What’s on *YOUR* workbench?
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Alan W
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A few nights ago, at just before 3, our hose jumped. Just a small jump. Enough to wake you up, and get your heart pumping! I stood there, in the dark, ready to get dressed, but it was quiet. We’re close to the Hayward Fault; it’s been pretty damn quiet the last few years. However, on Monday, we ended up having three small quakes—the early morning one, and two that were small enough that I didn’t feel them at all.
But, it finally got me to spend a few hours today building and installing a little guard fence along the plate rail that’s in my little music alcove—right over my guitar rack. You can see the problem. The rack has been attached to the wall since I installed it. I think I’m going to add a center support for the fishing line too.
But, it finally got me to spend a few hours today building and installing a little guard fence along the plate rail that’s in my little music alcove—right over my guitar rack. You can see the problem. The rack has been attached to the wall since I installed it. I think I’m going to add a center support for the fishing line too.
Paradox916
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I like your wainscoting
Harry Klippton
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Wondering what made this boy so toasty and if I can find one to pull from a donor
Paradox916
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At first I thought that was a diode it’s so dark and it’s so sweaty you can’t really read the R101
But all joking aside I would have never expected an input resistor to cook like that, did some ding bat try to do direct with their amp?
Harry Klippton
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Harry Klippton
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Unfortunately I think the half of the op amp for that channel is blown 
jimilee
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Beer and gravity?
That or their mom's old answering machine PSU
jimilee
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Geeerzus that’s a lot of wires. Glad it works.
Feral Feline
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Spent yesterday helping a friend dismantle his '57 Monarch, a Canada-only car.
There's basically no floorboards at all, eaten up by the tinworm. The back quarters are salvageable, as are some other parts of the body, but ... likely to be crushed.
So few of these left. So, this one is being sacrificed to save others.
I managed to get the hood ornament and lettering off the front (pictured) and back without breaking the pins or anything.
The unusually-shaped windshield is super-rare and hard to replicate (
),
so even though this one has a chip in it, it was treated with kidd-gloves.
Still need to pull the door handles, transmission, drive-shaft and rear-end, but...
I've got a WACK of debugging to do this weekend: Breadboard, latest build-attempt, old attempts, repairs from friends' commercial pedals...
(but the indoor velodrome is set to open, too...)
There's basically no floorboards at all, eaten up by the tinworm. The back quarters are salvageable, as are some other parts of the body, but ... likely to be crushed.
So few of these left. So, this one is being sacrificed to save others.
I managed to get the hood ornament and lettering off the front (pictured) and back without breaking the pins or anything.
The unusually-shaped windshield is super-rare and hard to replicate (
),so even though this one has a chip in it, it was treated with kidd-gloves.
Still need to pull the door handles, transmission, drive-shaft and rear-end, but...
I've got a WACK of debugging to do this weekend: Breadboard, latest build-attempt, old attempts, repairs from friends' commercial pedals...
(but the indoor velodrome is set to open, too...)
Musicjsmith
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I finally got around to finishing my Tele. It’s a Warmoth body and neck. I love it. It feels great and sounds fantastic. Here’s the specs:
Swamp Ash body, book matched 2-piece
Roasted Flame Maple Neck, standard thin
Dark Rosewood Fretboard, 9.5” radius
6105 narrow tall nickel silver frets
Fender Ultra Vintage Noiseless pickups
Hipshot standard tuners
Hipshot bridge with brass compensated saddles
Standard 3-way switching
Push/pull parallel/series switching on tone pot
Treble bleed circuit on volume pot
I grain-filled with black filler before sanding it back. I didn’t completely fill the grain so there is still some grain texture. I stained it blue before some sanding sealer and lacquer. I just used Watco semi-gloss from a spray can from the hardware store and applied just enough to sand it back to a thin finish. I wet sanded it to 2000 grit and then used auto polish until it had a hint of mirror finish but no real gloss.
I love it. It has great tone out of each of the four pickup selections. The neck is round with a little punch. The in-between parallel is spanky, classic tele. The bridge is twangy, punchy and cuts. The series might be my favorite. It is darker, fuller, and hits the amp harder, but still retains some single coil punch. It can do classic tele licks, can clean up for some jazz, can be spanky and snappy for some funk, and can get into humbucker territory in series.
Best of all, it makes me want to pick it up and play.
Swamp Ash body, book matched 2-piece
Roasted Flame Maple Neck, standard thin
Dark Rosewood Fretboard, 9.5” radius
6105 narrow tall nickel silver frets
Fender Ultra Vintage Noiseless pickups
Hipshot standard tuners
Hipshot bridge with brass compensated saddles
Standard 3-way switching
Push/pull parallel/series switching on tone pot
Treble bleed circuit on volume pot
I grain-filled with black filler before sanding it back. I didn’t completely fill the grain so there is still some grain texture. I stained it blue before some sanding sealer and lacquer. I just used Watco semi-gloss from a spray can from the hardware store and applied just enough to sand it back to a thin finish. I wet sanded it to 2000 grit and then used auto polish until it had a hint of mirror finish but no real gloss.
I love it. It has great tone out of each of the four pickup selections. The neck is round with a little punch. The in-between parallel is spanky, classic tele. The bridge is twangy, punchy and cuts. The series might be my favorite. It is darker, fuller, and hits the amp harder, but still retains some single coil punch. It can do classic tele licks, can clean up for some jazz, can be spanky and snappy for some funk, and can get into humbucker territory in series.
Best of all, it makes me want to pick it up and play.
jimilee
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That’s beautiful. Makes me want to build another one. The last band I gigged with, I only used a bass I built because it sounded so good. I bet it’s the same for you.
Harry Klippton
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I did some real fuckery and got this to work. I have a lot of NJM2068SD pulls, but they're the older SIP 9 package instead of the SIP 8 that's in the 414 mkii. It was tough to find the datasheet for the SIP 9 package but with the help of my reference librarian spouse and another friend, we found it. In comes the fuckery.Unfortunately I think the half of the op amp for that channel is blown
I snipped pin 9 clean off and stuck some electrical tape over it. Then I bent pin 1out horizontally and added a jumper to make it the new pin 8. And it works. Loads better than buying a $20 SIP 8 pull off eBay
MichaelW
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That seems like a lot of work to play "Smoke on the Water".........
MichaelW
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This requires a demo. Great job man!
temol
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Yeah... spaghetti monster.
It works, sounds pretty good. However, I have a feeling that similar effects could be achieved with a much simpler scheme. A comparison would be needed in Ltspice - e.g., Revivaldrive, Subdecay Variac, Mofeta, Simplifier.
giovanni
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Wow that’s quite an operation you have going on! What is the gizmo you are using for lettering called?