What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

Honestly, I use sockets on anything with more than three legs. It's probably not necessary, but it's nice when prototyping. If I've already prototyped a design with sockets, I'm not going to go back and remove them.
 
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More breadboarding, this time the Moritz Klein VCF, basically a diode ladder LPF.

I’m always amused by the vast distance between the neat and tidy schematic and its messy real life realisation. I usually do a tryout assembly and find myself hopelessly confused 😵‍💫 so here’s the next cleaned-up version with lots of space to ease the pain of the inevitable debugging that will follow, as sure as eggs are semi-spherical objects produced by chickens.
 
Finishing up this interesting take on the Fuzz Face. It's about as subtle as a brick, but if you want a fuzz that's heavy, it's hard to beat the Mountainking Megalith. It's very picky with transistor gains, but it sounds massive with Q1 hFE = 300, Q2 hFE = 400, and Q3 hFE = 300. Lower gains thin out the sound, and higher gains result in oscillation.
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Gonna try to finish this thing up this week. Had to reshape the neck pocket, as it was all sorts of out of whack (wrong radius in the corners and butt). Hoping to kitty jebus that the vibrato route is actually aligned properly. The thimble holes in the body don't match the 62 spec pickguard, but they line up with the neck
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PedalBuilder said:
Finishing up this interesting take on the Fuzz Face. It's about as subtle as a brick, but if you want a fuzz that's heavy, it's hard to beat the Mountainking Megalith. It's very picky with transistor gains, but it sounds massive with Q1 hFE = 300, Q2 hFE = 400, and Q3 hFE = 300. Lower gains thin out the sound, and higher gains result in oscillation.
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90% of my playing is through Megalith. I try to like my Rat, Muff etc and stack ’em for gnarly distortion, but nothing beats how Megalith sounds. Maybe I should build more Megaliths for different flavors of tone adjusted or just build The Gigalith with preadjusted tone settings on stomp switches…

Finished TB+IC-Muff today. Insides are fugly as this is third revision on same housing and I’ve kept added holes when scaling from no-knob-Muff to two-knob-Muff and finally this three knob one. I wasn’t a coward either and went soldering TL072 straight in without lame sockets. Heard the cool kids do it that way. Im cool, too!!

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Added some filtering from +VDC socket to shield and a 90 ohm resistor on Ionospheres VDC in lead. Cannot say anything about my circuit combination in use as I’ve only tried it on Peavey Vypyr and it just overclips both sides engaged. Gonna give it a go with a real amp next week.
 
DGWVI said:
Gonna try to finish this thing up this week. Had to reshape the neck pocket, as it was all sorts of out of whack (wrong radius in the corners and butt). Hoping to kitty jebus that the vibrato route is actually aligned properly. The thimble holes in the body don't match the 62 spec pickguard, but they line up with the neck
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Gotta head to day job #2, but here's how I'm leaving it for the night. Thankfully the vibrato route wasn't as buggered as the neck pocket.
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I want to grab some better saddles than the traditional threaded things, but otherwise it just needs the pickup mounted, strings put on and a final setup. I'm amazed at how light this is gonna be- the body is spruce and it almost feels like don't even have a guitar on
 
DGWVI said:
I want to grab some better saddles than the traditional threaded things, but otherwise it just needs the pickup mounted, strings put on and a final setup. I'm amazed at how light this is gonna be- the body is spruce and it almost feels like don't even have a guitar on
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Not sure if you’re looking for a full bridge replacement or just saddles, but I recently put a staytrem on a parts Jazzmaster and it’s very nice if you’re willing to wait. Otherwise the stock “mustang style” saddles on my old classic vibe were like 93.5% as good. Possibly even 94%.

Very cool looking build btw!
 
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