What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[tegendemuur]

BOO!! - 0,5mm off... Used the dremel drill press and started with 1mm holes, then 3mm. It wasn't too easy to find, but I got a step bit which starts at 3mm, so I can make this tool work on my window desk.

HURRAY!! Stepped them all 1mm larger and with some filing and manual step bit pushing and turning I made it look perfect.


Eyeballed these suckers succesfully. They're 1,7mm apart from wherever you measure (between them, top bottem, sides). Such a strange perfect condition, as if they were made to fit this.


Desoldering is exciting.


With only 1mm to spare! Going to have to drill some standoffs in the side to mount the power module. And then figure out something to keep the main board from not hanging from the mini jacks at the lower part, as I removed the top ones which held it nicely horizontal. Didn't think of this beforehand.


Guess all the rest is going to be easy peasy!

 

[Passinwind]

J201 Borbely Follower buffer I built several years ago, getting a trial for the piezo side in a pickup splitter box for my Gold Tone Dojo:



Plan is to do a whole pedalboard for the Dojo, with parallel signal paths and then a 1590A mixer pedal to sum to mono when desired.

 

[disssa]

Testing the HiWATT DR103 preamp:

 

[Harry Klippton]

Experiments in plastic polishing

 

[Erik S]

Experiments in plastic polishing
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What's the magic goop?

 

[Harry Klippton]

What's the magic goop?

Just a headlight polishing kit from harbor freight

 

[PunchySunshine]

Just a headlight polishing kit from harbor freight

good call!

 

[tegendemuur]

Just a headlight polishing kit from harbor freight

Doesn't leave those swirls that I've been getting with fixing up acrylic?

 

[Harry Klippton]

Doesn't leave those swirls that I've been getting with fixing up acrylic?

I need to practice a bit more but I've got almost no swirls

 

[giovanni]

I need to practice a bit more but I've got almost no swirls

Damn that looks awesome. Now I want to find all plastic objects I have and polish the crap out of them.

 

[Band of Dans]

For some reason I committed to building all the main bluesbreaker variants available through PedalPCB. Except the OG, which I really wanted to make on vero or perf. I finally finished the last one today and am free of this self imposed project purgatory. I’ll do a combo build report soon but most of them sound the same and I don’t think I like bluesbreaker circuits anymore

Please don’t say anything if I missed any variants.

 

[jimilee]

Now do all the dumble pedals. That’s my current question, for no particular reason.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I hated the hard click on the red tayda pro footswitch. I decided to take apart my oddity from @Robert and update it. I took out the 2n5088s with twisted legs and put some vintage 2sc945s in their place. Also used one of @szukalski mini relay bypass. So much better than before and back to rocking

 

[Harry Klippton]

I hated the hard click on the red tayda pro footswitch. I decided to take apart my oddity from @Robert and update it. I took out the 2n5088s with twisted legs and put some vintage 2sc945s in their place. Also used one of @szukalski mini relay bypass. So much better than before and back to rocking View attachment 105617

Those red tayda footswitches are truly awful and I regret buying them

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Those red tayda footswitches are truly awful and I regret buying them

Absolutely. I know myself and @MichaelW have had bad footswitch out of the bag. Maybe we should start a class action lawsuit against tayda

 

[Guilherme Collateral]

Time to sort out the Mullard Tropical Fish caps. I’m going to need another of these organizers to fit all the values

 

[PunchySunshine]

Time to sort out the Mullard Tropical Fish caps. I’m going to need another of these organizers to fit all the values
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That's some Willy Wonka shit right there!

 

[MichaelW]

For some reason I committed to building all the main bluesbreaker variants available through PedalPCB. Except the OG, which I really wanted to make on vero or perf. I finally finished the last one today and am free of this self imposed project purgatory. I’ll do a combo build report soon but most of them sound the same and I don’t think I like bluesbreaker circuits anymore

Please don’t say anything if I missed any variants.

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um......I don't see a Paragon.....

 

[giovanni]

I hated the hard click on the red tayda pro footswitch. I decided to take apart my oddity from @Robert and update it. I took out the 2n5088s with twisted legs and put some vintage 2sc945s in their place. Also used one of @szukalski mini relay bypass. So much better than before and back to rocking View attachment 105617

I feel like I should start using relay bypass for my builds. Are those mini boards for sale somewhere?

 

[Band of Dans]

um......I don't see a Paragon.....

Pauper is good enough for me