rwillett

That's a great photo. Any closer and you'd be in the orchestra

I posted that video in another thread😊

The top edge doesn't annoy me. It is quite smooth but for some reason looks horrible in the picture. Whst does annoy me are the very small differences in height in the components, probably due to small tolerance differences between machines. Doing the middle pick guard again is a few hours printing so no big deal. If you do 3d printing, you learn patience. Rob

The pick guard was supposed to be a single piece tailor made. My printer can't do it in one piece so it's an interim/possibly not interim solution. I might send the CAD file to a specialist company to make one but I wanted to get it working first. I was rather worried about hum but that's non existent. I may true different pickups as well. The wiring loom was adapted to put tiny screw connectors in so changing pickups is just unscrewing the cables. No soldering needed. Let's see how it goes. Rob

I'll probably play about with it over Xmas so as I open it up, I'll take more photos. Off to watch Arthur Christmas with the kids for the 97th time. Rob

Here you are. Depending on the light some things look worse or better. For instance the edge in the picture below looks like the dogs chewed it. Barely noticable when you look at it normally. You can also see the two unused screw holes in the middle pickguard. As the pickguard is strong enough with the screws it currently has, I'll reprint it without the holes. here you can just see the copper tape creating the Faraday cage. I may reprint the pickguards to cover it up. The light highlights blemishes quite well, which is a bit annoying. I am very picky, which is why I might still sand it, spray it and epxoy resin it so it's a good finish. Rob

Close up, its very industrial looking. As its made up of seven parts, they need to be joined together, so there are lines. Also as I use two printers to speed things up, there are slight variations. I have the original one which is now surplus, so after the new year, I'll fill, sand that one down, then paint it and try the epoxy resin as a finish. Not sure if I make a V3 or try a bass next. I've started collecting the bass bits as I have an idea for a headless but need to think about it some more before I commit. I've used an awful lot of black PETG on V1 and V2. I didn;t really count but suspect 5-7 rolls getting things right. I have an idea to use less filament but it needs to simmer for a few weeks as I think about it. Rob

I now have a 3d scanner and turntable (https://3dprinting.com/reviews/reviewing-the-3dmakerpro-seal-the-first-0-01mm-accuracy-consumer-3d-scanner/) so funky shaped neck heels should be no issue at all. Sadly its still in the box from November as had no opportunity to get it out. It won't come out over Xmas either. To be honest the neck heel worked first time so happy to look at funky ones. The problem is finding them at a sensible price.

As the guitar is mainly finished, I feel I can send you the invoices

I have finally got the guitar into a reasonable state. This week I've: 1. Redesigned the middle pickguard three times to make it fit 2. Discovered I missed two pickguard nuts to hold the middle pickguard on. As the guitar is glued together now I can't fix it easily. 3. Had the wiring loom redone as it was 50mm too short. Big shout out to James at Home of Tone for being a superstar to help me out. 4. Discovered that I need to leave more gaps in the cavities as stuff was shorting out. My multimeter has been working overtime. After all that, managed to string it and play it into Garageband. It works and there is zero hum. Very pleased about that. I need to play about with the pick height, with the nut height and the bridge height. I need to paint the plywood backbone but ignored it for this week as I wasn't sure how long it would take to dry. The guitar is bascially there, I'm no Jimi Hendrix but it sounds great, it certainly growels Its a playable guitar, I'm not sure I want to change the pickups, but I will investigate painting it with epoxy resin. Thanks Rob

@Baloney Balderdash I'm contemplating 3d printing a bass. I've nearly finished my 3d printed six string and if I can get some time today and tomorrow I will finish it. I can assemble, acquire, print and all the other bits and have the headless bridge bits but the neck is the next key thing. EBay has some stupid prices, and so I was looking wider and wondered about a left handed neck. As I'm intending to put a string lock on the end, the fact that the tuner holes are 'wrong' doesn't matter as I'll cut the jead stock down anyway. I don't have the string lock yet as am thinking about the width and access to the truss rod.

@Smanth I suspect I can manage that. I may have the odd piece of 3d filament hanging around.

You're not helping here

Ah! That's annoying. Missed that. Back to right handed necks

@neepheid Thanks. I was hoping that was the answer, but after searching t'internet, it didn;t really help. I'll keep looking on eBay, Reverb and here for a neck. I can at least open the seatch a bit more now. Rob

I saw this and thought of Basschat.... Utterly insane (safe for workplace) https://flip.it/TkuznH

Apart from tuner position and nut, are there any differences between a left handed neck and a right handed bass neck? The reason for the question is I want to make a headless bass and I sometimes see cheap left handed bass's and since I'll cut the headstock down, is the neck essentially the same? I can make a nut that's the same but mirrored as the original. Sorry if this is a dumb question 🙃 Thanks

If you replace everything is it still a rik? I'm thinking of Triggers Broom here.

The gentleman in question was very fair in his pricing. I have no complaints at all. Rob

I have managed to secure four single ABM headless bass bridges from a fellow BC user. ABM Headless Guitar Parts (abm-guitarpartsshop.com) I've not even opened the box yet, but I'll plan around these. Still need a bass neck but slowly getting there. Rob

I have managed to secure four headless bass thingies

Well colour me impressed

@Desbass I think given where we are, the chances of any numpties coming is low. We may get a lot of interested senior citizens, quite a lot of whom were/are professionals in their area. As far as I am aware, nobody plays in a band part from the drum teacher at the bottom of the street. I will ask if he's interested inm coming along. they are welcome to drop my Micro Ibanez as it looks like its being used as a shovel on a building site. Rob

Thanks dodgy cut and paste from me