rwillett

@Stub Mandrel I'll try and make gaskets for the jack sockets and for the plate. That would be neater than sealant, which knowing my luck, would mean I'd attach myself to the cabinet, never to be released. Much like Hans Solo in his Carbon tomb . Rob

<TL:DR> Can you summarise please? Thx Rob

We had a mouse once but we had to eat it. Fed us all for two weeks....

Cassette? Eee you were lucky to have a cassette, when I were a lad we had t'make do with a scratched 78, handed down 3rd hand from local brass band. We 'ad to play it using our own finger nails, whilst balancing t'on a broken knitting needle, and used a hollowed out cow horn for sounds. Cow weren't t'happy as it was still attached t'horn. Sometimes it didn't even have t'right tune on so we 'ad to learn a whole new song t'wrong words.

I'm just working out the rear dual Speakon port. This has two speakon ports in a recessed metal plate. It needs soldering together but I can do that now. Do I need to seal the plate in place? e.g. put something around the edges where it will fit into the back board? Do I need to seal the Speakon connectors as well. There's a tiny gap around the edges where the ports screw in. Should I be making the cab basically as air tight as possible? If so then I'll put a bead of sealant around everything where air can get out. Now sure how far to go with sealing everything. Thanks Rob

I didn't say I looked good naked, merely it wasn't that unusual some many years ago Alcohol and rugby may have been involved Rob

There are certain phrases that keep popping up. Designed for right handed players Smooth and comfortable playing experience The Fender Precision Bass model, Features 20 frets Ideal for both beginners and experienced In fact the whole passage is 'AI' boilerplate, but it starts with "Designed for right handed players". It doesn't feel right but I can't put my finger on why it doesn't feel right. The Fender plate on the back of the neck looks like the serial number was engraved on and I thought they were stamped? The serial number doesn't match on the database (though that's not that unusual). The wear looks like someone with sandpaper and the wood looks odd underneath. The lollipops look too new. Thanks Rob

As an ex-rugby player, appearing naked in public is actually far, far less embarrassing than playing something I've never heard before. Far too many pictures to prove it as well, and it's got to the stage, that Zoe, my long suffering partner, simply sighs when yet another old picture surfaces. I also have a crap ear for hearing and am in awe of people who can listen to a tune and work out the chords as they go. I can't do that and suspect I never will. I'm doing a song writing course in Kendal and the lady who teaches it can listen to a piece of music and then just play it on the guitar immediately afterwards, and play it very, very well. I sit and watch her and wish I had as much talent as she has in her little finger. I have to repeatedly work at learning a song, its hard work. I do like the idea of a common song book though. Never thought of that. I would have a songbook of stuff I know and then other people can use it Admittedly its going to be a thin songbook at the start but it is a start. Rob

It was hard at first TBH, the guitarist borrowed my Strat and proceeded to blaze up and down the neck like a man possessed. He loved the Strat and I just looked on and inwardly sighed as he was 100x better than myself. I blame the fact that my fingers all point in different directions, please do not mention Tommy Iommi and his lack of finger ends, it doesn't help me here . Once we got the rhythm sorted out, it did start to click. I started running up the dusty end of the bass and then realised the bloke on the mixer had basically cut off anything above D on a filter on the mixer, so had to move down again. I wasn't really sure what it sounded like at all. Everybody was very nice but we were also very nice to the lady who was strangling and disembowelling a cat earlier in the evening. For next time, I'll try and have the Basschat 8" speaker with me, and politely drop that in the corner. Anyway, early days, the fact that the lady got away singing with a voice like that gave me hope my bass playing wasn't too bad. Rob

I was talked into doing an open mic session at the Craven Heifer in Stainforth on Thursday. I tend to dislike these things as I rarely know the songs and if often tends to be quite cliquey. Took along the 3d printed headless bass and a Strat (I have no shame) but left them in the car "just-in-case". It was incredibly tight to fit in a drummer (one toy bass drum, one Tom and one cymbal) but Bev knew how to play so small kit but workable, a PA perched on a chair and a mixer, two mics and needed to fit everything else in in an area about 2.5m by 2m. I sat out the first few sessions and was roped into more classic rock sessions. Cocaine, Green River Rising and a wonderful blues song I have never heard before but was about a train (that narrows it down). Never played them before but could see the music so started carefully and simply and built up. By the last song, was thoroughly enjoying myself so have now decided to attend more and stop being a dickhead about it. It certainly focuses the mind on picking things up quickly. Rob

We appear to have had two miracles this weekend, the England rugby team managed to wallop the All Blacks and we have had a day of non rainy weather. So I've managed to warm the glue as its rather cold, Cut down two panels for two cabs, I have two new cabs and one slightly not-so-good-not-as-neat-as-I-would-like-it-now-going-to-become-a-spray-booth-cabinet. practise makes perfect or in my case, slightly better than the last one. I've cut down the first cabs baffle so it's going to hold the 3d printed blue air filter. I've also assembled and glued three quarters of one new cab and that's all clamped up waiting for the glue to dry. As it gets dark quite early here, I didn't get around to the second cabinet, but now the pieces are cut, I can do something’s indoors. Still need to cut the holes for the loudspeaker but that'll have to wait for next weekend now.

So that's where all my electricity has gone...

Brilliant, that looks great. It makes me feel a lot happier about me doing it. Was the blade a coarse one (e.g. 20 tooth) or a find toothed one (circa 80 tooth) or something in the middle. Also why isn't it raining where you are? Not fair. Rob