What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

jwin615 said:
This came in yesterday. Guyatone FLIP envelope filter.
eBay "not working, as is"
$55 gamble. Plugged the toob back in as it was dangling by a couple pins and fired right up. Sounds, well, funky on bass. These seem to be a rare dog in the FLIP series.
Wasn't on the bench long but hey. Take the easy ones when you can get them.

@vigilante398 or anyone else want to trace it before it's likely off to reverb or sent to the trade shelf? I think there are schematic scans out there already though.


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Choice Panda Future Impact, too! 😻
 
jwin615 said:
The long procrastinated beater bari Jericho overhaul. Off to a rough start.
Had a JB/SH-4 with a cover in the bridge that was just too dark and loose in the low end. Great for sludge and doom but terrible everywhere else.
Have a Black Winter going in.
Well, it was. Have I mentioned I hate direct mount pickups? No room for a ring here and damn if (I) didn't strip the upper mounting hole.
***Anyone have any good fixes? Toothpicks and wood glue and redrill is my current guess.
This and the fact that it destroys the threads on the pickups is why I hate direct mount. That and finding the right size foam. I tried using some black esd foam and it was just a hair thicker than the old stuff glued on the JB, which was too low. We'll see how it works.

Also going in is a Freeway 5/10 way switch and a preamp/volume control combo from @JTEX
Once I unshrink my hole that is.

Second bench fail today.
Fist was an old Dinky I was going to loan a friend on hard times. Replaced a bad jack first. Well. It's bridge pickup(emg hz) is dead. Measures at 2 meg😭 and has 10% output.

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Try woodfiller — it's basically epoxy with sawdust, the JB-Weld for wood.

Take a scrap of similarly grained wood and experiment first. Some woodfiller just breaks down under the bit when re-drilling *(maybe due to heat?). Anyways, like anything, some fillers are better than others.

You've gotta fill the entire hole, insert a bit at a time and squish it down each time so you don't have any voids.
 
+1 They have their place! ^^

I use the tab broken off and wedge it in the split of the pot (if still loose, then a dab of solder keeps it in place) —
that way when I use a set-screw knob instead of a splined friction-fit knob, I don't smush the pot's shaft tightening the knob's set-screw. Here's what I mean.
 
Feral Feline said:
+1 They have their place! ^^

I use the tab broken off and wedge it in the split of the pot (if still loose, then a dab of solder keeps it in place) —
that way when I use a set-screw knob instead of a splined friction-fit knob, I don't smush the pot's shaft tightening the knob's set-screw. Here's what I mean.
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Same here. I have a box just to keep broken-off pot tabs in for this purpose
 
Feral Feline said:
Try woodfiller — it's basically epoxy with sawdust, the JB-Weld for wood.

Take a scrap of similarly grained wood and experiment first. Some woodfiller just breaks down under the bit when re-drilling *(maybe due to heat?). Anyways, like anything, some fillers are better than others.

You've gotta fill the entire hole, insert a bit at a time and squish it down each time so you don't have any voids.
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I fit a "dowel" with a cross cut in it with wood glue. It got a little[le tight at the end but worked.
If I need to pull it, I'll probably drill it out, drop a dowel and retap.
 
I managed to do all of the parts for all the four builds (barring some missing components I probably could have subbed, but might as well get the correct values for pennies while I'm building an order right now) apart from pots/switches/offboard wiring. I know some other people use this workflow instead of the "one pedal from start to finish at the time", but this is a first for me, and definitely a very nice experience!

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I also realized I'm missing some parts for each of the builds, even if it's just the wrong type of shaft on a pot or wrong color footswitch, so I'll have to wait until the order gets here to finish them.

Enclosure arts also progressing nicely, just need to finish the technical details (correct spot colors and text as vectors and not text and so on).
 
a right mess, is what.

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awaiting enclosures, incomplete, needing troubleshooting, needing new owners, needing salvaged …I'll let y'all make up your own minds as to which is which
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Absolutely nothing on my bench. Still clean and bare from the great clean-out of ‘23. One too many fights with my wife over “the mess” and my encroachment upon the laundryroom, which is the only space in the house I could actually build in. I bagged and boxed up all my supplies. On the upside, no build reports from me for a while! I might insulate my garage and move out there 🤣
 
Laundryroom David said:
Absolutely nothing on my bench. Still clean and bare from the great clean-out of ‘23. One too many fights with my wife over “the mess” and my encroachment upon the laundryroom, which is the only space in the house I could actually build in. I bagged and boxed up all my supplies. On the upside, no build reports from me for a while! I might insulate my garage and move out there 🤣
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But then you would have to change your name to garage david instead of laundryroom david…. It just doesn’t have the same ring or mystique as laundryroomdavid
 
Laundryroom David said:
Absolutely nothing on my bench. Still clean and bare from the great clean-out of ‘23. One too many fights with my wife over “the mess” and my encroachment upon the laundryroom, which is the only space in the house I could actually build in. I bagged and boxed up all my supplies. On the upside, no build reports from me for a while! I might insulate my garage and move out there 🤣
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Feel you. I had a couple things go wrong recently (pedal and not pedal related) and now my kid won't sleep so I'm ready to throw it all out the window
 
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