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I'd be interested in this as well Looked on the internet and it seems about as clear as Mother Shiptons forecasts and prophesies Thx Rob

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This custom very solid English oak table 4-string bass guitar is a nightmare dream come true for anybody careless enough to gaze up on it music enthusiast. Crafted by a Custom Workshop that specialises in restoring Soviet WWII era tanks, this electric bass guitar features a rosewood fretboard and a neck made of both rosewood and maple. It has a unique, so unique that nobody has ever thought of doing this and my god there have been some weird, wonderful and crap ideas over the last 70 or so years, body shape, and should be played with a strap as it doesn't sit on your knee easily! It also doesn't sit on your shoulder much better as it weighs something close to a small Honda Civic. Best played using a crane to hold it in place unless you have 96" chest and pick full beer barrels up for fun. The 4/4 (beats, ft, inches, tonnes, miles?) size and light (as in colour as opposed to mass) Oak body colour make this bass guitar a stunning (this depends on your definition of the word stunning, I would assume that anybody seeing this would be stunned that anybody would pay for this) addition to any collection. The guitar is strung with 4 strings and has a solid (when we say solid, we mean solid) body material of oak. Whether you're a beginner (run away) or a sozzled seasoned player (run even further) , this bass guitar is perfect (for some definition of perfect I struggled to find in any online dictionary) for you. It can also be used to open 6ft tall beer bottles. It can be collected from Norbiton (this explains a very great deal) and, Southwest London for free, if you choose the every Evri delivery, it will be dismantled (do you possess 50mm spanners for the reassembly?) before dispatch as they only allow 1.2 meters long parcel ! (There's a reason for this and we've just found it) However if you choose Evri there is a very good , indeed excellent, chance that you will never receive it, which in this case is probably a very good thing indeed. Fixed the description. Rob

Ooohhhhh. That sounds like a recipe for madness. Wonder if there is/was a bug/glitch in Elk OS to do with handshaking. I have seen that happen before but not with Putty. Those sort of issues tend to get resolved PDQ as they get found quickly. Rob

If Putty doesn't work I would seriously question Elk OS and what it is doing. I've never seen Putty fail like this. We use it on thousands of projects. Kitty does appear to be a.good fork of Putty but deep down it should handle the same protocols and handshaking. Rob

@LukeFRC Currently feeling like sh1te as I appear to have had a severe allergic reaction to being nettled. Been in bed all day with temperature at 39.3C, now feeling better but still feel like a whipped puppy. Slightly nervous about the reaction as I live in the country. Nettles are dead common here. Not familiar with Elk OS but had a look around for it. If you make mistake with the wifi password and can't login it's normally easier to just rebuild it from scratch. Surprised that Putty is struggling with the protocols. Putty is as good as you get TBH and I've used it for years. I have a KVM and keep a port spare for just this type of problem, but that doesn't help @tauzero. I also know he's not stupid so something is up with Elk OS here. My pi 5 is now dedicated to development for the, ahem, exceptionally long delayed pick up winder, but I'll pull a PI 4 out and have a try. I don't have any of the boards that people are using. Is it this one https://www.hifiberry.com/dacs/ Thanks Rob

Not sure if beta blockers are classed as performance enhancing drugs, but an awful lot of snooker players in the 80's and 90's seemed to have heart conditions and needed beta blockers. I have no idea what effect they would do on bass players, possibly make them even more laid back? Might get rid of nerves. I know that when I worked in the newspaper business (IT not journalism), a number of people used Bolivian Marching Powder™ to get through the late shifts, the IT staff were strictly (and I mean strictly) banned from anything past caffeine, no alcohol, certainly no BMP. The financial journalists could not function with alcohol, that's not a joke, they would go to a press conference at 12:00, get utterly wasted afterwards, roll back to The Independent around 15:00, manage to find the lift and work out how to press the floor they were on (3rd floor) and lean against the lift burping 90% alcohol, they'd then write 600 words on a share issue with no mistakes. As the IT dept was 7th floor and production ground floor, I'd be constantly in the lift watching these titans of journalism burping away, but they never missed a story. Rob

Seen that. My brother lives Potters Bar so may put a bid in and pick it up at Xmas. Might be a Xmas present from him.😊

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Not seen that site before. I do like it even with the broken links. There used to be some Denon interconnect cables for sale on Amazon at circa £500 for something like 30cm. The reviews were getting wilder and wilder as well as funnier and funnier but sadly Mr Bezos seems to have had a sense of humour failure and the whole list have gone I struggle with some of the audio fanatics talking about optical cables and breaking them in, directionality of them etc. I've build large data centres, both from a design PoV as well as physically. I have never once 'conditioned' an optical cable so it works better after say 48 hours, nor have I worked out which way to plug it in for better data throughput. We reach down into the basket of cables, we get the right label on it (now correctly labelling a cable is really, really, really important), we plug it into the right socket and move onto the next one. The bloke behind me would then do the cable ties so that the cables are properly labelled and neat and tidy. A tidy cable run is a joy to behold (well it is to me). Once that cable is connected in, its staying there for a quite a long time unless the damn thing is broken, rare, but does happen. Thankfully the labels we use as well as the ability to make the data socket blink makes it easy to change cables. One day when I'm retired, I'll probably have to own up to taking a major UK banks data centre down by cocking something up, but not yet. Rob

I can guarantee that your playing wil be unrecognisable after my treatment.

That's a really good parody site. They've put a lot of effort into it and it sounds so convincing. It's a bit cheap though, I would expect it to be a lot more expensive than this. Its a bit like the person who was selling fake bomb detectors https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29459896. The more you charge the more people believe it. I'm now going to look at a bass string conditioner, it gets your bass strings in just the right condition to allow you to play like, well anybody. You'll be able to tune the strings (pun intended) to whatever playing style you need. It'll use a combination of special Yorkshire electricity, phases of the moon (as we all know we play better late at night), a special plectrum that anneals the string (sorry can't provide anymore information without an NDA), and some very unique herbs from the garden which will be used to coat the freshly annealed strings. Not sure if I should charge £5,000 or £10,000 for this super new development in bass playing, suggestions welcomed. Thanks Rob

And as if by magic....

I wonder if the zero nut is a bit like directional audio cable? I know that when I was slightly more interested in audio as opposed to music, there was big movement in copper interconned cable that cost a fortune and sounded better in one direction than another. I also know that somebody was selling directional fibre optic cable for audio as well. I do know a tinybbit about fibre optic and shifting large quantities of bits as I have designed and built a number of data centres and server rooms. Some of these may shift petabytes per day. Never once had a directional fibre cable there. Anyway have read loads more and still struggle to see what the advantages are.

If you press any string down then doesn't the string press on the fret you target AND the nut. So if you hit G you get pressure on the 3rd fret and the nut. Therefore the zero nut gets pressure for every non-open note played. Wpild that explain it? Rob

Would love to see and know more this. I keep hearing about the zero nut and have read the Wikipedia page, but I'm still not much wiser TBH. I'm struggling to understand what the value is. Happy to take this off topic as we are hijacking Sam's thread. Rob

Your dedication to physically checking and confirming the health and safety information does you credit.

It doesn't say it makes an excellent job of finishing speaker cabs on the tin though....

I think I've been very lucky with my choices when I did my headless. I'd like to say it was due to careful design, extensive modelling, widespread use of computer analysis, focussed user groups, iterative prototyping design but basically I guessed. I suspect the fact that I've broad shoulders and big hands (rugby must be good for something) means I've got away with it. I will be honest and say that I never gave the position of the bass across the body even a cursory thought until this point in time, as it had never occurred to me. I think this is due to the fact that as I'm not a very good player means I don't know any better or worse.

@itu that's a very nice piece of machining. Far beyond what I can do with metal. Is there a nut behind the lock or is the lock the nut? Does my question even make sense? Thanks Rob

I thought the CoG stuff was all paid so never even looked for it in F360. I will now look, but suspect I'll have the same problem as you over getting to know it. This is where CAD helps, Cardboard Aided Design. Cut it out to shape and see how it fits on the headstock. I've printed some round shims for tuners as a stop gap whilst I procured some metal rounds shims so the tuners sit properly, and then promptly forgot about them. They are still in and working well. The biggest lesson I learnt was that 15mm plywood as a backbone is no match for round bass strings, never mind flats. A 15mm T6 series aluminium backbone certainly is a match. The T6 aluminium is the stuff that's readily and cheaply available. However you are then into machining aluminium, which might be nothing more than drilling holes and taking an electric drill with a sanding plate. Mine moved from simply drilling holes straight thorough using a printed drill guide to printing holes that go through 80% and then tapping the holes so that there are no external screws. I can't seem to stop and always get annoyed at my poor design. Got the hang of it now, but took a few goes. The aluminium backbone acts as the strength and the body is there for eye candy and for holding the electrics in place. I can also advice you NOT to go for Carbon Fibre as I'm pretty certain your mind will shortly move that way. I looked at using CF and the people who know about CF strongly advised me not to. Its in one of the build threads about the discussions I had. That looks great as a headstock. That allows you to chop most of the headstock off and having a very small surface area to worry about AND excellent access to the truss rod. I like that very much apart from your luthier seems to have cocked up the spacing for a four string, rookie mistake Rob