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I'll bring the headless, I am doing a really minimalist bass as well but that's stuxk behind some other work. Need to pull my finger out.

@80Hz thanks for confirmation. We go to Skipton quite a lot. Zoe has relatives there. Theres also a guy who used to make resonators, but he seems to have stopped. You're welcome to come whatever time you like, setup is simply putting tables and chairs out. Food will be as last year (ish). If you are looking at doing some 3d design, then I'd advise going to Fusion 360. The free version is excellent and has very few restrictions. As with most cad packages, the learning curve is a little steep but once you get the hang of it, it's great. If there is enough interest I could do a short talk in the small room with a printer and Fusion 360. Let's see.

I'd like to see that if you bring it.

Didn't know @Frank Blank was Essex way. I used to live Harlow way when I was doing a sandwich degree. It's fair old trek but he's very welcome to stay the night each end to reduce the driving hassle. I would assume the max length of the title is 255 chars but could easily be longer if it's a varchar. More than happy to have a delve into the source code as admin and hopefully root to check further and see what I can find, just give me the logins and passwords. What could possibly go wrong! Either way we can get Essex in. Rob

Ah that's the one I thought weighed as much as a car and was actually about the same weight as a Warwick Gnome...

As old as possible really. My head says there shouldn't be that much difference in good basses over the years, my heart would like to disagree 😄 Just to be clear, I do not want to start a flame war here. Just would love to learn a bit more. Rob

And me now I think about it 🙄

If @Stub Mandrel comes, then we can legitimately change the title to the "The NW, Scotland and South Wales Bass Bash and Petting Zoo 2026". We're very inclusive here. So far (I think) we have attending. Attendees @rwillett - A couple of 3d printed basses or guitars, this will encourage me to finish my next two off. A couple of 8" Basschat cabinets. Might be interesting to try these with other peoples amps. One is quite loud, not quite finished the other one so not sure quite how loud they go. Since I'm about 100m away, I might bring anything or everything. Might even bring and setup a 3d printer if people are interested. If there is any interest and you need something thats more than a few hours to print, let me know well in advance. @neepheid @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel - TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ead - TBC @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam - TBC Lots of TBC's so hopefully we can firm up on numbers. So as you confirm, please add any equipment you might be bringing and update this. I'm also going to add in a list of "would like to...." so people might be encouraged to bring things... Would like to @rwillett Love to play some older basses to see what they are really like preferably with some old school valve amp heads. Would also love to play around with some amp modellers (I already have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX) to see how they sound in comparison.

I do live near Middlesbrough, for some value of 'near'. Two hours or so. I'm tempted by it but I wouldn't really know enough to spot a fake if I went to pick up and took cash. However "if it looks to good to be true etc etc etc..."

I was just about to do an initial roll call😄

My Gnome has a fan? I didn’t know that. It's never been an issue and I have wound it up to quite loud sessions and also quite quiet sessions. I leave it on for long times (days) as well in my small office. It's a complete non-issue for me, as I had no idea it even had a fan.

My daughter is there as well. She's at the Uni majoring in a degree in "Face painting, fancy dress, clubbing, drinking and rugby with a minor of History and Politics". Manchester is probably an 1hr 45mins from here, depending on whether some lunatic decides to close the M60 though a crash. I work in Manchester around once a week. We do have bedrooms free. The house used to be the old vicarage, converted to B&B in the 80's and we have spent a lot of time (and money) converting it back to a family home, just in time for the kids to leave home I think @neepheid is probably claiming one, that leaves another two, three, possibly four, bedrooms free. No charge but you might need to brings something interesting to play or better still a decent bottle of white. Let me know. Rob

@ead You can get from Clapham to Chorley in about an hour. Drove it myself this evening, come to the Bash in the morning and early afternoon and back for the evening. Rob

I do remember these TV shows. They were great You may need a larger piece of paper for yours 🙄

I'm going to try and summarise this as a set of mathematical equations to try and work it all out. I'm not sure English is capable or sufficient. Slightly nervous I may need to either rebuild the whole of maths to incorporate this OR enter the realm of quantum mechanics to solve.