rwillett

If it walks like a duck, squarks like a duck, etc etc... I did like the "Why" as if this was a wholly unreasonable request. It made me smile.You're spending $5000 and would like to check what you are buying.

Tom, My most common tool is a decent digital calibrated caliper. I tend to work to around 0.2mm resolution with the Prusa, but I can get down to a consistent 0.1mm if I'm a little careful. Fusion 360 is happy to work to this resolution and far higher. There's no right way to model all of this, it's a case of what works for you. I used to draw rectangles and then fillet the sketch. This destroys the constraints and makes any changes difficult, thats why I moved to filleting the body as that can be done later. However that's just me. You tend to need 0.5mm or more for walls, 0.5mm is very thin, but printable at 0.1mm. It will flex, but that's not a major issue for pickup covers. I would have thought you wanted to make the pickup cover as tight as you can. If you are looking to paint them, then by all means print as-is and do supports and very gently smooth the support surfaces. Perfectly reasonable approach. Ask if any questions. Rob

So the guitarist is a bit of a virtuoso then, that D at the end is a brilliant twist.

Hope you can make it even if it's just for the morning.

If you are looking to print this, start to think about orientation and supports on the print bed. Printing top down will give you the smoothest finish BUT you will need supports printed for the two end pieces. Printing top up or on any of the sides, means you will have support pieces inside the cover to remove. Not sure how thick your walls are, but you might struggle with the screw holes on the side (or you might not). The covers are not under any stress so you may be able to use thin walls. You've got rounded corners, fillets on the edges, holes and different extrusions so good job so far. I tend to design with right angled corners and use the fillet tool to round afterwards. This means it's easy to change the radius, there are lots of exceptions to my rule 😁. Also use the offset tool a lot to get easy walls. Looks good for first time in Fusion.

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.

Ski bags would be a good idea, but many are not padded to the same level as a guitar bag. Skis are fairly robust items (though EasyJet and RyanAir do keep exploring new and interesting ways to trash them). My brother has decent skis and takes them with him skiing. He's in Tignes as we speak but I'll ask as he may have an older padded bag no longer in use. My skis are in a crappy bag that has less protection than a year old Asda shopping bag.

Sorry it's taken so long to come back. I'm having to juggle major birthdays, holidays, exams and work to find a day that's best for everybody. It's Saturday April 25th all day. That seems to meet most people’s requirements. I've booked it for that day . Thanks Rob

Wow, back on the bleeding edge of tech again More incentive to finish the second cabinet then. If I had a free day or two, I could get them finished for the weekend, and even painted but sadly paid work has to be done this week and I have a show-stopper problem at work to resolve. I only have a Warwick Gnome V2 which apparently puts out either 280W or 300W at 4 Ohms, I assume this is enough to drive both speakers? Local temperature had moved up to the giddy heights of 7C so I might have some time later this evening to do the routing for the handles and SpeakOn panel. Lots of small things to be done before I glue it back together. Rob

Thanks for the comments. I'll have a think what to do. I could easily add an external bottom plate onto the speakers for stand mounting purposes. It would be external rather than internal. I've a number of decent stands I could use for testing other than the Quickset to see. I could strap the current one down to test it out with zero changes. Might do that next weekend and see. If I like it I'd put a couple of big t-nuts in the base of the speaker to allow a plate to be bolted in just in case. I wouldn't do an internal adapter as it would change the internal volumetric measurements of the cab. No idea how much would make a difference but not wanting to trash a cab to find out.

Didn't realise they were that cheap. The 'adapter' would be metal rod or a piece of wood and the tripods have already been adapted. They came with the slo-mo heads on and I took those off made plywood plates to fit various EQ heads. They are rather battered from before I brought them, but were probably very expensive as they were made for Hollywood type film cameras . I know the model or or two up from mine was $12,000. That's mine below.