rwillett

I can see your point here, you have to think in both a classic, almost Newtonian way of thinking and then at the same time switch your brain almost through 180 degrees into Niels Bohr mode, depending on exactly how you wish to examine the world. I have the same issue every time I buy a guitar, I think classically, "Can I afford it?" and then I shift into the Quantum mode of uncertainty, "Will my other half find out about it?". We can also consider Shrodinger here, his classic "Is the cat in the box dead or alive" experiment, can be rewritten to "If my other half doesn't know about the new guitar, does it even exist for her?" or more simply "If she finds out, will she kill me?", basically I am alive and dead at the same time fulfilling Shrodingers axioms.

It's finally wired up and working. A few problems. 1. The action is so high, the strings are in different timezones to the neck. 2. The nut isn't fixed down as I don't know how to fix it. Also not sure which is the front and the back of the nut. I think the front is the flat side and the rounded side goes to the tuners. 3. The hum from the guitar is appalling. Not sure if this is because there is no cavity shielding, poor soldering or bad/no earth. I suspect earthing but not going to look at it tonight. 4. I misread the wiring diagram so the switch is back to front but it does work. 5. The pickguard looks like it was put together by a five year old. It is lighter than my other Telecaster, the neck feels good and if I could reach the strings to press them down, that would be better. No idea about how it really sounds until I get the hum under control. I suspect I need a cable from the bridge to the earth on the control panel but thats tomorrows work. However it plays. Not very well (yet), but it does play

Perhaps it'll become the Scottish and North West bass bash....

I was a lorry driver as a student and did some long runs, but 600 miles round trip in a day is long run. The offer is there.

That sounds good, failing an non-exploding drummer, there's always drum machines.

Let's see. Thats a hell of a schlep.

@ossyrocks I'd like to go to that as well, so lets knock out May 5th from possible dates. Gary is very vaguely aware of me as I have dropped a number of guitars in for setup there. However I have managed to avoid spending a lot of money with him. If you know him and think he might be up for a stand on Sunday and bring some stuff along, then go for it. If we can tell him we'll be having a lot of people there that would be help, but we're barely into double digits (if that) at the moment. We will not get a lot of casual people sticking their noses in, though a couple of KW of bass playing might attract some attention. As far as I know, few people in the village play anything apart from Jo, my daughters flute teacher. We get a lot of walkers coming in to walk up Ingleborough but I can't see them being interested. @neepheid If you start now, head due South, you might be here for May. I hadn't appreciated that Aberdeen was basically 300 miles away. We might have to offer beds for people to stay, we have managed to host 16 people in proper beds and sofas before now at Xmas. However that got a bit cosy, so you might have to sleep with the dog. He's friendly though. @Mottlefeeder Thanks for the offer, we'll sort something out. What I'd like to do is drum up more interested people. I suppose basschat is a good start, but we will need more people to make it interesting and worth their while to come along. I could amuse people for 10 mins with my inability to play, but that sort of excitement will pale very quickly. Once we have a date, getting flyers out to places like Promenade Music to put on their notice board (do they have one?) and other places where people play and go to listen would be good. My main problem now is telling my other half I'm now helping organise this when I have about 29 other things to run and do is going to go down badly Rob

This is Clapham village hall, it is probably, in the nicest possible way, as cliche a village hall as anywhere I have ever lived. It's very clean and tidy, people take care of it and treat it with respect as it's a valuable local amenity. The Brownies and Guides use it on a Monday evening, the local IT group for senior citizens use it every month, the WI have it, there are quizes here, we have jumble sales and meetings here. I would be gobsmaked if they have ever had anybody playing bass through a large (or any) stack here I am going to hire it for myself and my family so I can lay out my Scaletrix in full (my kids love it, thats my excuse and I'm sticking to it). My house backs onto the village hall and as I type this I can see the entrance door through my office window. The kitchen is good and there are plenty of plates and stuff. https://claphamyorkshire.co.uk/locals/clapham-village-hall/ We are around 25 mins from the M6 if you are coming down from Scotland. Lancaster is 45 mins away via either M6 or the backroads through Hornby and Caton. There is parking at the village hall, outside on the roads (no yellow lines in the village at all). Leeds is 90 mins along the A65, though it depends on the number of caravans heading to the Lake District. There is a train station, Clapham North Yorkshire, which has a reliable but infrequent service, about a mile away. Skipton is 35 mins. Anybody coming from Newcastle area would probably come Penrith way, 2.5 hours (ish). I think we are actually getting close to enough numbers to make this viable. My company will sponsor the event, which is a dead posh way of saying, I'll pay for the day and bank it through my company so it goes against my corporate taxes, there's no VAT to claim back sadly. What about a Sunday in early May, rugby is over, weather a little better than now, though you can expect rain. my forecasting is that good six months out. It always rains here I can see if Promendate Music in Morecombe would be interested in coming along. It would depend on numbers. I have no relationship with them, so if somebody lives Morecombe way, and knows them well, that might help. Who else is in for early May and what else do we need to do? Thanks Rob

Thats five or six. We can now fill a table. I've never been to a bass bash so unsure what to expect. I'm more than happy to organise the day but would like some input from people on what to do. What about early May? I coach an u16 girls rugby team so Saturday and Sunday is difficult. Not sure if people would prefer Sat or Sun so let's see what people like. I can provide power extension cables, laptops are not an issue, I have a few guitars and may well have made a few more by then via my 3d printers. Teas and coffee is easy and there is a proper kitchen to cook in. I don't have any big amps and don't have pedals as I use an ipad and or mod dwarf. Thoughts and ideas welcomed

So £899 down to £150? That's a good deal and I'd have paid that as well. Well done

As part of the learning experience, I've spent the last 2-3 days fighting one of my Prusa's trying to work out why the quality of printing was junk and failed constantly, checked the heated bed, checking the Z level, checking PrusaSlicer, doing probably around a dozen calibration prints and they looked like crap, I finally found the issue. I'd accidently set the nozzle to be 0.6mm rather than 0.4mm. As this setting was buried in the HW setting menu, I'd forgotten to change it back when I pulled the 0.6 nozzle off and put a 0.4mm nozzle on. I remember doing it but only on the second printer not the first. Putting this here so other people can learn from my mistakes. Also at the same time a Pi Zero has started playing up and was disconnecting, could be power, could be dodgy cable, could be goblins, could be anything, so thats now gone and a Pi 4 is in it's place. Overkill but I have a few spare ones and I just have received a new Pi 5 to play with. The nice thing about Raspberry Pi's is that changing the Pi Zero to a Pi 4 took around two mins. Power down, pull the SD card out the Pi Zero, put in Pi 4 and reboot. That was it, and it now seems to work OK. Finishing off the last two prints for the body of the guitar now, should be finished around 23:00 tonight. Then need to do the wiring and putting strings on. I have already thought about V2 of this and also a V1 bass guitar. We'll see if this plays well enough to justify V2 and a V1 bass. Rob

I shall no longer call myself old now, merely "Vintage"

Dunno, I would assume a lot more than I could ever afford. Though I do quite fancy one in pink. I like the colour and if it was £150 I might well buy it.

Damm, missed those.

Most parts are original, the only parts changed are: 1. Body 2. Neck 3. Bridge 4. Tuners 5. Electrics 6. Pickups 7. Knobs Strings are original and may need upgrading. Rob

I wouldn't hold your breath here...

Good God. I need a cold shower after looking at those. Wow!

I agree that the problem solving is part of the fun, the fun part this afternoon is working how to solder the 7 pin 3 way import switch correctly. What I will actually be doing is using choc blocks to get it all connected so I can easily change it around to test what it sounds like. I suspect the multi meter will be in constant use. Rob

Depends on what you want for it. I'd love a Dec 62 as it's my DOB but suspect there might be a teensy weensy gap between your price and what I can afford The value is what people will pay and if some stockbroker wants a Dec 62 bass, the chances of me competing with them is slightly less that square root of Foxtrot Oscar. Rob

I have an 89 Squier MIK Telecaster. It's an S9 model and I brought it because it was wonderful to play and was the nicest in the shop (in my price range) full of old guitars. Its picky over amps and amp simulator but choose the right one and it's wonderful. It it going to be worth gazillions? Doubt it but I brought it to play (badly) and won't sell it. Well I will for £1,000, I'm that shallow. I suspect lots of people will turn their noses up at it but I think it's brilliant

Is that the Tickled Trout near Preston?

What would you expect the price difference to be? Is it a big issue or just slightly an issue?

I did two big print runs today, basically both Prusa's flat out whilst I actually did real work. Every so often the printers would beep for attention. Managed to get to this stage. I think there's something missing but I can't quite put my finger on it. Any ideas? I screwed it together but with only half the screws as I would need to take the plywood backbone off to screw all the bits together. I played it as an air guitar and it felt pretty good. The body is quite light and very rigid. It's missing the top middle, thats nine hours of printing, but I don't actually think thats needed for the next bit of testing. The next bits to do are: 1. Fit the nut. I have one and it's supposed to be theright one but it's a bit wide and I've no idea what to do with it. 2. Design a small pickguard to hold the neck pickup. I've designed it but not worked out the dimensions of the neck pickup. 3. Find a wiring diagram for this control panel and pickups and output. 4. Put strings on. 5. Connect it up. 6. Learn to play 7. Play Lessons learnt from two big print runs today. 1. Even after a Prusa MK3S+ has gone into Thermal Shutdown because I couldn't get to it after a @pause to insert nuts, you can recover it but manually setting the correct nozzle and bed tmperature. Thermal Shutdown is when the nozzle temperature is too high and you aren't printing. You may need to be running Octoprint for the recovery to work. I had to go and pick daughter up whilst printing but there was a major acident on theA65 and a 15min pickup turned into an hour. The printer paused and then shutdown for safety reasons. I was 7.5 hours into a 9 hour print and was a little annoyed to say the least. Set the temperatures in octoprint, waited til they got the right ones and simply hit resume. DSave 7/5 hours of printing. That was the highlight. 2. I forgot to measure the output jack inside hole measurements. I measure the plate holes and they look, but forgot to put the correct diameter in. It should be 20mm and I left it at 10mm. This means even though I save the print, it was still wrong and would need to be done again. 3. The access holes below are too difficult to use. I did test this but trying to screw it together this evening has taken 20 mins+ per hole. Solution, longer 30mm bolts from eBay. 4. The Telecaster control panel attachment holes were out by 1.2mm. Bad measurement from me. 5. The bolts that tighten the bits together work really well. The structure is very rigid. I thought there might be too many, but I'm not so sure now. I do like the rigidity. 6. The frame needs to be printed top down for the best quality. Mind you printing at 0.3mm is pretty good. I can of course take my time and print as I need over a few weeks. 7. Add parameters in so that any nuts printed are all at the same level. At the moment, nuts vary in height by a mm or so and this means the printers need constant attention. Probably lots more to think about and learn from. Rob

For this price, I'd expect the bass to be setup with the strings I'd like, a night at a five star hotel, a limo to pick me up from home and a kiss on the cheek from a super model of my choice.

I've got standards, they may be very low standards, but I do have some....