rwillett

Not sure if I should even post this here... It might offend some people so I've hidden this below. If you are easily offended, then don't look. You can't say you haven't been warned

In a more serious vein, a second cab allows me to keep one connected in my "office" and one I can take out easily to jam with. I hate undoing all the connections and redoing them each time.

It sounds very good. Lots of midrange tone and very loud. I suspect I need to spend some time with it to work out the sound I like the best. Rob

My guess as to the top 10 is Stairway to Heaven Bohemian Rhapsody Freebird Hotel California All Right Now Highway to Hell Comfortably Numb Paranoid Sweet Child of Mine Smoke on the Water No idea to be honest... If there is anything from 2000 onwards, I'd be surprised. I make no claims on the merits of the songs. Rob

I agree, it's completely rational and perfectly justified hatred. I'd put it on the same level as Bennie Hills "Fastest Milkman in the West". Mind you that song might come in in the Top 100, so we need to be careful for what we wish for. Rob

Not sure how Massive Wagons have a song in 2026, but thats the date Planet Rock have put down. Most of these are "newer" than 1970's and 1980's but I am no expert Rob

If @neepheid is going to the show. I'll need to make sure I'm away that weekend lest he entice me into bad ways such as buying things 😊

An updated list based on yesterdays plays. By year This is the new one, slightly more in the 1990's than before. Queen still has the most entries with 15 followed by Black Sabbath with 12 and AC/DC with 11 and Led Zepp with 10 The 1970's and 1980's still dominate Rob

The cabs are stackable so relieving the stress on my two slipped discs 😁

Why not 🙄

Finally got the top coat on and the other bits attached to the speaker. It's basically finished. As it's really a deep black, there's not a lot of detail that can be seen on camera. The Gnome goes on the top or at the back You can see the rails here for front and back with the grab handles Here's the grill attached It definitely has a chunky Lego or kids toy vibe to it That's one down, I need to mull on the lessons learnt and then do Cabinet #2. Rob

So far: Alice Cooper - Schools out - No Aerosmith - Dream On - No Thin Lizzy has five entries but not Whisky in the Jar (which they hated) No adverts for MacDonalds though

People are welcome to come up to the NW Bass Bash, but it'd a fair old trek from down south.

Its at 189 according to Darren... I thought you'd want to know.

I only managed to come to the last one but thoroughly enjoyed it. I had actually started to plan for the next one. Thanks very much for all the hard work that the whole team have put in. As I organise the NW Bass Bash, I know it doesn't just happen and the more effort you put in, the easier it looks to everyone. Yours looked very easy Hopefully somebody might want to pick the SW Bash up for this year (he says hopefully). Rob

And here's the list to date based on tracks per year. As previously suggested the 70's and 80's dominate and by decade Rob

Just crunched the first 256 songs. The average year is 1983 (so far) The band with the most is Queen with 13, followed by Black Sabbath with 8 and AC/DC with 8 Rob

Yep, that could happen, but I've made so many mistakes, it would have to be a hell of a new blunder to find with the second cab

I'm listening to Planet Rock's top 500 songs of all time. Very interesting as some songs would be far higher up my top 500, Chuck Berry "Johhny B Goode" for one and whilst I like Halestorm, somewhat surprised it's in the top 500 at all. Led Zepp - No quarter is also way down the list. At the time of writing we're down to number 420 or so. I'm going to have a think and before Thursday predict my top 10. Not my top 10, but what I think will be the top 10. Rob

Gosh, I didn't know Zoe was married. Is he building a loudspeaker as well as me? I'll ask him for advice and see if he can help. She knows I'm building it, but rarely goes down in the cellar. We have a biomass boiler and the hopper has just been filled so even less likely to go down to check on pellets. Just down the last (hopefully) top coat using a cut down textured roller. It looks quite nice, but patchy when wet. I've cut the textured roller down to 2" from 4" to allow it to get between the various sacrificial parts. The Armacab dries very quickly so should be ready to look at this evening. I've learnt a lot about building a cabinet. Lots of things not to do when I build the second one. Rob

You can start with why my new replacement bathroom fan doesn't work if you want...

A colonial cousin possibly? Somebody from the family tree but deported around 200 years ago? He could also have moved to the "land of the brave and the free" (stop sniggering at the back) hoping his entrepreneurial talents would more appreciated. I was going to say you had misused the word 'precision' but realised that you are correct and it can wholly be used in this context.

Decided to bypass test's and simply mask the cabinet up in the kitchen. and paint it. As the CFO is out and it is still below freezing, I masked the cabinet up before painting. In hindsight this was a mistake, I grossly over estimated how thick the paint covering is. Whilst it's like tar in the tin, it spreads thinly and evenly. A simple mask rather than masking sacrificial parts would have been far quicker but you live and learn. Managed to get two smooth coats on the cab in the celler. The textured coat is last and I may get that on tonight. The red corners are sacrificial so don't care about them. The real ones will be attached using no nails as I didn't want screws showing. It's still wet in the photo Rob

@RhythmJunky When you've only got a hammer, everything looks like a nail But thanks for the kind words. You are not the first person to suggest either a 3d printed cabinet or a frame or bonding things together. The issue is partly around the maximum size I can print at once, a Prusa MK4 can do circa 250mm by 220mm by 200mm (vertically). Thats fairly standard for most decent printers. Getting larger than this starts to get expensive, so a 350mm x 350mm x 350mm from Prusa is a lot more money. Even that isn't quite big enough for an 8" cab. Going beyond that is even more money. I have looked at 500mm x 500mm x 500mm but they are very big frames, the heated bed is as big as you can go, and even then its patchy. I did enquire with RatRig in Portugal about making a 600x600x100mm printer but they weren't keen at all. Also plastic isn't really a dense material and isn't that suitable for cabinets. I'm definitely at the novice end of the scale here but people want to use MDF and Birch ply or even concrete for the cabinets to avoid ringing. Plastic isn't really suitable, certainly for the bass ports it seems fine and for edges of frames and amp mounts it's OK but I wouldn't think it that good in large scale use. Bonding has been discussed off-line, but I'm not convinced you'd gain anything over plywood. However if somebody has some clever ideas and wants to try, I'm happy to put some time into it. Not sure how much time and effort, but more than nothing and less than an infinite amount I would suspect a honeycomb in three dimensions might be interesting, but I'm not 100% sure how I'd design it and how to bind it. Rob