rwillett

8 hours ago, Alanko said:

If it was chipped, extra material would be left behind on each plate? We aren't seeing too much metal cut away at that corner presumably.

Been thinking about this again (another sleepness night).

The die used in the machine to stamp this out can't have been broken otherwise more material, not less, would be left. If it was broken and then repaired (die heads aren't cheap to make so repairing it makes sense, toolmakers are skilled craftsmen) then there would be more material in the tuner head. I'm going with a different die was made and perhaps they were looking to align this with something else.

I will now do my best not to think about this as I walk the dog.

Rob

11 minutes ago, JazzyJ said:

It is reassuring to know that I didn't buy a 'load of junk' as one USA forum contributer suggested.

More than happy to take it off your hands at a "load of junk" price if you want Absolute beauty as already said.

I love little things like this 'notch'. I doubt I'd ever notice it if it wasn't for other people....

I would expect early 60s metalwork to be stamped out on a machine. 

These are fairly cheaply made with bent over tags to lock the barrels on. That's not a comment to annoy people but a reflection on how things were done then 

Whilst you could mill them, the costs would be 50-100x the cost of stamping and bending. Cheap CNC did not exist in the 60s. 

I would assume a different stamping machine did the tiny notch and these could be just a different die used at the time. It could have been designed to fit against something else for orientation and Leo did a deal. Or it could be something else. 

Rob

3 hours ago, krispn said:

Lots of £££

You’d hope it’s enigmatic for the money. 

I'd actually hope it isn't enigmatic for that sort of money...

9 hours ago, Mottlefeeder said:

Just to add my thanks to Rob for the organisation and pizza, and to say that it was great to meet other bass players and listen to their playing style, and talk about bass gear. Also, thanks to our drummer for the day, whose name I didn't catch.

David

This is Bev. She's a really good drummer and allows me to jam with her and wreck her timing. 

We're just looking at a lovely eight string, a few Warmouths, some old Fenders.

Enjoy the house work 😄

Today's the day. 

It's gorgeous here in Clapham. Currently 9C expect high of 20C.

Not a cloud in the sky. 

Finiahing my coffee and will open up the village hall. 

He has cut down...

1 hour ago, prowla said:

 

It's the fabled "difficult to adjust" Ric bridge issue!

I'm trying to work out if this is actually an issue or not. I know nothing about Rickenbackers apart from Macca and Lemmy played them. I keep hearing that the bridge is difficult but surely after all these years they must have fixed this problem? Or is it just a running joke that nobody does adjust them?

Thanks

Rob

22 minutes ago, neepheid said:

HA! Stand down emergency, if you'll pardon the pun. Plan B came through unexpectedly well. I have all the stands I need now. Massive shout out to my local, friendly, independent guitar shop - Ramjam in Aberdeen who had the exact stands I was looking for - not in their official inventory but bought for their own purposes but not used. Sold them to me especially. Great bunch of lads.

 

See you tomorrow!

Have they a cheap 62 Jazz as well?

@neepheid 

We'll take everything I can find in the house. We'll make it work one way or another.

Rob

16 minutes ago, zbd1960 said:

I should be able ot be there for 10 - I can be earlier if any help is required to set-up as it's about an hour from here. 

Ron

All help welcomed but it's chairs and tables so it's not a.massive amount of work. 

However it would be good to see you and you then get the advantage of an empty (ish) hall to play in 😊

I have asked if the lady I jam with will come and bring her mobile drum kit. Her main drum kit appears to be larger than John Bonhams set from LZ 😊

Food now sorted.

I've arranged for a special tea delivery for @ossyrocks from Farrers Tea & Coffee merchants in Kendal, they're sending a local van just for me, and a local dairy farm has helped chip in with milk.

The village hall will be open from around 08:00 for people to get in. Will anybody apart from myself (and possibly @neepheid) be coming at that time?

The intention is to finish around 16:00 (ish) as I have to be in York later than evening.

Rob

4 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

But most of them will be passive websites that just carry information and don't try to push anything to anyone. It's only web forums and other social media that will be examined, assuming that a web crawler can be adapted to detect forums.

You are correct that most will be, I hadn't considered that, but how are Ofcom going to know?

If they develop a Web crawler, does it respect the robots.txt file? 

This is going to be very difficult for them to police. 

On 24/04/2025 at 15:55, Woodinblack said:

From what I see the age requirements are only to avoid seeing age appropriate things in your 'feed' and checks to ensure no access to adult only content.

Basschat has no algorithms to give you any 'feed' - that is obviously based on facebook / twitter style feeds, and we have never had adult only sections, apart from maybe the sections on P basses in sunburst and tort that you have to be at least 70 to have an interest in

 

I think this is the key line here

"Websites will have to change the algorithms that recommend content to young people and introduce beefed-up age checks or face big fines, the UK media regulator has confirmed." My emphasis added.

This is targetting the social media apps that push things to you. Basschat doesn't recommend things, also we don't have any young people. I will get around to reading the legislation and the Ofcom stuff once the bass bash is over and I have a free few hours.

Just for information, there are circa 11.1M .co.uk domains registered, not all of which are live. A simple thought experiment on how much work is needed to process this information if its only 10 mins per website per year manually. You can't do everything by computer yet. UK law isn't very happy with fully automated decision making by UK Govt depts.

Assume 50% are live so that's 5M websites = 5,000,000 * 10 = 50M minutes

So 50M minutes = 833,333 hours.

833,333 hours = 120,000 days (ish) Assuming lunch breaks

120,000 days = circa 550 people

As of 31/3/23 Ofcom had circa 1,300 employees.

So even a cursory 10 min check will require a 41% increase in employees. I know that the civil service is doing it's best to cap new recruitment. Ofcom is considered a quango and whilst it is not subject to civil service recruitment blocks, its funded by frees from industry as well as grants from central govt. It will not be capable of recruiting 550 people or 275 people or even 140 people for a 2.5 min check. Somebody has to answer the phones, report on how many websites are checked, this is all manual. There are no robots here. I'm also not aware of any software development that might be taking place to do this work. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened as I'm focussed around certain areas of UK Govt, but I might have heard.

As I've said before, the focus here will be on the large social media companies. Basschat is in the low level noise here (pun intended)

Rob

We're down to our last few days, so I think we have 15 bass players plus one very significant other who may or may not join us for lunch (though she is very welcome) and may or may not bring mutt (that's the dog, not @bigthumb)

@rwillett

@bigthumb+ 1 <-- Vegetarian

@neepheid

@ead

@80Hz

@GreeneKing <-- Vegetarian

@stevie

@nekomatic

@ossyrocks <-- Endless tea

@peterjam <-- Eats anything, likes small children.

@doomkeeper

@Frank Blank

@zbd1960

@bagsieblue <-- Vegetarian

@Mottlefeeder <-- Vegetarian

I count five vegetarians so that leaves 10-11 non vegetarians. Thankfully we have less than twenty otherwise I run out of toes.

I'll ensure we have a collection of circa. 30% vegetarian pizzas and the rest a range of fairly mild pizzas up to quite spicy ones. As I have no sense of smell, though I can taste but its reduced,  I tend to go for the spicier one. I do not judge people here I'll also get some salads, 300 tea bags for @ossyrocks, 4 gallons of milk for @ossyrocks (do you want sugar as well?).

We'll have the village hall from when I drag myself out of bed, say 07:30 to around 16:45 or so on Saturday afternoon.

We can park on the road outside the village hall. Can I ask that people unload and then move their cars please onto the main road please and not park behind the village hall as it is in use for other things and I have to live with the neighbours for another year.

There is power in the hall but you might want extension leads. We have loads of tables and chairs.

Any questions please ask.

Rob

16 minutes ago, bigthumb said:

I'll be having my foot operation on the Wednesday before the bash. I'm having the metal plates/wires or whatever removed from when I had my accident. I'm not sure how immobile I'll be so my poor downtrodden Mrs said she'll drive me up there if needed. I'm hoping (and most probably hopping) it won't be too bad and I'll be able to stand on my own two feet but I might need to be seated and have basses handed to me on request to drool over. I'll still be bring my gear along.

 

Also. If anybody wants a good (Bass Direct) shipping box please let me know as I have a couple here that are taking up space. 

 

Also, also. We are both veggies.

 

Can't wait!!! 

That's nice of your Missus. Is she going to stay with you or wants to do something for herself? 

Clapham is a vast metropolis full of wonder and variety, nah, thats not it at all. 

If she likes walking, then it's great. We have fabulous walks literally on our door step. Also mountain biking is big here and you can easily spend eight hours just taking the trails within a few miles of us. If she likes studying sheep, then we are the centre of the UK for sheep. We have so many sheep, she'll fall asleep counting them. That just about exhausts Claphams attractions. Settle is 15 mins down the road and is lovely but small, Kirkby Lonsdale is 15 mins back up the A65 and is quite delightful but not much bigger. Clapham village hall has free GB wifi with B4RN so she can stay connected. If she wanst to do something specific, PM me and I'll help advise. Dogs are exceptionally welcome here, all the pubs welcome them otherwise they would have no business, a fair few restaurants, shops and cafes do as well. My dog will pop into the village hall at various times during the day.

The village hall has a vast quantity of chairs and tables, I suggest we put you in the middle so we can rally to your calls of "Boy, that bass over there to me and quick now" as fast as we can. Sadly as it's GCSE and A level time, both my daughters are revising so they can't wait on you hand and foot. I'd suggest you bring your own cushions.

Will she want food, zero issues if she does?

Rob

I can just see Matt sitting on top of the car with strings through the window to the steering wheel and the car loaded with gear. 

14 minutes ago, neepheid said:

 

Thanks man, but I found a source of the Rotosound stands I like for a fiver cheaper than most places, and they have ALL the colours, so the order has been placed.

Where is this source?

I have a few you can use if by some quirk of space-time physics you can't put 479 guitars in a Mitsubishi colt.

I thoughly enjoyed the set. Songs were great, really tight band. 

The sound is excellent 

The Out and Out Blues Band with our very own @ossyrocks on bass

56 minutes ago, Si600 said:

Ain't dat da troof!

Oh yes 😊