rwillett

If it walks like a duck, squarks like a duck, etc etc... I did like the "Why" as if this was a wholly unreasonable request. It made me smile.You're spending $5000 and would like to check what you are buying.

Tom, My most common tool is a decent digital calibrated caliper. I tend to work to around 0.2mm resolution with the Prusa, but I can get down to a consistent 0.1mm if I'm a little careful. Fusion 360 is happy to work to this resolution and far higher. There's no right way to model all of this, it's a case of what works for you. I used to draw rectangles and then fillet the sketch. This destroys the constraints and makes any changes difficult, thats why I moved to filleting the body as that can be done later. However that's just me. You tend to need 0.5mm or more for walls, 0.5mm is very thin, but printable at 0.1mm. It will flex, but that's not a major issue for pickup covers. I would have thought you wanted to make the pickup cover as tight as you can. If you are looking to paint them, then by all means print as-is and do supports and very gently smooth the support surfaces. Perfectly reasonable approach. Ask if any questions. Rob

So the guitarist is a bit of a virtuoso then, that D at the end is a brilliant twist.

Hope you can make it even if it's just for the morning.

If you are looking to print this, start to think about orientation and supports on the print bed. Printing top down will give you the smoothest finish BUT you will need supports printed for the two end pieces. Printing top up or on any of the sides, means you will have support pieces inside the cover to remove. Not sure how thick your walls are, but you might struggle with the screw holes on the side (or you might not). The covers are not under any stress so you may be able to use thin walls. You've got rounded corners, fillets on the edges, holes and different extrusions so good job so far. I tend to design with right angled corners and use the fillet tool to round afterwards. This means it's easy to change the radius, there are lots of exceptions to my rule 😁. Also use the offset tool a lot to get easy walls. Looks good for first time in Fusion.

I'll bring the headless, I am doing a really minimalist bass as well but that's stuxk behind some other work. Need to pull my finger out.

@80Hz thanks for confirmation. We go to Skipton quite a lot. Zoe has relatives there. Theres also a guy who used to make resonators, but he seems to have stopped. You're welcome to come whatever time you like, setup is simply putting tables and chairs out. Food will be as last year (ish). If you are looking at doing some 3d design, then I'd advise going to Fusion 360. The free version is excellent and has very few restrictions. As with most cad packages, the learning curve is a little steep but once you get the hang of it, it's great. If there is enough interest I could do a short talk in the small room with a printer and Fusion 360. Let's see.

I'd like to see that if you bring it.

Didn't know @Frank Blank was Essex way. I used to live Harlow way when I was doing a sandwich degree. It's fair old trek but he's very welcome to stay the night each end to reduce the driving hassle. I would assume the max length of the title is 255 chars but could easily be longer if it's a varchar. More than happy to have a delve into the source code as admin and hopefully root to check further and see what I can find, just give me the logins and passwords. What could possibly go wrong! Either way we can get Essex in. Rob

Ah that's the one I thought weighed as much as a car and was actually about the same weight as a Warwick Gnome...

As old as possible really. My head says there shouldn't be that much difference in good basses over the years, my heart would like to disagree 😄 Just to be clear, I do not want to start a flame war here. Just would love to learn a bit more. Rob

And me now I think about it 🙄

If @Stub Mandrel comes, then we can legitimately change the title to the "The NW, Scotland and South Wales Bass Bash and Petting Zoo 2026". We're very inclusive here. So far (I think) we have attending. Attendees @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 @Frank Blank @Stub Mandrel - TBC @zbd1960 - TBC @ead - TBC @ossyrocks @lee650 @80Hz @peterjam - TBC Lots of TBC's so hopefully we can firm up on numbers. So as you confirm, please add any equipment you might be bringing and update this. I'm also going to add in a list of "would like to...." so people might be encouraged to bring things... Would like to @rwillett Love to play some older basses to see what they are really like preferably with some old school valve amp heads. Would also love to play around with some amp modellers (I already have a Mod Dwarf and a ToneX) to see how they sound in comparison.

I do live near Middlesbrough, for some value of 'near'. Two hours or so. I'm tempted by it but I wouldn't really know enough to spot a fake if I went to pick up and took cash. However "if it looks to good to be true etc etc etc..."

I was just about to do an initial roll call😄