Richard R

Welcome aboard

Welcome aboard

Welcome aboard

Welcome aboard

I get the feeling Blender is fundamentally coming from a creative rather than engineering standpoint. The idea is to start with lumps and then change them. Which will be fine for some stuff, less so for others. I'll check out Fusion, thanks for that.

@rwillett - what do you use for your designs? I am checking out a Makerspace and as I am brand new to all this I'm incluned to use the same software as others there while I learn. Most people there seem to use Blender, one or two use FreeCad. Blender is a different mindset to the CAD background I used to have in the late '90s, but is definitely quick to get going.

Conceptually I find FM synthesis far easier to understand than subtractive synthesis and can mentally picture what's going on. I don't play keys, so I have only dabbled a bit with free versions of either type, and barely got past the Dalek Fart stage.

Hypocrisy 1.01: I started this year's Gear Abstinence Thread, and now I am checking the updates on No Treble's website site 🤣 https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2025/01/23/namm-2025-new-bass-gear-reveals-launches-and-updates/ I'd like to play the Sterling MM Bongo.

It's fine, you just have to use a hanging stand like the Hercules ones that clamp on the headstock. Oh...

I have the same message If you need space on the server then ask/compell folks to delete images etc. I'm sure we can remove a lot of old photos from the off topic photographic forums.

It's like a rope tree, but smaller and more suited to domestic gardens.

That seems to be the case. No clean means residue can stay on the board and does not require washing off - ie it's not dielectric, capacitive, conductive etc etc. My reading says that's what gets used for manufacturing at scale. I had a friend who used to work in small-scale electronics development. Not spoken to him in a while, so I shall have to cold call him and renew our acquaintanceship.

My understanding is that leaded solder is fine provided you wash your hands and don't ingest it. Lead vapourises way above the melting point, so you aren't breathing lead fumes, nor would you breathi tin/copper fumes. It's the flux fumes that are dangerous. I've just found this HSE article, which probably explains the ban on rosin fluxes at the makerspace. https://www.hse.gov.uk/lung-disease/electronics-soldering.htm#:~:text=As exposure to rosin-based,health must be carried out. "Rosin-based solder flux fume is now regarded as one of the most significant causes of occupational asthma in Britain. When the asthmatic effects are fully developed they are permanent and irreversible. Continued exposure, even to very small amounts of fume, may cause asthma attacks and the person affected may be unable to do any soldering with rosin-based fluxes again." "Where reasonably practicable, exposure should be prevented" OK, I'm not gping to be using rosin based fluxes any more. But I still don't know what's in half the stuff advertised.

The only thing I am absolutely sure of, because it's physics, is that lead free solder generally has a higher melting point.

Solder is very confusing. I have been checking out a makerspace but there is a rule of no rosin solder, and as solder isn't supplied I would need to buy my own. Because "rosin" seems to get used as such a general term for "flux", especially by cheap suppliers, I am struggling to figure out what I would need to buy. The other users have the same problem, and I know in many cases just don't worry because there is proper extraction anyway, but I feel obliged to do the right thing. The organisers don't have a list of approved products, and I think the rule has recently been imposed on them, so that obvious route doesn't help much Any suggestions?

Updated the note on P2 to say you're still in for T1.

I didn't say guitarists were necessarily other musicians.

Guitars are other musical instruments, so you'll be out of tier 2, but still in for the primary tier 1 challenge. Is there a build thread for the guitar? (hint, hint)

The album was completely composed - "through composed" whatever that means- by Simon King, so Scott and the others are playing what was written for them.

Oooooooooooooooh! That is NICE!

https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/507822-2025-gear-abstinence-thread/#findComment-5395815 Are you in @Quilly? If so I can update the list.

I missed this post. Fortunately I have my spies.... Sad to see you drop out, what's the cab like?

I think there is something about having the size so that the catch in your hand is just right. Still very cool.

Warnibg GAS can strike at any time! At band practice today the subject came up of "those shaker things from West Africa, joined by string. " The drummer (an exceedingly talented all round musician and multi instrumentalist) has just posted on WhatsApp that he's found what they are, and where to buy them, and will be ordering some ASAP once he understands what size to buy. This is what they are, illustrated here by the amazingly talented, and equally amazingly named, Licious Crackitt 😁

Good tools that just work. One of life's pleasures.