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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

Its definately Sat 18th now. They were double booked.

Errr. I cocked up and can't understand dates and days... It is Sat 18th now

Dear all, The date has had to be changed from Sat May 11th to Sat May 18th 2024 as, and I quote, "the 3-peak players have a long standing booking that wasn't in the diary". Does this date change peoples availability? If so please let me know and I'll take you off the possibly interested list. Thanks Rob

Ok, thats new and news to me. So could I have a Faraday Cage with (for example 1cm) bands running across it? Rob

@MichaelDean Thats a good idea, I've got the multimeter out already and am checking its all correct, Rob

Thanks, so I do need to have the copper tape coming over the top to provide electrical connectivity OR I solder a wire across the areas. I'll think about what the best option is. Great Rob

So most (but not all) of the guitar is printed. Still need to do one pick guard but waiting to lay out the wiring loom before I print, so I can check hole for pots. Covers for the backs aere all done. neck is done but not shown. Pickups are all mounted up, wiring loom is in a package unopened. Bridge adapter done but not shown. Do I need to have an electrical connection between the back of the pickguards and the copper lining the various cavaties? I've left some copper on the top of the guitar so when the pickguard, which has copper cladding on the back, is screwed down, there will be connectivity but not sure I actually need it. If I don't need it, I'll tidy the copper cladding up so it's flush, if I do need it, I'll tidy the copper cladding up so there's a consistent and tidy 1mm overlap. Any advice welcomed. Thanks Rob

Morecombe is close enough. Was there on Monday dropping car off for repair at Whitehouse Motors on Monday at 0800. Hopefully picking it up Friday. Always have to resist the urge to drop into Promenade Music, so tend to go very early when they're not open. Rob