rwillett

Work is the curse of the bass playing classes... Rob

Woohoo. I can say that its just under two hours from Liverpool to Clapham. We do it regularly. Thanks Rob So far we have (in no particular order). @rwillett @bigthumb @neepheid @ead @80Hz @GreeneKing @stevie @nekomatic <-- TBC @ossyrocks @peterjam @doomkeeper @Richard R <-- TBC @Frank Blank That's thirteen so we need at least one more otherwise we'll have to have our own version of Traitors (which is really a board game called Resistance) and murder somebody in the first 30 mins. Rob

Perhaps we need a glam rock theme...

Be great to see you there.

The feedback is appalling, 24 sales and 3 bad negatives, four if you read them properly.

Ah! A new branch of physics has been discovered... Where the principles of anti-levers work...

I tried using a small battery for phone usage but wouldn't work with the ToneX. I have a very large one that was being charged overnight but we've had power cuts on and off all night, so need to check on stuff. At the moment wifi screwed and other stuff not working so suspect the UPS's eventually gave up the ghost. That's the morning focus

Here's the first pictures of the pedalboard with the Pedal Power strip (click on them to make them bigger). These are 500mm wide, basically I chopped a 1m bar in half. I had gray on the printer so used that. I think it looks quite classy in gray and black. The bottom. The little orange bit is the cable tie to keep the USB-C cable connected. From the back. After wiring it all up a couple of problems are found: 1. The wires are too short, they need to be a longer. I had to reverse the Pedal Power as the 300mA outputs were at the wrong end. I've had to cram the pedal board a bit to get the cable tuns to fit. 2. The Pedal Power can't handle all the devices coming on at once. Specifically the ToneX pedal. This isn't a major surprise or drawback. Pull the power cable out of the ToneX, turn it all on and then put the power cable into the ToneX. I suspect normal pedals would be fine, but I'm sure cleverer people than myself can answer that. Just powered the board from a better plug. my Macbook power adaptor, and it works fine 3. the f$%^^&&*(()ing Behringer pedals having their power supply on the side is a complete PITA. Why? FFS Why? However for the cost of a few hours design, a few hours printing and some cheap extrusion, it looks good. Rob

And I know where he lives.... Mind you, he knows where I live as well...

That might be spot on. Fusion is based on extruding stuff and taking stuff away.

@Richard R I use Fusion 360, most of my designs are parametric. This means I adjust them using a value in a form rather than on the screen. This makes design a whole lot easier. F360 is very good for this type of design. e.g. Here's the width at 25mm. Note that the bolt holes are in the middle of the open section, not the middle of the whole width. One parameter change to 40mm The holes are still spot on in the middle of the open section. So I design with this in mind. It's no programming, but it's having a logical mind to design with change in mind. I don't use Blender though I tried it out a few years ago and didn't get on with it. I'm not a good designer, TBH I'm not even a bad designer yet. FreeCAD was a miserable experience on a Mac so that got thrown. OpenSCAD is very program focussed, but even as a developer, it was too much to learn, so I went with Fusion 360 as it's basically free for non-commercial use. You don't get all the bells and whistles of the paid version, but I never need them. If you want to do the job properly, then get Fusion 360 and learn how to use it. There's loads of videos, and I wouldn't change now at all. Its not perfect, none of them are, but I've done the simple stuff above and the the guitar below. Takes time to learn, but it gives a design idiot such as myself the chance to do a half decent job. I'm sure a proper designer would laugh at my efforts but I've built five guitars so far and four are still playable. The first was quite bad though and is in the garage to remind me how bad I am if I get cocky. Feel free to ask questions, Rob

Might be possible to print it. It depends on how thick it can be and how you'd mount the cover back onto the bass. The cover itself is simply a cover, it's relatively easy but the corners need to be radiussed accurately. How it fits to the bass is the issue to me

I took a punt and ordered a M-Vave Pedal Power adaptor AliExpress. At £8 delivered, seems worth trying out. Well it turned up today, just over a week or so from ordering. Its small, seems well made, comes with eight PSU cables for pedals and one USB-C cable. The eight PSU cables alone are worth more than £8 IMO. Plugged a power cable in and it at least lights up. The blue LED's are very bright as per normal. I was looking at creating a small 'travel' 300mm pedalboard so this seemed ideal. So I knocked up a quick design The Pedal Power unit is the middle khaki bit I'm printing the side pieces for the pedalboard and the holder for the PSU now. I'll put some sort of cable lock on the USB-C to protect it as its dead easy to pull thecable out. Rob

I'm sure I can scrape together a few pennies for the old, battered, unwanted and clearly much abused Wenge neck

@LukeFRC Why don't you buy a few different rolls, test them out and let us know?

I was surprised at the range in prices of them.

How long have you been waiting to use that joke....

I'm as confused as you. The price differences for solder is quite large. Does paying more get you that much better? Not even sure I know what better even means 🤔

Any recommendations for decent solder to go with the soldering iron please? Just ordered the £12 Amazon one andwondered if people can suggest a decent roll of solder to go with it. Thanks Rob

The original owner was Pete Townsend.... That's why it needed a restoration...

Any orders I have made from Thommann seem to follow the same model of going around the back of the moon as well. I made the stupid mistake of amending my order around 30 mins after placing it. I gave up trying to work out what was coming and when, I'd read the vast number of emails sent and they seemed to add no information whatsoever. I can't recall who the delivery people were, but as somebody has already said, none of the tracking information worked at all. To be fair, I got what I ordered, but I had no idea what was going on, what would be delivered and when it would be delivered. Took around two weeks for it all to come. I have a feeling that their system is SAP based as it has the stench of SAP about it all and they are a German company (I think) Rob

But we're all mad. Corrected that for you. No need to thank me 😁

No, I AM Melvyn Whittaker