Hackney Marshes. We had warm weather training in Lanzarote during winter, one of the team caught maleria during winter training, the treasurer ran off with the funds for the stadium and the police were tracking him down. No lie too outrageous, the Gazette printed it all, every word. We finally came unstuck when we said the captain had made Tai Chi mandatory for all the forwards so they could connect to their inner self. The BBC picked up on this from the Gazette and splashed it across their national news at 08:00 as a "A team in London have taken up Tai Chi to get fit.... " to add some fun. It then took off, Sky picked up on it, all the rugby playing countries around the world picked up on it and we were being chased for interviews and pictures. We were all fat blokes playing rugby for fun. Nowadays we'd say it went viral. We finally came down to earth when the Telegraph really investigated us. We got a half page in national newspaper on a Saturday in the sports pages where they debunked everything but realised it was all done with a cheeky grin. I lost the copy of the article when we moved which was a great disappointment. So the moral of this story is, choose your social media experiment with care, we went global very quickly and just as quick came down to earth. However it was great and I wouldn;t have changed it for anything. Rob

@glassmoon PM me your address and I'll put it in the post. It'll be picked up tomorrow as the last post went some time ago. Rob

Clearly the shy introvert....

This is an old but servicable iPhone SE clamshell case. It looks a little battered but actually still works very well. The only reason I'm giving this away is that the organisation I work for is replacing my work iPhone SE with something else, probably a piece of Android junk. I've pulled the iPhone SE out and the iPhone is as new, which shows what a great job this case does. It's not waterproof, but it's protected my iPhone SE for three years. It gets thrown in bags and stuff like that and just does what it's supposed to do. I'll post it for free to anywhere in the UK.

If thats not putting napalm on the fire, no idea what is I do like it though. Rob

Now gone. Sorry for anybody else who wanted it. ------------------- Wifi card, works perfectly well, even comes in the box with all the CD drivers, but I'd ignore them and download the latest ones from t'internet. https://www.amazon.co.uk/TL-WN881ND-Wireless-Interface-Low-Profile-2-6-24-4-1/dp/B006BSPTAQ Apparently it does 300 Mbps, uses PCI Express. It does have the low-profile bracket Included and works on Linux. What it does not do very well is go through the 36" of stone wall in our house It's absolutely fine for normal houses though. I'll bang it in the UK post for nothing as well. I can then feel virtuous as I've saved one wifi card from the tip. We'll just ignore the other 935 cards I've discarded in the past Thanks Rob

I have to stop reading Basschat. This sort of stuff doesn't help me at all

You can simulate this in something like Amplitude or BiasFX2. Personally speaking I'd rather have the Ric, and a couple of amps and cabinets, but since the CFO has clamped down on discretionary spending, I'll have to stick with what I have. If you don't have the output options on the guitar, this is a bit of a hack, but it's a cheap hack as this is available on the free versions. You don't get so many options for amps and cabs with it being free.

Mmm.... Thats an expensive way to collect basses.... Mind you doing a 'simple' rainbow isn't cheap For people who aren't in the colour business, Pantone is a standardised way of 'doing' colour. So you don't say it's 'orange', or even use a hex colour, but Pantone 6017 C which looks like a carrot colour. The advantage of this is that brands state their colours in the brand catalogue as Pantone 'X' and Pantone 'Y' and so ensure that the right colour is actually used and printed all the way through. There are thousands of Pantone colours. There was a bit of a mess when Pantone recently (which is a commercial company) started asking $15/month to use Pantone colours in Photoshop. Until that point it had been free. Suddenly you had an extra $180/year fees to do what you did for nothing in PhotoShop the previous day. Pantone also does a colour of the year, which this year is Viva Magenta 18-1750, which I quite like. I'm a lot more IT than design, I know my way around PS and Illustrator, but worked in national newspapers for a long time which is why this sort of stuff is interesting to me (and probably only me). Thanks for reading, off to get my anorak, I'll close the door on my way out. Rob

Second hand is fine with me. I'm more than happy with that. I'm keeping an eye on eBay for local sales. A kind Basschater has offered to help as well. Good to know that not all Telecasters have chunky neck's. I am also going to see a physio to see what I can do to get the thumbs better and try to remove the pain. Rob

That’s very kind of you. Let’s PM and see how I can help you, Rob

@SubsonicSimpleton I live in Clapham, which halfway between Settle and Ingleton. I am more than happy to meet you somewhere and buy pizza and coffee for your kind offer. Skipton is 40 mins. Thanks Rob

Not seen any local bands at all to be honest. There must be somebody but no idea where they are.

@velvetkevorkian I live in the Yorkshire Dales. In the surrounding 80 - 120 square miles, there are approx 1,500 people The average age of these people is somewhere between 125 and 260 years old. I am looked on as somewhat of a youngster. We have around 10M sheep though and around 2,000 border collies and labradors (I may have those figures wrong), but we do have a lot of dogs. Basically as you come to live here, you are assigned a dog or two, possibly more. The chances of an Ibanez RG being around here is probably the same chances of Juliette Binoche suddenly declaring her undying love for me, or Michael Gove telling the true, possible but highly unlikely. Some of the people here are still getting used to this new technology, electricity. Generators are common, most places don't have gas (we don't) nor BT at all. We do have running water and no septic tank, we are considered a bit of a metrosexual family as we came from London, but I think some places still get stuff from a local well. After saying that, I do have fibre optic broadband with a reliable 930Mb upload and 890Mb download speed. In all seriousness, thanks for the info on the Ibanez RG range. I will keep a look out. Best wishes Rob