What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

steviejr92 said:
It’s certainly an inspiration to have a setup like that! As is, it’s much better than what I have going on 😎
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I have really just lucked out in having the confluence of extra space, the resources, and a wife who encourages it. I was using a small side table and had to pack it all up so the kids didn't get into it every time. Less than ideal until recently. All this setup and not much to show for it. You on the other hand have quite a bit to show for what you have going on.
 
cwsquared said:
I have really just lucked out in having the confluence of extra space, the resources, and a wife who encourages it. I was using a small side table and had to pack it all up so the kids didn't get into it every time. Less than ideal until recently. All this setup and not much to show for it. You on the other hand have quite a bit to show for what you have going on.
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I can relate to this on so many levels. The things you don’t see are having to clean up and put all my pedals on my desk cause I have no room. Then having to take all those pedals off do some soldering and repeat the clean up process. I may have things to show but with your workbench setup so nicely your workflow must be much simpler than mine. 🤣
 
KR Sound said:
I desperately need to build a table for my old Delta floor model. Something like you have there.
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While my press isn't a floor model I have it on a dedicated stand next to my bench in the basement and I drill a lot of enclosures. I don't see it enough but I can't recommend enough that you make some kind of waste management container to catch as many shavings as possible. I made mine out of a big box and I catch 90-95% of all the crap that would end up all over the place. And every so often empty it with the shop vac.
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Guardians of the analog said:
While my press isn't a floor model I have it on a dedicated stand next to my bench in the basement and I drill a lot of enclosures. I don't see it enough but I can't recommend enough that you make some kind of waste management container to catch as many shavings as possible. I made mine out of a big box and I catch 90-95% of all the crap that would end up all over the place. And every so often empty it with the shop vac.
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Ya, you should see my floor. Gotta clean up all those shavings.
 
aefpv said:
Amen. I have been debating a change, but I paid too much for the solderless plugs to just put them to the side. Resale of those plugs is not great.
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I've been rotating my dirt section extensively on my board recently and I have the d'addario solderless cables and noticed that some of the cables and showing signs of giving up finally so I bit the bullet and said let me make something more robust, especially since I want to start rotating other pedals as well to keep things fresh sounding.
 
Guardians of the analog said:
I've been rotating my dirt section extensively on my board recently and I have the d'addario solderless cables and noticed that some of the cables and showing signs of giving up finally so I bit the bullet and said let me make something more robust, especially since I want to start rotating other pedals as well to keep things fresh sounding.
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That has been my issue too. I rotate the pedals depending on my mood or what I am testing. I may create a few dedicated slots on my switcher to rotate pedals and use soldered cables for those locations. That may help reduce the wear and tear and not cost a fortune to change.
 
Germanium Fuzzrite with NPN GT404B transistors. Q1 hFE 92 leakage 296, Q2 hFE 97 leakage 280.

It's gated so it's very quiet. These transistors are too bright so I increased the volume pot from 50k to 500k and now it's much fatter.
The B250k pot at the bottom is between the 22k resistor and ground so it acts as a variable Bass Boost control.

The one I built recently sounds a bit better and it has cleanup but it's so noisy because it's not gated. This one is much more usable with single coils but roll back the volume on your guitar and it gets farty like a TB MKI.

Overall I think this gated one is the way to go. Quiet and no polarity shenanigans.
Or, you know, get humbuckers...

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