What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[DGWVI]

Finally have all the bits on hand, so I'm working these up today

 

[Harry Klippton]

I started on a Madbean Dreamtime today. It's an fv-1 delay and reverb in a 1590a with stacked boards

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

I started on a Madbean Dreamtime today. It's an fv-1 delay and reverb in a 1590a with stacked boards

Something new, or retired?

 

[Harry Klippton]

Something new, or retired?

Retired. I'm still working on stuff I planned on 2019

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Funny you should ask. A new workbench is on my workbench!

Due to the price of lumber going back to sane levels, and plywood remaining stupid-high it's actually going to be cheaper for me to use 2x8x10's to build the top than 3/4" plywood. I'm making the top 3.3' wide so I can get three pieces out of each 10' section. I'm going to rip the sides with a 90 tooth blade so it will be a very smooth, flat surface so that I can glue them together in masse with bar clamps and a biscuit joiner.

It'll take four 2x8's so it's going to be super heavy duty. Using 6"x3/8" hex head bolts to hold the legs on, and I have some step down casters ordered so I won't bust a gut when I need to move it when I use it with the drill press.

I have a grizzly sheet metal pan and break I'm going to use to make chassis with, after the laser guy cuts it out from my drawings, and I needed a heavy table to mount that on. ergo, new heavy table... -- old folding plastic table will be relegated to outdoor dining

I'm teaching myself how to braze aluminum which is stronger than welding because that makes the aluminum alloy I'm using brittle. So I'll be brazing the corners of the chassis.

Just trying to stay busy in my retirement, I have the money in my 401k to buy chassis, I just want to do it myself...

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

Retired. I'm still working on stuff I planned on 2019

Relatable

I’m still not started on some stuff I planned on for 2014

 

[Harry Klippton]

It's hard being an ideas guy

 

[Laundryroom David]

I started on a Madbean Dreamtime today. It's an fv-1 delay and reverb in a 1590a with stacked boards

You had me until 1590a

 

[Laundryroom David]

I’m currently working on a fuzz face project I started last year. By last year, of course, I mean 2021. I haven’t quite come to grips with 2023 yet. It’ll be a few more weeks till a build report is ready, but I’m already pretty excited.

 

[Laundryroom David]

It's hard being an ideas guy

Truth.

 

[Harry Klippton]

You had me until 1590a

I was just gonna put it in a 125b until I realized it was stacked boards and I just have to do it for the challenge. 4 pots too, so making graphics is gonna be really stupid

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

It's hard being an ideas guy

Especially a broke ideas guy, and a perfectionistic ideas guy who keeps putting off execution in favor of more intense planning

 

[Harry Klippton]

Of course I'm one stupid cap short of testing this build tonight

 

[Feral Feline]

You had me until 1590a

The great thing about 1590a builds is they fit in 1590B with room for top jacks and mods.

 

[Feral Feline]

My Amp-Sifu friend’s busy work bench…


The Reverb Deluxe clone built by another friend (another apprentice of Amp-Sifu), using a non-Fender vintage transformer. So it’s wired differently and was blowing fuses. After figuring out the transformer wiring with Sifu’s help, it is working and super-clean but to the point of brittle/harshness — more fine tuning to be done.



Sifu is too busy with amps to repair the stack of wahs building up.
So I’ve been tasked with sussing this one out, another luthier-friend’s. Visual inspection good, continuity good… haven’t had a chance to plug it in…





Yet another friend’s project. I built an on-board boost for it.
Switch was a push-button affair w/ LED ring. To make it work we wired up a relay, but the relay alone drew 2mA. So ditched the relay and switch, a simple toggle was dug out of a drawer…


And then there are all the amps in for repair…

A fraction of what’s on hand.


The Tele-builder’s Blues Jr, power-transformer is dying.

A Soldano Pre, Carvin V3, the usual assortment of Marshalls and Blues Jrs and then this wild card:

 

[andare]

I'm on board for making things make sense, and the metric 10-base does a pretty good job of it:

10mm=1cm, 10cm=1dm, 10dm=1m, 10m=1dam (dekametre), 10dam=1hm (hectometre), 10hm=1km

Makes sense to my mathematically-challenged mind.


Latin prefixes for units smaller than a metre:

Deci- means 10; 10 decimetres make a metre.
Centi- means 100; 100 centimetres make a metre.
Milli- means 1,000; 1,000 millimetres make a metre.


Greek prefixes for units larger than a metre:

Deka- means 10; a dekametre is 10 metres.
Hecto- means 100; a hectometre is 100 metres.
Kilo- means 1,000; a kilometre is 1,000 metres.


Alas for homebrewtj, in the construction industry the imperial system is well-entrenched. Canada has been metric since... 1976? *Internet search* ...
No, 1975 on April Fool's day (a dubious day to start IMO), Canadian weather reports were given in Celsius.
At -40º, it doesn't matter whether it's measured in Fahrenheit or Celsius.

Anyway, metric's been in use in Canada for nearly a half-century and the construction industry still uses "board-feet" of "2x4"s for studs that are 16" apart... etc.


I'm a victim survivor of that changeover and while I prefer Celsius now I still prefer 0-60mph , quarter-mile times , and MPG — I guess 0-100km/h isn't too bad, I can wrap my brain around that, but... 1/4-km times is nuts as is LITRES/KM ; but travel-distances in km are okay, too. After 5 decades, my brain is still stuck between the two systems.





The US , Libya Liberia and Myanmar are the only holdouts for imperial measurements, and even then the US throws a curveball with its own version of gallons, where a US-gallon is about 20% smaller than an imperial gallon , and other otherwise-imperial units such as tonnage (imperial-ton 2,240 lbs vs US-ton 2,000 lbs) etc...


Niggling details:
— A "meter" is a device used to measure something.
— A "metre" is a unit of measurement.



Let's not even talk about "daylight saving time" ...

I'm with you but I speak and spell American English so "meter" is the only option for me. I do have to teach both spellings in my day job as an English teacher.

Imperial units are not very intuitive, probably why the 1/3 pound burger was a failure. I mean it must be less meat than 1/4!

 

[andare]

You might remember that my GF moved in and she took over my workbench so she could work from home.
Yada yada yada I have a workbench again.

So a bunch of fuzz circuits are gonna be dug out today: Tone Bender MKI, MIK1.5, MKII, MKIII, Companion FY-2 and Fuzzrites, all in various states of disarray. Here's a top down view of my life right now:

 

[Feral Feline]

A chaos box that requires order.
I love it, looks like my own work-bench (and life).

 

[Harry Klippton]

My Amp-Sifu friend’s busy work bench…

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The Reverb Deluxe clone built by another friend (another apprentice of Amp-Sifu), using a non-Fender vintage transformer. So it’s wired differently and was blowing fuses. After figuring out the transformer wiring with Sifu’s help, it is working and super-clean but to the point of brittle/harshness — more fine tuning to be done.


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Sifu is too busy with amps to repair the stack of wahs building up.
So I’ve been tasked with sussing this one out, another luthier-friend’s. Visual inspection good, continuity good… haven’t had a chance to plug it in…




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Yet another friend’s project. I built an on-board boost for it.
Switch was a push-button affair w/ LED ring. To make it work we wired up a relay, but the relay alone drew 2mA. So ditched the relay and switch, a simple toggle was dug out of a drawer…


And then there are all the amps in for repair…
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A fraction of what’s on hand.

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The Tele-builder’s Blues Jr, power-transformer is dying.

A Soldano Pre, Carvin V3, the usual assortment of Marshalls and Blues Jrs and then this wild card:

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Possibly the coolest post on this whole forum

 

[jimilee]

Relatable

I’m still not started on some stuff I planned on for 2014

You guys just don’t even know……