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That was my second thought, TBH. Astonishing that Barry Gibb, Barry Manilow and Barry White are all from your home town... Along with @Stub Mandrel four legends all from Barry. Fixed that... Rob

@stevie I am tryimg to remember which cab you brought over and plugged the Gnome into, I think it was the middle, the Monza. is that right? It sounded great with a Tonex or Mod Dwarf into the Gnome. Thanks Rob

Astonishing that Barry Gibb, Barry Manilow and Barry White are all from your home town... Three legends all from Barry. You must be very proud.

Its certainly lovely and if I I'd realised it was in the "quiet room", Id have loved to have tried to hear it and possibly play it under somebody expert tutelage.

The morning after the drive after the bass chat the day before... What a great day, so many people, so many great basses and sounds. Can't thank the organising team enough, fabulous food and on-demand tea and coffee. Lovely people to talk to as well. If I missed saying "thank you" to anybody yesterday who did all the organising, my apologies and "thank you". @scrumpymike and Mrs Scrumpy were brilliant. I wasn’t 100% certain on who all the various scrumpettes were but thanks to all them. Thanks to @Phil Starr who conclusively proved I cannot tell the difference between six different speakers. My appointment with the hearing aid specialist is on Friday. Thanks to @stevie on allowing me to plug a six string into one of his very, very nice cabinets. We'll talk later I have no doubt., Lovely to meet @Rosie C, I would have loved to have tried your double bass, perhaps next time when I bring a gnome along. @Chrs seemed to be the only person who has the slightest interest in my Strat and for that alone, thanks. I have no idea what @Woodinblack was doing with what appeared to be an etch o sketch screen but it looked interesting. Also the only person to show any interest in my ToneX and Mod Dwarf. @Stub Mandrel for having the good grace to at least look slightly embarrassed at winning a short scale purple metallic guitar. Great to talk to you. @Chienmortbb Really nice to meet you and happy I could help with a guitar stand. Did you donate a cable to the raffle? @neepheid won it and we thought it might be on one of yours. @Richard R Nice t-shirt to match the avatar. Some interesting and great chats during the day. Feel free to chat if you are looking at getting a 3d printer, always happy to help. @Mottlefeeder You sensibly set up your stand adjacent to the tea and coffee, diametrically opposed to myself in the hall and so never really talked about your briefcase amp. One day, he says yet again. @Nos and I talked a lot and I still have no idea what your name is. Apologies for being not asking. @MichaelDean and @Rosie C for saying nice things about my 3d printed bass. The cheques are in the post. I never managed to talk to everybody, but thank you all for making it such a great day. Rob

@neepheid and I have just arrived back at Chez Clapham. 278 miles, one stop. Four hours and 30 mins. Thanks to all. Great day out. More thanks to follow when brain is working properly.

@neepheid and I are now in Taunton. We'll be checking out the dodgy clubs, pubs and houses of ill repute til early hours or until one of us needs to get to bed, so around 2100 for me.

HI, I've just found a brand new PSU for the MS Surface pro in a box in my basement. It looks like its never been used. @synthaside if you still want it, its yours. Rob

I may have a spare roll of PLA+ but all the above is fire engine red.

I may have over-ordered on the filament....Thats eight boxes which is 32 rolls and there's another 16 rolls elsewhere. I may have ordered twice by mistake. That should see me for the next 6-8 months, so it's actually good I ordered it when it was cheap. I'll keep telling that to myself.

In that case, I will bring a little Gnome down (that's an amp as opposed to a small porcelain figure holding an anatomically incorrect fishing rod).

Mmmmm..... Rickenbacker.....

Is anybody bringing an FRFR speaker please? I will bring a ToneX and Mod Dwarf and a laptop but would love to try a decent FRFR speaker. Thanks Rob

That looks brilliant

I was simply turned away by security before I even got to the exam room... They claimed they lost my entry form on thirteen separate occasions.

Hi If anybody is interested in 3d printing, Amazon has an offer on eSun PLA+ Fire Engine red. It's only available for Prime members and only in red and is £20 for four 1Kg rolls. Normally price is between £13-£15 per 1Kg roll. I've ordered a lot as I do a lot of printing. If anybody wants any rolls and are not members of Amazon Prime (or even Amazon), I'm happy to order more and I'll bring the rolls down this weekend. You pay around £5 a roll which is dirt cheap. PM if interested. Rob

That's a really good idea. Thanks

That's probably who should be organising my life TBH.

Wow, a Personal Assistant, can I ask them to help sort my work life out whilst taking a break from sorting yours? I do need help

If anybody is coming to the Bass Bash this weekend and wants some rolls and doesn't have Prime, I can order some and bring them down with me. It's only available in Red but at £5 a roll, it's cheap as chips. I might order more today anyway. Rob

Ah! That might explain it. It's a very good deal if you do a lot of printing, however joining Amazon Prime isn't cheap. £5 a roll is excellent value. Sorry about that.

Just in case anybody is still following this thread, Amazon are knocking out esun Fire Engine Red PLA+ at around £5 a kg if you buy a pack of four. Just brought sixteen rolls at that price. I suspect it's a glitch as every other roll is 2.5x higher. https://amzn.eu/d/4FvltQb Rob

Just checking they weren't my effects pedals you were chucking in....

So here's where we get all geeky... @Stub Mandrel will understand this though Yes, already looked at that. Fuzzy skin is great for non-horizontal walls but it can't go on the bottom and on the top of flat surfaces. For example, here's the top left part of a six string, this is a Prusa Mk4 printer so it's 250mm x 220mm printing area. This is in Prusaslicer After setting to fuzzy skin I get this, I've zoomed into a smaller section. The vertical shells are actually quite good with fuzzy skin, but the top flat section (Middle Left) and the top slightly curved section with all the ridges doesn't work with fuzzy skin. If you can make the model far more non horizontal it works OK. I believe that Oraslicer is more advanced than Prusaslicer here but I know Prusaslicer and it's set up with Fusion and Octoprint. However the major issue here is that I don't have a printer than can print a body in one go, so it still has to be joined together. I've resolved joining accurately, I use centuries old techniques of dowels and pins and it works fine. However there is still a join line that fuzzy skin actually highlights as it has this nice random texture and then suddenly a a rather sharp vertical join line. If I was making tool handles or knobs then fuzzy skins is quite nice, but didn't work for this. I also have looked at very large scale printers and seeing if they can scale up. RatRig and I have exchanged comms and I've asked about a slightly bigger printer than they actually sell. They make a lot of fuss over their customisation abilities, but they were not keen at all on making the X and Y bigger than 500mm. They were happy to scale in the Z (that's the vertical) but not so happy in X and Y as it would need a new frame, heater pad, bed plate, mag sheet etc etc etc. They make a point of their flexibility and if they can't do it, I can't build one any better. I'm not disheartened, I'll get a better looking bass and guitar one day, every iteration is a positive step forward (normally), so even steps backward are good as I know not to go there.. If I don't blow myself up with the next batch of chemicals I mix up, I'll be happy. I will need to build a proper spray booth though, with a decent extractor fan. Some of this stuff is not nice on the lungs. I suppose I could get my scuba gear out, but I'd be looking like a complete tw1t (or something) wearing a reg, a bottle whilst spraying stuff. The neighbours are already talking Rob