The NW and Scotland Bass Bash and Petting Zoo 2026 - Saturday April 25th Confirmed

[rwillett]

Nein

[rwillett]

I was planning to do an hour or so talk about 3d design and 3d printing at the Bash. A few people have expressed a slight interest. For those of you who remember the village hall in Clapham, there is a little room adjacent to the kitchen, and I would use that.

 

Is this of interest to other people? If so, what would people like to know about? I can't design and print a bass in an hour but I can talk through the basics and explain what works and what doesn't. It's easy enough to bring a 3d printer over and I can make the session interactive. Perhaps show how to design a simple pickup cover, or a volume control or something. 

 

Just throwing this out there for feedback and comments (good and bad).

 

Thanks

 

Rob

[GreeneKing]

I’ll check my diary and get back to you Rob. 
 

Peter

[GreeneKing]

I took me a while but I'd love to come along.

 

Bringing G&L 2500 x 2 (One Tribute)

P basses:  P-Retro'd Warmoth, 32" scale Zoot, 54 and basic Warmoth.

2 amp heads, 1 x 12" Accugroove

Line 6 Helix LT with Laptop.

 

Peter

Edited February 7 by GreeneKing

[rwillett]

2 minutes ago, GreeneKing said:

I took me a while but I'd love to come along.

 

Peter

Excellent

[misterhank]

On 10/11/2025 at 08:47, rwillett said:

 

 

Edited February 9 by misterhank

[misterhank]

On 10/11/2025 at 08:47, rwillett said:

 

 

You all know the form, please let me know if you can attend. There are no costs for the hall or for food as it's been sponsored  

 

On 10/11/2025 at 08:47, rwillett said:

Ahoy there mateys - as above, This is me letting you know that, if the good lord's willin' and the creek don't rise, I'll be attending this in the company of Peter Jamieson, bass player of this parish.
I look forward to seeing you all there.
(Thanks Peter )

 

 

Edited February 9 by misterhank

[Frank Blank]

Calling @ped...

 

I've just noticed I'm running short on BC lanyards. We have a couple of Bashes coming up in the next few months, any chance I can blag a few more, if you have some obviously!

[rwillett]

So far we have 

 

@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 - Probably bringing the contents of a smallish country

@Frank Blank

@Stub Mandrel- TBC

@zbd1960 - TBC

@ossyrocks

@lee650

@80Hz 

@peterjam

@misterhank

@GreeneKing

@LukeFRC - TBC

@jimbobothy - TBC

@TPJ

Edited 1 hour ago by rwillett

[zbd1960]

I'll probably get confused and turn up with the wrong instrument... cello, sax, 3 manual organ console....

[rwillett]

27 minutes ago, zbd1960 said:

I'll probably get confused and turn up with the wrong instrument... cello, sax, 3 manual organ console....

Turn up with the lot and we'll do a Doors jam with the organ. LA Woman is great  

 

Hows your leg by the way?

 

Rob

[zbd1960]

On 09/02/2026 at 17:09, rwillett said:

Turn up with the lot and we'll do a Doors jam with the organ. LA Woman is great  

 

Hows your leg by the way?

 

Rob

Leg is doing OK. I stopped taking pain killers several weeks ago and stopped wearing the boot two weeks ago. I've walked into town three times in the last ten days and yesterday did that without a walking stick.

 

Main issue is the tendons, ligaments, and soft tissue of the ankle which got mangled. That's still sore and not fully functional. Saw physio for first time today at local cottage hospital in town. They're happy with progress and I'll be put into a weekly gym class for 6 or 8 weeks which is supervised by physios. That's at the hospital as well.  

[rwillett]

1 minute ago, zbd1960 said:

Leg is doing OK. I stopped taking pain killers several weeks ago and stopped wearing the boot two weeks ago. I've walked into town three times in the last ten days and yesterday did that without a walking stick.

 

Main issue is the tendons, ligaments, and soft tissue of the ankle which got mangled. That's still sore and not fully functional. Saw physio for first time today at local cottage hospital in town. They're happy with progress and I'll be put into a weekly gym class for 6 or 8 weeks which is supervised by physios. That's at the hospital as well.  

That's good news. There's a fair old walk from your place to the town centre and I think there's some up and down as well.

 

The soft tissues are always the issues, at least to me. I've never broken anything too serious but lots of ligament, tendon and soft tissue damage sadly. One slight good thing about the physio work on soft tissues is you can do a lot at home, for me, lots of small exercises did me the world of good and don't require expensive equipment, I had small blocks of wood to do heel raises and sitting on the floor with rubber bands stretching things out. You can do this in your own time and at your pace.

 

I look forward to hearing of your entry in the London Marathon for next year

[zbd1960]

1 hour ago, rwillett said:

That's good news. There's a fair old walk from your place to the town centre and I think there's some up and down as well.

 

The soft tissues are always the issues, at least to me. I've never broken anything too serious but lots of ligament, tendon and soft tissue damage sadly. One slight good thing about the physio work on soft tissues is you can do a lot at home, for me, lots of small exercises did me the world of good and don't require expensive equipment, I had small blocks of wood to do heel raises and sitting on the floor with rubber bands stretching things out. You can do this in your own time and at your pace.

 

I look forward to hearing of your entry in the London Marathon for next year

Yeah, I'm about 600' up here at he house and it's a steep hill down into town, which I think is a drop of about 250' - 300'.

[Frank Blank]

Our glorious leader @ped has kindly sent me a stack of BC lanyards and strap locks for this and the Midlands Bash so we'll be bona fide!

[Richard R]

The strap locks are superb. 

[TPJ]

I'd like to try and make it this year. Would you please add me to the list.

 

I can bring a few 4/5 string basses as well as my double bass if anyone is interested in that (and there's room in the hall :)). I can also bring a Fearless F112 and one or two PJB Cab 27s along with some amps.

 

[rwillett]

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

[Richard R]

3 minutes ago, rwillett said:

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

 

I always feel sorry for the guests at a Hilbert hotel, pretty much every night another infinite number of guests arrive and everyone has to move up.

Not too bad if you're in room 6, but if you're in room 2,967^456 then it’s a bloody long walk!

 

[ead]

10 minutes ago, rwillett said:

You're very welcome. We're a bit like a Hilbert hotel. We can always find space. However unlike Hotel California you can leave 😁

 Any pink Champagne on ice?

[rwillett]

5 minutes ago, ead said:

 Any pink Champagne on ice?

 

Only if you are very lucky, Tizer and brown ale more likely, though I might have a decent Chablis cooling for afterwards.

 

[ossyrocks]

1 hour ago, ead said:

 Any pink Champagne on ice?

There's always tea, good tea, lots of tea, we like tea.....