What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

JohnnyCreepy said:
Are you referring to polyurethane based or made with vintage specs (boiled oil etc)? I found 2-component spar varnish from nearby HW store, guess single component is preferred in this application.
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I remember trying to understand the specs of different varnishes, but I forget the details now.

This is the stuff I ended up using.

I was finishing chairs, not guitars.

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JohnnyCreepy said:
Yesterdays search-loophole lead me to L6-S replicas/copies labeled as Crimar(Ibanez), Rowland and Encore, which were made modt probably in Matsumoko factory. Small four bolt neck plate matches to former too. Despite intensive browsing didn’t find anything alike with a figured top.
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That makes sense for your guitar. Narrow neck plate does make sense for Matsumoku makes.
*edit* I think I found it -- Aria L6S copy made by Matsumoku (Aria was the house brand name). Looks like it should have been a plain cream/natural color, but someone has definitely refinished it. The three way toggle should be a 5 or 6 position rotary (if that's what your guitar originally was).

Good luck with the finishing.
 
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1975-76 ‘Diplomat’ - Cimar Fujigen thing, slightly narrow neck and 33.5in scale or something… I used to have one it was great.
just put on new bridge and new pots and it plays well - low action, neck straight and intonates fine…
And …
Meh 🫤
It’s ok, big bottom end, noisy pickups. I know now it will Probably get sold - didn’t cost me much mind

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did all 21 electrolytics in my now 30 year old MIA Blues DeVille 212. also did the BillM tone stack and twin stack mods, clipped the cap that causes washy reverb, and added global master volume. I swapped the input jacks for open frames with isolation washers because one of them had broken internally.
Believe it or not that entire process went suspiciously smoothly ... like I've never had amp work go that smoothly. I now wish it was in a cabinet that didn't have 30 years of hard living on it.
 
Working on enclosure art for a big batch - decided I would go for 5x 125B's and 5x 1590BB2's. Strictly speaking only two of the 1590BB2's need to be in that enclosure, two more are because of additional space to make the build (or mods) easier, and one is just to round out the numbers (plus partially to make sure the jacks have enough room).

I don't expect anyone has the drill template for the Two Tone Fuzz for Tayda around? I'll do some measuring from the PCB and build docs if not, shouldn't be too bad to figure out, but it would make life a little easier. There's also a couple of Effects Layouts PCB's and an Inverted Cross Audio one, but I don't think it's even worth asking for those since they're more rare.
 
Work, work, work! Earlier this year I had the chance to meet the guy who runs the John Mayer Gear insta at Colombia. A REALLY cool guy. I gave him a Continuum and a few weeks ago he made a post covering a JM solo using it and the international sales took off. More than 20 units sold at Reverb in 10 days. I’m tired? For sure! But I’m really happy, the timing was really great, because a few days before I just discovered that my partner is pregnant, so with the baby on the way I need money for a ton of diapers.

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Guilherme Collateral said:
Work, work, work! Earlier this year I had the chance to meet the guy who runs the John Mayer Gear insta at Colombia. A REALLY cool guy. I gave him a Continuum and a few weeks ago he made a post covering a JM solo using it and the international sales took off. More than 20 units sold at Reverb in 10 days. I’m tired? For sure! But I’m really happy, the timing was really great, because a few days before I just discovered that my partner is pregnant, so with the baby on the way I need money for a ton of diapers.

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You think you're tired now, eh? You are about to be permanently tired. I suggest you invest some of that pedal money into good coffee beans. Congrats!!
 
Mentaltossflycoon said:
You think you're tired now, eh? You are about to be permanently tired. I suggest you invest some of that pedal money into good coffee beans. Congrats!!
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Yeah, I’m training to be permanently tired 😂. I’m lucky to live in Brasil, we have some of the best coffee in the world around here! And thank you, man! I’m really happy about it!
 
The saga of myL6-S replica continues. So far I’ve noted and fixed:
  • Figured top seems to be veneer and looks DIYesque. Maybe this is unfinished modding work using Matsumoko made guitar as a platform.
  • Neck pocket leans too much on bass side, is too deep and/or doesn’t have proper angle for harmonica style bridge. - Did a test with paper folded and 3D printed angle shim, now it’s playable. Gonna epoxy that shit with spacers in a cellofan wrap.
  • Pots have label JP, 500kA, look old and are unreliable - I’ll try cleaning, but better to get new ones.
  • HB pickups in place measured 4-5kOhm DCR - bridge PU was changed to new Korean alnico HB @ ~8kOhm.
  • Tone controls were originally messed up with shitty soldering and wiring - I made shielding plate from steel sheet, rewired and changed controls to TB+volume, but then noticed pot tracks are crackling/cutting. Also bass cut is unnecessary on this guitar, gonna change ’em to OG spec treble-mid-volume.
  • Fret ends need some filing, but shape and height are all OK.
  • Have gathered supplies for finishing. Still need to buy some 1-2k grit sanding mesh/paper.
It plays nice so far, def a keeper.
 
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Are you happy to see me or is that dark green cap on the right side of the second pic bulging @KR Sound ?

Guilherme Collateral said:
Thanks man! I’m really excited, it’s my first kid! The Continuum is a Klon + TS10 into a small footprint, like this:

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Good news all around, congrats! Also… where do you get those enclosures? I love these (the continuum, I wouldn’t dare call a pregnant woman an enclosure)
 
Hal Harvey said:
You are doing the lords work man. It's hard for me to see what happened. Internal short in the tube cause a melt down or just shoddy construction?
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I’m not sure to be honest, but I’ve seen it happen to other people’s wiring in the same exact spot. Those wires are like 28awg or something tiny- like 6 strands each. Pretty ridiculous. I guess it’s only carrying 6 volts or so, but it should be solid now.

Asdrael said:
Are you happy to see me or is that dark green cap on the right side of the second pic bulging @KR Sound ?
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It’s actually a plastic cap on the capacitor. I thought the same thing, but I can press it down and the cap underneath is nice and flat. Thanks for the eagle eye!
 
KR Sound said:
It’s actually a plastic cap on the capacitor. I thought the same thing, but I can press it down and the cap underneath is nice and flat. Thanks for the eagle eye!
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Hah one of those isolated caps. Great if your negative leg isn’t ground… filter caps in series can give nice surprises otherwise !
 
Just fixed the wife's car again.. last year a local garage used fuel pipe to replace between the pump and filter, but it looks like it's fatigued at the knuckle joint on the filter. I suspect it's not great fuel line... for now I've cut the offending section out and move it up the knuckle. I have a feeling that next summer I'll be re-doing the pipeline completely. Poor car has been going since 2008, 1.2L and gets all the short runs, she wanted a Jeep Renegade or Wrangler to replace it but she hates the 'large' car so that never really happened.
 
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