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[ICTRock]

Dang, we didn't make the cut?? I'm so disappointed
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don't worry, I have one of those in my altoids tin. keeps my yellow tortex picks company

 

[Robert]

Dang, we didn't make the cut?? I'm so disappointed
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I have several of those scattered around the bench and surrounding area.

 

[zgrav]

I have a punch that makes guitar picks out of hotel cards. I am usually happy with those after they get played a bit.

 

[jimilee]

I have a punch that makes guitar picks out of hotel cards. I am usually happy with those after they get played a bit.

I have one of those myself, along with about 1000 other picks.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I know that I'm a weirdo but I'm 100% serious when I say that I've been using a felt pick quite a bit lately. I'm also in the habit of using these medium 354 fenders held sideways.

 

[almondcity]

I honestly don't know how people play with thin picks

 

[JohnnyCreepy]

I honestly don't know how people play with thin picks

I’d suggest calling thin picks as flaps and playing style with them as flapping.

 

[mybud]

Pink bag day. Masses of pots, knobs, caps, diodes, resistors, you name it. Some restocking required, since my last Tayda order was mid-December last year.

 

[Asdrael]

Just received my new (corrected) PCBs for my upcoming amp build. Happy to say they are 99.9% perfect. Everything fits etc, the pads should make for easy soldering but the silkscreen is slightly hidden by a pad on a few pins of the power tubes on one side. I will survive



And look ma' the sockets fit!



Also got 2 more 12ax7 to try out in my amps. Someone was giving them away so I jumped on it. A "Egnater" Ruby and a TAD 7025.

 

[Audandash]

I just ordered a few amp boards from aaelectronics. I have built a few turret board amps but this looked a little cleaner. Plus most of his boards give you options to build multiple styles so i thought i would give it a shot.

 

[Cabintech]

I honestly don't know how people play with thin picks

For me, after playing acoustic guitar for decades, I can tell you with certainty: badly.

 

[CheapSuitG]

17 enclosures from Tayda arrived today. Going to be a long weekend of drilling them all!

 

[RetiredUnit1]

Supposed to arrive in the next day or so.

Moving from studio monitors to a surround THX soundbar.

This deal courtesy of Best Buy's eBay liquidation account. JBL's usually go on sale just before a new version comes out. If you look at the price on Sweetwater it's $599. But I got it for $259.99, free shipping!!!!

Peak power 550w. Schwing!

I'm setting up a studio in the front of the house so the LSR308 studio monitors currently hooked to the entertainment system will go up there, and this will be the system for the back room where me and my gal hang.

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[mkstewartesq]

17 enclosures from Tayda arrived today. Going to be a long weekend of drilling them all!

If you don’t mind me asking, how long ago did you order them? I placed an order with Tayda over a week ago - almost all just components that would normally ship immediately – but with a couple of white enclosures (no drill work, no UV printing). Because they seem to run the powder coating in batches on an “as needed” basis rather than keeping them in inventory, I knew from past experience that this would delay my shipment for two or three days – but, like I said, my order has just been sitting there in “packing” status for over a week now.

 

[Erik S]

If you don’t mind me asking, how long ago did you order them? I placed an order with Tayda over a week ago - almost all just components that would normally ship immediately – but with a couple of white enclosures (no drill work, no UV printing). Because they seem to run the powder coating in batches on an “as needed” basis rather than keeping them in inventory, I knew from past experience that this would delay my shipment for two or three days – but, like I said, my order has just been sitting there in “packing” status for over a week now.

My order last month with some enclosures took 17 days to get to the east coast. Never got a shipping notification, just showed up. I think there was a banner message on the enclosures page about extended lead times so I was expecting it to take a while.

 

[mkstewartesq]

My order last month with some enclosures took 17 days to get to the east coast. Never got a shipping notification, just showed up. I think there was a banner message on the enclosures page about extended lead times so I was expecting it to take a while.

Wow, thanks. I guess I’ll just keep waiting. I will admit that I didn’t put much credence in that “extended lead times“ notice since it’s been up on their website since I first started buying parts from them in 2022 (I figured they either just forgot to take it down or left it up to give themselves some cushion). Thanks again.

Mike

 

[jcpst]

I just got my order today, took 3 weeks, powdercoated and drilled.

 

[jwin615]

They always get behind on Chinese New Year and there's a few weeks of hangover from it.
Additionally, I'm sure there was some extra "beat the tariffs" ordering.

 

[Fama]

If you don’t mind me asking, how long ago did you order them? I placed an order with Tayda over a week ago - almost all just components that would normally ship immediately – but with a couple of white enclosures (no drill work, no UV printing). Because they seem to run the powder coating in batches on an “as needed” basis rather than keeping them in inventory, I knew from past experience that this would delay my shipment for two or three days – but, like I said, my order has just been sitting there in “packing” status for over a week now.

FWIW, I put in an order on the 26th (full shebang), Metallic Candy Purple is already fully UV printed and the Metallic Candy Red and Cream just started the painting phase, Metallic Candy Green and Matte Black still pending. No white ones so not directly helpful to you I'm afraid.

Wow, thanks. I guess I’ll just keep waiting. I will admit that I didn’t put much credence in that “extended lead times“ notice since it’s been up on their website since I first started buying parts from them in 2022 (I figured they either just forgot to take it down or left it up to give themselves some cushion). Thanks again.

Mike

I think the notice is always there, but the length does vary. Basically it's a popular service and it will take time to get your enclosures no matter what, the drilling doesn't take too long IME, I think the painting is the biggest hold, and the UV printing too, I guess, especially if they have to re-do them (I put in mine with mostly full face gloss varnish layers before I read they're going to disallow that in the future because it's so tricky).

 

[CheapSuitG]

I ordered February 16th got them March 6th but shipping took a couple extra days.

I’m newer, when I started in September of last year, it was 3 days for standard colors no print no drilling.

Enclosure production time is one of the reasons I order components from Mouser now and have 5-6 spare enclosures this order.

If you don’t mind me asking, how long ago did you order them? I placed an order with Tayda over a week ago - almost all just components that would normally ship immediately – but with a couple of white enclosures (no drill work, no UV printing). Because they seem to run the powder coating in batches on an “as needed” basis rather than keeping them in inventory, I knew from past experience that this would delay my shipment for two or three days – but, like I said, my order has just been sitting there in “packing” status for over a week now.