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It appears that you no longer have the right to opt out of cookies under UK law. This changed last year 2022 as part of the Government drive to liberalise the internet. This liberalisation appears to only benefit people who collect data on you. It doesn’t help you. The exception to this is when websites collect information from children. I cannot recall what information is requested on signing up. However since the ICO does absolutely nothing to enforce cookie compliance under UK law, the law is mostly disregarded. It appears that in the UK the inability to opt out is legal. However in the EU, users must explicitly opt in to cookies. The exact opposite of the UK. This means the cookie is illegal for EU users as it gives no ability to use this site without denying non essential cookies. The EU and local states do take personal information and cookies seriously so any complaint might be looked at. I might try and look at the site from a European based VPN and see what it looks like. I’ll also look at what extensions are available to clear and kill cookies. Poisoning the well is the other option. think of it as yet another Brexit dividend. Rob

No longer for sale. Not sure if it’s sold or withdrawn

This is an old Android phone, a Nexus 5 LG-821 in black. It was the flagship Google phone (at the time) Specs are here https://www.lg.com/uk/mobile-phones/smartphones/lgd821/ It was actually a nice phone when it came out with a reasonable camera. I used it for Android development but it only supports up to Android 6 which is quite old. However it is a servicable phone, just don't expect it to run your latest VR games. As a burner phone, or one you can take abroad and don't mind it getting nicked, or a free one for the kids who keep dropping theirs, its great. It's in realy good condition, no scratches and has been in a case from new. The case is included but it's getting on a bit (somewhat like me). It's free and I'll even post it for free. I'll reset it to factory settings before you get it. After than it's up to you Thanks Rob

It’s always good to check out as many basses as you can. It’s a sign of an organised and inquisitive mind. Even though you might have a small number of basses (perhaps less than 25), one more might just provide that extra oomph or subtle tone that you’ve been looking for. At least that’s my rationale and I only have four. I have to say the Mustang might be good enough for anything I might ever do, but that doesn’t stop me looking and testing and checking the credit card “just-in-case”. I’m lucky that I live an hour each way from my local music shops Promenade Music in Morecombe. If I still lived in London, I’d probably be bankrupt. I can’t even play that well but you know how it is…. Rob

Wow. What a wonderful guitar.

Has anybody managed to get their mod_dwarf providing digital input into something like GarageBand on an iPad. Looked at this page https://wiki.mod.audio/wiki/Audio_Through_USB#Using_USB_Audio_Gadget and added the appropriate files via ssh. I resisted the temptation to wander up and down the file system seeing what was there Rebooted etc. I used the same USB cable (USB-B in the Mod Dwarf to USB-A on the iPad via a USB Apple Camera Adaptor that I used for the ssh connection, so I know that the cable works) to connect the MD to the iPad. Can't see any connection there, if I replace the USB connection with an iRIG, Garageband notes that it is there. I can feed the Mod_Dwarf output into the iRig and feed that into the iPad and that works, but that adds yet another D->A and then A->D conversion. I've done the update on the mod_dwarf twice just to check and got the same result each time. If anybody has done this, be grateful to know. Thanks Rob

I'm not sure what I can say about Mick that hasn't been said before. Just brought a Ritter Gig Bag off him. Slightly annoyed with him as I think he undersold it and he should have charged me more Great bloke to work with, no issues whatsover. Looking forward to sharing a coffee with him Rob

@WoodinblackI'm actually saying the same things as yourself, we are in violent agreement. I may be clumsy in my words. The only guitar that I am aware of that has some sort of unique sound is the Peter Green one. It seems to be a mistake in the coil windings (or whatever). Is it worth the aledged £1M paid for it, I don't know, I'll never be good enough to know. agree that the Dave Gilmour and Eric Clapton guitars aren't that different from a guitar of that era at all. The fact that DG or EC has played or (swoon) Jimi Hendrix has played adds to it's provenance and adds value. I can smash up a guitar like Kurt Cobain, that doesn't make it worth $6M, wish it did. The Stradivarius discussion/argument goes over my head, I don't know how good it is, but I do know that if one came on the market, collectors and musicians will be fighting over it. Is it very good? thats for discussion, will people fight over buying it? that's a fact. I wasn't aware of the New Scientist link but I'm not surprised. I have to say that amuses me. Collectors like rarity, they like having something that nobody else has, the Mona Lisa. Thats one of a kind and appears to be worth somewhere between £500M and £1,000 million. I know I have a set of trade cards (like Brook Bond or cigarette cards) in a locked drawer from when I sold post cards and cigarette cards with my dad when I was younger, that nobody else in the world has. We have a complete set, other collectors have partial sets. It's worth about £500 and thats it. I'll happily swap my one unique item with the current owner of the Mona Lisa. In fact they get a better deal as they get 25 cards and I just get one small painting of a unknown women with a dodgy smile. Thats why Titanic glasses go for what thay sell for. It's worth what somebody will pay. I put my money where my mouth is. I loved playing the MIJ 97 Jazz and I played a MIM Fender Mustang at the weekend and brought that as well. I tried other basses but that one just felt good. I'd love a 62 Precision becase it's my year of birth but thats an illogical reason to have it. I'll never justify buying it, but it's be cool to have. @xgsjx Thats a great looking video and will watch

I would have never guessed that was ironic (says he ironically AND sarcastically Rob

This is a topic that I've been wondering about for a few months and the picture above clarifies it for me. Just so we are clear, I'm a pretty rubbish bass player, I dabble for my enjoyment and thats about it. if I rated my knoweldge of the bass guitar from 1 (clueless) to 10 (God like John Paul Jones etc), I'm coming in at about 1.5. I've been thinking about what was the simplest bass guitar I could make. I am not a luthier at all and the last piece of decorative woodwork I did was over 40 years ago at school, a letter rack for my mum. It wasn't very good then and it's not much better now. No idea why she keeps it. My thinking was that the essential elements of a bass guitar are: 1. Neck - I have a 97 MIJ Fender Jazz that has a wonderful neck. When I brought it the pickups weren't very good, but I thought that electrics are cheap to solve, so brought it anyway. A new loom from Kl0gion and it sounds great. I also have a Fender Mustang MIM which also plays great and sounds great. We'll not talk about the Ibanez Mikro The neck holds the tuners, nut and frets. 2. The bridge - The strings have to end somewhere. There appears to be lots of different types of bridges, but the ones on each of my fenders appear to be quite simply made with bent metal. Thats not a dig at Fender, it works for them. I am also aware that there are far more complex and higher mass bridges, but I'm not clear what value they really offer. They may make a massive difference to an expert player, the Fender ones seem to work for me. See my value as a bass player above. 3. Something rigid needs to hold the neck and the bridge apart. 4. Pickups and something to hold them. The rest appears to be not that important. Looking at the guitar above, it's clear that there is no wood body to resonate. No idea how the metal resonates, but I'm sure it's wholly different. Stuff like strap buttons and controls can be put in different places. I'm happy to take @BigRedX statement that it plays well. The guitar above doesn't have a body so whats actually important. I have seen acrylic guitars, both bass and 6-string, played by guitar hero's, so I'm assuming they are happy enough it. On the counterside, we have the money paid for the guitars from Eric Clapton, Dave Gilmour, Peter Green. Whilst these have provenance, who wouldn't like a guitar played by EC, people seem to think they play better and sound better. We've had this argument over Stradivarius for centuries about how wonderful they sound and no one understands why. So is the bass guitar body really needed? There is enough evidence to make the answer blurred to me. Perhaps I need to build one to find out Thanks Rob

This one looks similar to yours (for some value of similar) https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/325784004555?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=fiyFn5zpR12&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=70h8JO93TH6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY The knob look like the ones I have on my 6 string so guessing this is fairly original. I'm no expert though so take this with a pinch of salt. Rob

I understand a bit more now. You want to keep the originals. That's OK. Pictures would help to confirm though. I can easily and quickly print two hemispheres to go inside your custom printed hollow balls. I am assuming that you don't have any flat sides on the balls which would complicate things but is doable. Filling with epoxy would work, but it will take weeks to cure and cost a lot. Epoxy resin isn't cheap and if you made enough to fill the spheres in one go, it might take a very long time to cure. You also can't make a single mistake. Epoxy is very unforgiving. Printing two hemispheres to fill your originals out is pretty simple. The design takes about 60 secs, printing is a function of volume but none of the printers are doing much this week so I'd just put them on and let them run. I have loads of filament anyway, so am more than happy to set them running and bang them.in the post. No charge.

Send me the CAD file and I'll print them for you. Or I can design and print them again

My suspicion is that the material on the balls is probably not amenable to glue so glueing stuff to the outsides will probably fail unless you use an epoxy resin AND carefully align everything AND leave it to cure. I was going to try PLA and PETG just to see if it works for those two materials. Filling the balls with epoxy resin would probably work. Also if you knew the internal diameter of the balls it's relatively easy to print two half spheres to fill them. Glueing these together once they are in the balls should work A 40mm hemisphere takes 24 mins to print. Happy to print a couple out and post them to you if you tell me the right size. Rob

Bert, Apologies, there are two separate conversations going on in this thread in the guise of 3D printing. One thread is about printing nuts and is it feasible. The second thread is yours, how to glue stuff together. I haven't done anything with that. Just ignore the nut printing messages Sorry for the confiusion. Rob

Here's the printed verison of the Ibanez nut, the original is black and my version is white. I printed it at 100% in PETG (as thats on the printer). I then put in the Ibanez and had a play. As far as I can tell, it has made zero difference, neither better nor worse. The design is now parameterised so I could do another just by taking a lot of measurements. These are not all of them either. If somebody wants one printed, you would need to do a lot of measurements or better still, the nut. Rob

I've never really tried to glue anything I print face to face. We do use glue, Gorilla glue and super glue to make some of the finger bolts, but we use it differently. Here's a cross sectional analysis of one of our finger bolts. Here you can see the outer part of the finger bolt and a void between the outer part and an inner part. This is where the bolt fits. We used Gorilla Glue in small amounts and we now use Super Glue as it's slightly easier to manage. This works very well but it's all enclosed within the fingerbolt. Never had any issues to date. What I'll do is see if I can glue two pieces of PETG together using Gorilla Glue and a super glue and see what happens. I strongly suspect that it will be a fragile bond. I'll do it this evening and see what it looks like Rob

I'm playing about with Fusion 360 to make a replica of the Ibanez nut. The Ibanez one is plastic, probably nylon or ABS. The design of it is quite complex, it's very organic in shape, the back is higher than the front. The slot holes are different widths for the strings (not so bad), the slots aren't parallel either, I've got digital calipers out and am measuring everything. The printing will be 15 mins, the design will be longer. Rob

I assumed 100% infill. I have PLA and PETG on the shelf so that's easy, I'll knock one up for the Ibanez Mikro. My issue is that I'm not sure I'd know if it wasn't working well. I'm stuck in various meetings all afternoon so may well go on mute and have a play. Somebody must have done this before though. Surely?

Has anyone printed a nut for a guitar. I acquired a really, really crappy Ibanez Mikro bass a few weeks ago. The truss rod is pretty difficult to turn, the bridge was setup wrong and it looks as if the body was used as a hammer (that’s not a joke). I managed to get it more or less setup but as the neck isn’t fantastic, string height was an issue. I wanted a slightly higher nut to compensate for the lack of adjustability elsewhere. I started looking at it and it’s dead easy to design a nut in Fusion 360 and parameterise every measurement , by wondered if anybody had tried it and found it simply doesn’t work. Thoughts welcomed rob

Got the loom from Kl0gon and fitted it. Dead easy. Good quality work on the soldering and wiring, I’m no expert but it looked nice and shiny. Very tightly packed as well. some <ahem> user issues on earthing but I sorted that out. Now have a proper jazz bass and am very happy. thanks rob

Now that is a thing of beauty. Is that the 66 Mustang that you had modified?

Speaking as someone from the Yorkshire Dales, I love a couple of faggots at midday and sometimes in the evening as well. The more the merrier. Rob