What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

I just loosen the screws a little when using it on a thicker enclosure wall.

I use mine for pretty much any side or top mounted jack. It doesn't lock in place on larger enclosures obviously, but it still lets me place the jacks at a uniform depth.
 
Robert said:
I just loosen the screws a little when using it on a thicker enclosure wall.
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That’s what I did do in the past, but since lately I’m only using the Tayda powder coated enclosures it seems worthwhile to have it more rigid with the little shim. If I go back to using other enclosures too, I’ll just go back to loosening the screws when need be
 
I feel like I'm being pulled in a dozen directions with my current projects, which makes for a somewhat erratic build process. I usually flip between projects while parts are in the mail..

Pedals:
- Shallow Water (last of the parts came in today, yay!)
- Tonebender MKI rebuild (need to measure for a Q1 transistor)
- a half dozen VFE pedals in various states of undress (darn those custom parts!)

Amps:
- vintage Bassman 10 needs some misc. parts (a few pots, etc...)
- AC15C1 (needs a hole drilled and modified to run both channels in parallel).


EDIT: Finished the Shallow Water and it works! BOOYAH! I was genuinely concerned about that one; modulation always gives me trouble.
 
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I'm not quite sure about plastic drill guides... I was thinking FR4 like the 125B template.
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A good trick for making drill guides is to print the basic guide, but size up the holes, so you can insert drill bushings into it. A lot of times I would do this, but since most of my projects were too large to print, I would make the template out of MDF, taking the time (since we didn't have a CNC mill) to get all the bushings accurately in place.

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Just noticed @DAJE - is the middle lug of that B10k pot soldered from the other side?
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Yes, that's what I do with pot legs that are hard to reach from the component side. Attach what I can and then flip the board.

That pic looks like there's no solder in the hole, but it's just shadow.

EDIT: Pic attached here so people don't have to search back several pages to see the pic in question.

EDIT 2: Also of note; the blue stripe fell off the D9E diode on the right. Both diodes are the same but only one retains its stripe. I had them socketed but one kept falling out so I soldered them in and that's when the stripe fell off.
 

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I'm now working on some of the MB Current Lover 2023 builds... and finding I'm missing a couple of resistors... naturally
 
Mixing work with pleasure. We (Adobe) released the public beta of our image generation AI tool and I'm working on cranking out pedal etching designs this weekend.

FYI, my last three Sushi Box FX pedals from last weekend had Firefly graphics etched on them. If you care about such things, they were the first publicly seen images from Firefly. You heard it here first.


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Couple of days ago a I hit it with primer, then some paint. It was BEAUTIFUL!

Then, while still wet, I lifted it up to see how much of the edges got any and... BAM! Then I hit it again, right into the vice-grip caddy hanging from the ceiling.



So I sanded out the bodges and hit it again just to cover them and get the thin edges. Note the left footswitch and pot near the top of the above pic, and the bodges are plain to see, still. No matter, the footswitch's WHITE WASHER and its control faceplate will cover up my stupidity (well, at least this teensy bit, I have plenty left over elsewhere). It's sitting on a piston and a block of wood to prop them up. Used a roll of tape and the piston the other day... why I'm telling you this... I don't know. The piston's cool with it's new flake-orange paint ?

Was painted in my friend's garage, the guy with the Kustom truck, 'cause his garage is heated. On my way there to try to finish up the stoopid fugly Chev POS 2009 (said it was a 2014, previously, but it's '09), so we can get crankin' on his Kustom '41 again.





Man, it was a beautiful paint job on that pedal, it really was...


😿
 
jhaneyzz said:
Mixing work with pleasure. We (Adobe) released the public beta of our image generation AI tool and I'm working on cranking out pedal etching designs this weekend.

FYI, my last three Sushi Box FX pedals from last weekend had Firefly graphics etched on them. If you care about such things, they were the first publicly seen images from Firefly. You heard it here first.
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Didn't realize you worked for Adobe - that's cool... I give you guys way too much money! :D
 
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