rwillett

I wouldn't say you have OCD, more like organised and sensible. Why wouldn't you want to have the set list agreed before you go on? You may have options to play if needed but you all know which way you're going.

It's that time of the year when a gentleman's fancy turns to what to do next year OR the village hall committee asks you if you want to hire the hall again for "those odd people who made an awful lot of noise and possibly sent the sheep into early labour". So on the slight chance that somebody wants to come back, I'm looking to see if there is any interest around early May 2025, I'm putting down the 10/5/25 as it's a Saturday and allows people to travel a bit more easily, however as the rugby season is over, Sunday may be an option. We had about 10 people last year and it was a good number. We all had plenty of space and got around easily. However we could accommodate more people. If there is a sudden flood of people, we may have the option of a large venue, but that could bang the costs up, e.g. Kendal Rugby Club or Ingleton Community Centre. I'm aware that some people were quite nervous about being there and would welcome private conversations about how I can help here. So is there any interest? Thanks Rob

For some reason I had thought they had passed this mortal coil, I saw them in the 80's (I think) at Leicester Poly (I think) and had a great time (I think), I may have had a lot of something that night (I think), so it's a little hazy.

Wow, I had assumed with that fantastic finish it was a high end acrylic finish. Thanks

Thanks. Any particular acrylic brand? I've tried a few and not had fantastic results in the past. Building or rather 3d printing another one and would like to do a better job this time.

Dear god, I look at my feeble efforts and realise I'm not worthy. For some reason I imagined this guitar being used by Thor or some sort of Norse god. That nut is amazing. I take my hat off to you, Sir. What clear coat did you use please? Thanks Rob

Post deleted as poster corrected mistake. OCD kicking in, sorry.

Gosh, a 74 Rickenbacker. Looks lovely

Cynical & sad but unfortunately true…

Didn't realise rounders was so big in the USA...

Looks a great desk for anything with (typing) keyboard and monitors. I've built one very similar to this for home (not music at all) office.

Either one born every day OR somebody was short of quality firewood.

I'll take the 75 and you can have my 97 Jazz. It's a really nice bass in blue with matching headstock. Seems fair to me.

Just remind me again where you live and which day is bin day please?

Absolutely no danger of that.... 😊

Ooohhh, that is a nice Jazz. Gosh, oh my gosh and what appears to be a good price as well. I have a gorgeous telescope that is worth close to that. I would use this more than the scope as well. Anybody interested in a mint TMB 4" refractor? Possibly the finest 4" in the world. Rob

Sadly I'm not left handed. I also don't have a 61 Fender of any description. Wish I did. I can 3d print you a left handed bass. Technically its a trivial maths operation, you take a right handed design and reflect it. About 10 secs of work. This is an early Fender Jazz copy I made at the beginning of the year. I put an older Fender Jazz neck on that somebody kindly donated. Plays well and sounds great. So if you have an older L/H 61 neck, I can get you part of the way there. Same guitar but now left handed. However, no matter what I do, it's still not a genuine 61 Fender though. Sorry Rob

Great repair job. Ive looked all over the back and I can't see anything that looks like that.

Everybody has more brass than me so it's not that. It is an expensive bass though to me. I wonder if the string alignment is a perspective issue though The upside to @Piers_Williamson that we share a birthday, though I am a year younger So if you have any Dec 62 basses, that are just too young for you (and are cheap), please bear me in mind and I will of course pass any 61 basses your way. Thanks Rob

Its been quite some time since I updated this thread. Its certainly not been forgotten. I'm gone back to my first 3d printed guitar and am applying what I learnt from the bass guitars, both headed and headless, back to the very first one. This means: 1. An aluminium backbone with an appropriate thickness. In this case 8mm is fine. This means that the overall guitar thickness is now 34mm, down from 44mm. Thats a pretty big depth reduction which should make it easier to play and be a little lighter. 2. A very open and lightweight body. I know that people have endless debates about ash vs mahogany vs swamp oak or whatever and the effect on the tone. It doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to me (oh heresy!) as the signal is going through pedals and amps. I also avoid the discussion about whether cellulose allows the dead wood to breathe <rolls eyes> debate. Mine are plastic and seem to sound very nice. I have an 83 Westone Thunder, an 89 Telecaster, a 2024 Vintage Les Paul Clone and my printed ones sound different , not worse, just different. If Jimmy Page or John Bonomossa wish to compare and contrast with their legendary guitars (and skill) I'll be delighted to swap for a few years with them 3. The body hangs off a central backbone. It's a glued body that has a number of stiffening points in it. If the body gets damaged, it's relatively easy and cheap to replace the whole body. I've currently got two bodies ready, a black with glitter which sounds blingy but isn't and a Firehouse Red which I would class as a dark red. I've tweaked and tweaked and tweaked and then tweaked again to make it easy to print with zero manual interventions. This means I can print a whole body in around 40 hours at very high resolution, so a day across two printers. Using very high resolution, e.g. 0.1mm layers, means the curves are smooth. Post processing for the parts is now pretty simple and consists of a tiny chisel to remove supports and some steel wool to take any burrs off. 4. All the wiring now is hidden in the Voronoi struts. This has meant a custom solderless wiring harness needed to be done as there's no space to pass connectors through. However it looks so much neater without any chunky wiring channels. 5. I've also designed a custom laser tester to check that the neck positioning is spot on. This mounts on the bridge area and shines a very low power laser down to the a 3d printed target. The target has a small internal V to redirect the laster. As its plastic it defuses the beam safely, though I only point it away and keep the kids and pets away, especially the sodding cats who love this sort of thing. I don't trust myself taking measurements but I do trust my designs as that's proper maths This is the whole thing, you can see the slight green reflection on the neck target. Thats probably only 1 degree out, so I'm pretty happy with that. There;s a 'safety' screw that needs to be turned for the unit to work. Not quite a deadmans handle but not too shabby. The reflection is pretty much in the centre of the target but a tiny bit is off centre. The design is supposed to "amplify" the relfection so tiny changes in the neck makes a bit change at the end. So far, its fitted together quite well and I'm almost pleased. Still things to update. 1. Remove countersinking from the aluminium backbone as it's horrible to do. 2. Adapt the laster pointer to check horizontal accuracy. Not sure how to do this one yet, but I'll have a think. I want to get the guitar set up as well as I can using tools rather than me using feeler gauges. Thats the very, very last thing. Need to get the height sorted out andI can see a pleasant evening of maths ahead of me. 3. Work out how to mount the P90's. The rail system I decided for the bass was OK but way overkill. I'll move back to suspending them. 4. Electrics are done, basically it's a Les Paul type system but specific for this guitar. I've two wiring looms ready, so there will be two of these I might sell one if any interest, but I'm not expecting any. I'm a lot more fussy now about how it works and looks, so if it isn't 'right' I'll redesign it until it is. Thanks Rob

I'd love to be there, bit far, but I know you'll knock it out the park (to use a North Americanism :)) Good luck Rob

They just work for me. Very, very nice indeed.