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Yes you can drive into the yard. That's the main entrance. You can park there as well. There's a tree round 4 spaces (depending on the car). You can also park on the road directly outside.

Here's a link to the village hall again. https://claphamyorkshire.co.uk/locals/clapham-village-hall/ The address is CLAPHAM VILLAGE HALL, CROSS HAW LANE, CLAPHAM, LA2 8DZ Please park sensibly at the village hall in the allocated spots. There is parking outside the village hall on the road. There are no parking restrictions on the road. I'll be there around 0900

That's good enough for me

Why are those guitars still on the wall?

I live a few miles from Milnthorpe. If you brought anything, happy to go over and pick it up for you, nothing in the auction grabs me apart from the Gibson Les Paul (which I can't afford). We go to Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale all the time and have friends in Milnthorpe. DM if you want to talk about. Rob

Compares to the Fender Joe Strummer Telecaster replica, I'd say it's in mint unused condition

Just come down if an when you can....

I didn't say I could afford transatlantic yacht racing....

I have a 3d scanner that I brought off kickstarter, still sitting it's box under the desk. I keep saying I'll get it working but so busy these days. Stuff like thumb rests are pretty simply. Designing a thumb rest to fit onto a standard scratchplate into the right holes is no effort at all. perhaps there's a business there

is there any interest in 3d printing? I know it's not really bass focussed but if people are interested, I can easily show people how it works. There will not be enough time to actually print anything useful unless its a thumb rest or a pickup surround. More than happy to do so though Thoughts welcomed? Thanks Rob

Bacon sarnies may well have gone by then, of course for a small fee, one may be kept back....

I don't know anything about pedals so anything and everything is an education for me. I can bring a soldering iron and a multi meter if that helps.

@LukeFRC Please bring whatever you can, I've never really looked at pedals and am looking to findi another expensive rabbit hole I can head down I suspect I'll end up with transatlantic yacht racing as the utilmate 'hobby'. 10:00 is fine. I'll get the bacon going. Well-fired is the state of my normal bacon butties. I'm not a fan of tepid bacon. Rob

@JohnH89 Thanks for the advice on the capacitors. Some of the capacitors were £10-£11 which sounded insane money. I decided not to mess too much with the bass before Sat. However one of the advantages of a modular bass is that I can change the pickups around quite quickly. I created a new pickguard design for jazz type pickups, printed it out, took the old pickguard off and the split pickups and put the bridge pickup from Wilkinsons. Printing the new pickguard took a long time, but once done, took around 15 mins in total. The old pickguard is still usable, as are the pickups. I actually prefer the Wilkinsons to the splits pickups, however they were in the wrong place

Can't remember now which sites they were... At least not whilst I'm at work.... Now you mention it, that does look like a snorkel holder. I am a BSAC diving instructor (somewhat lapsed) and I kept thinking what does that remind me of? We used to tell the diving novices to throw those clips away and just put the snorkel under the mask strap. You don't want anything attached to your mask that may snag on something. Rob

The hum problem is in the Mod Dwarf somewhere. I've been playing with it and I may have screwed something up. I do have a decent bench power supply (60V 10A) which I might hook up to the Dwarf to check things over. Just looking at 500K CTS pots, four for £23, some guitar wire, a couple of capacitors (not sure if they need to be paper in oil or 'ordinary and cheap' ones). I've got some spare sockets as well as copper tape. I might even have some spare capacitors in the box. Its not that difficult to make one IMHO. Always happy to take advice and learn. One day I may teach somebody else something useful (possibly). Thanks Rob

I thought I'd seen something like this before, though now I think about it, it might have been on a more "specialised" site. This might help, Google Reverse Image search. Safe for workplace (honestly) https://lens.google.com/search?ep=gisbubb&hl=en-GB&re=df&p=AbrfA8q4rwchtCwhnMcf-muPgcCqHcSAdtLg0U5o8BuY23zpS5hDWqSyr6rAoZZpz7ysxe3dAkKYaFuuIRO4H2aWbbI8kPqV402HCCD-oE52ycebQa3qkeOh12ltuL4K9nFGdOwuYyXDn8tmaI7DfuqdAPvD6YMGxXcNhQ2pk1rwsZPVOAhwB3Ny2WHRIfngRKSCrFgiZAiaCKzsyQ%3D%3D#lns=W251bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsbnVsbCxudWxsLG51bGwsIkVrY0tKR1EzWm1ReE9HTmpMVFZrWlRrdE5EVXdZaTFoTmpKaExURTFPVGRrWXpRM1pEZzNNeElmWXpVNFFtNWlZMG8yYjFGVlRVbG5SM0JuU1V4dVVEQnZURTU2UWpsNFp3PT0iLG51bGwsbnVsbCxbW251bGwsbnVsbCwiMi0wIl0sWyJhMTc3NTg2Zi04NjczLTQ0MTUtYWQ3ZC0xNzFkOTFiNzMzZTYiXV1d

here's the full length with pickguards, dodgy control panel and quite nice knobs. I can see better pots wiring and capacitors on the horizon. None of this is difficult to solder up using decent CTS pots, and decent wires. A close up of the front. if this was a Hollywood film, you;d be able to reverse engineer my DNA just by looking at the reflections in the knobs Strap points in, pick guard screws aren't quite right. Will probably move to silver button heads as opposed to countersunk. Here's the back. This is a 60mm wide backbone rather than an 80mm backbone. Seems fine though and saves circa 300g. Things that still need to be done. I still can't get a decent glossy finish so all my guitars are still raw. Six months and no tangible progress. The pieces that make up the outside are not glued together yet. There is tiny movement between them. This needs to be done but I don't want to screw up before Saturday. Rewire the contol panel. probably not before Saturday though I might have a sneaky look on Amazon today for next day shipment on CTS pots. Reprint the pickguards as they aren't perfect. Probably change the pickups to my new Wilkinson ones and design a new pickguard. Thats thne nice thing about this bass, don;t like the pickups, try somnething different. Perhaps a telecaster deluxe design or a strat type design with three pickups. Not a massive problem to do.

John, These were the first pickups that came to hand Literally. I wanted to check that these all worked. Its wired volume/Volume/Blend (or it should be). I'll sort the hum out, may be a noisy PSU, I suspect that my home office is bloody awful for RF as I have a large colour laser printer, 2 x 3d printers, 2 x UPS's, network switch, EXSI server, multiple laptops, desktops, monitors, ipads and servers. I might change it to use two Jazz pickups, or something else. I really like my P90's on my home made Tele and once I get the guitar winder working, that'll be my first design. Here's what pickups can be fitted. The red squares are for Thunderbird bass fittings, the blue squares are for Fender neck and Fender bridge pickups. The neck pickups are 38mm apart and the bridge pickups are 40mm apart. The yellow squares are for precision type split pickups. I forgot to add them to the neck position in the design <doh>. However since this is a modular design, I will put the split pickups screw mounting holes in to the neck position as well. I need to print off a single new plate. It does involve dismantling some of the guitar as it's right in the centre, but probably 45 mins each way. Six hours to print as well. I may just go back to my Wilkinson Jazz pickups, all that entails is taking out the split pickups and putting the jazz ones back in. All the cabling is modular as well, so thats not a problem. I will need to print a neck pickguard, but thats a few hours and easy. The other screw holes are for pickguards, or attaching the outer frame. Thanks Rob

Fitted the cheapest, nastiest control panel I could get from Amazon to make sure I have something that works. Well it was cheap but it was wired incorrectly with the cables to the socket reversed. I assumed it was my connections or soldering or anything, but no, it was the sodding wrongly wired socket. No doubt there's a chinese forced labourer chuckling to herself in her dormitory how she's going to bring down Western capitalism, one badly wired socket at a time. Two sodding hours to find that as I thought it had to be me. Anyway, fixed that, left a review on Amazon so the next sucker knows what to change. Plugged in and there's sound. Not sure if its the right sound, but there is something coming out of it through the mod_dwarf. There's also a lot of hum, even without the bass plugged in, but thats a problem for another day. Got both pickguards on, weight is 4.02kg which is highly annoying as it's 21g more than I was working for. I'll change the metal knobs for plastic or fit lighter strings. It's 400g lighter than the last one though. It still needs to be setup properly, it's almost there, but I prioritised the build over setup so that its ready for Sats Bass Bash. I'll post pictures tomorrow, but I now have a working headless bass. First post for this was May 6th, so eight days from start to finish. For some reason I thought it was significantly longer, it feels a lot longer, especially as I got up at 02:30 this mornning to add some embedded nuts for the strap mounts.

If nothing else, we'll eat well..